Although most of what Blackhawk discusses is familiar, at least, I continue to appreciate how he centers Indigenous - colonizer interactions. In Blackhawk's narrative these interactions are the driving force of American history.
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The Ned Blackhawk's introduction to The Rediscovery of America is an excellent antidote to the faux history of the season and the facile settler narratives in the AP US History textbooks and classes that I see through my tutoring practice.
I'm excited to read how Blackhawk contributes to "a new theory of American history" that recognizes how "Native people's simultaneously determined colonial economies, settlements, and politics and we're shaped by them." (5)
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Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh
"The stunningly vibrant final novel in the bestselling Ibis Trilogy It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of …
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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall, Hugo Martínez
Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles …
Eric Beckman rated Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts: 5 stars

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall, Hugo Martínez
Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles …
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Tracks (Paperback, 2004, Harper Perennial)
Tracks by Louise Erdrich
Told in the alternating voices of a wise Chippewa Indian leader, and a young, embittered mixed-blood woman, the novel chronicles …
Eric Beckman rated Tracks: 5 stars

Tracks (Paperback, 2004, Harper Perennial)
Tracks by Louise Erdrich
Told in the alternating voices of a wise Chippewa Indian leader, and a young, embittered mixed-blood woman, the novel chronicles …