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…
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By: Tera W. Hunter
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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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
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3. 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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4. 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
5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane
By: Karen R. Jones
3.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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16. 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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