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...
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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...
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 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.
Professor Ibrahim K. Sundiata is Emeritus Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University.
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 is pleased to announce the opening of its new Local History Room at the Lee Road branch. Located on the building’s second floor,...
Professor Vida Johnson discusses two of her articles on police bias.
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...
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.
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 is a long-form journalism project developed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, from The New York Times, which "aims to reframe the country's...
March is Women's History Month, four weeks dedicated to celebrating and highlighting the accomplishments of women throughout history. Picture book...