Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Rosa Parks...Upon hearing these names, many people immediately think of the arduous and prolonged struggle that these leaders endured to achieve racial equality. In fact, famous figures such as these are often given most of the credit for the Civil Rights Movemen...

Jamaica Kincaid's novel, Lucy, is a first-person narrative of a young woman coming to America from Antigua and does not latch onto anything in its path. Lucy herself absorbs only small details of her new home, never trying to take in the place as a whole, not looking beyond what is in front ...

After the Civil War had ended, several soldiers had returned home to find their places of living destroyed. Most of these people returned to practically nothing. The United States had to rebuild itself, and this rebuilding was called Reconstruction. Today historians refer to this era of recons...