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Native American Black Elk is known to millions from the book Black Elk Speaks. Yet the man himself faded from view, even though he witnessed momentous events in the American West.

A rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this dise

Six months after Dr. Steven Hatch came to work at a hospital in Liberia, several physicians he served with were dead, and Ebola was a global crisis.

This book takes listeners inside the world of the brave men and women who popularized flying through their deadly stunts and paved the way for modern aviation.

From acclaimed biographer Fred Kaplan comes this exploration of how Abraham Lincoln's and John Quincy Adams' experiences with slavery and race shaped their differing viewpoints.

Marion Milner’s 1934 A Life of One’s Own illustrates a modern woman’s “crossing,” both disciplinarily and generically.

12 Years a Slave is the harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841.

The America that Alexander Hamilton knew was largely agricultural and built on slave labor.

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography.

A controversial figure in his day, Black Hawk was the leader of the Sauk American Indian tribe in the early 1800s.

Robert E. Lee, the famed Confederate forces commander and icon of the South, is a towering figure in U.S. and military history.

Both lionized and vilified, Claire L’Heureux-Dubé has shaped the Canadian legal landscape – and in particular its highest court.

It is hard to imagine a person who embodied the ideals of postwar Canadian foreign policy more than John Wendell Holmes.

Standing Up with G̲a’ax̱sta’las tells the remarkable story of Jane Constance Cook (1870-1951), a controversial Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw leader and activist who lived during a period of enormous colonial uph

“I am not afraid to be called a politician,” declared Paul Martin Sr., defending his life’s work in politics.