18 Top audiobook books like No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (A Ferris and Ferris Book) by Karen L. Cox

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No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (A Ferris and Ferris Book)

By: Karen L. Cox

4.17

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their me…

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1. The Uses and Abuses of History

By: Margaret MacMillan

3.94

Format: None pages, Hardcover

History is useful when it is used properly: to understand why we and those we must deal with think … read more

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  • politics
  • history
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2. Shiloh, 1862

By: Winston Groom

4.71

Format: None pages,

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3. American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies

By: Michael W. Kauffman

3.08

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraha… read more

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4. The Souls of Black Folk

By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more

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5. Civilization and Its Discontents

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay

4.02

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more

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6. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

By: Timothy Egan

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

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7. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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8. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation by Thavolia Glymph

9. The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation

By: Thavolia Glymph

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war--the military fight, wartime struggle… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
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10. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

By: Nikole Hannah-Jones

4.62

Format: 590 pages, Hardcover

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. … read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
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Cover of Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos

11. Wildland: The Making of America's Fury

By: Evan Osnos

4.24

Format: 465 pages, Hardcover

After a decade abroad, the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize– winning writer Evan Osnos retur… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In all, just 158 American families had donated half of all the money to candidates on the ballot [in the 2016 election]."

-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury

"You've got your CEOs pulling four hundred or five hundred times what the American man does. Is there any man worth four hundred or five hundred other men? I've never met one. Have you?" -David Efaw i…"

-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury

"It's not as simple as "this guy is with us on everything - or he's not!" she said. "I think the left imagines that in order for us to make progress, everyone has to agree about everything. I don't th…"

-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury

"After residents had secured the major markers of wealth - the home, the right schools, the serenity of private aviation - they turned their attention to the real game in town: the refining of advanta…"

-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury

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12. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
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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

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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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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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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

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14. We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

By: Erin Kimmerle

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys School--the true st… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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15. On Juneteenth

By: Annette Gordon-Reed

4.18

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annet… read more

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  • race
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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
  • audiobook
"History is always being revised, as new information, comes to light and when different people see known documents and have their own responses to them, shaped by their individual experiences."

-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth

"Origin stories matter, for individuals, groups of people, and for nations. They inform our sense of self; telling us what kind of people we believe we are, what kind of nation we believe in. They usu…"

-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth

"Why would White Texans be more obstreperous than other White southerners? It has been suggested that this was because, unlike other Southern states, Texas had not been defeated militarily. They had w…"

-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth

Cover of The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner

16. 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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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Ty Seidule

17. Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

By: Ty Seidule

4.42

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • civil war
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"When we identify our history, we can change the narrative."

-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

"Whenever Lee made a decision regarding enslaved people he chose profit over human decency."

-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

"History is always changing. We link the past to our conception of the present and we always have."

-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

"When people have no political outlet nor means of changing a racist society, rioting is their only voice."

-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

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18. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

By: Drew Gilpin Faust

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in th… read more

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"I knew I had had no choice. I had had to fight with my mother in order to survive."

-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

"In an increasingly serious world, these young women had never been asked or expected to be serious. (p. 13)"

-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

"There is a clarity about how children see the world that the complexities of adult life often muddy. And there is a fervor children feel when they believe adults have misled them or disguised or hidd…"

-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

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19. The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America

By: Carol Anderson

4.33

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the … read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

20. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.04

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more

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  • race
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"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

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21. The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

By: Walter Johnson

4.38

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told thr… read more

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  • race
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  • politics
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"One of the things about people who have little left to lose, of course, is that they have everything to gain. On August 9, 2014, the disinherited of St. Louis rose again to take control of their hist…"

-Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

"Viewed from St. Louis, the history of capitalism in the United States seems to have as much to do with eviction and extraction as with exploitation and production. History in St. Louis unfolded at th…"

-Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

Cover of Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy by Jamie Raskin

22. Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

By: Jamie Raskin

4.51

Format: 428 pages, Hardcover

In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the star… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If a person can grow through unthinkable trauma and loss, perhaps a nation may, too."

-Jamie Raskin, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

"Memory requires active engagement with the complexities of the past. It is not an unthinking or passive process, like breathing or (for most people) sleeping. I have found that good memory, like good…"

-Jamie Raskin, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

Cover of Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System by Ryan J. Reilly

23. Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System

By: Ryan J. Reilly

3.95

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

The January 6th attack is an unprecedented crime in American history. Sprawling and openly politica… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Adam H. Domby

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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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible by Luke Mogelson

25. The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible

By: Luke Mogelson

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle its accele… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman

26. Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil

By: Susan Neiman

4.22

Format: 432 pages, ebook

As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the … read more

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"There are pragmatic as well as moral grounds for the United States to follow Germany's lead [in dealing with it's past human rights crimes]. American media may have largely ignored the reasons we dec…"

-Susan Neiman, Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil

Cover of Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth (Civil War America) by Kevin M. Levin

27. Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth (Civil War America)

By: Kevin M. Levin

4.31

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations… read more

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  • american history
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Cover of Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments by Erin L. Thompson

28. Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments

By: Erin L. Thompson

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people r… read more

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"Displaying a monument that claims white people control America in an institution that is controlled by white people merely reinforces its message."

-Erin L. Thompson, Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments

"When there is no process, people lose hope that their voices will be heard. And then they take action, even if there's no legal route to do so. But this action might not be the one they really want t…"

-Erin L. Thompson, Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments

"Some of those who say they are worried about erasing history are really objecting to decisions about monuments being taken down by a small group of people, whether protesters or officials. Ideally, c…"

-Erin L. Thompson, Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments

Cover of No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (A Ferris and Ferris Book) by Karen L. Cox

29. No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (A Ferris and Ferris Book)

By: Karen L. Cox

4.17

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their me… read more

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  • american history
  • race
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Cover of Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country by Fay A. Yarbrough

30. Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country

By: Fay A. Yarbrough

3.83

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • civil war
Cover of Our Flag Was Still There: The Star Spangled Banner that Survived the British and 200 Years―And the Armistead Family Who Saved It by Tom McMillan

31. Our Flag Was Still There: The Star Spangled Banner that Survived the British and 200 Years―And the Armistead Family Who Saved It

By: Tom McMillan

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Our Flag Was Still There details the improbable two-hundred-year journey of the original Star-Spang… read more

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