Edward Ball

Journalist Ball confronts the legacy of his family's slave-owning past, uncovering the story of the people, both black and white, who lived and worked on the Balls' South Carolina plantations. It is an unprecedented family record that reveals how the painful legacy of slavery continues to endure in America's collective memory and experience. Ball, a descendant of one of the largest slave-owning families in the South, discovered that his ancestors...

A trenchant exploration of a family's legacy of white supremacy from National Book Award-winner Edward Ball. Eighty million: this figure, in Edward Ball's estimation, represents the number of Americans with at least one ancestor in the Ku Klux Klan. Yet the stories of these Klansmen-our national Klansmen-remain largely untold. They are white skeletons mouldering in family closets, in the North as well as the South. Now, in this pioneering and punctiliously...

Examines the partnership between cinematographer and murderer Eadweard Muybridge and railroad tycoon Leland Stanford.