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What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

John Yudkin was the first to sound the alarm about the excess of sugar in the diet of modern Americans.

An inspiration book uses twelve short, visual exercises that provoke thought and help the reader to figure out how to do more "great work"--The type of creative work that moves a business forward.

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.

James Allen's literary essay and book As a Man Thinketh was originally published in 1903.

While the conflict over slavery was a factor in the Civil War, the abolition of slavery did not become a stated objective until Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which went into effect o

While the conflict over slavery was a factor in the Civil War, the abolition of slavery did not become a stated objective until President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which went int

Charles Minor Blackford, an aristocrat from Virginia, enlisted in the Second Virginia Cavalry at the start of the American Civil War.

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.

A cornerstone of African-American literary history, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work by W. E. B. Du Bois.

In 1887, Nellie Bly had herself committed to the notorious Blackwell's Island insane asylum in New York City with the goal of discovering what life was like for its patients.

La stabilité de la Malaysia -- gouvernée depuis 1957 par le même parti politique -- n'est pas assurée, ni par les mécanismes de la démocratie libérale, ni par des traits culturels, mais par l&