Autore: Deborah Willis

Self-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham, North Carolina, as its burgeoning tobacco economy put the frontier-like boomtown on the map. As an itinerant portraitist working prima …

Why were women far more likely than men to be executed for witchcraft in the early modern period? Questioning approaches that focus narrowly on the male role in witch-hunting in England and Scotland, …

The essays in this book chart how women’s profound and turbulent experiences of migration have been articulated in writing, photography, art and film. As a whole, the volume gives an impression …

A French teacher who collects fiancés; a fortune-teller who fails to predict the heartbreak of her own daughter; an aging cowboy seduced by a city girl . . . these are some of the unforgettable …

Through 150 striking color photographs, Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs charts the road to Barack Obama’s nomination as the first African American to lead the presidential ticket of a maj …

An incredible treasure trove of more than 150 illustrations detailing a small nation of African Americans prepared to make their mark on America …

As a young South African woman of about twenty, Saartjie Baartman, the so-called "Hottentot Venus, " was brought to London and placed on exhibit in 1810. Clad in the Victorian equivalent of …

A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers Though both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial …

“The emotional range and depth of [Willis’s stories], the clarity and deftness, are astonishing.”—Alice Munro The characters in these thirteen masterful and engaging stories exist on the edge of dang …

Longlisted for the Giller Prize A Scientific American Best Staff Read of 2023 A funny, poignant, and page-turning debut novel that skewers billionaire-funded space travel in a love story of interplan …

‘Every detail is sharply placed … a scorching sense of humor and a soft spot for humanity down here on Earth’ The New York Times ‘Fleishman Is In Trouble, but in space’ Bobby Palmer A NEW YORK TIME …

Self-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham, North Carolina, as its burgeoning tobacco economy put the frontier-like boomtown on the map. As an itinerant portraitist working prima …