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  • An Evil Day in Georgia

    The Killing of Coleman Osborn and the Death Penalty in the Progressive-Era South

    by Robert Neil Smith ...
    On the night of August 5, 1927, someone shot and killed Coleman Osborn, a store owner in Chatsworth, Georgia, in his place of business. Police and neighbors found only circumstantial traces of the murderer: tire tracks, boot prints, shell casings, and five dollars in cash near Osborn’s body. That day, three individuals—James Hugh Moss, a black family man locally renowned for his baseball skills; ... Read more

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  • The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist

    A True Story of Injustice in the American South

    by Radley Balko, Tucker Carrington ...
    “A haunting true crime tale of systemic incompetence and racism” (New York Times) – and its devastating effect on innocent livesAfter two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks. Together they spent a combined thirty years in prison before finally being exonerated in 2008. Meanwhile, ... Read more

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  • The Last Lynching

    How a Gruesome Mass Murder Rocked a Small Georgia Town

    by Anthony S. Pitch ...
    Nothing casts a more sinister shadow over our nation’s history than the gruesome lynchings that happened between 1882 and 1937, claiming 4,680 victims. Often, in a show of racist violence, the lynchers tortured their victims before murdering them. Most killers were never brought to justice; some were instead celebrated as heroes, their victims’ bodies displayed, or even cut up and distributed, as ... Read more

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  • The Eyes of Willie McGee

    A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South

    by Alex Heard ...
    A gripping saga of race and retribution in the Deep South. "Like a real-life To Kill a Mockingbird, but with even more subtlety and complexity." —Walter Isaacson, New York Times-bestselling authorIn 1945, Willie McGee, a young African-American man from Laurel, Mississippi, was sentenced to death for allegedly raping Willette Hawkins, a white housewife. At first, McGee's case was barely noticed, ... Read more

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  • On Her Own Ground

    The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker

    by A'Lelia Bundles ...
    Now a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, Self Made (formerly titled On Her Own Ground**) is the first full-scale biography of “one of the great success stories of American history” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Madam C.J. Walker—the legendary African American entrepreneur and philanthropist—by her great-great-granddaughter, A’Lelia Bundles.**The daug... ... Read more

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  • Blood at the Root

    A Racial Cleansing in America

    by Patrick Phillips ...
    "[A] vital investigation of Forsyth’s history, and of the process by which racial injustice is perpetuated in America." —U.S. Congressman John LewisForsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. But then in September of 1912, three young ... Read more

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  • Women Who Kill

    by Ann Jones ...
    This landmark study offers a rogues' gallery of women—from the Colonial Era to the 20th century—who answered abuse and oppression with murder: "A classic" ( Gloria Steinem).Women rarely resort to murder. But when they do, they are likely to kill their intimates: husbands, lovers, or children. In Women Who Kill, journalist Ann Jones explores these homicidal patters and what they reflect about women ... Read more

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  • The Murder of Helen Jewett

    by Patricia Cline Cohen ...
    In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to reconstruct the story of the mysterious victim, Helen Jewett.From her beginnings as a servant girl in Maine, Helen Jewett refashioned herself, using four ... Read more

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  • Joe Gould's Teeth

    by Jill Lepore ...
    From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called “The Oral History of Our Time.”Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian of the twentieth century. So did some of his friends, a group of modernist writers and artists that included E ... Read more

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  • Mourning Lincoln

    by Martha Hodes ...
    A historian examines how everyday people reacted to the president's assassination in this "highly original, lucidly written book" (James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom).The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded a war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of ... Read more

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  • The House of Harper

    The Making of a Modern Publisher

    by Eugene Exman ...
    An updated edition of this definitive history of Harper—a fascinating look into the history of American letters from the unique perspective of one of the country's most distinguished and enduring publishers—now with a new introduction that brings the book up to the present day. From Moby Dick to Huckleberry Finn—but not Alice in Wonderland, which was rejected— The House of Harper is a sweeping ... Read more

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  • Thieves of Book Row: New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It

    New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It

    by Travis McDade ...
    No one had ever tried a caper like this before. The goods were kept in a secure room under constant scrutiny, deep inside a crowded building with guards at the exits. The team picked for the job included two old hands known only as Paul and Swede, but all depended on a fresh face, a kid from Pinetown, North Carolina. In the Depression, some fellows were willing to try anything--even a heist in the ... Read more

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