Since the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr., has personified black leadership with his use of direct action protests against white authority. A century ago, in the

“If Sapiens was a testament to human sophistication, this history of failure cheerfully reminds us that humans are mostly idiots.” —Greg Jenner, author of

Reflections on the crucial importance of including the perspectives of the marginalized and the non-elite in our historical accounts. In the 1960s, historians o

After decades of scholarship on the civil rights movement at the local level, the insights of bottom-up movement history remain essentially invisible in the acc

This book offers insight into the fascinating field of archaeology. It examines what archaeologists do and what they have learned about past civilizations.