Martha S. Jones

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...

An essential history of African American women’s pursuit of political power—and how it transformed America “Elegant and expansive.” —New York Times Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History Named a Best Book of the Year by Ms. Time Foreign Affairs Smithsonian...

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...