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  • A Nation of Descendants

    Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History

    by Francesca Morgan ...
    From family trees written in early American bibles to birther conspiracy theories, genealogy has always mattered in the United States, whether for taking stock of kin when organizing a family reunion or drawing on membership—by blood or other means—to claim rights to land, inheritances, and more. And since the advent of DNA kits that purportedly trace genealogical relations through genetics, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America

    by Francesca Morgan ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    After the Civil War, many Americans did not identify strongly with the concept of a united nation. Francesca Morgan finds the first stirrings of a sense of national patriotism — of “these United States” — in the work of black and white clubwomen in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Morgan demonstrates that hundreds of thousands of women in groups such as the Woman’s Relief Corps, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Reconsidering Roots

    Race, Politics, and Memory

    by Erica L. Ball, Kellie Carter Jackson, Norvella Carter, Warren Chalklen, Elise Chatelain, Robert K. Chester, Clare Corbould, Henry Gates Jr., C. King0, David J. Leonard1, Delia Mellis2, Francesca Morgan3, Tyler D. Parry4, Martin Stollery5, Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang6, Bhekuyise Zungu7 ...
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    This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection—the first of its kind—invites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing sensation, selling over a million copies in its first year and winning a National Book Award and a special Pulitzer Prize. The 1977 television adaptation was more than a blockbuster miniseries—it was a ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Speak Up, Speak Out (HBR Women at Work Series)

    by Harvard Business Review, Francesca Gino, Amy Jen Su, Laura Morgan Roberts, Ella F. Washington ...
    Series series HBR Women at Work Series
    Make yourself heard.When women we admire such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg advised, "Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes" and Vice President Kamala Harris has to remind a room full of men, "I'm speaking," it can feel as though having our own voices heard at work is a lost cause. Whether we're confronting a colleague about an inappropriate comment or trying to avoid being talked over (again!) by a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • When and Where I Enter

    The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America

    by Paula J. Giddings ...
    A history of the African American woman's experience in America and an analysis of the relationship between sexism and racism.When and Where I Enter is an eloquent testimonial to the profound influences of African American women on race and women's movements throughout American history. Drawing on speeches, diaries, letters, and other original documents, Paula Giddings powerfully portrays how ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Lynching

    by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy ...
    A history of lynching in America over the course of three centuries, from colonial Virginia to twentieth-century Texas.After observing the varying reactions to the 1998 death of James Byrd Jr. in Texas, called a lynching by some, denied by others, Ashraf Rushdy determined that to comprehend this event he needed to understand the long history of lynching in the United States. In this meticulously ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imagining Black America

    by Michael Wayne ...
    Scientific research has now established that race should be understood as a social construct, not a true biological division of humanity. In Imagining Black America, Michael Wayne explores the construction and reconstruction of black America from the arrival of the first Africans in Jamestown in 1619 to Barack Obama’s reelection. Races have to be imagined into existence and constantly reimagined ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Uncle Sam Wants You

    World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen

    by Christopher Capozzola ...
    Based on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a vivid and provocative new interpretation of American political history, revealing how the tensions of mass mobilization during World War I led to a significant increase in power for the federal government. Christopher Capozzola shows how, when the war began, ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Mystic Chords of Memory

    The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture

    by Michael Kammen ...
    Mystic Chords of Memory"Illustrated with hundreds of well-chosen anecdotes and minute observations . . . Kammen is a demon researcher who seems to have mined his nuggets from the entire corpus of American cultural history . . . insightful and sardonic."—Washington Post Book WorldIn this ground-breaking, panoramic work of American cultural history, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Machine ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Past Imperfect

    Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and

    by Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    Woodrow Wilson, a practicing academic historian before he took to politics, defined the importance of history: "A nation which does not know what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today." He, like many men of his generation, wanted to impose a version of America's founding identity: it was a land of the free and a home of the brave. But not the braves. Or the slaves. Or the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Interracial Intimacies

    Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption

    by Randall Kennedy ...
    With the same piercing intelligence as the bestselling Say it Loud!, Interracial Intimacies hits a nerve at the center of American society: race relations and our most intimate ties to each other.“The best book written on the subject, an exhaustive source of deep, rich scholarship and surefooted brilliant analysis.”—Seattle TimesAnalyzing the tremendous changes in the history of America’s racial ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Whose American Revolution Was It?

    Historians Interpret the Founding

    by Alfred F. Young , Gregory Nobles ...
    The meaning of the American Revolution has always been a much-contested question, and asking it is particularly important today: the standard, easily digested narrative puts the Founding Fathers at the head of a unified movement, failing to acknowledge the deep divisions in Revolutionary-era society and the many different historical interpretations that have followed. Whose American Revolution Was ... Read more

    $28.99 USD