8 Top civil war books like The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation by Thavolia Glymph

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The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation

By: Thavolia Glymph

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war--the military fight, wartime struggle…

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1. Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

By: Kathleen DuVal

3.87

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with t… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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2. Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)

By: Brittney Cooper , None

4.43

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and … read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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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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  • nonfiction
  • history
"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

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4. Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco

By: Judy Yung

3.50

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

The crippling custom of footbinding is the thematic touchstone for Judy Yung's engrossing study of … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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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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  • gender
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. The Paying Guests

By: Sarah Waters

3.45

Format: 564 pages, Hardcover

It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry ar… read more

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"Marriages are like pianos. They go in and out of tune."

-Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

"As far as Frances was concerned, gardening was simply open-air housework."

-Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

"I'm sorry you aren't as brave as you thought you were. But don't punish me because of it."

-Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

"...why must people of that class always reveal so much of themselves? A few more minutes and she would have shown us her varicose veins."

-Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

7. Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more

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8. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

By: David W. Blight

4.15

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In… read more

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9. Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

By: Annette Gordon-Reed , Peter S. Onuf

4.04

Format: 431 pages, Hardcover

Thomas Jefferson is often portrayed as a hopelessly enigmatic figure--a riddle--a man so riven with… read more

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10. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877

By: Richard B. Morris , Henry Steele Commager , Eric Foner

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) ma… read more

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11. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

By: David W. Blight

4.15

Format: 888 pages, Hardcover

As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was … read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
"Douglass told white northern voters that 'The blood of the slave is on your garments. You have said that slavery is better than freedom. That war is better than peace. And that cruelty is better than…"

-David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

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12. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

By: Claudio Saunt

4.23

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East t… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence

By: Robert G. Parkinson

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the m… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation

By: Thavolia Glymph

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war--the military fight, wartime struggle… read more

Similar categories in Thavolia Glymph's The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation book and Thavolia Glymph's The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • 19th century
  • civil war
  • gender
  • war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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15. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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16. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

4.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bri… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered the very real possibility that some of the en…"

-Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

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17. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)

By: Lisa Brooks

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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18. No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

4.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In No Visible Bruises, journalist Rachel Louise Snyder frames this urgent and immersive account of … read more

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  • womens
  • nonfiction
"Michelle saw was what so many other women before her had seen: that an abuser appears more powerful than the system."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

"The average batterer, Adams told me, “is more likable than his victim, because domestic violence affects victims a lot more than it affects batterers."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

"When I questioned whether she believed he really had changed, she said yes, but she also said she believed she could probably trigger him again in a minute."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

"The very fact that intimate partner violence is so often addressed in civil court, rather than criminal court, gives insight into how we as a society still view it."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

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19. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
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20. Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South (Justice, Power, and Politics)

By: Sarah McNamara

4.46

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men fro… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South

By: Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh

4.20

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • american history
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22. Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide (Justice, Power, and Politics)

By: Lane Windham

4.07

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

The power of unions in workers' lives and in the American political system has declined dramaticall… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

By: Kate Masur

4.20

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beg… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
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24. The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

By: Manisha Sinha

4.23

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of thi… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction by Laura F. Edwards

25. 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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  • american history
  • history
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26. The Families' Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice

By: Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.

4.07

Format: None pages, None

Seeing the Civil War as part of African Americans and their families' lifelong quest for racial jus… read more

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  • history
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27. Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States

By: Stephen Kantrowitz

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

This concise and revealing history reconsiders the Civil War era by centering one Native American t… read more

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  • civil war
  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America

By: Margot Canaday

4.18

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A masterful history of the LGBT workforce in America Workplaces have traditionally been viewed as … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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29. Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War

By: Stephanie McCurry

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“As Stephanie McCurry points out in this gem of a book, many historians who view the American Civil… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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30. West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire

By: Kevin Waite

4.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
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31. As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas

By: Erica L. Ball

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

As If She Were Free brings together the biographies of twenty-four women of African descent to reve… read more

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  • history
  • race
  • nonfiction

25 Best history books like The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation by Thavolia Glymph

Transform Your Habits

Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

Kathleen DuVal

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)

Brittney Cooper , None

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco

Judy Yung

3.50

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24 Top history books like Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States by Stephen Kantrowitz

Transform Your Habits

From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America

Beth L. Bailey

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

Kim Phillips-Fein

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness

Paul Gilroy

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt

4.20

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