Independent scholarship produces its greatest value when it confronts the core problems of our society and brings cutting-edge research…
A youth homicide reduction initiative in Boston in the mid-1990s poses particular difficulties for program evaluation because it did not…
“On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur, aka JoAnne Chesimard, lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local,…
“This haunting novel explores the complete degradation and isolation of a man by war. The book is set on the island of Leyte in the…
Written in alternating chapters, a mother and daughter describe the accident that nearly killed the daughter and left her paralyzed, and…
“A multi-generational saga of the Sioux Indians, mixing magic and reality. Set in the Dakotas, it begins in the 1860s with the tragic…
“Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all…