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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

by Douglas A. Blackmon ...

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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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
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Race and Reconciliation in America

by Adele Logan Alexander, Tom Allen, Bernard Bergreen, Douglas Blackmon, Katrina Brown, Krista Buccellato, Lonnie Bunch, Deepak Chopra, Gail Christopher, Nancy Clair, Chuck Conconi, John Connolly, Stephen Cropper, Jason Dean, Debbie Dingell, Jan Smith-Donaldson, Maria Echaveste, Christopher Edley, Mary Farrell, Raul Fernandez, Patricia Finneran, Badi Foster, LaToya Foster, D'Angelo Gardner, Helene Gayle, Kevin Gover, Tammy Haddad, Elyas Harris, Dorothy Height, Zelda Heller, Fred Hochberg, Murray Horwitz, Noel Ignatiev, Bruce Jacobs, Joe Klein, Jay Lavender, Reta Lewis, The Honorable John Lewis, Michael Liberty, Joe Madison, Sharon Malone, Marlon Marshall, Robbie McCauley, Alexis McGill, Sgt Maj. Alford McMichael, Natalie Moody, Dawn Moore, Joy Moore, Minyon Moore, Westley Moore, Beverly Morgan-Welch, Judith Mowry, Marilyn Ordover, Joshua Packwood, Jennifer Pardo, Richard North Patterson, Erica Payne, Colette Phillips, Mark Planning, Sally Quinn, Stephanie Robinson, Amanda Sage, David Schoen, Gerald Talbot, Robert Talbot, Marc Titus, Enola Gay Aird, James Allen, Louis Gossett Jr., Ambassador Marc Grossman, Rev. Roger Hambrick, Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, The Honorable Henry Kennedy Jr., Hon. William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Sam Donaldson, General Jim Jones, Peggy McIntosh, William Smith, Rev. Gerald Tyler, Marjorie Valbrun, Ronald Walters, Harriet A. Washington, Rabbi Avi Weiss, Michael Wenger, Thomas Wharton, Armstrong Williams, Doug Wilson, Jay Winik, Simeon Wright, Paul Zimmerman, David Zirin, John Zogby ...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all.While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years-including the ... Read more

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Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all.While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years-including the
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Pursuing Justice

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In this provocative memoir, Barack Obama’s history-making attorney general reveals the story of his life. ... Read more

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The American Cauldron

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Series series Miller Center Studies on the Presidency
In an increasingly polarized political environment, the first year of the new president’s term will be especially challenging. With a fresh mandate, however, the first year also offers opportunities that may never come again. The First Year Project is a fascinating initiative by the Miller Center of the University of Virginia that brings together top scholars on the American presidency and ... Read more

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In an increasingly polarized political environment, the first year of the new president’s term will be especially challenging. With a fresh mandate, however, the first year also offers opportunities that may never come again. The First Year Project is a fascinating initiative by the Miller Center of the University of Virginia that brings together top scholars on the American presidency and
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Malcolm X

A Life of Reinvention (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

by Manning Marable ...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History and a New York Times bestseller, the definitive biography of Malcolm XHailed as "a masterpiece" (San Francisco Chronicle), Manning Marable's acclaimed biography of Malcolm X finally does justice to one of the most influential and controversial figures of twentieth-century American history. Filled with startling new information and shocking revelations, ... Read more

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History and a New York Times bestseller, the definitive biography of Malcolm XHailed as "a masterpiece" (San Francisco Chronicle), Manning Marable's acclaimed biography of Malcolm X finally does justice to one of the most influential and controversial figures of twentieth-century American history. Filled with startling new information and shocking revelations,
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A History of New York City to 1898

by Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace ...

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To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the ... Read more

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To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the
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From Midnight to Dawn

The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad

by Jacqueline L. Tobin ...

From Midnight to Dawn presents compelling portraits of the men and women who established the Underground Railroad and traveled it to find new lives in Canada. Evoking the turmoil and controversies of the time, Tobin illuminates the historic events that forever connected American and Canadian history by giving us the true stories behind well-known figures such as Harriet Tubman and John Brown. She ... Read more

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From Midnight to Dawn presents compelling portraits of the men and women who established the Underground Railroad and traveled it to find new lives in Canada. Evoking the turmoil and controversies of the time, Tobin illuminates the historic events that forever connected American and Canadian history by giving us the true stories behind well-known figures such as Harriet Tubman and John Brown. She
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The Race Beat

The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

by Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff ...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press—and the journalists responsible for them—profoundly changed the nation’s thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and ‘60s.Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews to show how a ... Read more

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press—and the journalists responsible for them—profoundly changed the nation’s thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and ‘60s.Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews to show how a
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The Vineyard of Liberty, 1787–1863

by James MacGregor Burns ...

Series Book 1 - The American Experiment
A Pulitzer Prize winner looks at the course of American history from the birth of the Constitution to the dawn of the Civil War.The years between 1787 and 1863 witnessed the development of the American Nation—its society, politics, customs, culture, and, most important, the development of liberty. Burns explores the key events in the republic's early decades, as well as the roles of heroes from ... Read more

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A Pulitzer Prize winner looks at the course of American history from the birth of the Constitution to the dawn of the Civil War.The years between 1787 and 1863 witnessed the development of the American Nation—its society, politics, customs, culture, and, most important, the development of liberty. Burns explores the key events in the republic's early decades, as well as the roles of heroes from
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

An American Family

by Annette Gordon-Reed ...

Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: “[A] commanding and important book.”—Jill Lepore, The New YorkerThis epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times—tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been ... Read more

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Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: “[A] commanding and important book.”—Jill Lepore, The New YorkerThis epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times—tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been
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The First Tycoon (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

by T.J. Stiles ...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.In this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through his genius and force of will, did more than ... Read more

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.In this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through his genius and force of will, did more than
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American Slavery: History in an Hour

by Kat Smutz ...

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.From the first slaves arriving in Jamestown in 1619, the cotton fields in the Southern States and shipbuilding in New England, to the slaves who laid down their lives in war so that Americans could be free, American Slavery in an Hour covers the breadth of the subject without sacrificing important historical and cultural details.An important ... Read more

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Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.From the first slaves arriving in Jamestown in 1619, the cotton fields in the Southern States and shipbuilding in New England, to the slaves who laid down their lives in war so that Americans could be free, American Slavery in an Hour covers the breadth of the subject without sacrificing important historical and cultural details.An important
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