7 Best history books like Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic by Erskine Clarke

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Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic

By: Erskine Clarke

4.08

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers’s Children of Pride: The True Story of Georgia…

If you liked the history plot in Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic by Erskine Clarke , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. The Snake and the Spider

By: Karen Kingsbury

4.26

Format: 112 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It began with a teenager kissing his mother good-bye. It ended with the discovery of human bones in… read more

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2. 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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3. Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation

By: John Ehle

3.79

Format: 477 pages,

One of the many ironies of U.S. government policy toward Indians in the early 1800s is that it pers… read more

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4. Fiend: The Shocking True Story of America's Youngest Serial Killer

By: Harold Schechter

3.00

Format: 18 pages, Paperback

A MONSTER PREYED UPON THE CHILDREN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. HIS CRIMES WERE APPALLING -- AND Y… read more

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5. The Nazi Hunters

By: Damien Lewis

3.82

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The Nazi Huntersis the incredible, hitherto untold story of the most secret chapter in the SAS's hi… read more

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6. Crow Mary

By: Kathleen Grissom

4.33

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Ev… read more

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7. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

By: Tiya Miles

3.95

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"

-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

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8. The Lost Letters of Aisling

By: Cynthia Ellingsen

4.34

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman faces the past she fled in a heart-stirring novel about unforgettable love and indomitable … read more

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9. One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow

By: Olivia Hawker

4.19

Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Ragged Edge of Night comes a powerful and poetic novel of surviv… read more

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"Beyond the borders of the land that was his lay the wilderness that was its own. The upthrust stone, the shoulders of the Bighorns, reddish gray where they stood near to the homestead and blue where …"

-Olivia Hawker, One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow

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10. The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #26)

By: Anne Hillerman

4.17

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

Fossil harvesting, ancient lore, greed, rejected love and murder combine in this gripping new insta… read more

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11. The Surgeon's Daughter (Nora Beady, #2)

By: Audrey Blake

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

New from the USA Today bestselling author of The Girl in His Shadow! Women's work is a matter of… read more

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12. The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West

By: Megan Kate Nelson

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A dramatic, riveting, and deeply researched narrative account of the epic struggle for the West dur… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • civil war
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13. Malibu Burning (Sharpe & Walker #1)

By: Lee Goldberg

4.26

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

For a professional criminal and a relentless arson investigator, fear and revenge spread like wildf… read more

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14. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

By: Ilyon Woo

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

By: Daniel James Brown

4.49

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live

By: Lily Ebert

4.60

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A heart-wrenching and ultimately life-affirming Holocaust survivor story that demonstrates the powe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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17. February's Files (Manny Rivera #2)

By: Rich Curtin

4.35

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

A skeleton buried in a makeshift stone grave is discovered on a remote bluff overlooking Labyrinth … read more

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18. The Galvanized Yankees

By: Dee Brown

3.92

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

The little-known true Civil War story of the Confederate soldiers who served in the Union Army by a… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • civil war
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19. The Glassmaker

By: Tracy Chevalier

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more

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"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

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20. The Rose Arbor

By: Rhys Bowen

4.30

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

An investigation into a girl’s disappearance uncovers a mystery dating back to World War II in a ha… read more

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21. Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic

By: Erskine Clarke

4.08

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers’s Children of Pride: The True Story of Georgia… read more

Similar categories in Erskine Clarke's Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic book and Erskine Clarke's Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic

  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • race
  • 19th century
  • politics
  • civil war
  • southern
  • nonfiction

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4.03

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