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…
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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. Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
By: Grace Elizabeth Hale
3.97
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such… read more
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- history
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3. 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
4. The Importance of Being Earnest
By: Oscar Wilde
2.50
Format: None pages,
Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more
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5. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
By: Kathleen M. Brown
3.50
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspec… read more
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6. Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore
By: Seth Rockman
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-bo… read more
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7. 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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8. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
By: Thavolia Glymph
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender … read more
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9. Men Who Hate Women
By: Laura Bates
4.34
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about. Men W… read more
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"Incels use the metaphor of the red pill to describe the moment a man's blinkers fall away and he suddenly realizes that he has been lied to his whole life. The world that he has been forced to believ…"-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women
"When incels do occasionally crop up in news reports or conversations, they're so easily dismissed as a tiny fringe group of online weirdos. What you hear about them sounds so strange, so extreme, so …"-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women
10. 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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- 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
11. 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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12. In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning
By: Grace Elizabeth Hale
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“Courageous and compelling…essential and critically important.” —Bryan Stevenson An award-winnin… read more
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13. 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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14. Thinking About History
By: Sarah C. Maza
4.09
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating questio… read more
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15. Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction
By: Laura F. Edwards
3.15
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Exploring the gendered dimension of political conflicts, Laura Edwards links transformations in pri… read more
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- history
16. 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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17. Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
By: Ethan J. Kytle
4.39
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me, a deeply researched book that uncovers … read more
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18. 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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19. Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction
By: Stacey L. Smith
3.82
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusivel… read more
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20. 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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21. 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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22. 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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23. Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
By: Chandra Manning
4.12
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave… read more
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24. 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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25. 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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26. 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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27. 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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28. 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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29. 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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30. 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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31. Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920 (Gender and American Culture)
By: Mary E. Odem
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Delinquent Daughters explores the gender, class, and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to contr… read more
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