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A Black Woman’s Odyssey Through Russia and Jamaica: The Narrative of Nancy Prince
	Prince, Nancy (introduction by Ronald Walters; edited by Patricia Romero) Subject: Africa, Europe, U.S. History, Caribbean, History of Slavery, Women's History	Memories of Africa, pre-civil war New England, political turmoil in Russia, the end of slavery in Jamaica, and Caribbean pirates; an intrepid black woman experiences many turning points in world history. Nancy Prince paints a blunt picture of the struggle … More Information

Blacks in Bondage: Letters of American Slaves
	Starobin, Robert S., editor Subject: U.S. History, Slavery	Written while enslaved or shortly after escape, the words recorded here express complexity and diversity of thought and feeling about slavery and being black. Blacks in Bondage is a landmark document in understanding the human side of history. … More Information

Bon Papa: Haiti’s Golden Years
	Diederich, Bernard Subject: Caribbean	This is Haiti, pearl of the Antilles, during the presidency of General Paul E. (Bon Papa) Magloire (1950-56). It was an exciting time, when Haitians stood tall, and their country flourished, as reported in the pages of the Haiti Sun … More Information

The Book of Strangers: Medieval Arabic Graffiti on the Theme of Nostalgia
	Crone, Patricia and Shmuel Moreh, editors Subject: Middle East	A tenth-century Iraqi longing for the happy days of the past took to collecting verse graffiti left behind by travelers and others who did not feel at home where they were in order to console himself. Some of the graffiti … More Information

Boricuas in Gotham: Puerto Ricans in the Making of Modern New York City
	Haslip-Viera, Gabriel, Angelo Falcón and Félix V. Matos-Rodríguez, editors Subject: Latin America, Caribbean, U.S. History	This new and very important collection of essays reinterprets and updates the history of New York’s Puerto Rican community and its leaders from the beginnings of the great migration in the 1940s to the present time. The collection also honors … More Information

The Bork Hearings: Highlights From the Most Controversial Judicial Confirmation Battle in U.S. History
	Shaffer, Ralph E., editor Subject: U.S. History	The Bork hearings marked the beginning of a trend toward ideological evaluation of Supreme Court judicial nominees. These were the first and last hearings to feature such extensive discussion of legal and constitutional issues, as presidents quickly discovered that a … More Information

Born at the Battlefield of Gettysburg: An African-American Family Saga
	Rinaldi, Harriette C. Subject: African American History, Women's History, History of Slavery	“Tremendous! Part history, part detective story, and wholly good.” — Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The lives of Victor Chambers—who was born on the battlefield at Gettysburg to a runaway slave and later became an artist in Providence—and … More Information

Brown v. Board of Education: A Documentary History
	Whitman, Mark Subject: U.S. History	Fiftieth Anniversary Edition This critical contribution marks the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. The book lets the reader come to grips with the fascinating record of a case in which facts have made a more thrilling … More Information

Busha’s Mistress: A Stirring Romance from the Days of Slavery in Jamaica
	Perkins, Cyrus Francis (edited by Paul E. Lovejoy, Verene Shepherd and David Trotman) Subject: Caribbean, World Literature	This is one of the earliest Caribbean novels written in English. The novel tells the story of Catherine, the slave concubine of a cruel white overseer on Greenside Estate, near Falmouth, whose ruins today attest to the tensions of a … More Information

By the Waters of Manhattan
	Reznikoff, Charles (introduction by Milton Hindus) Subject: Europe, U.S. History, World Literature	This is the first novel of Charles Reznikoff, one of the outstanding American poets of this century. It tells the story of a courageous woman in Russia who immigrates to America and starts a family and business in New York’s … More Information