From Bunker Hill to San Juan Heights, from France’s muddy trenches to the Persian Gulf’s scorched sands, African Americans have fought fiercely and bravely.  Meer

In this expanded, all-new edition, this book argues for the tangible relationship between Jackson and blackface minstrelsy. It reveals the dialogue at minstrelsy’s core and, in its broader sense, tracks a centuries-long pattern of racial oppression and its resistance and how that has been played out in popular theatre.  Meer

Michael Jackson challenged the power structure of the American music industry and struck at the heart of blackface minstrelsy, America’s first form of mass entertainment.  Meer

The Vietnam War stories Michael Lee Lanning has collected—raw, often gut-wrenching, sometimes funny—describe slices of individual tours of duty in a controversial war, from the firefights to the friendships, and capture the kaleidoscope of the American experience in Vietnam.  Meer