Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
By: Nick Tabor
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from tho…
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1. Lady Cop Makes Trouble (Kopp Sisters, #2)
By: Amy Stewart
3.83
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
After besting (and arresting) a ruthless silk factory owner and his gang of thugs in Girl Waits wit… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
"It looked like the kind of place where people were shot over the rent money."-Amy Stewart, Lady Cop Makes Trouble (Kopp Sisters, #2)
2. Through My Eyes
By: Ruby Bridges , Margo Lundell
4.07
Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by federal m… read more
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3. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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- africa
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
4. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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- american history
- race
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- historical
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
5. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.57
Format: 504 pages, Hardcover
An epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, Four Hundred Sou… read more
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- race
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- african american
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"Black people will always find each other in the passage between death and America"-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"And again we confront the problem of history: it's usually the powerful who get to write it."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"Z is for zealotry: national pride like an infinite zipline, hyperdrive, the fastest way down."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"There's dust, a scratch in a groove, and here we are repeating the same two seconds of "Strange Fruit."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
6. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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- american history
- race
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- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
7. Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family
By: Rachel Jamison Webster
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Placing famed almanac writer Benjamin Banneker at the forefront, Benjamin Banneker and Us weaves to… read more
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- historical
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- african american
- audiobook
8. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
By: Ned Blackhawk
4.18
Format: 596 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice
By: Tom Clavin
3.63
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Tom Clavin's Follow Me to Hell is the explosive true story… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (The Shortest History Series)
By: Michael Scott-Baumann
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An accessible, balanced chronicle of how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed ove… read more
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- history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
By: Jeffrey Toobin
4.16
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Devout: A Memoir of Doubt
By: Anna Gazmarian
3.63
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening memoir that reconciles the author’s bipolar disorder diagnosis and her Evangelical f… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
14. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America
By: Joy-Ann Reid
4.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold Amer… read more
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- american history
- race
- biography
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- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
15. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- american history
- race
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
By: Rachel L. Swarns
4.13
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New W… read more
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- american history
- race
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- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
17. Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
By: Victor Luckerson
4.38
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black… read more
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- race
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- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The newspaper encouraged displaced entrepreneurs to open businesses in South Tulsa and continue smashing color barriers. But it also spoke to a larger argument about how the definition of black succe…"-Victor Luckerson, Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
18. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more
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"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
19. Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
By: Nick Tabor
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from tho… read more
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- africa
- american history
- biography
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- race
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
20. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
By: Mike Hixenbaugh
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. African Town
By: Irene Latham
4.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Chronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a… read more
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- historical
- africa
- race
- audiobook
"Call me Cudjo." It's a strong name that means "born on Monday." Doesn't change who I am in de insde. I will always be Kossola, no matter what de white men call me."-Irene Latham, African Town
22. The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
By: Ben Raines
4.34
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An NPR Best Book of the Year. The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved peop… read more
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- africa
- american history
- biography
- history
- race
- historical
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
23. Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy
By: Alex Mar
3.98
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl's shocking crime--and its… read more
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- american history
- race
- biography
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. Different Kinds of Minds: A Guide to Your Brain
By: Temple Grandin
3.69
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Albert Einstein. Steve Jobs. Elon Musk. Katharine Johnson. These geniuses are all visual thinkers. … read more
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- nonfiction
25. Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense
By: Marcello Di Cintio
4.42
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Across Palestine, from the Allenby Bridge and Ramallah, to Jerusalem and Gaza, Marcello Di Cintio h… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"When I had those small children, I didn't have to go out and meet people. I can create my own mood at home with my children," she said. "It creates balance for me somehow."-Marcello Di Cintio, Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense
"Regardless of the horrors one endures, a true writer always values humanity over revenge and peace over war. "If a writer says that he wants to kill others, the he is not a writer," Asmaa said."-Marcello Di Cintio, Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense
26. Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
By: Alvin Hall
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with … read more
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- race
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- african american
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"The farther south they drove, the more limiting and repressive the rules became."-Alvin Hall, Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
"Under Jim Crow, Black Codes harshly restricted what people of color could do, In much of the country, Black people were prevented from voting, serving on juries, running for office, or defending thei…"-Alvin Hall, Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
"...Jim Crow was the American equivalent of South African apartheid and the racial laws passed in Germany under the Nazi regime of the 1930s. And these similarities are not merely coincidental. Histor…"-Alvin Hall, Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
"When the laws changed, what do you suppose happened to the vehement and the violent? Do you believe their opinions of Black people changed? Do you think they decided they had been wrong and adjusted …"-Alvin Hall, Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
27. Masquerade
By: O.O. Sangoyomi
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale ex… read more
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- historical
- africa
- audiobook
28. The Burning: Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
By: Hilary Beard
4.36
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
One of the worst acts of racial violence in American history took place in 1921, when a White mob n… read more
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- race
- history
- historical
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- african american
- audiobook
29. The Awakening of Malcolm X
By: Ilyasah Shabazz
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The Awakening of Malcolm X is a powerful narrative account of the activist's adolescent years in ja… read more
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- historical
- race
- african american
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30. Homeward
By: Angela Jackson-Brown
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The country is changing, and her own world is being turned upside down. Nothing—and no one—will eve… read more
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- race
- audiobook
31. What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service
By: Melissa Fitzgerald
4.49
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A behind-the-scenes look into the creation and legacy of The West Wing as told by cast members Mel… read more
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- audiobook
