The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress
By: Eric Herschthal
3.88
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A revealing look at how antislavery scientists and Black and white abolitionists used scientific id…
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1. Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America
By: Christina Snyder
4.17
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For c… read more
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2. Ethan Frome
By: Edith Wharton
2.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his dif… read more
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3. Rape and Sexual Power in Early America
By: None
3.71
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820… read more
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4. 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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5. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By: Isabel Wilkerson
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chroni… read more
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6. The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures, Book 17)
By: Ira Berlin
3.67
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery.… read more
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7. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.54
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Blac… read more
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8. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By: Imani Perry
3.97
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more
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"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
9. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
By: David Brooks
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more
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"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
10. 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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"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
11. Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.19
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space oper… read more
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12. 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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13. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By: Clint Smith
4.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a… read more
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"How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia ,"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Jefferson believed himself to be a benevolent slave owner, but his moral ideals came second to, and were always entangled with, his own economic interests and the interests of his family."-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"But not enough people spoke about the reasons so many black children grow up communities saturated with poverty and violence. Not enough people spoke about how these realities were the result of deci…"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
14. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.11
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on t… read more
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"On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?"-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
15. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bri… read more
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"Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered the very real possibility that some of the en…"-Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
16. The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
By: Megan Kate Nelson
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A dramatic, riveting, and deeply researched narrative account of the epic struggle for the West dur… read more
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17. 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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18. 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
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19. The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction (Civil War America)
By: William A. Blair
4.28
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
After the Civil War's end, reports surged of violence by Southern whites against Union troops and B… read more
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20. Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage (New Black Studies Series)
By: Sowande M. Mustakeem
4.18
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-bas… read more
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21. 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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22. The Families' Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice
By: Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.
4.07
Format: None pages, None
Seeing the Civil War as part of African Americans and their families' lifelong quest for racial jus… read more
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23. 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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24. 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
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25. The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress
By: Eric Herschthal
3.88
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A revealing look at how antislavery scientists and Black and white abolitionists used scientific id… read more
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26. North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution
By: Jeffers Lennox
3.56
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
How the United States was created—a complex and surprising story of patriots, Indigenous peoples, l… read more
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27. American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795
By: Edward J. Larson
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that… read more
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28. Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
By: Jon Grinspan
4.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The propulsive story of the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement, an overlooked but pivotal facto… read more
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29. West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire
By: Kevin Waite
4.57
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding … read more
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