In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During the eighteenth ...

Ivor L. Miller is senior lecturer in the Department of History and International Studies at the University of Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. He also holds a research fellowship from the African Studies ...

Laurence Raw (1959–2018) was professor of English at Baskent University in Ankara, Turkey. He authored several books, including Adapting Henry James to the Screen: Gender, Fiction, and Film; The Ridley ...

Engineer (Chief) Bassey E. Bassey of Nigeria is highly regarded in the Calabar community for his knowledge of the history and practice of the Ékpè system and is author of Ékpè Efik.

This book presents the fullest account yet written of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Rooted in a wealth of oral histories, it tells the dramatic but underreported story ...

Barbara Stanwyck (1907–1990) rose from the ranks of chorus girl to become one of Hollywood's most talented leading women—and America's highest-paid woman in the mid-1940s. Shuttled among foster homes ...

Dan Callahan is author of Vanessa: The Life of Vanessa Redgrave; The Art of American Screen Acting, 1912–1960; The Art of American Screen Acting, 1960 to Today; The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitchcock ...

Thabiti Lewis is professor of English at Washington State University, Vancouver. He is author of Ballers of the New School: Race and Sports in America, and his work has been published in AmeriQuest Journal ...

Christopher Wilkinson is professor of music history at West Virginia University. He is author of Jazz on the Road: Don Albert's Musical Life. His journal articles have appeared in American Music, Black ...