Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North
By: Sarah Handley-Cousins
4.46
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is virtually synonymous with amputation. But war a…
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1. Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South
By: Marie Jenkins Schwartz
4.09
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The deprivations and cruelty of slavery have overshadowed our understanding of the institution's mo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
2. The Velveteen Rabbit
By: Margery Williams Bianco , William Nicholson
4.30
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and ex… read more
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"When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
"...because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
"When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
"He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter."-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
3. Lincoln in the Bardo
By: George Saunders
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transc… read more
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4. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
By: Hampton Sides
3.92
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won--a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory In the fal… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
6. The New Disability History: American Perspectives
By: Lauri Umansky , Richard P. Bentall
4.30
Format: None pages, Paperback
Disability has always been a preoccupation of American society and culture. From antebellum debates… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- disability
7. A Disability History of the United States
By: Kim E. Nielsen
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present Disability… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- disability
8. Sick From Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
By: Jim Downs
3.65
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight t… read more
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- civil war
- history
- nonfiction
9. Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language
By: Douglas C. Baynton
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
Forbidden Signsexplores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens o… read more
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10. Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
This Nebula Award-winning sequel to Parable of the Sower continues the story of Lauren Olamina in s… read more
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11. War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America
By: Beth Linker
4.15
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
With U.S. soldiers stationed around the world and engaged in multiple conflicts, Americans will be … read more
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12. Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England
By: Jean M. O'Brien
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local h… read more
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13. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
By: Harriet A. Washington
0.00
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America's shocking mist… read more
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14. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
By: Bill Schutt , None
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biologica… read more
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15. 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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- civil war
- history
- nonfiction
"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
16. 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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- nonfiction
- history
"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
17. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
4.14
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Natha… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
18. The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
By: Kate Moore
4.30
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and moth… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Insane asylum - a place where insanity is made."-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
"In the end, this is a book about power. Who wields it. Who owns it. And the methods they use. And above all, it's about fighting back."-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
"As Elizabeth put it, “I have neglected no duties, have injured no one, have always tried to do unto others as I would wish to be done by; and yet, here in America, I am imprisoned because I could not…"-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
"It's a book that is set over 160 year ago. A lot has changed. A lot hasn't. We are only just beginning to appreciate exactly how a person's powerlessness may lead to struggles with their mental healt…"-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
19. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.55
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more
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- nonfiction
- disability
"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
20. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.46
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more
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- nonfiction
- disability
"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
21. South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
By: Alice L. Baumgartner
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial rol… read more
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- civil war
- history
- nonfiction
22. 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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- history
- nonfiction
- civil war
23. Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America (American Beginnings, 1500-1900)
By: April R. Haynes
4.00
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause ill… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
24. The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory
By: Adam H. Domby
4.27
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The Lost Cause ideology that emerged after the Civil War and flourished in the early twentieth cent… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
25. Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840
By: Rana A. Hogarth
4.16
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, “There i… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
26. An Environmental History of the Civil War
By: Judkin Browning
4.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a… read more
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- civil war
- nonfiction
- history
- war
27. Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in US Medical Schools
By: Christopher Willoughby
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Medical science in antebellum America was organized around a paradox: it presumed African Americans… read more
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- history
28. Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North
By: Sarah Handley-Cousins
4.46
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is virtually synonymous with amputation. But war a… read more
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- history
- civil war
- war
- nonfiction
- disability
29. The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America (Volume 1)
By: Jenifer L. Barclay
4.49
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Exploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- disability
30. No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s
By: Sarah F. Rose
4.23
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities … read more
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- history
- disability
31. The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language
By: Ernest Freeberg
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In the mid-nineteenth century, Laura Bridgman, a young child from New Hampshire, became one of the … read more
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