books about history i've read
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Created by loam
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Hitler's American Model by James Q. Whitman
5 stars
How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany. Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim …
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A lively account of our age-old quest for brighter colors, which changed the way we see the world, from the …
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Not "A Nation of Immigrants" by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
4 stars
Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to …
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Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia?
This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many …
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The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Company
4 stars
A dramatic expansion of the award-winning special issue of The New York Times Magazine — named one of the “top …
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The Art of Not Being Governed by James C. Scott (Yale Agrarian Studies)
4 stars
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia is a book-length anthropological and historical study …
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The money cult by Chris Lehmann
"A grand, brilliantly written work of American history. We think we know the story of American religion: the Puritans were …
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Coyote America by Dan L. Flores
4 stars
This book "is both an environmental and a deep natural history of the coyote. It traces both the five-million-year-long biological …
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Histories of the Transgender Child by Julian Gill-Peterson
With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media, and culture, the pervasive myth still exists that today’s transgender …
