Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau
By: Dale Kretz
4.00
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
This book offers the definitive history of how formerly enslaved men and women pursued federal bene…
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1. To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
By: Tera W. Hunter
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Tera Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end… read more
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2. 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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"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
3. 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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4. 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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5. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
By: None , Marisa J. Fuentes
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free wo… read more
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6. 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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7. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
8. 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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"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
9. Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
By: Keisha N. Blain
4.20
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Explores the Black activist's ideas and political strategies highlighting their relevance for tackl… read more
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10. Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Civil War America)
By: Amy Murrell Taylor
4.43
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing thei… read more
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11. Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
By: Ada Ferrer
4.19
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
During the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern worl… read more
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12. Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War (The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era)
By: Lorien Foote
4.41
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, an… read more
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13. Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox
By: Caroline E. Janney
4.14
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox… read more
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14. Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction
By: Nell Irvin Painter
3.83
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves. read more
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15. Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (Gender & American Culture)
By: Hannah Rosen
4.12
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity… read more
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16. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
By: Mae M. Ngai
4.08
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been … read more
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17. The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War
By: Aaron Sheehan-Dean
3.97
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Shiloh, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg―tens of thousands of soldiers died on these battlefields, and … read more
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18. Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America
By: Felicity M. Turner
4.00
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth ce… read more
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19. Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989 (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
By: Penny M. Von Eschen
3.38
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
In Paradoxes of Nostalgia Penny M. Von Eschen offers a sweeping examination of the cold war’s after… read more
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20. Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau
By: Dale Kretz
4.00
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
This book offers the definitive history of how formerly enslaved men and women pursued federal bene… read more
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21. The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921
By: Adam D. Shprintzen
3.73
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Vegetarianism has been practiced in the United States since the country's founding, yet the early y… read more
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22. Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South
By: Yael A. Sternhell
4.10
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The Civil War thrust millions of men and women-rich and poor, soldiers and civilians, enslaved and … read more
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23. The Body in the Reservoir: Murder and Sensationalism in the South
By: Michael Ayers Trotti
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Centered on a series of dramatic murders in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Richmond, Virgi… read more
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24. Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane
By: Karen R. Jones
3.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating new account of the life and legend of the Wild West’s most notorious woman: Calamity … read more
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25. Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers (Jules and Frances Landry Award)
By: John M. Sacher
3.67
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award In April 1862, the Confederacy faced a dire militar… read more
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26. Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition
By: Kathleen M. Brown
4.71
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the aboliti… read more
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