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 …
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1. Agnes Grey
By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau
3.71
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more
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"Dakle,"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"No one cares for the exterior."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"But, God knows best, I concluded."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"If you require perfection, you never will"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
2. 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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- american history
- race
- history
- grad school
- nonfiction
- social justice
3. 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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"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
4. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
By: Fannie Flagg
4.28
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-c… read more
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"Quienes más sufren son quienes menos lo dicen."-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
"Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance."-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
"By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?"-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
"Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?"-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
5. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
By: William Cronon , John Putnam Demos , Tere LoPrete
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
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- american history
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6. 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
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- grad school
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7. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more
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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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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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- nonfiction
- race
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10. A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek
By: Ari Kelman
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the … read more
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- american history
- history
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11. 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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12. Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore
By: Seth Rockman
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-bo… read more
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- american history
- race
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- grad school
- nonfiction
13. 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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14. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
15. Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites
By: Julia Rose , None
4.28
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites is framed by educational psychoanalyti… 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. Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994
By: Deborah Gray White
2.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Too Heavy a Loadcelebrates this century's rich history of black women defending themselves, from Id… read more
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18. The Devil and the Dark Water
By: Stuart Turton
3.84
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
A murder on the high seas. A detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist. It's 1634 and Samu… read more
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"Anger makes good men stubborn and stubborn men petty."-Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water
"You’re as dense as the mountains you were carved out of."-Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water
"Courage isn't an absence of fear, it's the light we find when fear is all there is."-Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water
"Marriage is an inconvenient convenience. It’s the shackle we accept for our safety."-Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water
19. 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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20. 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
"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
21. 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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- nonfiction
22. For the Throne (Wilderwood, #2)
By: Hannah F. Whitten
3.83
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
The First Daughter is for the Throne The Second Daughter is for the Wolf... Red and the Wolf ha… read more
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"I kill my own monsters."-Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne (Wilderwood, #2)
"Goodness is whatever you're not."-Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne (Wilderwood, #2)
"Strange, what she used to be afraid of."-Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne (Wilderwood, #2)
"You’re worth reaching into the dark for."-Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne (Wilderwood, #2)
23. 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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- race
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- social justice
24. The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)
By: Hannah F. Whitten
3.79
Format: 467 pages, Hardcover
When Lore was thirteen, she escaped a cult in the catacombs beneath the city of Dellaire. And in th… read more
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"A moment, then Gabe sighed, as if finally resigning himself to what was about to happen. "Aim for the kneecaps." "Ah, yes." Bastian tied off the linen on her hands. "The kneecaps are the eyes of the …"-Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)
"The air around him almost seemed to glimmer, gold dust in the dark. Moonlight made him more beautiful, yes, but in the same way that darkness emphasized a flame. He didn't belong in it; Bastian Arcen…"-Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)
"Aim for the kneecaps." "Ah, yes." Bastian tied off the linen on her hands. "The kneecaps are the eyes of the legs." They both started at him. Then Gabe shrugged. "That's actually pretty good advice."…"-Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)
"This is what I saw, in the reflections of the tomb." She whispered it almost to herself, broken-voiced. "It's what the goddess dreamed, but I thought I could prevent it. I thought you would choose th…"-Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)
25. 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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- race
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- grad school
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26. The Hemlock Queen (The Nightshade Crown, #2)
By: Hannah F. Whitten
3.88
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In the second installment of New York Times bestselling author Hannah Whitten's lush, romantic epic… read more
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27. 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
- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
28. 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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- history
- read for school
29. 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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- race
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- american history
30. 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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- race
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- american civil war
- read for school
- grad school
- museums
- nonfiction
- social justice
- museology
31. Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (Gender & American Culture)
By: Hannah Rosen
4.12
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity… read more
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- race
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- american civil war
- grad school
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