The Reading Room
On Hind Swaraj and Selected Writings
This is where nonviolent resistance became a method rather than a mood.
On Hind Swaraj and Selected Writings
This is where nonviolent resistance became a method rather than a mood.
On Letter from Birmingham Jail
It was written in the margins of a newspaper, in a cell, in answer to clergymen who had called the protests untimely.
On Letter from Birmingham Jail
It was written in the margins of a newspaper, in a cell, in answer to clergymen who had called the protests untimely.
On Parting the Waters
Taylor Branch spent twenty-four years writing the history of the American civil-rights movement, and Parting the Waters, the first volume of his trilogy, is where the epic begins.
On Parting the Waters
Taylor Branch spent twenty-four years writing the history of the American civil-rights movement, and Parting the Waters, the first volume of his trilogy, is where the epic begins.
On The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson told the Great Migration as the epic it was, and in doing so recovered one of the largest and least understood events in American history.
On The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson told the Great Migration as the epic it was, and in doing so recovered one of the largest and least understood events in American history.
On Reconstruction
Eric Foner wrote the definitive history of America's unfinished revolution, the years after the Civil War when the country tried, and then abandoned the attempt, to build a genuine multiracial...
On Reconstruction
Eric Foner wrote the definitive history of America's unfinished revolution, the years after the Civil War when the country tried, and then abandoned the attempt, to build a genuine multiracial...
