Now Available! George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870–1908
The story of a man trapped between the white world he served and the Black world that worshipped him.
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas
Available in February 2022.
The Elaine massacre of 1919 in the New York Times
Brian K. Mitchell featured in the New York Times.
Fugitivism Reviewed in the Journal of American History
S. Charles Bolton’s Fugitivism is “deeply researched and elegantly written…”
Now Available! Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps
Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965, by Cherisse Jones-Branch.
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of American Atrocity
American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching by Guy Lancaster will be published in October 2021.