Taking It to the Streets
August 4, 2020
Author Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier shares a series of stories about taking action in times of crisis from The House on Henry Street: The Enduring Life of a Lower East Side Settlement.
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100 Years of Women’s Suffrage: An eBook Special
August 3, 2020
Get inspired by the fearless feminists featured in the eBooks below—each $1.99 through the end of August!
On Learning and Relearning about White Privilege
July 13, 2020
— Stephanie M. Wildman
Reflections on one lawyer’s life of reckoning with the white privilege in law school and beyond.
Q&A with Marc Stein, author of The Stonewall Riots
June 30, 2020
See what historian Marc Stein has been working on since the publication of his book The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History.
The limits of knowledge in a data-driven society
June 23, 2020
What counts as knowledge in the age of big data and smart machines? All too often, data generates speculation as much as it does information.
Excerpt from Evaluating Police Uses of Force
June 17, 2020
Read an excerpt from a new book by Seth W. Stoughton, Jeffrey J. Noble and Geoffrey P. Alpert that provides a critical understanding and evaluation of police tactics and the use of force.
Fighting Racism with Books: A Reading List
June 15, 2020
—Carl Suddler In these tumultuous times, it is imperative for all of us to remember even unprecedented moments can be connected to a past. So, instead of learning history to… READ MORE
The Tip of the Iceberg—Victor M. Rios on police brutality and the Black Lives Matter protests
June 9, 2020
—Victor M. Rios Police killings of unarmed Black people are the tip of the iceberg. In Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys, I write about a system… READ MORE