94 Collage of Books in the Biography & Autobiography / Historical Category — View a list.

Click for more detail about Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Click for more detail about Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo
Click for more detail about Reclamation (paperback): Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy by Gayle Jessup White
Click for more detail about Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy by Gayle Jessup White
Click for more detail about Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer by Kate Clifford Larson
Click for more detail about On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
Click for more detail about A Promised Land (Deluxe Signed Edition) by Barack Obama
Click for more detail about A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Click for more detail about Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association by Tony Martin
Click for more detail about Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker by A’Lelia Bundles
Click for more detail about Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
Click for more detail about W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History by Gerald Horne
Click for more detail about What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series Three: Correspondence, Volume 2: 1853-1865 by Frederick Douglass
Click for more detail about Reflections by Rosa Parks: The Quiet Strength and Faith of a Woman Who Changed a Nation by Rosa Parks
Click for more detail about Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg by Vanessa K. Valdés
Click for more detail about A Look Back in Time: Memoir of a Military Kid in the Fifties Vol. 2 by Bernard N. Lee, Jr.
Click for more detail about Leadership Under Fire: Advancing Progress, Communicating, Teaching and Setting Communities at Liberty by Roland C. Barksdale-Hall
Click for more detail about Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga
Click for more detail about The Battle for the Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and the Debate That Shaped the Course of Civil Rights by Thomas Aiello
Click for more detail about The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family by Gail Lumet Buckley
Click for more detail about My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair
Click for more detail about Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (Reissue) by John Lewis and Michael D'Orso
Click for more detail about The Class of ’79: Three Students Who Risked Their Lives to Destroy Apartheid by Janice Warman
Click for more detail about Death Of A King: The Real Story Of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year by Tavis Smiley
Click for more detail about Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance by Carla Kaplan
Click for more detail about The Borgias by Alexandre Dumas
Click for more detail about Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson by Barbara Ransby
Click for more detail about My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
Click for more detail about Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Click for more detail about Miss Anne In Harlem: The White Women Of The Black Renaissance by Carla Kaplan
Click for more detail about The Butler: A Witness to History by Wil Haygood
Click for more detail about Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
Click for more detail about The Fire Of Freedom: Abraham Galloway And The Slaves’ Civil War by David S. Cecelski
Click for more detail about My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family After the Civil War by Lawrence P. Jackson
Click for more detail about Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography by Randal Maurice Jelks
Click for more detail about MLK: A Celebration in Word and Image by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Click for more detail about A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said by Omar Ibn Said
Click for more detail about Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power by James Mcgrath Morris
Click for more detail about Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention by Manning Marable
Click for more detail about Andrew Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 17Th President, 1865-1869 by Annette Gordon-Reed
Click for more detail about Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History by Fawn M. Brodie
Click for more detail about W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) by Gerald Horne
Click for more detail about Am I Not A Man? The Dred Scott Story by Mark L. Shurtleff
Click for more detail about Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain by Lori Tharps
Click for more detail about Gather Together In My Name by Maya Angelou
Click for more detail about Lincoln On Race And Slavery by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Click for more detail about Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin by Herb Boyd
Click for more detail about Looking For Lincoln: The Making Of An American Icon by Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt and Peter W. Kunhardt Jr.
Click for more detail about American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
Click for more detail about Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope by Jimmy Carter
Click for more detail about The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America’s First Black Dynasty by Lawrence Otis Graham
Click for more detail about George S. Schuyler: Portrait Of A Black Conservative by Oscar R. Williams
Click for more detail about Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin by John Hope Franklin
Click for more detail about My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations by Mary Frances Berry
Click for more detail about King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. by Wil Haygood
Click for more detail about Essence: 50 Of The Most Inspiring African-Americans by Patricia M. Hinds and Susan L. Taylor
Click for more detail about The Sage Of Sugar Hill: George S. Schuyler And The Harlem Renaissance by Jeffrey Ferguson
Click for more detail about Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley
Click for more detail about Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire by Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines
Click for more detail about Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero by Kate Clifford Larson
Click for more detail about The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story Of Sally Miller And Her Fight For Freedom in Old New Orleans by John Bailey
Click for more detail about Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow
Click for more detail about My Bondage and My Freedom: Part I. Life as a Slave. Part II. Life as a Freeman. by Frederick Douglass
Click for more detail about Growing Up X by Ilyasah Shabazz and Kim McLarin
Click for more detail about Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights by Tananarive Due
Click for more detail about Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production Of Hate by Neil Baldwin
Click for more detail about The Herndons: An Atlanta Family by Carole Merritt
Click for more detail about Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois by Gerald Horne
Click for more detail about On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker by A’Lelia Bundles
Click for more detail about Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X by Rodnell P. Collins and A. Peter Bailey
Click for more detail about W.E.B. Du Bois: An Encyclopedia by Gerald Horne
Click for more detail about Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany by Hans J. Massaquoi
Click for more detail about Beloved Sisters And Loving Friends: Letters From Rebecca Primus Of Royal Oak, Maryland, And Addie Brown Of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868 by Farah Jasmine Griffin
Click for more detail about The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Click for more detail about Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It by Herb Boyd
Click for more detail about W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis
Click for more detail about The Mother of Us All: A History of Queen Nanny, Leader of the Windward Jamaican Maroons by Karla Lewis Gottlieb
Click for more detail about Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary by Juan Williams
Click for more detail about I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about The Messenger : The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad by Karl Evanzz
Click for more detail about Love Unlimited: Insights on Life and Love by Barry White
Click for more detail about Jackie Robinson: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad
Click for more detail about Black Boy by Richard Wright
Click for more detail about The Second Crucifixion of Nat Turner by John Henrik Clarke
Click for more detail about Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol by Nell Irvin Painter
Click for more detail about My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin by John Hope Franklin
Click for more detail about Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol by Nell Irvin Painter
Click for more detail about Women of Vision: The Story of the Canadian Negro Women’s Association, 1951-1976 by Lawrence Hill
Click for more detail about Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
Click for more detail about Edison: Inventing the Century by Neil Baldwin
Click for more detail about James Baldwin: The Legacy by Quincy Troupe
Click for more detail about George Washington Williams: A Biography by John Hope Franklin
Click for more detail about Journey to Africa by Hoyt Fuller