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  • Pardonable

    : Lou Bettigole could not believe his good fortune. Recruited to travel the country as a reporter for the school newspaper, Lou was first assigned to cover the 1899 baseball season. For the baseball-loving 17 year-old; an unexpected telegram from New Haven interrupted his dream assignment. The Yale Daily News was now sending him to the country's most dangerous locale, Clay County, Kentucky. Clay ... Read more

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  • Slavery by Another Name (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter in “The Age of Neoslavery.”By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented Pulitzer Prize-winning account reveals the ... Read more

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  • Assassination Vacation

    by Sarah Vowell ...
    New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR’s This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation’s ever-evolving political system and history.Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of ... Read more

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  • A Mighty Long Way

    My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School

    “A searing and emotionally gripping account of a young black girl growing up to become a strong black woman during the most difficult time of racial segregation.”—Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School“Provides important context for an important moment in America’s history.”—Associated PressWhen fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on ... Read more

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  • A Jazz Age Murder in Northwest Indiana

    The Tragic Betrayal of Nettie Diamond

    Gold digging, adultery, and a slaying on Valentine's Day, 1923, in this "juicy . . . page-turner" of a true crime story ( Chicago Tribune).It was a Roaring Twenties fatal attraction. Nettie Herskovitz was wealthy and widowed when she met Harry Diamond. The attentive, irresistibly sexy twenty-three-year-old suitor would become Nettie's fifth husband. He was also a bootlegger, pimp, and first-class ... Read more

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  • Freedom Summer

    The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

    by Bruce Watson ...
    A riveting account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history.In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer, award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony about a crucial episode in the American civil rights movement. During the sweltering summer of 1964, more than seven hundred American college students descended upon segregated, reactionary Mississippi to ... Read more

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  • First Ladies

    Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women

    A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original interviews with major historiansC-SPAN's yearlong history series, First Ladies: Influence and Image, featured interviews with more than fifty preeminent historians and biographers. In this informative book, these experts paint intimate portraits of all forty-five first ladies -- their lives, ambitions, and ... Read more

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  • The Grace of Silence

    A Memoir

    ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star.A profoundly moving and deeply personal memoir by the co-host of National Public Radio’s flagship program All Things Considered.While exploring the hidden conversation on race unfolding throughout America in the wake of President Obama’s election, Michele Norris discovered that there were ... Read more

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  • Cradles of Power

    The Mothers and Fathers of the American Presidents

    Why have there been so many books about first ladies and so few about the mothers and fathers of our presidents? Many of us, for better or worse, are shaped by our early life. Heads of state are no exception. In this compact and compelling narrative of truly popular history, Gullan offers insights into the early influences that helped shape our presidents, shedding light into a much neglected ... Read more

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  • They Stole a City

    Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy

    **“They Stole A City is a powerful new book... Collins shows how the massacre couldn't be contained to its particular time period... its effects continued to reverberate across generations.” —Jennifer Szalai, The New York TimesIn this ambitious and groundbreaking history, Lauren Collins weaves together stories of four Wilmington, North Carolina, families over 125 years to create a full accounting ... Read more

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  • Mighty Justice

    My Life in Civil Rights

    “Dovey Johnson Roundtree set a new path for women and proved that the vision and perseverance of a single individual can turn the tides of history.”—Michelle ObamaIn Mighty Justice, trailblazing African American civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts her inspiring life story that speaks movingly and urgently to our racially troubled times. From the streets of Charlotte, North ... Read more

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  • Freedom's Children

    Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories

    In this inspiring collection of true stories, thirty African-Americans who were children or teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s talk about what it was like for them to fight segregation in the South-to sit in an all-white restaurant and demand to be served, to refuse to give up a seat at the front of the bus, to be among the first to integrate the public schools, and to face violence, arrest, and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD