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Virginia State Penitentiary

A Notorious History

de Evans Hopkins, Dale M. Brumfield ...

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" Grim and gruesome tales from the nearly 200-year history of the commonwealth's most infamous prison." — Style WeeklyThomas Jefferson developed the idea for the Virginia State Penitentiary and set the standard for the future of the American prison system. Designed by U.S. Capitol and White House architect Benjamin Latrobe, the "Pen" opened its doors in 1800. Vice President Aaron Burr was ... Leer más

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" Grim and gruesome tales from the nearly 200-year history of the commonwealth's most infamous prison." — Style WeeklyThomas Jefferson developed the idea for the Virginia State Penitentiary and set the standard for the future of the American prison system. Designed by U.S. Capitol and White House architect Benjamin Latrobe, the "Pen" opened its doors in 1800. Vice President Aaron Burr was
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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

de 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 ... Leer más

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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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Old Sparky

The Electric Chair and the History of the Death Penalty

de Anthony Galvin ...

A shocking exploration of America’s preferred method of capital punishment.In early 2013, Robert Gleason became the latest victim of the electric chair, a peculiarly American execution method. Shouting Póg mo thóin (Kiss my ass” in Gaelic), he grinned as electricity shot through his system. When the current was switched off, his body slumped against the leather restraints, and Gleeson, who had ... Leer más

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A shocking exploration of America’s preferred method of capital punishment.In early 2013, Robert Gleason became the latest victim of the electric chair, a peculiarly American execution method. Shouting Póg mo thóin (Kiss my ass” in Gaelic), he grinned as electricity shot through his system. When the current was switched off, his body slumped against the leather restraints, and Gleeson, who had
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The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist

A True Story of Injustice in the American South

de 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, ... Leer más

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“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,
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Worse Than Slavery

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This sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity explores an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the Civil Rights Era—and beyond.Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippi’s infamous Parchman State Penitentiary was synonymous with cruelty. Now, noted historian David Oshinsky gives us the ... Leer más

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This sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity explores an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the Civil Rights Era—and beyond.Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippi’s infamous Parchman State Penitentiary was synonymous with cruelty. Now, noted historian David Oshinsky gives us the
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On the Laps of Gods

The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation

de Robert Whitaker ...

They shot them down like rabbits . . .September 30, 1919. The United States teetered on the edge of a racial civil war. During the previous three months, racial fighting had erupted in twenty-five cities. And deep in the Arkansas Delta, black sharecroppers were meeting in a humble wooden church, forming a union and making plans to sue their white landowners, who for years had cheated them out of ... Leer más

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They shot them down like rabbits . . .September 30, 1919. The United States teetered on the edge of a racial civil war. During the previous three months, racial fighting had erupted in twenty-five cities. And deep in the Arkansas Delta, black sharecroppers were meeting in a humble wooden church, forming a union and making plans to sue their white landowners, who for years had cheated them out of
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Damnation Island

Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York

de Stacy Horn ...

"[This] history of Blackwell's Island is a shocking tale, and an invaluable account that will reward anyone with an interest in the history of New York."*"New York's Victorian-era reformers had an idea: to isolate the city's indigent, diseased, mentally ill, and delinquent on an island in the East River, where they could be cared for with competence and compassion. Unfortunately, it didn't turn ... Leer más

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"[This] history of Blackwell's Island is a shocking tale, and an invaluable account that will reward anyone with an interest in the history of New York."*"New York's Victorian-era reformers had an idea: to isolate the city's indigent, diseased, mentally ill, and delinquent on an island in the East River, where they could be cared for with competence and compassion. Unfortunately, it didn't turn
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Midnight Rising

John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War

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Named a New York Times Notable BookNamed A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction BookBestselling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war.Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a ... Leer más

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Named a New York Times Notable BookNamed A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction BookBestselling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war.Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a
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Blood at the Root

A Racial Cleansing in America

de 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 ... Leer más

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"[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
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Lincoln's Lie

A True Civil War Caper Through Fake News, Wall Street, and the White House

de Elizabeth Mitchell ...

This “delicious, suspenseful . . . and cleverly written romp through a dramatic and forgotten moment in American history” reveals how Lincoln manipulated the media during the Civil War—shining new light on the current ‘fake news’ crisis (Elizabeth Gilbert)In 1864, during the bloodiest days of the Civil War, two newspapers published a call, allegedly authored by President Lincoln, for the immediate ... Leer más

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This “delicious, suspenseful . . . and cleverly written romp through a dramatic and forgotten moment in American history” reveals how Lincoln manipulated the media during the Civil War—shining new light on the current ‘fake news’ crisis (Elizabeth Gilbert)In 1864, during the bloodiest days of the Civil War, two newspapers published a call, allegedly authored by President Lincoln, for the immediate
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Five Points

The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood

de Tyler Anbinder ...

The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points, the most infamous neighborhood in nineteenth-century America, the place where "slumming" was ... Leer más

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The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points, the most infamous neighborhood in nineteenth-century America, the place where "slumming" was
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown

The Lynching of Black America

de Philip Dray ...

WINNER OF THE SOUTHERN BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • “A landmark work of unflinching scholarship.”—The New York TimesThis extraordinary account of lynching in America, by acclaimed civil rights historian Philip Dray, shines a clear, bright light on American history’s darkest stain—illuminating its causes, perpetrators, apologists, and victims. Philip Dray also tells the story of the ... Leer más

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WINNER OF THE SOUTHERN BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • “A landmark work of unflinching scholarship.”—The New York TimesThis extraordinary account of lynching in America, by acclaimed civil rights historian Philip Dray, shines a clear, bright light on American history’s darkest stain—illuminating its causes, perpetrators, apologists, and victims. Philip Dray also tells the story of the
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