The Light of Truth

Ida B. Wells

In this collection, Wells' anti-lynching crusade comes alive. Through brilliant social analysis, she exposed lynching as part of a larger framework of subjugation in which white people used violence as a deliberate tactic to combat black economic progress in the southern USA. Wells won international ren...

Ancient Rhetoric - From Aristotle to Phi

Thomas N. Habinek

A new and original anthology that introduces the key writings on rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero and beyond.Classical rhetoric is one of the earliest versions of what is today known as media studies. It was absolutely crucial to life in the ancient world, whether in the courtro...

On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian

John M. Marincola (trns)

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