Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Studies in Legal History)
By: Martha S. Jones
4.05
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Birthright Citizens tells how African American activists radically transformed the terms of citizen…
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1. My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
By: Ari Shavit
4.22
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Die große Geschichte IsraelsDer renommierte Journalist Ari Shavit sieht Israel in einer halt- und a… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"As the state became everything, the individual became marginalized. As it marched toward the future, Israel erased the past. There was no place for the previous landscape, no place for previous ident…"-Ari Shavit, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
2. Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
By: Peniel E. Joseph
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A gripping narrative that brings to life a legendary moment in American history: the birth, life, a… read more
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- politics
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3. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
By: George Chauncey
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
Gay New Yorkbrilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet… read more
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- american history
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4. The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860
By: Morton J. Horwitz
3.51
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
Awarded the Bancroft Prize in American History in 1978, Morton J. Horwitz's The Transformation of A… read more
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- law
5. 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
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6. Friend of My Youth
By: Alice Munro
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulte… read more
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7. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
By: Robin D.G. Kelley
5.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist movem… read more
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8. Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
By: Woody Holton
3.66
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
Average Americans Were the True Framers of the Constitution Woody Holton upends what we think we kn… read more
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9. 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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10. Where the Line Bleeds
By: Jesmyn Ward
2.88
Format: 29 pages, Paperback
Set in a rural town on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Where the Line Bleedstells the story of fraterna… read more
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11. New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
By: None
3.57
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
The most important work on seventeenth-century New England in a generation. In the tradition of Edm… read more
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12. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
By: Robin D.G. Kelley
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of th… read more
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13. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
By: Edward E. Baptist
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but… read more
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14. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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15. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
By: Claudio Saunt
4.23
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East t… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
16. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
17. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies)
By: Jessica Marie Johnson
4.27
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The story of freedom pivots on the choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and… read more
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- american history
- race
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- nonfiction
18. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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- nonfiction
"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
19. 1932: FDR, Hoover, and the Dawn of a New America
By: Scott Martelle
3.81
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling slice of history with contemporary resonance, this unique account examines the most … read more
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- politics
- american history
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20. Sisters of the Lost Nation
By: Nick Medina
3.88
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's r… read more
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"What am I supposed to do? Listen, Anna, we all try to get noticed. All the time. Everywhere. That’s lige. Especially for people like us. If the others, don’t notice us, we disappear."-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation
"We all reach for something… Sometimes what we long for is so out of reach that we get stuck or lost in our pursuit of it. The point is not to lose sight of what you already have because if you try to…"-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation
"She said Frog eximplified transformation. He entered life in one form and left it in another. From egg to tadpole, to tadpole with legs, to amphibian with tail, to tailless frog, he was never the sam…"-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation
21. Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
By: H.W. Brands
4.01
Format: 452 pages, Kindle Edition
From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the sho… read more
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- politics
- american history
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- nonfiction
22. Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
By: Blair L.M. Kelley
4.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian illuminates the adversities and joys of the Black working class in Ameri… read more
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- politics
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23. The Trial of the Century
By: Gregg Jarrett
3.81
Format: None pages, Audiobook
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A gripping and comprehensive history of the iconic attorney Clarence Darrow and… read more
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- nonfiction
- law
24. Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939
By: Natalia Molina
4.08
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science … read more
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- nonfiction
25. Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
By: Dylan Penningroth
4.27
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A prize-winning scholar draws on astonishing new research to demonstrate how Black people used the … read more
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- nonfiction
26. West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War
By: Heather Cox Richardson
3.93
Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. I… read more
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- politics
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27. Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society)
By: Nate Holdren
4.53
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
The late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US economy maimed and killed employees at an astro… read more
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- the united states of america
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28. Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Studies in Legal History)
By: Martha S. Jones
4.05
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Birthright Citizens tells how African American activists radically transformed the terms of citizen… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- the united states of america
- politics
- law
- nonfiction
29. Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire
By: Sam Erman
4.05
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
Almost Citizens lays out the tragic story of how the United States denied Puerto Ricans full citize… read more
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- american history
- law
30. Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth-Century United States
By: James Willard Hurst
3.25
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
In these essays J. Willard Hurst shows the correlation between the conception of individual freedom… read more
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- history
31. Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations
By: John Tateishi
4.08
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
This is the unlikely but true story of the Japanese American Citizens League’s fight for an officia… read more
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