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Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial InjusticeHow the historic resistance to racial desegregation in schools led to the over-punishment of students today Every year, millions of public school students are suspended. This overused punishment removes students from the classroom, but it does not improve their behavior. Instead, suspension disrupts their...
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Glass CenturyIt's 1973 and Mona Glass is a 24-year-old amateur tennis star in a long-running affair with Saul Plotz, her former college professor. Her parents like Saul and desperately want the free-spirited Mona to marry. But 34-year-old Saul already has a wife and two children....
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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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The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave TradeThe story of the long fight for freedom of African captives rescued from the illegal slave trade only to be forced back into bondageA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2025 The Bonds of Freedom tells the forgotten story of people seized from...
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Road to Nowhere: How a Highway Map Wrecked BaltimoreTraces the birth, plunder, and scavenging of Rosemont, a Black middle-class neighborhood in Baltimore. In the mid-1950s Baltimore's Rosemont neighborhood was alive and vibrant with smart rowhouses, a sprawling park, corner grocery stores, and doctor's offices. By 1957, a proposed expressway threatened to gut...
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The French Revolution: A Political HistoryA major new political history of the French Revolution In 1786, France's ancien régime was functioning as usual. Its alliance with the victorious American colonies had restored its diplomatic prestige, the economy seemed to be flourishing, and internal politics seemed quiet. But just a...
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The House of David: Salvation, Scandal, and Survival in a Modern American CommuneIn 1903, after seven years traveling the country as itinerant preachers, Benjamin and Mary Purnell moved to Benton Harbor, Michigan, where they founded a commune. Their settlement soon blossomed into a vibrant religious colony and booming business enterprise. They called it the House of...
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1968: The Year the World ShookIt has been called the year that changed everything, the postwar watershed in which the forces that shaped public and private life erupted, everywhere and all at once--New York, Paris, Prague, Mexico City. Beginning with the Tet Offensive in Vietnam in January and continuing...
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Photographing America's First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill TaubFeaturing more than 600 photos, Photographing America's First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub is the most complete photographic account of Project Mercury ever published. Previous Project Mercury books largely have relied on the relatively limited number of photos released by...
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Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of ExpansionFinalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in History Winner of Columbia University's 2024 Bancroft Prize in American History Winner of the 2024 Caughey Western History Prize Winner of the 2024 Spur Award Named a Best Civil War Book of 2023 by Civil War Monitor...
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Reading with Jane AustenJane Austen has more readers today than at any time in history. Many of Austen's legions of fans, however, came to her novels after first seeing films or other adaptations made for twenty-first-century audiences. Austen herself conversely spent her literary career undermining romantic clichés...
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The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold WarDespite twenty-first-century fears of nuclear conflagrations with North Korea, Russia, and Iran, the Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest the United States has come to nuclear war. That history has largely been a bilateral narrative of the US-USSR struggle for postwar domination, with Cuba...
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Damned Whiteness: How White Christian Allies Failed the Black Freedom MovementThe memory of the long civil rights movement often celebrates white men and women who drew on their religious faith to support Black demands for racial justice. However, the visions and actions of these leaders and their organizations often conflicted with those of Black...
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement, Second Edition: A Radical Democratic VisionOne of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned fifty years and touched thousands of lives. A gifted grassroots organizer,...
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Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian ManifestoIn his new preface to this paperback edition, the author observes, "The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of this book that some things contained in it seem new again." Indeed, it seems that each generation of whites and Indians...
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For My LegionariesFor My Legionaries is the passionate autobiography of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, a Romanian patriot from the early 20th Century who founded the Legion of Michael the Archangel, also known as The Iron Guard. This unprecedented movement saw itself as a crusade in the modern...
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The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold WarThe Plutonium Files is the shocking exposé of the US government's medical experiments on unwitting citizens during the Cold War. Americans recoiled when they learned of the brutal experiments conducted by Nazi doctors. But as the world was learning about those horrors, US scientists...
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Reel Freedom: Black Film Culture in Early Twentieth-Century New York CityReel Freedom intimately captures the relationship between Black film culture and space in New York City. Alyssa Lopez argues that Black film culture, from its origins in the early twentieth century to its firm establishment in the 1930s, was necessarily both entertainment and resistance,...
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The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New WorldA groundbreaking history of political struggle in the Spanish New World, where commoners and elites alike challenged the social order through the remarkable power of paperwork. As Spanish conquistadors swept through the New World, the Crown envisioned that a rigidly hierarchical aristocratic order would...
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What God Kept for Himself: Atheism, Sodomy, and Radical Dissent in Renaissance ItalyA revelatory account of sexual nonconformity and radical religious dissent in Renaissance Italy, drawing on never-before-studied Inquisition trials. Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, a series of highly controversial Inquisition trials took place throughout the Italian peninsula. The defendants were all accused of the...
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