Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community (Volume 1) (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
By: Vanessa M. Holden
4.24
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turn…
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1. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
By: Malcolm Gladwell
3.97
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
In his #1 bestselling books The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell has explored t… read more
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- history
"Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness."-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
"It's challenging, it's not hopeless. You have to come up with something. You have to figure out a way to help them, because people must have hope to live."-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
"Much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of (these) one-sided conflicts. Because the act of facing overwhelming odds, produces greatness and beauty."-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
"A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive – and saves her friendship, her marriage, and her sanity. The world is turned upside down."-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
2. Washington: A Life
By: Ron Chernow
4.16
Format: 904 pages, Hardcover
The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a brea… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"Many mickles make a muckle."-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"Washington grew as a leader because he engaged in searching self- criticism. “I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors,"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this, because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults or remove the prejudices whic…"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"An essential difference between the American and French revolutions was that the American version allowed a search for many truths, while French zealots tried to impose a single sacred truth that all…"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
3. 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
- history
- nonfiction
- school
4. Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic (Early American Studies)
By: Rosemarie Zagarri
3.83
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"Instead of casting politics as a semireligious debate about truth, it would be preferable to see the subject as a dispute among reasonable people who disagreed."-Rosemarie Zagarri, Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic (Early American Studies)
5. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
6. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caughtis the powerful narrative… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
7. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
8. 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
- history
- nonfiction
9. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
By: Angela Carter
3.92
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more
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"Her hair falls down like tears"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"ordered me a sky from a florist"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My spite was sharp as broken glass"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
10. Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves
By: Ira Berlin
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings … read more
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11. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
By: Daina Ramey Berry
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and b… read more
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12. The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)
By: K.J. Charles
4.04
Format: 271 pages, ebook
A lord in danger. A magician in turmoil. A snowball in hell. Exiled to China for twenty years, L… read more
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"Have you seen the mummies at the British Museum?"-K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)
"Someone wanted to choke me to death on my own hair?"-K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)
"Two death sentences? Really? I mean, you look very well, considering."-K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)
"He had always found hope harder to deal with than despair. Despair didn't get disappointed."-K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)
13. The Underground Railroad: Authentic Narratives and First-Hand Accounts
By: William Still
2.83
Format: 212 pages,
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14. 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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15. Ceremony
By: Leslie Marmon Silko
3.82
Format: 160 pages,
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the hor… read more
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16. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
By: Claudio Saunt
4.23
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East t… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
17. The Deep
By: Rivers Solomon
3.78
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more
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"What is belonging?"-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"Forgetting was not the same as healing."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
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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- american history
- 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
19. The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
By: Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
3.87
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complic… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"It is so pleasant to have Friends near in whom you have perfect confidence and implicit trust! How the hardships and troubles of life are lessened and divided by the aid and services of true friends …"-Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
20. 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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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
- academic
21. Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
By: Kellie Carter Jackson
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles o… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
22. 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 history
- history
- nonfiction
23. Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Sarah McNamara
4.46
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men fro… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
24. American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
By: Alan Taylor
4.22
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends th… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
25. The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration
By: David A. Chang
4.46
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultu… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- academic
26. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
By: Rebecca Hall
4.30
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women… read more
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- history
"You think you are reading an accurate chronicle written at the time, but if we are and what we care about are deemed irrelevant, it won't be in there."-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"History written by the victors always erases the resistance. And those of us who live in the wake/ruins learn that we're inferior and needed to be conquered and enslaved. This is the afterlife of sla…"-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"Quantitative historians who use statistical tools to study big-picture historical trends, created a vast database of research on more than 36,000 slave ship voyages that took place over four hundred …"-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
27. Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community (Volume 1) (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
By: Vanessa M. Holden
4.24
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turn… read more
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- american history
- history
- school
- academic
- nonfiction
28. Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
By: Michael John Witgen
4.18
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homelan… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
29. Heathen: Religion and Race in American History
By: Kathryn Gin Lum
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An innovative history that shows how the religious idea of the heathen in need of salvation undergi… read more
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- history
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30. Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History ... and the University of North Carolina Press)
By: Samantha Seeley
4.25
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Who had the right to live within the newly united states of America? In the country's founding dec… read more
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- american history
- history
31. The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History
By: Anne C. Bailey
4.09
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and childr… read more
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