“The Cross, The Candle & The Crown: A Narrative History of Morehouse College 1867-2021” by Marcellus Chandler Barksdale

Few institutions in American life carry the symbolic weight of Morehouse College. It is the alma mater of Martin Luther King Jr., Maynard Jackson, Spike Lee, Raphael Warnock, and thousands of men whose lives have shaped communities across the country. In The Cross, the Candle, and the Crown: A Narrative History of Morehouse College, 1867–2021, […]

“The Devil’s Pulpit & Other Mostly True Scottish Misadventures” by E. J. Wade and Karen Spears Zacharias

Ellen Wade and Karen Spears Zacharias, two seasoned women with family roots in the American South, take us along as they leave their families behind and enter a graduate program in Scotland, where they have months to study the connection between Scotland and Appalachia while exploring their own Celtic roots. The book’s title, The Devil’s Pulpit […]