King: A Biography
By: David Levering Lewis
3.87
Format: 481 pages, Paperback
This edition updates Lewis's notable assessment of Martin Luther King, Jr., a book acclaimed by lea…
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1. The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job
By: Karen Kelsky
4.16
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get ten… read more
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"... the modern university system systematically requires an unending supply of young, vulnerable idealists to work for poverty wages as graduate student teaching assistants (and, of course, adjuncts)…"-Karen Kelsky, The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job
2. Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
By: Grace Elizabeth Hale
3.97
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such… read more
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3. Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era
By: Elaine Tyler May
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the 1950s, the term "containment" referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism… read more
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4. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
By: George Chauncey
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
Gay New Yorkbrilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet… read more
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- history
5. Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency
By: Charles Rappleye
3.50
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Rappleye's surprising portrait of a Depression-era president Herbert Hoover reveals a very differen… read more
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6. Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century's End
By: Sara M. Evans
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
As recently as 1960 few women worked outside the home, married women could not borrow money in thei… read more
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7. The Vietnam War: A Concise International History
By: Mark Atwood Lawrence
3.94
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Vietnam War remains a topic of extraordinary interest, not least because of striking parallels … read more
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8. Dear Committee Members
By: Julie Schumacher
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
Finally, a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered profe… read more
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9. From Student to Scholar: A Candid Guide to Becoming a Professor
By: Steven M. Cahn
4.75
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Steven M. Cahn's advice on the professorial life covers an extensive range of critical issues: how … read more
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10. The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
By: None
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
The McCarthy era is generally considered the worst period of political repression in recent America… read more
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11. The Great Depression: America 1929-1941
By: Robert S. McElvaine
3.87
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with… read more
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12. The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society
By: Julian E. Zelizer
3.69
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A majestic big-picture account of the Great Society and the forces that shaped it, from Lyndon John… read more
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13. Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam
By: Christian G. Appy
3.69
Format: None pages, Paperback
No one can understand the complete tragedy of the American experience in Vietnam without reading th… read more
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14. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
15. King: A Biography
By: David Levering Lewis
3.87
Format: 481 pages, Paperback
This edition updates Lewis's notable assessment of Martin Luther King, Jr., a book acclaimed by lea… read more
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16. My Egypt Archive
By: Alan Mikhail
4.06
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism t… read more
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17. Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica (Early American Studies)
By: Sasha Turner
4.14
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive… read more
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18. Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon
By: Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
3.25
Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition
Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon illuminates how issues of ideal w… read more
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19. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion
By: Peter H. Wood
4.04
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Black Majority won the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association. read more
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20. The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
By: Beth Lew-Williams
4.28
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miner… read more
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21. Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
By: Nicholas Guyatt
3.80
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that… read more
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"Colonization proposals were crafted by intellectuals, reformers, and politicians--men (and occasionally women) who saw themselves as "liberal" in their sentiments. To be liberal in the early United S…"-Nicholas Guyatt, Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
