6 Best american books like Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur

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Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

By: Kate Masur

4.20

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beg…

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1. The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat

By: Stephan Guyenet , Shizuka N. Aoki

3.43

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

From an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, The H… read more

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  • nonfiction

2. Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law

By: None

4.67

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the Amer… read more

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3. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

By: Benedict Anderson

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more

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4. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

By: Eric Foner

3.91

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

From a master historian, the story of Lincoln's--and the nation's--transformation through the cruci… read more

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5. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

By: Adam Hochschild

4.21

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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6. King: A Life

By: Jonathan Eig

4.67

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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7. Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence

By: Robert G. Parkinson

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the m… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace

8. Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

By: Nicole Eustace

3.61

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the dist… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

9. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
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10. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

By: Tiya Miles

3.95

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • african american
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"

-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

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11. 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
  • social justice
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12. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

By: Beverly Gage

4.37

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer

13. Cuba: An American History

By: Ada Ferrer

4.45

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History ​“Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire by Jonathan M. Katz

14. Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire

By: Jonathan M. Katz

4.24

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power―and how its legacies shap… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Freedom’s Dominion:  A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson R. Cowie

15. Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

By: Jefferson R. Cowie

4.50

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A prize-winning historian chronicles a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppres… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"His body "was the corporeal archive of his pugnacious soul. The bullet [from a duel] caused him 'violent pain' on a regular basis, with bouts of blood gurgling into his mouth as well as probable pois…"

-Jefferson R. Cowie, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

Cover of Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith

16. Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

By: Tommie Smith

4.46

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • history
  • social justice
Cover of By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners by Margaret A. Burnham

17. By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

By: Margaret A. Burnham

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, … read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

18. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat

4.23

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountabi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Designed for instant impact and encouraging feelings of omnipotence, Twitter is the perfect tool for an impulsive, attention-addicted strongman."

-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

"Many strongmen, past and present, have used populist rhetoric that defines their nations as bound by faith, race, and ethnicity rather than by legal rights. For authoritarians, only some people are "…"

-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

Cover of The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet

19. The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

By: Jeff Sharlet

4.02

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into cor… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer by Lisa McCubbin Hill

20. Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer

By: Lisa McCubbin Hill

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and insightful biography of Betty Ford, the groundbreaking, candid, and resilient First… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández

21. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

By: Kelly Lytle Hernández

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Me… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin M. Kruse

22. Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

By: Kevin M. Kruse

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In this instant New York Times  bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the… read more

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  • american
  • history
  • race
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  • nonfiction
"Violence meant to seize and shore up power—a claim to sovereignty through the violence of the mob—is fundamentally American."

-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

"Although in this case it is an understandable, emotional reaction meant to decry antidemocratic violence, the notion that January 6 is 'not who we are' is one manifestation of what has become a regul…"

-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

"People may hear ‘white nationalism’ and assume it to be adjacent with patriotism, or at the very least consider it as pro-American. But after 1983 the nation at the heart of white nationalism was not…"

-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

Cover of Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur

23. Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

By: Kate Masur

4.20

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beg… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • race
  • politics
  • civil war
  • united states
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
Cover of Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

24. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures) by Sean Wilentz

25. No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures)

By: Sean Wilentz

3.89

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Americans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of racia… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • race
  • politics
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Young Lords: A Radical History by Johanna Fernandez

26. The Young Lords: A Radical History

By: Johanna Fernandez

4.61

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • united states
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter by E.B. Bartels

27. Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter

By: E.B. Bartels

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An unexpected, poignant, and personal account of loving and losing pets, exploring the singular bon… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth by Brian Stelter

28. Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth

By: Brian Stelter

4.08

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

The urgent and untold story of the collusion between Fox News and Donald Trump from the New York Ti… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"I'm writing this book as a citizen; as an advocate for factual journalism; and as a new dad who thinks about what kind of world my children are going to inherit. This story is about a rot at the core…"

-Brian Stelter, Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth

Cover of Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election by Stephen  Kendrick

29. Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election

By: Stephen Kendrick

4.31

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The authors of Douglass and Lincoln present fully for the first time the story of Martin Luther Kin… read more

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  • race
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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism by Paul Sabin

30. Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism

By: Paul Sabin

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The story of the dramatic postwar struggle over the proper role of citizens and government in Ameri… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945 (Justice, Power, and Politics) by Anne E. Parsons

31. From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945 (Justice, Power, and Politics)

By: Anne E. Parsons

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to… read more

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  • race
  • history

26 best-selling history books like Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur

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Adam Hochschild

4.21

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Jonathan Eig

4.67

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Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence

Robert G. Parkinson

4.06

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