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They Met at Wounded Knee
The history of the United States from the Civil War to World War II is the canvas of this double biography of the most famous Native American of his time--physician Charles Ohiyesa Eastman--and the white woman he met at the Wounded Knee Massacre in late 1890 and married, Elaine Goodale. Bonded by love and the trauma they witnessed, this mixed-race couple wrote 22 books, gave speeches, lobbied Congress, and organized Indian communities, investing their lives in changing U.S. policies that progressively reduced the power and resources of Indigenous Americans.
Dissent in Wichita
"Through her close study of events in Wichita, Eick reveals the civil rights movement as a national, not a southern, phenomenon. She focuses particularly on Chester I. Lewis, Jr., a key figure in the local as well as the national NAACP. Lewis initiated one of the earliest investigations of de facto school desegregation by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and successfully challenged employment discrimination in the nation's largest aircraft industries."--BOOK JACKET.
Maybe Crossings
A novel.
The Set Up, 1984
This story is based on real events that took place in 1984 when an inexperienced crew set off to bring a yacht full of cannabis resin from Lebanon to London. Operation Bishop was not simply drug trafficking, and the crew found themselves part of an international drama linked to the foreign policies of the British and U.S. governments, trapped at the nexus of the Cold War and the war against terrorism. This celebrated case was silenced by the British government, the records not to be publicly available for 80 years--until 2064. This novel imagines the crew, their journey, their prison time and trial, and why the British government took such an unusual step to hide details of Operation Bishop.
The Death Project
In 2020, the world was short on emotional resources to cope with the scale of death the pandemic, COVID-19, was producing. In U.S. culture, people view death multiple times a week in crime dramas and participate in "taking out" others in video games. Yet most people have not seen a dead body, other than their deceased pets, until aged parents die. The popular culture tells them to "get over it" quickly when they lose a family member."Denial is not an effective life strategy," Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, told the world as his state struggled to cope with unprecedented numbers of deaths, inadequate protective gear for hospital workers, and overwhelmed mortuaries.Denial was totally ...
Maybe Crossings
The 1960s brought 1,000 young Americans to the Deep South to register voters in Freedom Summer. Edward, Ann, and Reggie meet there. Forty years later their lives reconnect through their children and secrets begin to unwind.
Dissent in Wichita
Winner of the Richard L. Wentworth Prize in American History, Byron Caldwell Smith Book Prize, and the William Rockhill Nelson Award On a hot summer evening in 1958, a group of African American students in Wichita, Kansas, quietly entered Dockum's Drug Store and sat down at the whites-only lunch counter. This was the beginning of the first sustained, successful student sit-in of the modern civil rights movement, instigated in violation of the national NAACP's instructions. Dissent in Wichita traces the contours of race relations and black activism in this unexpected locus of the civil rights movement. Based on interviews with more than eighty participants in and observers of Wichita's civil ...
Dark Crossings
In April, 2019, Keisha Johnson and Richard Allen, an interracial couple, are happily raising two teenaged children and enjoying their privileged lives. Quirky, even odd, they are best friends and lovers. But when their family becomes one of the 510 families in Greater Chicago who experience murder that year, nothing seems to remain of their happiness. Barely functioning, deep in grief, the survivors stumble along, fragile and devastated. Then Keisha's mom gives her a DNA kit so that she can investigate her biological father and the secrets that surround him. She knows only that he was a civil rights leader who died in 1985, never knowing he had a child. Her search leads her to Philadelphia, ...
Fragmented Ties
This text gives a detailed account of the inner workings of the networks by which immigrants leave their homes in Central America to start new lives in the Mission District of San Francisco.
Finding Duncan
A novel
