12 Best american history books like I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams

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I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction

By: Kidada E. Williams

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From a groundbreaking scholar, a heart-wrenching reexamination of the struggle for survival in the …

If you liked the american history plot in I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

By: Steven Hahn

4.33

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed … read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction

2. 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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3. 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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4. The End of Drum-Time

By: Hanna Pylväinen

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder… read more

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  • historical
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5. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • african american
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6. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

By: Ned Blackhawk

4.18

Format: 596 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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7. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

By: Tahir Hamut Izgil

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a f… read more

Similar categories in Tahir Hamut Izgil's Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide book and Kidada E. Williams's I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The Uyghur region was now a gigantic prison, blanketed with security forces and a biometric surveillance system unique in human history."

-Tahir Hamut Izgil, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

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8. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.19

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more

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  • historical
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

By: Jefferson R. Cowie

4.50

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A prize-winning historian chronicles a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppres… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"His body "was the corporeal archive of his pugnacious soul. The bullet [from a duel] caused him 'violent pain' on a regular basis, with bouts of blood gurgling into his mouth as well as probable pois…"

-Jefferson R. Cowie, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

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10. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

By: Ilyon Woo

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • african american
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11. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

By: Steven Levitsky

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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12. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

By: Eric Foner

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha… read more

Similar categories in Eric Foner's The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution book and Kidada E. Williams's I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction

  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • race
  • politics
  • civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
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13. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church by Rachel L. Swarns

14. The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church

By: Rachel L. Swarns

4.13

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New W… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • african american
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15. Holler, Child: Stories

By: LaToya Watkins

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary and unforgettable short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forg… read more

Similar categories in LaToya Watkins's Holler, Child: Stories book and Kidada E. Williams's I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction

  • race
  • african american
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16. Ordinary Notes

By: Christina Sharpe

4.55

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • african american
Cover of Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Civil War America) by Amy Murrell Taylor

17. 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
  • civil war
Cover of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich

18. Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction

By: Fergus M. Bordewich

4.29

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil—when Ulysse… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
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19. I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction

By: Kidada E. Williams

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From a groundbreaking scholar, a heart-wrenching reexamination of the struggle for survival in the … read more

Similar categories in Kidada E. Williams's I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction book and Kidada E. Williams's I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction

  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • race
  • historical
  • politics
  • civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • african american
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20. We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

By: Kellie Carter Jackson

4.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to whit… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • african american
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21. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • african american
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

17 Top history books like I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams

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Steven Hahn

4.33

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Antonia Hylton

4.27

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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

Ned Blackhawk

4.18

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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

Tahir Hamut Izgil

4.31

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Morgan Talty

3.79

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Deborah Jackson Taffa

4.14

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Terry J. Benton-Walker

3.89

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