The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story
By: Tiya Miles
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established D…
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1. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
2. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of … read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
"To remember what they had lost and what they became, what had been torn apart and what had come together, the fugitives and refugees and multitudes in flight were called the Sisala, which means ‘to c…"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
"Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina in 1526 or in Jamestown in 1619? Was it the tug of all the lost mothers and orphaned children? Or…"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
"If slavery persists as an issue in the political life of black America, it is not because of an antiquarian obsession with bygone days or the burden of a too-long memory, but because black lives are …"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
3. Women, Race & Class
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.58
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class
4. The Dry Grass of August
By: Anna Jean Mayhew
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this beautifully written debut, Anna Jean Mayhew offers a riveting depiction of Southern life in… read more
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5. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
6. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
7. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
By: William Cronon , John Putnam Demos , Tere LoPrete
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
8. Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , David Levering Lewis
3.90
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most i… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
9. Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
By: Mary Rowlandson
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In February 1676, during King Philip's War, the frontier village of Lancaster, Massachusetts, was a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
10. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
By: William Cronon
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
11. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
12. Behold the Dreamers
By: Imbolo Mbue
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a b… read more
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13. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
14. The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
By: Andrés Reséndez
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A landmark history -- the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across … read more
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15. 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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16. Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century (California Studies in Food and Culture, 24)
By: Ruth Reichl , Michael Stern , Laura Shapiro
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Depicts the culinary habits of turn-of-the-century women, portraying their passion and idealism, as… read more
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17. The Golden Gate
By: Amy Chua
3.88
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont… read more
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18. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
By: Candice Millard
3.84
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
19. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
By: Liz Cheney
4.60
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers be… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
20. 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
- nonfiction
21. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- native american
- indigenous
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
22. They Call Her Dirty Sally
By: Amy Matayo
4.42
Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition
For years, the town of Silver Bell, Arkansas has quietly mourned the hospital fire that claimed the… read more
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"Luck works best when it isn't pressed more than once."-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally
"I was a drunk teenager once, and that combination goes together about as well as gasoline and a Zippo lighter."-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally
"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." --nursery rhyme, and the first lie we learned in school"-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally
"Isn't that what every child wants even well into adulthood --- the opportunity to look their parents in the eye and see a glimmer of pride shining back at them?"-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally
23. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
24. 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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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
"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
25. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
26. Enough
By: Cassidy Hutchinson
4.31
Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition
Cassidy Hutchinson’s desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American h… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
27. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
By: Lisa Brooks
4.14
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America… read more
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- american history
- history
- native american
- indigenous
- native american history
- nonfiction
28. 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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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
"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"
29. Stealing
By: Margaret Verble
4.04
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Chris… read more
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- race
- native american
- indigenous
30. Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
By: Kathryn Olivarius
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Disease is thought to be a great leveler of humanity, but in antebellum New Orleans acquiring immun… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
31. The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story
By: Tiya Miles
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established D… read more
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- native american
- native american history
- indigenous
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