Geschichte

Das Kind auf der Liste

Annette Leo

Willy Blum war sechzehn Jahre alt, als er in Auschwitz-Birkenau ermordet wurde. Von ihm blieb nur ein Name auf einer Liste, neben dem durchgestrichenen Namen Jerzy Zweigs, der durch Bruno Apitz` R...

Zeit meines Lebens

Theo Sommer

Die bewegenden Lebenserinnerungen von einem der wichtigsten deutschen JournalistenTheo Sommer hat mehr als neunzig Jahre und vier Deutschlands erlebt: das Dritte Reich, die Bonner Republik, die DD...

The Preventorium

Susan Annah Currie

Opened on February 17, 1929, the Mississippi State Preventorium operated continuously until 1976. The Mississippi Preventorium, like similar hospitals throughout the country, was an institution fo...

Reading Confederate Monuments

Contributions by Danielle Christmas, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Garrett Bridger Gilmore, Spencer R. Herrera, Cassandra Jackson, Stacie McCormick, Maria Seger, Randi Lynn Tanglen, Brook Thomas, Micha...

Die schwärzesten Tage

Martina Schmid / K. H. Hartmann

Dieser Zeitzeugenbericht schildert die Strapazen und furchtbaren Entbehrungen meiner Mutter und ihrer Schwestern während ihrer Flucht im März 1945 von Kolberg/Westpommern, (heutiges Kolobrzeg, P...

Limbos terrestres

Esteban Feune de Colombi

Rituales chamánicos, el tamborilero que derrotó a Napoleón en 1808, un alcalde que balbucea ante Franco y espárragos que avistan ovnis: todo tiene cabida en El Bruc, un municipio a los pies de...

Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee, the famed Confederate forces commander and icon of the South, is a towering figure in U.S. and military history. The son of a famed Revolutionary War officer, his path to greatness ...

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson

Originally published anonymously in 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man revealed as never before the color line dividing America, and the price it exacted on those souls who could travers...

Old Christmas

Washington Irving

Warm and delightfully festive, this charming and long forgotten holiday classic was inspired, in part, by Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and other celebrations of old-time Yule. Splendid s...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Left unfinished at the time of his death, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin has endured as one of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written. From his early years in Bos...

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

One of the most important slave narratives of all time, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth tells the story of an African American woman who struggled against the bondages of slavery in the mid-1800s...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom for herself and her children. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narr...

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography. In it he was able to go into greater detail about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery, as he and his fam...

Behind the Scenes

Elizabeth Keckley

Born in Virginia in 1818, Elizabeth Keckley grew up enslaved until she was able to purchase her and her son's freedom with money made from working as a seamstress. As she continued to perfect ...

They Said This Would Be Fun

Eternity Martis

A booksmart kid from Toronto, Eternity Martis was excited to move away to Western University for her undergraduate degree. But as one of the few Black students there, she soon discovered that the ...

Ce n'était pas de l'amour

Betty Mannechez

Aux yeux de tout le monde, la famille de Betty est dévouée et aimante. Dans son village de la région parisienne, elle donne l'impression d'une famille parfaite avec un père qui travail...

Letters from Lee's Army

Charles Minor Blackford

Charles Minor Blackford, an aristocrat from Virginia, enlisted in the Second Virginia Cavalry at the start of the American Civil War. During his tour of duty, Captain Blackford kept constant corre...

Alexander Hamilton

Charles Arthur Conant

Founding father Alexander Hamilton led a passionate and meaningful life. Nicknamed Little Lion for his short stature and bold ideas, Hamilton played an integral role in the founding of America'...

Political Animal

Frank Perez

During Mardi Gras 1973, Stewart Butler (1930–2020) fell in love with Alfred Doolittle—a wealthy socialite and schizophrenic from San Francisco. Their relationship was an improbable love story ...

Paksun lumen talvi

Hannele Pokka

Ennennäkemätön lama kurittaa Suomea syksyllä 1992. Työttömyys on hurjassa nousussa, ja velkataakka painaa harteita. Oikeusministeri Hannele Pokka tietää kuitenkin, millä keinoilla talous ...