Ronald Takaki - A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America

A Different Mirror is a dramatic new retelling of our nation's history, a powerful larger narrative of the many different peoples who together compose the United States of America.

Art Spiegelman - Maus: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History and Here My Troubles Began

It is the story of Vladek Speigelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. ...

Art Spiegelman - Maus a Survivors Tale: And Here My Troubles Begin

Now in paperback, " the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust " (Wall Street Journal). " The power of Spiegelman's story lies in the fine detail of the story and the ...

Kenneth Carley - The Dakota War of 1862

The memoirist recalls her childhood in Minnesota, where a meatpacking plant dominated the lives of her family and friends. A 1959 strike at the plant, where her father was a striking employee, defines ...

Leroy Tecube - Year in Nam: A Native American Soldier's Story

A memoir of one year as an infantry man in the Vietnam War by a Jicarilla Apache.

Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam

Personal narratives by Mexican-Americans who served in Vietnam provide a non-mainstream view of the conflict and of elements of toleration and prejudice among the U.S. armed forces.

John Egerton - Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South

cent Speak Now Against the Day. His book is a stunning achievement: a sprawling, engrossing, deeply moving account of those Southerners, black and white, who raised their voices to challenge the ...

Daisy Bates - The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir

Recounts the 1957 incident in which nine black children were prevented from entering school.

Paul Gilroy - The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness

There is, Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once, a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ...

Jack Beatty - The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley 1874-1958