History - United States - 20th Century
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Beyond the Fence Line: The Eyewitness Account of Ed Hoffman and the Murder of President John F. KennedyForty-five years ago, n November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Deaf witness Ed Hoffman saw the man who fired the fatal shot that killed the Presidentand it was not Lee Harvey Oswald. His eyewitness account destroys the governments version of a...
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Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970sAs the United States marks its semiquincentennial in 2026, renowned historian Marc Stein looks back at the politics of another landmark celebration during a time of striking similarities and surprising differences: the US bicentennial in 1976. In the aftermath of Vietnam and Watergate, the...
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Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and ExpandedBitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United...
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Black Coal and Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine WarsIn the early-20th century, strikes and union battles were common in industrial centers throughout the US. But nothing compared to the class warfare of the West Virginia Mine Wars. The origins of this protracted rebellion were in the dictatorial rule of the coal companies...
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working ClassThere have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic "white working class," a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including everyday Black workers. In...
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Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka HugginsThe first biography of Ericka Huggins, a queer Black woman who brought spiritual self-care practices to the Black Panther Party. In this groundbreaking biography, Mary Frances Phillips immerses readers in the life and legacy of Ericka Huggins, a revered Black Panther Party member, as...
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Black Power, White Heat: From Solidarity Politics to Radical ChicA rich history of cross-racial coalitions and alliances of the Sixties' freedom movement, acclaimed historian Alice Echols's Black Power, White Heat reshapes our understanding of the entire era. One of the most divisive issues in recent progressive politics has been what role, if any,...
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Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United StatesA radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has infused the US government's anti-communist repression. In the early twentieth century, two panics emerged in the United States. The Black Scare was rooted in white Americans' fear of Black Nationalism and dread at what...
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Black Soldiers, White Laws: The Tragedy of the 24th Infantry in 1917 HoustonThe first full and definitive narrative of one of the most shocking and largely unknown events of racial injustice in US history: the execution of nineteen Black soldiers in TexasOn the sweltering, rainy night of August 23, 1917, one of the most consequential events...
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Black Studies on 135th Street: The Founding and Future of the Schomburg CollectionA centennial celebration of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and its vital role in the development of Black Studies In 1926, the Afro-Puerto Rican bibliophile Arturo Schomburg's collection of four thousand books, pamphlets, papers, and prints arrived at the 135th Street...
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Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's EnemiesAccused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. History has judged him such a loathsome figure that even today, a...
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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of CommunismA bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today.Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. These terms are often bandied about, but seldom explored in the original and...
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Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York KnicksINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive history of the 1990s New York Knicks, illustrating how Pat Riley, Patrick Ewing, John Starks, Charles Oakley, and Anthony Mason resurrected the iconic franchise through oppressive physicality and unmatched grit. For nearly an entire generation, the New...
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its LegacyPULITZER PRIZE WINNER - The definitive history of the infamous 1971 Attica Prison uprising, the state's violent response, and the victim's decades-long quest for justice. - Thompson served as the Historical Consultant on the Academy Award-nominated documentary feature ATTICA "Gripping ... deals with racial...
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Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabamaas Black BeltWinner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the best book on local history from the Alabama Historical AssociationA remarkable story of the people of rural Lowndes County, a small Southern town, who in 1966 organized a radical experiment in democratic politics Early...
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Blowback: The Untold Story of the FBI and the Oklahoma City BombingAn investigative journalist reopens the unsolved mystery of John Doe 2, the Oklahoma City bombing suspect who evaded a global FBI manhunt. What if everything we know about one of America's darkest days is wrong? Tragedy unfolded on April 19, 1995, when a massive...
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Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve ThemselvesA history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable. "A tour de force ... Read it now." --Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Abolition Geography In America today, police enjoy unmatched power. On the streets,...
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Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of Us Labor's Global Anticommunist CrusadeHow the CIA used American unions to undermine workers at home and subvert democracy abroad Blue-Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIO's global anticommunist crusade--and its devastating consequences for workers around the world. Unions have the power not only to secure pay...
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Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in AmericaA powerful look at the changing cultural understanding of postpartum depression in America. New motherhood is often seen as a joyful moment in a woman's life; for some women, it is also their lowest moment. For much of the twentieth century, popular and medical...
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Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How a Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess MachineBy the authors of the national bestseller Wittgenstein's Poker, a riveting account of the legendary 1972 chess match between Boris Spassky, the world champion from the Soviet Union, and the American challenger Bobby Fischer In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring...
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