22 best-selling american history books like Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction by Nell Irvin Painter

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Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction

By: Nell Irvin Painter

3.83

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves.

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1. To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War

By: Tera W. Hunter

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Tera Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end… read more

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  • history
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • american history
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2. The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America

By: James N. Gregory

3.86

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Between 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together fo… read more

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  • history
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • american history
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3. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

By: Khalil Gibran Muhammad

4.21

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow So… read more

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  • history
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • american history
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4. Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South

By: Deborah Gray White

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed role… read more

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  • history
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • american history
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5. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot

4.36

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."

-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"

-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"

-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

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6. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

By: Richard White

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. T… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • american history
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7. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia

By: Kathleen M. Brown

3.50

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspec… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • american history
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8. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression

By: Robin D.G. Kelley

5.00

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist movem… read more

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  • history
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • american history
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9. Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery

By: Jennifer L. Morgan

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was deter… read more

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  • history
  • race
  • nonfiction
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10. Living a Feminist Life

By: Sara Ahmed

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Living a Feminist LifeSara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and t… read more

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  • nonfiction

11. Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917

By: Matthew Frye Jacobson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

How a new American identity was forged by immigration and expansion a century ago. In Barbarian Vir… read more

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12. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important or… read more

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13. The Awakening

By: Kate Chopin

3.68

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female mar… read more

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"The morning was full of sunlight and hope."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She had resolved to never take another step backward."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

14. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

By: Isabel Wilkerson

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Hardcover

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chroni… read more

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15. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household

By: Thavolia Glymph

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender … read more

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16. Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy

By: Eric Foner

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

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17. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

By: Nikole Hannah-Jones

4.62

Format: 590 pages, Hardcover

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. … read more

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  • history
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • american history
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18. 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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  • history
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • american history
"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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19. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies)

By: Jessica Marie Johnson

4.27

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The story of freedom pivots on the choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and… read more

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  • race
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  • american history
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20. Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America

By: Keisha N. Blain

4.20

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Explores the Black activist's ideas and political strategies highlighting their relevance for tackl… read more

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21. Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Civil War America)

By: Amy Murrell Taylor

4.43

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing thei… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

By: Julius S. Scott

4.30

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era Th… read more

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  • history
  • race
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  • american history
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23. No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (Justice, Power, and Politics)

By: Sarah Haley

4.45

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms o… read more

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  • race
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  • american history
Cover of Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction by Laura F. Edwards

24. Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction

By: Laura F. Edwards

3.15

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Exploring the gendered dimension of political conflicts, Laura Edwards links transformations in pri… read more

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  • american history
  • history
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25. Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction

By: Nell Irvin Painter

3.83

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves. read more

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26. Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory

By: James Oliver Horton

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

America's slave past is being analyzed as never before, yet it remains one of the most contentious … read more

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  • history
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • american history
Cover of West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson

27. West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War

By: Heather Cox Richardson

3.93

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. I… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • american history
Cover of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion by Peter H. Wood

28. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion

By: Peter H. Wood

4.04

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

Black Majority won the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association. read more

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Cover of In the Lion's Mouth: Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900 (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies) by Omar H. Ali

29. In the Lion's Mouth: Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900 (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)

By: Omar H. Ali

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Following the collapse of Reconstruction in 1877, African Americans organized a movement--distinct … read more

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  • race
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Cover of Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff

30. Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era

By: Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff

3.47

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

In the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration--unwilling to antagonize a powerful southern congression… read more

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Cover of The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives by Bryant Simon

31. The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives

By: Bryant Simon

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Captivating and brilliantly conceived. . . [ The Hamlet Fire ] will provide readers with insights … read more

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  • nonfiction
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24 Best history books like Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction by Nell Irvin Painter

Transform Your Habits

To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War

Tera W. Hunter

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America

James N. Gregory

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South

Deborah Gray White

4.18

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15 Top history books like Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression by Robin D.G. Kelley

Transform Your Habits

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

Joshua Bloom , Waldo E. Martin Jr.

4.46

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

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