historiography

Contains over 150 documents, letters, images, and artifacts representing African-American history from the African slave trade and Civil War, the Harlem Renaissance and the Jim Crow Era, and the modern Civil Rights movement.

A musician and naturalist describes how the noise of humans is drowning out the sounds of nature and paints a picture of the relationship and connection between natural sounds and music that is becoming increasingly difficult to hear.

Discusses the life and times of the African American author who gained recognition for his book, "Roots.".

Winston Churchill fought World War II twice, first as British Prime Minister during the war, and later as the war's premier historian with his six published volumes of memoirs. This book reveals Churchill the author, focusing on a neglected period of his life, the second wilderness years of 1945-51, when Churchill wrote himself into history and politicked himself back into prime-ministership.

A collection of nine personal recollections in which Native American descendents of those whose homelands were traversed by Lewis and Clark discuss how their families and tribes were impacted bythe expedition from St. Louis to the Pacific.

Chronicles the High Middle Ages, examining the cultural and political strides made in this period before Europe was overtaken by famine, plague, and war in the fourteenth century.