Lewis Jenkins: 5 books

In the years following World War II, there was a population of young African-American men and women who swelled the campuses of the small segregated colleges in the southland.

The new edition of a popular collection that traces the history of American invention from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. This volume traces the history of American technology—its inventions and inventors—from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. The...

Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group from Martin Luther King Jr.'s staff arrived in Chicago, eager to apply his nonviolent approach to social change in a northern city. Once there, King's Southern Christian Leadership...

One glaring lacuna in studies of Haitian Vodou is the scarcity of works exploring the connection between the religion and its main roots, traditional Yoruba religion. Discussions of Vodou very often seem to present the religion in vacuo, as a sui generis phenomenon that arose in Saint-Domingue and...

Nachdem die Völker der Welt vierhundert Jahre lang in ihren magischen Festungen dem Eindringen der Dämonen getrotzt haben, öffnen sich nun wieder die Pforten ihrer selbstgewählten Gefängnisse. Doch die Bewohner Barsaives müssen feststellen, dass ihre Welt vollständig verwüstet wurde und ihre...