5 Best history books like A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War by Stephen V. Ash

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A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War

By: Stephen V. Ash

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Unknown Binding

An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American hi…

If you liked the history plot in A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War by Stephen V. Ash , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. A Moveable Feast

By: Ernest Hemingway

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more

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  • nonfiction

2. In a Sunburned Country

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Every time Bill Bryson walks out… read more

Similar categories in Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country book and Stephen V. Ash's A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War

  • nonfiction
  • history

3. Dopefiend

By: Donald Goines

3.90

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

For twenty-three years of his life Donald Goines lived in the dark, despair-ridden world of the jun… read more

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4. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

By: Tony Horwitz

4.50

Format: None pages,

When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle … read more

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5. Twelve Years a Slave

By: Solomon Northup

3.58

Format: None pages, ebook

A film tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany the major new film starrin… read more

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6. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

By: Aldous Huxley

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more

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7. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

By: Michelle McNamara

4.12

Format: 352 pages, ebook

A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer—the elusive serial rapist turned murderer… read more

Similar categories in Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer book and Stephen V. Ash's A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War

  • nonfiction
  • history
"Every obsession needs a room of its own."

-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

"He loses his power when we know his face."

-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

"Twenty-five years is a long time in cop years."

-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

"I need to see his face. He loses his power when we know his face."

-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

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8. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Kobes Du Mez's Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation book and Stephen V. Ash's A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War

  • nonfiction
  • history
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9. Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

By: Mike Duncan

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

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11. The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now

By: Meg Jay

4.11

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

Our "thirty-is-the-new-twenty" culture tells us that the twentysomething years don't matter. Some s… read more

Similar categories in Meg Jay's The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now book and Stephen V. Ash's A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War

  • nonfiction
"I wish I'd been more.. I don't know... intentional."

-Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now

"I wasn't scared of losing my past. i was scared of losing my future."

-Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now

"Doing something later is not automatically the same as doing something better"

-Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now

"The confidence that overrides insecurity comes from experience. There is no other way."

-Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now

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12. A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War

By: Stephen V. Ash

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Unknown Binding

An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American hi… read more

Similar categories in Stephen V. Ash's A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War book and Stephen V. Ash's A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • civil war
  • nonfiction

8 Top nonfiction books like A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War by Stephen V. Ash

Transform Your Habits

A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway

5.00

In a Sunburned Country

Bill Bryson

3.42

Transform Your Habits

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Michelle McNamara

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

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5 Top humor books like In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Continent & Neither Here Nor There

Bill Bryson , Bryson Bill

4.16

Transform Your Habits

A Year in Provence

Peter Mayle

3.67

In a Sunburned Country

Bill Bryson

3.42

Transform Your Habits

The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

Nancy Omeara

4.33

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