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The Civil War and the Summer of 2020

by John Bardes, Karen Cook Bell, Associate Professor of History, Daryl A. Carter, Beau D. Cleland, Emmanuel Dabney, Adam H. Domby, Myisha S. Eatmon, Barbara Gannon, Scott Hancock, William Horne, LeeAnna Keith, Jonathan Lande, Anne Marshall, Jaime Amanda Martinez, Nicole Turner, Samuel Watts ...

Series series Reconstructing America
Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical markers, college classrooms, and history books.George Floyd’s murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the United States that had been 400 years in the making. Millions of Americans took to the streets to protest both the murder and the centuries ... Read more

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Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical markers, college classrooms, and history books.George Floyd’s murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the United States that had been 400 years in the making. Millions of Americans took to the streets to protest both the murder and the centuries
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Freedom Soldiers

The Emancipation of Black Soldiers in Civil War Camps, Courts, and Prisons

by Jonathan Lande ...

Narrated by Bill Andrew Quinn ...

Unabridged

7 hours

Almost 200,000 African Americans fought to save the Union, many believing that military service was the pathway to freedom. Yet their journeys for liberation continued. They marched across taxing terrain, performed backbreaking labor, and endured corporeal punishment. They agonized over families still enslaved and suffered virulent diseases. They fought on bravely, yet thousands ran. Chafing ... Read more

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Almost 200,000 African Americans fought to save the Union, many believing that military service was the pathway to freedom. Yet their journeys for liberation continued. They marched across taxing terrain, performed backbreaking labor, and endured corporeal punishment. They agonized over families still enslaved and suffered virulent diseases. They fought on bravely, yet thousands ran. Chafing
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Stamped from the Beginning

The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

by Ibram X. Kendi ...

A National Book Award winnerThe New York Times bestselling history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.**“An engrossing and relentless intellectual history of prejudice in America.” -**Washington PostSome Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America—... ... Read more

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A National Book Award winnerThe New York Times bestselling history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.**“An engrossing and relentless intellectual history of prejudice in America.” -**Washington PostSome Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America—...
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The 1619 Project

A New Origin Story

by Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine ...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.“[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . bracing and urgent . . . This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling.”—Esquire**NOW AN EMMY ... Read more

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**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.“[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . bracing and urgent . . . This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling.”—Esquire**NOW AN EMMY
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning

by Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi ...

Don’t miss this “fresh and conversational” (TIME Magazine), “potent and provocative” (The San Francisco Chronicle), #1 New York Times bestselling exploration of racism—and antiracism—in America.This is NOT a history book.This is a book about the here and now.A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.A book about race.The construct... ... Read more

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Don’t miss this “fresh and conversational” (TIME Magazine), “potent and provocative” (The San Francisco Chronicle), #1 New York Times bestselling exploration of racism—and antiracism—in America.This is NOT a history book.This is a book about the here and now.A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.A book about race.The construct...
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Four Hundred Souls

A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Edited by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post, Town & Country, ... Read more

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post, Town & Country,
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A Black Women's History of the United States

by Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross ...

Series Book 5 - ReVisioning History
The award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this “groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States” (Ibram X. Kendi)—the perfect companion to An Indigenous People’s History of the United States and An African American and Latinx History of the United States.An empowering and intersectional history that centers the stories of African American women across 400+ ... Read more

$12.99 USD

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The award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this “groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States” (Ibram X. Kendi)—the perfect companion to An Indigenous People’s History of the United States and An African American and Latinx History of the United States.An empowering and intersectional history that centers the stories of African American women across 400+
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Robert E. Lee and Me

A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

by Ty Seidule ...

"Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency." --Ron ChernowIn a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy—and explores why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed.Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert ... Read more

$11.99 USD

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"Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency." --Ron ChernowIn a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy—and explores why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed.Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert
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The Devil You Know

A Black Power Manifesto

by Charles M. Blow ...

New York Times Bestseller: "A compelling argument on how a second migration back to the South could prove a way forward for Black America." — Library JournalA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearThe Inspiration for the HBO Original Documentary South to Black PowerRace, as we have come to understand it, is a fiction; but, racism, as we have come to live it, is a fact. The point here is ... Read more

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New York Times Bestseller: "A compelling argument on how a second migration back to the South could prove a way forward for Black America." — Library JournalA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearThe Inspiration for the HBO Original Documentary South to Black PowerRace, as we have come to understand it, is a fiction; but, racism, as we have come to live it, is a fact. The point here is
... Read more
We Refuse

A Forceful History of Black Resistance

by Kellie Carter Jackson ...

**An “unsparing, erudite, and incisive” (Jelani Cobb, staff writer, The New Yorker) reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to white supremacyNamed a Best Book of 2024 by Smithsonian * Kirkus * Chicago Review of Books * Emancipator**Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolence and ... Read more

$15.99 USD

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**An “unsparing, erudite, and incisive” (Jelani Cobb, staff writer, The New Yorker) reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to white supremacyNamed a Best Book of 2024 by Smithsonian * Kirkus * Chicago Review of Books * Emancipator**Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolence and
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Children of Fire

A History of African Americans

by Thomas C. Holt ...

"Simply brilliant. . . . The first survey of African American history to rival John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham's From Slavery to Freedom." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost ... Read more

$12.99 USD

"Simply brilliant. . . . The first survey of African American history to rival John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham's From Slavery to Freedom." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost
... Read more
The Humanity Archive

Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth

by Jermaine Fowler ...

This sweeping survey of Black history shows how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery can save the humanity of us all.Using history as a foundation, The Humanity Archive uses storytelling techniques to make history come alive and uncover the truth behind America's whitewashed history.The Humanity Archive focuses on the overlooked narratives in the pages of the past.Challenging ... Read more

$12.99 USD

This sweeping survey of Black history shows how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery can save the humanity of us all.Using history as a foundation, The Humanity Archive uses storytelling techniques to make history come alive and uncover the truth behind America's whitewashed history.The Humanity Archive focuses on the overlooked narratives in the pages of the past.Challenging
... Read more

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