Covering everything from sports to art, religion, music, and entrepreneurship, this book documents the vast array of African American cultural expressions and discusses their impact on the culture of the…

This book offers engaging and informative essays about the social impact and historical importance of the sport of boxing. It will be of interest to students, scholars, and general readers…

The fascinating and turbulent black America of the 1960s emerges in these essays, through the lenses of dissent and its contradictions. Gerald L. Early revisits this volatile time in American…

How reliable a picture of Jesus Christ do we get from the Bible and the early Church writings? This book considers this key question and explains in straightforward terms what…

Japanese zuihitsu (essays) offer a treasure trove of information rarely found in any other genre of Japanese writing. Especially during their golden age, the Edo period, zuihitsu treated a great…

Joseph Smith wasn’t merely the Book of Mormon’s prophetic translatorhe was also a student of the sacred record. Schooling the Prophet offers evidence that the Latter-day Saint prophet was quietly…

Salvatore Quasimodo was born-and lived-through historical tragedies which impressed his mind for ever. What one hears in his lines are the tears of mankind and its wail. This work presents…

Gerald L. Sittser carves out a new discipline that blends spirituality and Christian history–spiritual history. He overviews Christian history through the lens of spirituality, looking at what we can learn…