History books

Uncovering the African Past: The Ivan Van Sertima Papers is the third book in a trilogy by the well-known African-American scholar, Runoko Rashidi. In the first two volumes which have sold well, Black Star: The...

Black Man of the Nile and His Family, first published in 1972, is Dr. Ben's best known work. It captures much of the substance of his early research on ancient Africa. In a masterful and unique manner, Dr. Ben ...

Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empires, written over a twenty-five-year period and published in 1926, represents the crowning achievement of Drusilla Dunjee Houston’s literary life. With this w...

Cowboys and Indians? Not hardly. The Cowboys, actually, came on the scene very late. The First Americans, as seen on the cover of this book, will be thoroughly covered. The picture was taken by the crew of The...

Providing an overview of the lost sciences of Africa and of contributions that Blacks have made to modern American science, Blacks in Science presents a range of new information from Africanists. The book also ...

Precolonial Black Africa: A Comparative Study of the Political and Social Systems of Europe and Black Africa, from Antiquity to Formation of Modern States is one of three major works by Cheikh Anta Diop that at...

The Mis-Education of the Negro was originally published in 1933 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson. According to his thesis explained in the book, African-Americans were being culturally indoctrinated, rather than taught...

From The Browder File, is a collection of 22 thought-provoking essays focusing on various aspects of African American history and culture. According to Tony Browder, "absolute knowledge of self is the ultimate ...

A celebrated classic, They Came Before Columbus, deals with a number of contacts -- both planned and accidental, between Africans and Americans in different historical periods. Evidence for a physical/cultural ...

A widely read classic exposition of the history of Africans on the continent—and the people of African descent in the United States and in the diaspora—this well researched analysis details the development...