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click image to order	The Face of Our Past click for more information Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present by Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin With an Introduction by Darlene Clark Hine Indiana University Press This comprehensive pictorial history tells the story of Black women in eight parts: Family Life, Work, Hair, Resistance, Class, Education, Religion and Community, and Inner Life. In addition to 302 carefully chosen images, the editors provide descriptive captions and quotations from letters, diaries, journals, and other sources. "It is wonderful to view the pictures of these women. Their intelligence and kindness are evident in the photographs. I am inspired by their stories and their brave hearts." Maya Angelou
click image to order	A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1996 Stolen Childhood Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America Wilma King Indiana University Press Wilma King sheds light on a tragic aspect of slavery in the United States--the wretched lives of the millions of children enslaved in the nineteenth-century South. King follows the slave child's experience through work, play, education, socialization, resistance to slavery, and the transition to freedom. "King's deeply researched, well-written, passionate study places children and young adults at center stage in the North American slave experience." Choice
	America's Children click for more information by Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson with an introduction by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Illuminating a vital but all too often neglected part of our nation's past, America's Children is a comprehensive print documentary of children in the United States, the first visual history of its kind. Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin explore childhood over four centuries of American life, portraying the children of our past and present through images from museums and archives all over the country as well as from their own extensive collection. "The poignant images of America's Children shatter our illusion that most children live protected lives of innocence. This photographic essay is an important contribution to the national dialogue about family life in America." —Chief Wilma Mankiller, author of Mankiller: A Chief and Her People
click image to order	Children of the Depression Edited by Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin Indiana University Press A new look at the Great Depression shows the children who lived through times of great hardship, fought in World War II, and shaped the world we live in today--the children who became the Greatest Generation. More than 150 photographs, most taken by the great FSA photographers, capture childhood innocence along with terrible exploitation. "These photographs constitute a social history to break your heart." Garry Wills "A very important collection . . . that will expand the visual discourse in photographic history." Deborah Willis-Kennedy
	Girlhood in America Edited by Miriam Forman-Brunell ABC-Clio This groundbreaking reference work presents more than 100 articles by 98 high-profile interdisciplinary scholars, covering all aspects of girls' roles in American society, past and present. " ... a groundbreaking work ... Because the articles are always lucid, cogent, and informative, they will interest anyone curious about girls' studies." - CHOICE
	Red Earth, White Lies Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact Vine Deloria, Jr. Leading Native American scholar and author of the best-selling books God Is Red and Custer Died for Your Sins, Vine Deloria, Jr., addresses the conflict between mainstream scientific theory about the world and the ancestral worldview of Native Americans. Claiming that science has created a largely fictional scenario for American Indians in prehistoric North America, Deloria offers an alternative view of the continent’s history as seen through the eyes and memories of Native Americans.
click image to order NEXT PAGE HOME	A Shining Thread of Hope Click here for more information. The History of Black Women in America Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson Broadway Books A Shining Thread of Hope chronicles the lives of black women from indentured servitude in the early American colonies to the cruelty of antebellum plantations, from the reign of lynch law in the Jim Crow South to the triumphs of the Civil Rights era, and it illustrates how the story of black women in America is as much a tale of courage and hope as it is a history of struggle. On both an individual and a collective level, A Shining Thread of Hope reveals the strength and spirit of black women and brings their stories from the fringes of American history to a central position in our understanding of the forces and events that have shaped this country. "From time to time, a work of history itself makes history. A Shining Thread of Hope is such a book, marking a giant step in the creation of a more encompassing portrait of our nation's past." Nell Irvin Painter, The News & Observer