Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth (Civil War America)
By: Kevin M. Levin
4.31
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations…
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1. A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
By: Philip Caputo
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The 40th-anniversary edition of the classic Vietnam memoir—featured in the PBS documentary series T… read more
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- nonfiction
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- war
"The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain."-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
"There was so much human suffering in these scenes that I could not respond to it."-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
"Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy."-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
"We had survived, but in war, a man does not have to be killed or wounded to become a casualty. His life, his sight, or limbs are not the only things he stands to lose."-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
2. If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
By: Scott Brick , Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Kevin T. Collins
3.87
Format: 144 pages, MP3 CD
Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most in-demand commencement speakers o… read more
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- nonfiction
"Any brain worth a nickel knows books are good for us."-Scott Brick, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
"There is only one rule that I know, goddamn it, you've got to be kind."-Scott Brick, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."-Scott Brick, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
"Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say 'Shut up, I just got here myself'."-Scott Brick, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
3. 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
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- civil war
- nonfiction
4. The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country
By: Laton McCartney
3.82
Format: None pages,
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- politics
- american history
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5. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.93
Format: 316 pages,
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- civil war
- american civil war
- war
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6. 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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7. Gettysburg
By: Stephen W. Sears
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A masterful, single-volume history of the Civil War's greatest campaign. Drawing on original sourc… read more
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8. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
By: Candice Millard
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject po… read more
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9. The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology In Greek And Roman Times
By: Adrienne Mayor
3.96
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue … read more
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10. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
By: C.W. Goodyear
4.30
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” ( The Washington Post ) biography of the extraordina… read more
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11. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
By: David W. Blight
4.15
Format: 888 pages, Hardcover
As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was … read more
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- race
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- civil war
- nonfiction
- african american
"Douglass told white northern voters that 'The blood of the slave is on your garments. You have said that slavery is better than freedom. That war is better than peace. And that cruelty is better than…"-David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
12. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.42
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
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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- race
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- civil war
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"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
14. Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
By: Alec Nevala-Lee
4.21
Format: 544 pages, ebook
“[Astounding] is a major work of popular culture scholarship that science fiction fans will devour.… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
15. 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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- civil war
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16. Black Cloud Rising
By: David Wright Faladé
3.78
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Already excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical no… read more
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- race
- war
"Her silences spoke louder than her words, and the one that followed merely reprised what I already knew without providing any connecting bits to help me make a song of the scattered verses. [RICHARD …"-David Wright Faladé, Black Cloud Rising
17. The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War
By: Mark M. Smith
3.63
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnes… read more
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- american civil war
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- civil war
18. Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth (Civil War America)
By: Kevin M. Levin
4.31
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations… read more
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- race
- history
- the united states of america
- politics
- civil war
- war
- american civil war
- nonfiction
- african american
19. No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (A Ferris and Ferris Book)
By: Karen L. Cox
4.17
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their me… read more
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- civil war
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- african american
20. Symbols of Freedom Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War
By: Matthew J. Clavin
4.50
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
How American symbols inspired enslaved people and their allies to fight for true freedom In the … read more
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- african american
21. Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality (Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era)
By: Judith Giesberg
3.37
Format: 135 pages, Hardcover
Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-p… read more
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