Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
By: Keisha N. Blain
4.17
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxi…
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1. River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
By: Walter Johnson
4.18
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
When Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, he envisioned an empire for liberty populated by s… read more
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2. The Age of Reform
By: Richard Hofstadter
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and preeminent histo… read more
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"Third parties are like bees: once they have stung, they die."-Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform
"Major parties have lived more for patronage than for principles; their goal has been to bind together a sufficiently large coalition of diverse interests to get into power; and once in power, to arra…"-Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform
"What came in the end was only a small war and a quick victory; when the farmers and the gentlemen finally did coalesce in politics, they produced only the genial reforms of Progressivism; and the man…"-Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform
3. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
By: Danielle L. McGuire
4.47
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Groundbreaking, controversial, and courageous, here is the story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a st… read more
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"Often ignored by civil rights historians, a number of campaigns led to trials and even convictions throughout the South. These cases, many virtually unknown, broke with Southern tradition and fractur…"-Danielle L. McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
"Judge Carter sat in stony silence, completely unmoved. At the end of the trial, he pronounced King guilty of conspiracy to violate the 1921 law and ordered him to pay a five-hundred-dollar fine or se…"-Danielle L. McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
4. The Rules of Magic
By: Alice Hoffman
4.02
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
Find your magic For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was char… read more
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5. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.93
Format: 316 pages,
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6. The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
By: R.K. Narayan , Pankaj Mishra , John Lee
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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7. Breaking Free: How I Escaped My Father-Warren Jeffs-Polygamy, and the FLDS Cult
By: None
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs,… read more
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8. The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
By: None
4.30
Format: 503 pages, Hardcover
The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cher… read more
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9. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
By: Greg Grandin
3.73
Format: None pages,
The stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the… read more
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10. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more
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"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"The establishment of the missions and presidios from San Diego and Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to Carmel, San Francisco, and Sonoma, traces the colonization of California's Indigenous nations. The …"-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
11. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
By: Elizabeth Hinton
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the United States today, one in every 31 adults is under some form of penal control, including o… read more
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12. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incid… read more
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13. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age
By: Daniel T. Rodgers
4.25
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
On a narrative canvas that sweeps across Europe and the United States, Daniel T. Rodgers retells th… read more
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14. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
By: None
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of … read more
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15. 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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"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
16. Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Ashley D. Farmer
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and cultu… read more
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17. 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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"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
18. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
By: Mikki Kendall
4.37
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream femi… read more
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"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"I tell you this story because sometimes the story of your life is the story of a lot of lives."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
19. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
By: Kathleen Belew
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right."―Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white p… read more
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"The story of white power as a social movement exposes something broader about the enduring impact of state violence in America. It reveals one catastrophic ricochet of the Vietnam War, in the form of…"-Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
20. On Juneteenth
By: Annette Gordon-Reed
4.18
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annet… read more
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"History is always being revised, as new information, comes to light and when different people see known documents and have their own responses to them, shaped by their individual experiences."-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
"Origin stories matter, for individuals, groups of people, and for nations. They inform our sense of self; telling us what kind of people we believe we are, what kind of nation we believe in. They usu…"-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
"Why would White Texans be more obstreperous than other White southerners? It has been suggested that this was because, unlike other Southern states, Texas had not been defeated militarily. They had w…"-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
21. Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1)
By: Alice Hoffman
4.22
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
In an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hof… read more
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"Never watch another woman burn"-Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1)
"For some, witchery was a choice, but not for them."-Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1)
"Desire, if handled incorrectly, could become a curse."-Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1)
"You feel your heart and bones and blood. You wait for him like a bird in a cage."-Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1)
22. A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis
By: Vanessa Nakate
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto and memoir about climate justice and how we can—and must—build a livable future for all… read more
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23. Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
By: Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Why does white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues… read more
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24. 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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25. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
By: Jennifer L. Morgan
4.37
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African wom… read more
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26. Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage (New Black Studies Series)
By: Sowande M. Mustakeem
4.18
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-bas… read more
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27. 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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28. Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
By: Keisha N. Blain
4.17
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxi… read more
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29. A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights
By: Elizabeth Borgwardt
3.30
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World… read more
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30. To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS
By: Royles
4.29
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communitie… read more
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31. Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean
By: Peter James Hudson
3.66
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarke… read more
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