Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939
By: Natalia Molina
4.08
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science …
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1. From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America
By: Beth L. Bailey
3.68
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
From gentleman callers to big men on campus, from Coke dates to "parking," From Front Porch to Back… read more
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2. Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
By: Kim Phillips-Fein
4.21
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster―and an … read more
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3. The Cancer Journals
By: Audre Lorde
4.43
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more
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"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.92
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex or design. He fears … read more
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8. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
By: Mae M. Ngai
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and… read more
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9. Age of Fracture
By: Daniel T. Rodgers
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the ideas that most Americans lived by started to fra… read more
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10. A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more
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11. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
By: David W. Blight
4.15
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In… read more
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12. No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship
By: Linda K. Kerber
4.34
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
This pioneering study redefines women's history in the United States by focusing on civic obligatio… read more
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13. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more
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"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"The establishment of the missions and presidios from San Diego and Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to Carmel, San Francisco, and Sonoma, traces the colonization of California's Indigenous nations. The …"-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
14. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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15. The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
By: Jonathan M. Metzl
4.67
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
A powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness T… read more
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16. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
By: Elizabeth Hinton
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the United States today, one in every 31 adults is under some form of penal control, including o… read more
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17. 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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18. Last Summer on State Street
By: Toya Wolfe
4.22
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Brit Bennett, a striking coming-of-age debut about friendship, c… read more
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19. 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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"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
20. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
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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22. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
By: Gary Gerstle
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half… read more
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23. How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea
By: Sandra Eder
4.23
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history. Today, a world … read more
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"His childhood instilled in him a dislike of religious dogma and sexual prudery as well as a deep class-consciousness alongside his ambition to transcend his meager beginning, Science would become his…"-Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea
"Money spent the rest of his childhood in a predominantly female household in consistent poverty. His childhood instilled in him a dislike of religious dogma and sexual prudery as well as a deep class…"-Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea
"[John] Money spent the rest of his childhood in a predominantly female household in consistent poverty. His childhood instilled in him a dislike of religious dogma and sexual prudery as well as a dee…"-Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea
24. Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State (Volume 63) (American Crossroads)
By: Moon-Ho Jung
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
One of Smithsonian Magazine 's Favorite Books of 2022 This history reveals how radical threats to … read more
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25. Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939
By: Natalia Molina
4.08
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science … read more
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26. The 4-H Harvest: Sexuality and the State in Rural America
By: Gabriel N. Rosenberg
4.00
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
"Eureka! Who would have thought that a history of the 4-H club could brilliantly illuminate so many… read more
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27. Animal City: The Domestication of America
By: Andrew A. Robichaud
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Why do America's cities look the way they do? If we want to know the answer, we should start by loo… read more
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28. Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920
By: Kristin L. Hoganson
3.74
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Histories of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era tend to characterize the United States as an expans… read more
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29. Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
By: Dylan Penningroth
4.27
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A prize-winning scholar draws on astonishing new research to demonstrate how Black people used the … read more
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30. Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction
By: Stacey L. Smith
3.82
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusivel… read more
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31. Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Studies in Legal History)
By: Martha S. Jones
4.05
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Birthright Citizens tells how African American activists radically transformed the terms of citizen… read more
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