intellectual life

Analyses, children's literature of the Harlem Renaissance, and explores the identity of black childhood and uncovers the networks of African-American philosophers, community activists, schoolteachers, and literary artists who worked together to transmit the history and culture to the next generation.

Presents a critical assessment of the creative achievements of five African-American women poets of the Harlem Renaissance, including Georgia Douglas Johnson, Anne Spencer, Helen Johnson, Gwen Bennett, and Angelina Grimke, and includes discussion of Zora Neale Hurston's novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God.".

A narrative about personalities and American history is told through the story of an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872 to talk about ideas.

Presents an exploration of the life and poetry of Langston Hughes.

Offers interpretations and analysis of poetry by Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, and Yeats.

Presents over 2,000 years of history from a Parisian point of view, describing everyday life of its citizens, artists, political figures, and others who were instrumental in the shaping of the city.