18 best-selling history books like The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Adam H. Domby

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The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory

By: Adam H. Domby

4.27

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Lost Cause ideology that emerged after the Civil War and flourished in the early twentieth cent…

If you liked the history plot in The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Adam H. Domby , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture by Karen L. Cox

1. Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture

By: Karen L. Cox

4.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have e… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
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2. One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

By: Kevin M. Kruse

3.59

Format: None pages, Hardcover

We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

By: Drew Gilpin Faust

3.93

Format: 316 pages,

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction

4. The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition

By: Linda Gordon

3.85

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A new Ku Klux Klan arose in the early 1920s, a less violent but equally virulent descendant of the … read more

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5. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

By: Tony Horwitz

4.50

Format: None pages,

When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle … read more

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6. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

By: Stephen Vladeck

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"

-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

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7. Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria

By: Sam Dagher

4.29

Format: 564 pages, Hardcover

In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army commander, Manaf Tla… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"Bit by bit, the uprising that had brought out the best in Syrians and projected their aspirations and yearnings was vanishing as pain, vengefulness, and war took over. It was yet another page from th…"

-Sam Dagher, Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria

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8. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

By: Alexa Hagerty

4.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. 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
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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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10. Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

By: Anna Bogutskaya

3.72

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time."

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"Unlikeable" is code. It's code for "fair game." If a woman in unlikable, she is stepping out of bounds. Which makes it fair game to decimate her socially, emotionally, or physically. Likeability give…"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"In 2015, a study about jury deliberation bias conducted at Arizona State University found that "when men expressed their opinion with anger, participants rated them as more credible, which made them …"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit accep…"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

Cover of How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson

11. How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of f… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • civil war
  • war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner

12. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

By: Eric Foner

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha… read more

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  • american history
  • race
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  • politics
  • civil war
  • war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Ty Seidule

13. Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

By: Ty Seidule

4.42

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
"When we identify our history, we can change the narrative."

-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

"Whenever Lee made a decision regarding enslaved people he chose profit over human decency."

-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

"History is always changing. We link the past to our conception of the present and we always have."

-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

"When people have no political outlet nor means of changing a racist society, rioting is their only voice."

-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

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14. Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America

By: Therese Oneill

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A quippy and irreverent collection of illustrated profiles of the great American women who weren’t … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"[A woman] takes up just the right amount of space. Small is best. You need to prove yourself worthy of the molecules you displace, madam."

-Therese Oneill, Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America

Cover of Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America by Barbara McQuade

15. Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

By: Barbara McQuade

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practic… read more

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

16. 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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  • politics
  • 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 After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It by Will Bunch

17. After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It

By: Will Bunch

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college—the great polit… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) by Caroline E. Janney

18. Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era)

By: Caroline E. Janney

4.08

Format: 451 pages, Hardcover

As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shapi… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • civil war
  • war
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  • nonfiction
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19. The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory

By: Adam H. Domby

4.27

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Lost Cause ideology that emerged after the Civil War and flourished in the early twentieth cent… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • civil war
  • war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
  • anti racist
Cover of I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams

20. I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction

By: Kidada E. Williams

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From a groundbreaking scholar, a heart-wrenching reexamination of the struggle for survival in the … read more

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  • politics
  • civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America, New Edition by Kirk Savage

21. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America, New Edition

By: Kirk Savage

4.00

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

A history of U.S. Civil War monuments that shows how they distort history and perpetuate white supr… read more

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15 best-selling politics books like The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Adam H. Domby

Transform Your Habits

Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture

Karen L. Cox

4.00

Transform Your Habits

One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

Kevin M. Kruse

3.59

Transform Your Habits

The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

Stephen Vladeck

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria

Sam Dagher

4.29

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21 Top history books like Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) by Caroline E. Janney

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

Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

Grace Elizabeth Hale

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture

Karen L. Cox

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America

Kirk Savage

3.57

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