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  • The Trouble of Color

    An American Family Memoir

    by Martha S. Jones ...
    **A memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from a preeminent historian“Intimate and searching.” —Natasha Trethewey, New York Times–bestselling author of Memorial DriveNamed a Best Book of the Year by Smithsonian • TIME**Martha S. Jones grew up feeling her Black identity was obvious to all who saw her. But weeks into college, a Black Studies classmate challenged ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Vanguard

    How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

    by Martha S. Jones ...
    **An essential history of African American women’s pursuit of political power—and how it transformed America“Elegant and expansive.” —New York TimesWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryNamed a Best Book of the Year by Ms. • Time • Foreign Affairs • Smithsonian**In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women’s political lives in Ame. ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Trouble of Color

    An American Family Memoir

    by Martha S. Jones ...
    Narrated by Martha S. Jones ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 7 min

    An “intimate and searching” (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times–bestselling author of Memorial Drive) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from “one of our country’s greatest historians” (Clint Smith, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of How the Word is Passed)Martha S. Jones grew up feeling her Black identity was obvious to all who saw her. But weeks into ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Birthright Citizens

    A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America

    by Martha S. Jones ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade national belonging through battles in legislatures, conventions, and courthouses. They faced formidable opposition, most notoriously from the US Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott. Still, Martha S. ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ornithology

    by Martha Maria Jones ...
    a field guide to everything i could not keep. birds that stayed too briefly, a love that left slow then all at once, grief translated into weather, into feathers, into a Tuesday that wouldn't end. some of this is heavy. some of it is just a joke about a crochet hook and bad decisions. all of it is true, in the way that matters most. for anyone still learning how to lose something without calling ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Vanguard

    How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

    by Martha S. Jones ...
    Narrated by Mela Lee ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 42 min

    **An essential history of African American women’s pursuit of political power—and how it transformed America“Elegant and expansive.” —New York TimesWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryNamed a Best Book of the Year by Ms. • Time • Foreign Affairs • Smithsonian**In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women’s political lives in Ame. ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • A Waiting Room

    by Martha Maria Jones ...
    A Waiting Rooms is a collection for anyone who's ever lingered in the quiet spaces between what was and what could be. Martha Maria Jones's poems capture the hush of in-between moments—where hope, heartbreak, and healing collide. From the corridors of memory to the shadowed corners of longing, these verses invite you to sit with your own monsters, breathe through the ache, and discover beauty in ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All Bound Up Together

    The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900

    by Martha S. Jones ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    The place of women’s rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. All Bound Up Together explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. Martha Jones reveals how, through the nineteenth century, ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Living History Anthology

    Perspectives from ALHFAM

    Edited by Martha B. Katz-Hyman, Cliff Jones, Susan J. McCabe, Mary Seelhorst ...
    The Living History Anthology brings together twenty-six practical essays on the craft of establishing and running living history museums. Contributions cover all aspects of developing and running a living history site.Including contributions on strategic planning, human resource management, research programs, collection policies, and engagement with varied audiences, including indigenous groups, ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

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    Birthright Citizens

    A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America

    by Martha S. Jones ...
    Narrated by Janina Edwards ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 58 min

    Birthright Citizens tells how African American activists radically transformed the terms of citizenship for all Americans.Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade national belonging through battles in legislatures, conventions, and ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women

    Edited by Mia E. Bay, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, Barbara D. Savage ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women’s places in intellectual history by engaging the work of writers, educators, activists, religious leaders, and social reformers in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. Dedicated to ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Aging is Not for Sissies

    Another Round of Laughter, #3

    by Brenda Kennedy, David Bruce, Rosa Jones, Carla Evans, Martha Farmer ...
    Series Book 3 - Another Round of Laughter
    While on a Caribbean Cruise and after numerous bottles of Moscato wine and several trips to the all-you-can-eat dessert bar, four sisters decided to write a book about their love affair with food and their experiences with diet disasters. They also invited a brother to contribute some writing, and they called the book Cupcakes Are Not a Diet Food.Since that book was so much fun and a great success ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus