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  • Remembering Jim Crow

    African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South

    Edited by William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad ...
    This “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era” won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review).Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Oral History Project at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book presents for the first time the most extensive oral history ever ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Reconstruction: Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial Equality (LOA #303)

    Edited by Brooks D. Simpson ...
    The aftermath of the Civil War comes to dramatic life in this sweeping new collection of firsthand writing from the Reconstruction era—featuring pieces by Frederick Douglass, Frances Harper, and more“Very, very good. . . . Reconstruction conveys the struggle for racial equality better than many other anthologies documenting the era.” —The Wall Street JournalFew periods in American history are more ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • My Vanishing Country

    A Memoir

    by Bakari Sellers ...
    New York Times Bestseller: This insightful and deeply personal portrait of African American working-class life "offers something so authentic . . . compelling" ( Charleston Post and Courier).Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, My Vanishing Country is an eye-opening journey through the South's past, present, and future.Anchored in Bakari Sellers' hometown of Denmark, South Carolina, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Churchill's Hellraisers

    The Thrilling Secret WW2 Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress

    by Damien Lewis ...
    From award-winning war reporter Damien Lewis, the untold story of the heroic hellraisers who stormed a Nazi fortress—in one of the most daring raids of World War II . . .Winter, 1944. Allied forces have liberated most of Axis-occupied Italy—with one crucial exception: the Nazi headquarters north of the Gothic Line. Heavily guarded and surrounded by rugged terrain, the mountain fortress is nearly ... Read more

    $11.09 USD

  • The Darkest Year

    The American Homefront, 1941–1942

    by William K. Klingaman ...
    The acclaimed narrative history of the American home front during WWII, from the attack on Pearl Harbor through 1942.For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor comprised the darkest year of World War Two. Despite government attempts to disguise the magnitude of American losses, it was clear that the nation had suffered a nearly unbroken string ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Beginning or the End

    How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    by Greg Mitchell ...
    The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood production.Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called “the most important story” he would ever film: a big budget dramatization of the Manhattan Project and the invention and use of the revolutionary new weapon ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Bending Toward Justice

    The Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights

    by Doug Jones, Greg Truman ...
    The senator relates the decades-long fight for justice after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing—including his prosecution of the last living bombers.On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan members. Yet due to reluctant ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • No More War

    How the West Violates International Law by Using 'Humanitarian' Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests

    by Dan Kovalik ...
    "Kovalik helps cut through the Orwellian lies and dissembling which make so-called 'humanitarian' intervention possible." —Oliver StoneWar is the fount of all the worst human rights violations―including genocide―and not its cure. This undeniable truth, which the framers of the UN Charter understood so well, is lost in today’s obsession with the oxymoron known as “humanitarian" intervention.No More ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Call Them by Their True Names

    American Crises (and Essays)

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    "[A] call to arms that takes on a range of social and political problems in America—from racism and misogyny to climate change and Donald Trump" ( Poets & Writers).National Book Award LonglistWinner of the Kirkus Prize for NonfictionWinner of the Foreword INDIE Editor's Choice Prize for NonfictionRebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bests... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • 1920

    A Year of Global Turmoil

    by David Charlwood ...
    "History writing at its best . . . teasing out extraordinary parallels between our current world and that of a century ago." —Tim Butcher, author of Blood RiverA pandemic has killed millions. Violent uprisings are tearing apart the Middle East. Nationalism is on the march in Europe. An unlikely candidate is running for president in the US on a populist platform to put "America first." The year is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Century of Female Revolution

    From Peterloo to Parliament

    by Glynis Cooper ...
    This dramatic social history follows the struggle for women's rights in England from the Industrial Revolution to the Suffragist victory after WWI.The 100 years from 1819-1919 saw remarkable change for women in England. From the early nineteenth century, when women were not even considered 'persons' under the law, they achieved full legal rights and status. The doors of education and employment ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Book Row

    An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade

    by Marvin Mondlin, Roy Meador ...
    The American Story of the Bookstores on Fourth Avenue from the 1890s to the 1960sNew York City has eight million stories, and this one unfolds just south of Fourteenth Street in Manhattan, on the seven blocks of Fourth Avenue bracketed by Union Square and Astor Place. There, for nearly eight decades from the 1890s to the 1960s, thrived the New York Booksellers’ Row, or Book Row.This richly ... Read more

    $13.99 USD