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Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Kelly Lytle Hernández - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"Rebel historian" Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands.Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United... |
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Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy
Amy Gajda - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"This brilliant and thought-provoking book shows how America's well-known emphasis on freedom of the press has long been balanced by a deep legal tradition that protects an individual's right to privacy. Amy Gajda shows how battles over the right to privacy are nothing new,... |
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Child: A Memoir
Judy Goldman - University of South Carolina Press
Format: Paperback
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A 2022 Katie Couric Media Must-Read New Book * A personal meditation on love in the shadow of white privilege and racismChild is the story of Judy Goldman's relationship with Mattie Culp, the Black woman who worked for her family as a live-in maid and helped raise her -- the unconscionable... |
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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
Eric Jay Dolin - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters reclaims the daring freelance sailors who proved essential to the winning of the Revolutionary War.The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories... |
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Major League Rebels: Baseball Battles over Workers' Rights and American Empire
Robert Elias - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating history of the baseball reformers and revolutionaries who challenged their sport and society - and in turn helped change America.Athletes have often used their platform to respond to and protest injustices, from Muhammad Ali and Colin Kaepernick to Billie Jean King and Megan... |
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Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
Kris Manjapra - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which every aspect of life in the United States was and is shaped by the existence of slavery. Black Ghost of Empire focuses on emancipation and how this opportunity to make right further codified the racial caste system - instead of obliterating... |
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African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
David Hackett Fischer - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States.African Founders... |
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