Tod Williams Billie Tsien

July, 1967: It seems the entire country stopped to listen to a husky voice steeped in the simmering secrets of the South tell a tragic tale of teenage suicide. So much for the Summ...

John Williams, as the New Yorker noted recently, was author of ‘the greatest American novel you’ve have never heard of.’ He died in obscurity, but has enjoyed a literary renaissanc...

This chapter examines Fannie Barrier Williams' move to Chicago with her husband S. Laing Williams and how she built a strong local coalition that eased her entry into the segregate...

Billie Holiday (1915-1959), the legendary jazz singer whose vocal stylings were deeply affecting, continues to enthrall. This biography conveys her hard-luck youth, career triumphs...

This collection of fascinating biographies of outstanding women athletes past and present including superstars such as Nadia Comaneci, Mia Hamm, Jackie-Joyner Kersee, Danica Patric...

Der von Karl Kroeschell und Dorothee Mußgnug herausgegebene Briefwechsel zwischen den Rechtshistorikern Wilhelm Arnold (1826-1883) und Andreas Heusler (1834-1921) setzt 1858 ein, a...

Die Ausstellung widmet sich dem progressiven Künstler Paul Gangolf, der in europäischen Metropolen wirkte und 1936 im KL Esterwegen ermordet wurde. Paul Gangolf, der eige...