This past week, Knopf released Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008, a lavish volume featuring nearly 900 illustrations--including portraits, news photos, lithographs, broadsides, flyers, posters, newspaper clippings, and advertisements--and text by lauded author and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (whose last book, Black in Latin America, was released by New York Univ. in August). Doubleday shared these images from what is sure to make an impressive holiday gift.