Revealing the central role of Black activists in spurring interracial solidarity in the US labor movement.Most accounts of interracial solidarity focus on white union activists. In Freedom Train, Cedric de Leon, a former organizer and elected leader in...

From Its Development In The 1980s, The Sanctuary City Movement--municipal Protection Of People With Uncertain Migration Status From National Immigration Enforcement--has Been A Powerful And Controversial Side Of Progressive Migration Policy Reform. While...

An Account Of The Central Role That Ethnography Played In The Roman Empire And Its Transformation In Late Antiquity. Ethnography, Broadly Understood, Is A Key Element In The Toolkit Of Every Empire, As Important As Armies, Tax-collectors, Or Ambassadors...

A visual and conceptual journey through the 35-year career of one of the most influential and internationally acclaimed street artists On the occasion of 35 years of Shepard Fairey's (Obey) career and his first solo exhibition in Italy (curated by the...

Those Passions is the careful distillation of a lifetime of writing about art's relationship to politics, by the internationally renowned art historian T. J. Clark.

How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders’ oligarchy in the Civil War.This is a story about a dangerous idea―one which ignited revolutions in America,...

A revelatory glimpse into the future of photography, one where the very nature of how images are created is fundamentally transformed by artificial intelligence. An invaluable roadmap in a new world.The revolution caused by artificial intelligence in...

A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is...

An intimate and revelatory biography of Yoko Ono from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy. John Lennon once described Yoko Ono as the world’s most famous unknown artist. “Everybody knows her name, but no one knows what she does.”...

From the founders of The Cook’s Atelier, a cooking school in Burgundy, France, comes a cookbook about living well the French wayWhen mother and daughter duo and expats Marjorie Taylor and Kendall Smith Franchini moved to Beaune in Burgundy, France, to...

With intimate and harrowing portraits of the human consequences of oppression, occupation, and violence experienced in Palestine today, Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges issues a call to action urging us to bear witness and engage with the...

Why do we need art?What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can transform us.Curious and playful, richly illustrated, full...

A dramatic history of how American Jews reckoned with slavery―and fought the Civil War.Since ancient times, the Jewish people have recalled the story of Exodus and reflected on the implications of having been slaves. Did the tradition teach that Jews...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes the story of three siblings who, upon the death of their father, are forced to reckon with their long-festering rivalries, dangerous abilities, and the crushing weight of all their...

From acclaimed historian John Ferling, a major, global reappraisal of the Revolutionary War on its 250th Anniversary.In April 1775, British troops marched to Lexington, where an armed group of Yankees awaited them. Despite an order to disperse, shots...

All systems fail. All societies crumble. All worlds end.In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a man who has downloaded his mind to a succession of new bodies to maintain his grip on power. Meanwhile,...

John Lennon and Paul McCartney knew each other for twenty-three years, from 1957 to 1980. This book is the myth-shattering biography of a relationship that changed the cultural history of the world.The Beatles shook the world to its core in the 1960’s...

Pop artist, painter of modern life, landscape painter, master of color, explorer of image and perception—for six decades, David Hockney has been known as an artist who always finds new ways of exploring the world and its representational possibilities...

After Egon Schiele (1890–1918) freed himself from the shadow of his mentor and role model Gustav Klimt, he had just ten years to inscribe his signature style into the annals of modernity before the Spanish flu claimed his life. Being a child prodigy...

First published in 1963, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America’s so-called “Negro problem.” As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account of the black experience in the United States, it is...