22 Best history books like Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930 by Kelly J. Baker

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Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930

By: Kelly J. Baker

3.72

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

To many Americans, modern marches by the Ku Klux Klan may seem like a throwback to the past or post…

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1. 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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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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2. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s

By: Kathleen M. Blee

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ignorant. Brutal. Male. One of these stereotypes of the Ku Klux Klan offer a misleading picture. In… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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4. 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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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Slavery and the British Empire

By: Kenneth Morgan

4.19

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Slavery and the British Empireprovides a clear overview of the entire history of British involvemen… read more

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  • american history
  • history
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6. 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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7. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920

By: None

4.21

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

With America's current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction

8. The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition

By: Linda Gordon

3.85

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A new Ku Klux Klan arose in the early 1920s, a less violent but equally virulent descendant of the … read more

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9. 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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10. The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State

By: Lisa McGirr

4.50

Format: 144 pages,

Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamor… read more

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11. I, KKK: The Autobiography of a Historian

By: Khoo Kay Kim

2.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

I, KKK - The Autobiography of a Historian recounts the life of Emeritus Prof. Tan Sri Dato' Dr. Kho… read more

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12. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877

By: Richard B. Morris , Henry Steele Commager , Eric Foner

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) ma… read more

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13. 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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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
"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

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14. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

By: Jenny Odell

3.61

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to th…"

-Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

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15. The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here

By: Kaitlyn Schiess

4.30

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn fro… read more

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  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"The Bible is not a free-floating book of ageless wisdom, an interesting historical document, or a weapon that can be put in the service of any political goal. The Bible is a gift from God to the chur…"

-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here

"What is government? What is the relationship between theology and politics? How should Christians think about their political participation? These questions typically get lost in our conversations. W…"

-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here

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16. The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism

By: Lerone A. Martin

3.94

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of … read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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17. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. 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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  • history
  • race
  • nonfiction
Cover of Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon by Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué

19. 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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20. 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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  • american
  • history
  • race
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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21. Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany (New Studies in European History)

By: Sebastian Conrad

3.59

Format: 506 pages, Hardcover

The process of globalisation in the late nineteenth century had a profound effect on the trajectori… read more

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  • history
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22. The First Black Slave Society: Britain’s “Barbarity Time” in Barbados, 1636-1876 (Beckles' Trio Book 2)

By: Hilary McD. Beckles

4.36

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Barbados was the birthplace of British slave society and the most ruthlessly colonized. The geograp… read more

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  • history
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23. Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930

By: Kelly J. Baker

3.72

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

To many Americans, modern marches by the Ku Klux Klan may seem like a throwback to the past or post… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • race
  • christianity
  • historical
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life by Alexis McCrossen

24. Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life

By: Alexis McCrossen

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The public spaces and buildings of the United States are home to many thousands of timepieces—bells… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • american history
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25. The Populist Vision

By: Charles Postel

3.63

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

In the late nineteenth century, monumental technological innovations like the telegraph and steam p… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic (The Early Modern Americas)

By: Simon P. Newman

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor … read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. The Black Carib Wars: Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna

By: Christopher Taylor

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

In The Black Carib Wars, Christopher Taylor offers the most thoroughly researched history of the st… read more

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Cover of Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925 by David Monod

28. Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925

By: David Monod

3.33

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly reveale… read more

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29. Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans (Historical Studies of Urban America)

By: Julia Guarneri

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

At the turn of the twentieth century, ambitious publishers like Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph H… read more

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Cover of Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil (Afro-Latin America) by Yuko Miki

30. Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil (Afro-Latin America)

By: Yuko Miki

3.83

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Frontiers of Citizenship is an engagingly-written, innovative history of Brazil's black and indigen… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s by Felix Harcourt

31. Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s

By: Felix Harcourt

3.52

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In popular understanding, the Ku Klux Klan is a hateful white supremacist organization. In Ku Klux … read more

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  • american
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  • politics
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9 Best politics books like Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930 by Kelly J. Baker

Transform Your Habits

Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

Grace Elizabeth Hale

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s

Kathleen M. Blee

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency

Charles Rappleye

3.50

Transform Your Habits

A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920

None

4.21

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23 must-read history books like Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life by Alexis McCrossen

Transform Your Habits

Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

Grace Elizabeth Hale

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era

Elaine Tyler May

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940

George Chauncey

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency

Charles Rappleye

3.50

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