15 best-selling american history books like Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (Gender & American Culture) by Hannah Rosen

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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…

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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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  • american history
  • race
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  • grad school
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Cover of Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War by Charles B. Dew

2. Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War

By: Charles B. Dew

4.23

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

In late 1860 and early 1861, state-appointed commissioners traveled the length and breadth of the s… read more

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  • american civil war
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. 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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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • feminism
  • grad school
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Studies in North American Indian History) by Richard White, Frederick E. Hoxie, Neal Salisbury

4. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Studies in North American Indian History)

By: Richard White , Frederick E. Hoxie , Neal Salisbury

4.50

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

A mutually comprehensible world was established by Europeans and Indians in 1650 in the region arou… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery by Jennifer L. Morgan

5. 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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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • race
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Cover of Over Here: The First World War and American Society by David M. Kennedy

6. Over Here: The First World War and American Society

By: David M. Kennedy

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

The Great War of 1914-1918 confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in th… read more

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  • nonfiction

7. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920

By: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

3.80

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Glenda Gilmore explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Car… read more

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8. Battle Cry of Freedom

By: James M. McPherson

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more

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9. 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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10. Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more

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11. 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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12. 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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13. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War

By: Eric Foner

3.67

Format: 208 pages,

Since its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Menhas been recognized as … read more

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Cover of Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era (Justice, Power, and Politics) by Ashley D. Farmer

14. 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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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • african american
Cover of The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands by Jon Billman

15. The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands

By: Jon Billman

3.69

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

The critically acclaimed author and journalist Jon Billman's fascinating, in-depth look at people w… read more

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16. 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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  • american civil war
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman

17. The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

By: Joanne B. Freeman

4.09

Format: 450 pages, Hardcover

In The Field of Blood, the historian Joanne B. Freeman offers a new and dramatically rendered portr… read more

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

18. 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
Cover of Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction by Nell Irvin Painter

19. 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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20. 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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  • feminism
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Cover of West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson

21. 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
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Cover of The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae M. Ngai

22. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics

By: Mae M. Ngai

4.08

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been … read more

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Cover of The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War by Aaron Sheehan-Dean

23. The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War

By: Aaron Sheehan-Dean

3.97

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Shiloh, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg―tens of thousands of soldiers died on these battlefields, and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • american history
Cover of Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America by Felicity M. Turner

24. Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America

By: Felicity M. Turner

4.00

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth ce… read more

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  • history
Cover of Women's Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen's Aid Movement by Carol Faulkner

25. Women's Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen's Aid Movement

By: Carol Faulkner

3.75

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this first critical study of female abolitionists and feminists in the freedmen's aid movement, … read more

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26. Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau

By: Dale Kretz

4.00

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

This book offers the definitive history of how formerly enslaved men and women pursued federal bene… read more

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Cover of The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921 by Adam D. Shprintzen

27. The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921

By: Adam D. Shprintzen

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Vegetarianism has been practiced in the United States since the country's founding, yet the early y… read more

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Cover of Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South by Yael A. Sternhell

28. Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South

By: Yael A. Sternhell

4.10

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Civil War thrust millions of men and women-rich and poor, soldiers and civilians, enslaved and … read more

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Cover of The Body in the Reservoir: Murder and Sensationalism in the South by Michael Ayers Trotti

29. The Body in the Reservoir: Murder and Sensationalism in the South

By: Michael Ayers Trotti

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Centered on a series of dramatic murders in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Richmond, Virgi… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane by Karen R. Jones

30. Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane

By: Karen R. Jones

3.31

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating new account of the life and legend of the Wild West’s most notorious woman: Calamity … read more

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Cover of Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers (Jules and Frances Landry Award) by John M. Sacher

31. Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers (Jules and Frances Landry Award)

By: John M. Sacher

3.67

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award In April 1862, the Confederacy faced a dire militar… read more

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24 Best history books like Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (Gender & American Culture) by Hannah Rosen

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

Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War

Charles B. Dew

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia

Kathleen M. Brown

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Studies in North American Indian History)

Richard White , Frederick E. Hoxie , Neal Salisbury

4.50

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27 must-read history books like The Body in the Reservoir: Murder and Sensationalism in the South by Michael Ayers Trotti

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

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia

Kathleen M. Brown

3.50

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