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Oh, Posterity!

What Have You Done?

by John S. Dye ...

Oh Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present generation, to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven, that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.--John Adams, April 26, 1777.Amidst the political divisions that exist today, many Americans believe the Founding Fathers would roll over in their graves if they saw what ... Read more

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Oh Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present generation, to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven, that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.--John Adams, April 26, 1777.Amidst the political divisions that exist today, many Americans believe the Founding Fathers would roll over in their graves if they saw what
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Four Hundred Souls

A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Edited by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post, Town & Country, ... Read more

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post, Town & Country,
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A Resistance History of the United States

by Tad Stoermer ...

**• INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! • #1 ABA Indie Bookstores (PB Nonfiction) • #6 New York Times (combined HC and PB Nonfiction) • #9 Publishers Weekly (overall PB) • #16 USA Today overall (all genres, formats) •An urgent, bracing new look at American history that Ava DuVernay calls "deeply necessary for this moment."Revisit the Salem Witch Trials, the Underground Railroad, and other resistance ... Read more

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**• INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! • #1 ABA Indie Bookstores (PB Nonfiction) • #6 New York Times (combined HC and PB Nonfiction) • #9 Publishers Weekly (overall PB) • #16 USA Today overall (all genres, formats) •An urgent, bracing new look at American history that Ava DuVernay calls "deeply necessary for this moment."Revisit the Salem Witch Trials, the Underground Railroad, and other resistance
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All We Say

The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches

by Ben Rhodes ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? This sweeping history of the United States told through fifteen speeches relives the battle over American identity, from a New York Times bestselling author and one of President Barack Obama’s former speechwriters.“At a time of moral and political drift, Ben Rhodes reminds us what American greatness actually sounds ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? This sweeping history of the United States told through fifteen speeches relives the battle over American identity, from a New York Times bestselling author and one of President Barack Obama’s former speechwriters.“At a time of moral and political drift, Ben Rhodes reminds us what American greatness actually sounds
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American Nightmare

The History of Jim Crow

by Jerrold M. Packard ...

"A very powerful and unsettling story of our nation's century-long 'pogrom' by vengeful white Southerners against their black neighbors." — The Washington TimesFor a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial "etiquette," these rules governed nearly every ... Read more

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"A very powerful and unsettling story of our nation's century-long 'pogrom' by vengeful white Southerners against their black neighbors." — The Washington TimesFor a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial "etiquette," these rules governed nearly every
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The South

Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

by Adolph L. Reed Jr. ...

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Blending personal memoir with historical accounts, this searing history of the Jim Crow South captures the realities of those who experienced it—and shines a light on its enduring legacy.The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but not a nuanced ... Read more

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Blending personal memoir with historical accounts, this searing history of the Jim Crow South captures the realities of those who experienced it—and shines a light on its enduring legacy.The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but not a nuanced
... Read more
The Humanity Archive

Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth

by Jermaine Fowler ...

This sweeping survey of Black history shows how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery can save the humanity of us all.Using history as a foundation, The Humanity Archive uses storytelling techniques to make history come alive and uncover the truth behind America's whitewashed history.The Humanity Archive focuses on the overlooked narratives in the pages of the past.Challenging ... Read more

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This sweeping survey of Black history shows how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery can save the humanity of us all.Using history as a foundation, The Humanity Archive uses storytelling techniques to make history come alive and uncover the truth behind America's whitewashed history.The Humanity Archive focuses on the overlooked narratives in the pages of the past.Challenging
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Let Nobody Turn Us Around

An African American Anthology

by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Richard Allen, Molefi Kete Asante, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Edward Wilmot Blyden, Cyril V. Briggs, Stokely Carmichael, Frederick Douglass, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, Olaudah Equiano, Louis Farrakhan, Henry Highland Garnet, Fannie Lou Hamer, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, bell hooks, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Audre Lorde, Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Claude McKay, Elijah Muhammad, Huey P. Newton, Solomon Northrup, Rosa Parks, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., A Philip Randolph, Paul Robeson, Jo Ann Robinson, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Bayard Rustin, Maria W. Stewart, Mary Church Terell, Sojourner Truth, Nat Turner, David Walker, Booker T. Washington, Harold Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Roy Wilkins, William Julius Wilson ...

This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the twentieth century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable and Mullings, introduce the reader to the character and important controversies of each period ... Read more

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This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the twentieth century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable and Mullings, introduce the reader to the character and important controversies of each period
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Say It Plain

A Century of Great African American Speeches

by Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Mary McLeod Bethune, Walter White, Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, Howard Thurman, Dick Gregory, Fannie Lou Hamer, Stokely Carmichael, John Hope Franklin, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Benjamin L. Hooks, Joseph Lowery, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Johnetta B. Cole, Lani Guinier, Clarence Thomas, Randall Robinson, Julian Bond, Martin Luther King ...

A moving portrait of how black Americans have spoken out against injustice—with speeches by Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, and more.In "full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul", this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the twentieth century's leading African American cultural, literary, and political figures, many never before available ... Read more

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A moving portrait of how black Americans have spoken out against injustice—with speeches by Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, and more.In "full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul", this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the twentieth century's leading African American cultural, literary, and political figures, many never before available
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America, U.S.A.

How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries

by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again confronts America’s unfinished story in this blistering reassessment of race, freedom, and the myths that bind us.“A thoughtful, insightful, beautifully written book that is timely and welcomed in these perilous times.”—Bryan Stevenson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy**“Eddie S. Glaude Jr. opens a ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again confronts America’s unfinished story in this blistering reassessment of race, freedom, and the myths that bind us.“A thoughtful, insightful, beautifully written book that is timely and welcomed in these perilous times.”—Bryan Stevenson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy**“Eddie S. Glaude Jr. opens a
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American Dialogue

The Founders and Us

by Joseph J. Ellis ...

The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.The story of history is a ceaseless conversation between past and present, and in American Dialogue Joseph J. Ellis focuses the conversation ... Read more

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The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.The story of history is a ceaseless conversation between past and present, and in American Dialogue Joseph J. Ellis focuses the conversation
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Country of Lords

Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America

by Kim Phillips-Fein ...

**An Independent Press BestsellerA Pulitzer-finalist historian charts a 250-year-old intellectual and political tradition—the conviction that all Americans are NOT created equal.**The story of American history is often told as a hard-won march toward the promise of equality, derived from Thomas Jefferson’s famous proclamation that “all men are created equal.”But this inspiring story obscures a ... Read more

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**An Independent Press BestsellerA Pulitzer-finalist historian charts a 250-year-old intellectual and political tradition—the conviction that all Americans are NOT created equal.**The story of American history is often told as a hard-won march toward the promise of equality, derived from Thomas Jefferson’s famous proclamation that “all men are created equal.”But this inspiring story obscures a
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