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Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826-1925
This is the first installment of a fully illustrated catalogue of the Academy's priceless collection of paintings and sculptures.
The Christian
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Civilizing Torture
Pulitzer Prize Finalist Silver Gavel Award Finalist “A sobering history of how American communities and institutions have relied on torture in various forms since before the United States was founded.” —Los Angeles Times “That Americans as a people and a nation-state are violent is indisputable. That we are also torturers, domestically and internationally, is not so well established. The myth that we are not torturers will persist, but Civilizing Torture will remain a powerful antidote in confronting it.” —Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell “Remarkable...A searing analysis of America’s past that helps make sense of its bewildering pre...
The Republic of "Hait-Me"
Less than three decades after the United Colonies declared independence from Britain and became the first independent nation in the Western Hemisphere known as The United States of America, there was another declaration of independence resulting in the formation of the first Black republic in the world and the second republic in the Western Hemisphere by way of the first and only successful, self-emancipating slave revolt, making The Republic of Haiti the first independent nation in the Caribbean. Instead of being respected and celebrated for these phenomenal "firsts", Haiti has been the subject of what appears to be a fervid grudge that has spanned two centuries and continues to this day. When juxtaposing America's quest to break away from British colonialism against Haiti's quest to break away from French colonialism, what could Haiti have possibly done different from America that merited perpetual ill treatment from the beginning of the 19th century to this very day? Join me in examining the roots of Haiti's 200 year burden.
Indian Antiquities
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