Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity
By: Donald Yacovone
4.09
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s …
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1. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more
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2. White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America
By: Anthea Butler
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelic… read more
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3. The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
By: Philip S. Gorski
4.19
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A bracing examination of a force that imperils American democracy Most Americans were shocked by t… read more
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"White Christian nationalism is a “deep story"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"For white Americans who affirm Christian nationalist ideology, “true Americans"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"Even as it’s become riskier for mainstream politicians to use negative dog whistles like “thug"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"It’s not that Christian nationalists have a different understanding of American history; it’s that they often have an incorrect understanding."-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
4. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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5. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
By: Ned Blackhawk
4.18
Format: 596 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more
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6. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
By: Rebecca Boyle
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more
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7. Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
By: Jefferson R. Cowie
4.50
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A prize-winning historian chronicles a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppres… read more
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"His body "was the corporeal archive of his pugnacious soul. The bullet [from a duel] caused him 'violent pain' on a regular basis, with bouts of blood gurgling into his mouth as well as probable pois…"-Jefferson R. Cowie, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
8. 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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9. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4.17
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
"Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current… read more
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"Slavery didn’t end in 1865, it just evolved. The North won the Civil War, but the South won the narrative war"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"I actually think the great evil of American slavery wasn’t involuntary servitude and forced labor. The true evil of American slavery was the narrative we created to justify it. They made up this ideo…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"I actually think the great evil of American slavery wasn’t involuntary servitude and forced labor. The true evil of American slavery was the narrative we created to justify it. They made up this ideo…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"We now know, thanks to developments in DNA analysis, that one in three African American males carries a Y-DNA signature inherited from a direct white male ancestor. Say, a great great great grandfath…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
10. They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
By: Sarah Kendzior
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE “Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-see… read more
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"The word “conspire"-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
"The desire to forget is as overwhelming as the obligation not to."-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
"History was a feedback loop of unlearned lessons and reverberating lies."-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
"There is no such thing as paranoia; your worst fears can come true at any moment,"-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
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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12. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
By: Matthew F. Delmont
4.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil righ… read more
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13. Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next
By: Bradley Onishi
4.33
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Watching the eerie footage of the January 6 insurrection, Bradley Onishi wondered: If I hadn't left… read more
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14. The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
By: Rachel L. Swarns
4.13
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New W… read more
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15. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more
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16. The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
By: Jeff Sharlet
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into cor… read more
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17. They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency
By: Malcolm W. Nance
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, USA TODAY AND GREAT LAKES INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLER ASSOCIATI… read more
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18. Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
By: Fergus M. Bordewich
4.29
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil—when Ulysse… read more
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19. 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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"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
20. Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity
By: Donald Yacovone
4.09
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s … read more
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21. The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
By: Clay Cane
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Part history and part cultural analysis, The Grift chronicles the nuanced history of Black Republic… read more
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