Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
By: Steve Luxenberg
4.18
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
Separate is a myth-shattering narrative of one of the most consequential Supreme Court cases of the…
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1. Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766
By: Fred Anderson
4.19
Format: 912 pages, Paperback
In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War–long seen as a mere backdrop to the Am… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
2. The Cost of Courage
By: Charles Kaiser
4.29
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
This heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked tog… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
3. Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
By: Catherine Kerrison
3.96
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Thomas Jefferson fathered three girls: two white and free, one black and a slave. This book about M… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- nonfiction
4. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
By: Nancy Isenberg
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the … read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
5. 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
- politics
- nonfiction
6. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
By: Anne Applebaum
3.32
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
7. Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
By: Bryan Burrough
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out b… read more
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8. 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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9. Bury the Chains
By: Adam Hochschild
3.22
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
From the author of the widely acclaimed King Leopold's Ghost comes the taut, gripping account of on… read more
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10. The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
By: Dan Jones
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of the knights Templar--holy warriors, bankers, priests, heretics--by the bests… read more
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11. 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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12. The Devil Finds Work
By: James Baldwin
4.38
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
James Baldwin At The Movies... Provocative, timeless, brilliant. Bette Davis's eyes, Joan Crawford'… read more
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13. Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul
By: Michael Fanone
4.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent warning about the growing threat to our democracy from… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
"That’s why “reforming"-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul
"Mom, they tried to kill me."-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul
"I wasn't a "good" cop or a "bad" cop. I was an "every" cop."-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul
"To say that members of Congress have egos is like saying that I like cold beer."-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul
14. 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
- law
- nonfiction
15. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
By: Matthew F. Delmont
4.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil righ… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
16. The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
By: Paulina Bren
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the remarkable history of New York’s most famous resid… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- history
"[Negli anni '30] Molti ritenevano anche, sebbene il Women's Bureau del governo avesse ripetutamente contraddetto tale convinzione, che le donne lavoravano per comprarsi il superfluo, rubando i posti …"-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
"Nel 1932, ventisei Stati avevano decretato che fosse illegale per le donne sposate avere un lavoro, e negli Stati in cui non era obbligatorio lasciare il lavoro al momento delle nozze era comunque ne…"-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
"[Negli anni ‘50] Le regole erano chiare, e le attese elevatissime: le donne dovevano essere vergini ma non bacchettone; dovevano fare l'università, dedicarsi a un certo tipo di carriera e poi rinunci…"-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
17. 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
- biography
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- 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"
18. Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service
By: Gary Sinise
4.42
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller: The moving, entertaining, never-before-told story of how one man found h… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- history
19. War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
By: Ronan Farrow
4.15
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
American diplomacy is under siege. Offices across the State Department sit empty, while abroad the … read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"What happened to the missing prisoners? How did these men and boys end up in such a tomb, in such a place? And, a question no one inside the US government wanted to touch for more than a decade after…"-Ronan Farrow, War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
20. Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War
By: Paul D'Anieri
4.24
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
D'Anieri explores the dynamics within Ukraine, between Ukraine and Russia, and between Russia and t… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
21. Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
By: Steve Luxenberg
4.18
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
Separate is a myth-shattering narrative of one of the most consequential Supreme Court cases of the… read more
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