A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners' own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families. Forty years ago, Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers on one of the largest strikes in Br...

An accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of death. Since the internet's earliest days, people have died and mourned online. In quiet corners of past iterations of the web, the dead linger. But attempts at pres...

The Black social gospel is a tradition of unsurpassed importance in American life, and it remains ongoing. So Gary Dorrien argues in his groundbreaking trilogy of books on the history of Black social Christianity. Following his Grawemeyer Award-winni...

The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union. Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the "sixties" era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West....

A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade. During the eighteenth century, Britain's slave trade exploded in size. Formerly a small and geographically constricted busines...

The fascinating history of how the antifascist movement of the 1930s created "the left" as we know it today. In the middle years of the Great Depression, the antifascist movement became a global political force, powerfully uniting people from across...

Over the last few years, it has been impossible to ignore the steady resurgence of xenophobia. The European migrant crisis and immigration from Central America to the United States have placed Western advocates of globalization on the defensive, and...

Why Black dignity is the paradigm of all dignity and Black philosophy is the starting point of all philosophy. This radical work by one of the leading young scholars of Black thought delineates a new concept of Black dignity, yet one with a long his...

The first in-depth examination of the voice intelligence industry, this timely book exposes how artificial intelligence is enabling personalized marketing and discrimination through voice analysis. Amazon and Google have numerous patents around voice...

The epic story of Satmar Hasidic Williamsburg, from the decline of New York to the gentrification of Brooklyn. The Hasidic community in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is famously one of the most separatist, intensely religious, and politically...