Temperatures are rising, summer is in full swing, and these two below-zero nonfiction tales may help you cool off during those 90-degree...
Waiting to be Arrested at Night: A Memoir from Xinjiang
I want to begin this post with a short explanation. This blog post is a companion piece to a post I wrote last year about The Backstreets, the first...
Indigenous Heritage Books for Youth
November is National Native American History Month. We're fortunate that the last several years have seen an increase in the number of books...
Steve Luxenberg on Plessy versus Ferguson
Steve Luxenberg discusses his nonfiction book, Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation, which was published in 2019 to critical acclaim.
Ibrahim Sundiata on Slavery and the 1619 Project
Professor Ibrahim K. Sundiata is Emeritus Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University.
Library’s 1619 Project program series continues to explore issues of race
When COVID-19 hit Ohio in March 2020, Heights Libraries shut down and canceled most of its programs. With the help of the now ubiquitous video...
Heights Libraries Opens New Local History Room
Heights Libraries is pleased to announce the opening of its new Local History Room at the Lee Road branch. Located on the building’s second floor,...
Vida Johnson on Police Bias and Misconduct
Professor Vida Johnson discusses two of her articles on police bias.
Our Team: What was, what could’ve been, and what is
Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series that Changed Baseball is a slightly unusual sports book. I've read plenty of books about...
Adam Malka on the Rise of Police and Criminalization of Black Freedom
Professor Malka discusses his book, The Men of Mobtown, which explores how the free black population of the antebellum South came to be controlled and policed.
Multigenerational Reparations with Professor Thomas Craemer
In this interview, Professor Craemer looks at past reparations for slaveowners in the United States and Great Britain as successful examples of multi-generational payments. We go into the math of how Black reparations might be calculated, as well.
The 1619 Project and Its Detractors
The 1619 Project is a long-form journalism project developed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, from The New York Times, which "aims to reframe the country's...
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