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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  1/19/2021
  

  Early American Urban Protests — A Review Of Boston’s Massacre

  A review of Eric Hinderaker's new book "Boston's Massacre" highlights the shifting narrative of the events and their place in the national story, and the perpetually unanswered conflict between limits of authority and those of popular protest.

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• SOURCE: Keeping Democracy Alive
  1/19/2021
  

  One Nation, Indivisible: Really? Forever?

  Richard Kreitner, author of "Break It Up" joins Burt Cohen's podcast to discuss the history and future of calls to break up the United States.

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• SOURCE: Civil War Memory
  1/3/2021
  

  Do We Really Need Another Biography of Robert E. Lee?

  by Kevin M. Levin

  Recent discussion of the forthcoming biography of Robert E. Lee by Allen Guelzo shouldn't foreclose the possibility that the book will offer insight because many historians object to Guelzo's participation in Donald Trump's conference on teaching history. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/20/2020
  

  The Real Legacy of the Suffrage Movement

  by Deborah Cohen

  Historian Deborah Cohen reviews new books on the early womens movement by Rachel Holmes and Martha S. Jones. 

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• SOURCE: Forward
  12/20/2020
  

  Brandeis U. Press and a Historian Split over how to Talk about Jews and White Supremacy

  The racial justice protests of 2020 pushed up sales of Marc Dollinger's book on political relationships between Jewish and African American groups. But Brandeis University Press has balked at publishing a new introductory essay that suggests American Jews need to acknowledge and confront their privileges as white Americans.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/20/2020
  

  What Books Should Biden Read? We Asked 22 Writers

  Prominent public thinkers recommend books to President-Elect Joe Biden to inform his domestic and foreign policy positions. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  12/16/2020
  

  How Secession Became America’s Favorite Idle Threat

  With one notable exception, secession has been an idle threat in American political discourse. Richard Kreitner's book on secession movements anchors columnist Jack Shafer's analysis.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  12/15/2020
  

  Caste Does Not Explain Race

  by Charisse Burden-Stelly

  A reviewer takes Isabel Wilkerson's book "Caste" to task for failure to examine the connections between racism and economic exploitation. 

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• SOURCE: Yale University
  12/9/2020
  

  2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner

  Notre Dame professor Sophie White's "Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor and Longing in French Louisiana" is the winner of the 22nd annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best book on the history of slavery, resistance and abolition. 

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• SOURCE: American Heritage
  12/9/2020
  

  Stolen into Slavery (Excerpt)

  by Richard Bell

  An excerpt from Richard Bell's award-winning book "Stolen" which tells the story of five free Black boys sold into slavery. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12/6/2020
  

  2020 Book Concierge: Books For History Lovers

  Books on investigating crimes of racial terror during the civil rights era, the decline of hitchhiking in American culture, Afghan Islamic extremism, and the importance of Richard Wagner in the world of music are recommended by NPR's Book Concierge. 

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• SOURCE: Christian Science Monitor
  12/2/2020
  

  Before History Devolves into Mythology: 2020’s Best Books on World War II

  Books assessing the culpability of ordinary Germans for Nazi crimes, the allied firebombing of Dresden, the battle for Okinawa, and the mind of Adolf Hitler are among the Monitor's choices for the year's best books on World War II. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  12/1/2020
  

  Smithsonian's Ten Best History Books of 2020

  Books about racism, military medicine, George Washington, the Civil War in the west, and an academic con are among the top history books of 2020 according to the editors of Smithsonian Magazine. 

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• SOURCE: War on the Rocks
  12/1/2020
  

  2020 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List

  The staff of War on the Rocks offer suggestions for reading – on defense issues and otherwise. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/4/2020
  

  50 Years On, the Feminist Press Is Radical and Relevant

  A look back at the ongoing work of the Feminist Press and the legacy of founder Florence Howe, who saved the work of many women authors from obscurity and helped support the emerging study of literature by women. 

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• SOURCE: National History Center and Woodrow Wilson Center
  12/3/2020
  

  Washington History Seminar: Mira Siegelberg on "Statelessness: A Modern History" (Monday, Dec. 7)

  The Washington History Seminar and the Woodrow Wilson Center host Mira Siegelberg for a discussion of her book "Statelessness: A Modern History" on Monday, Dec. 7 at 4:00 PM.

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  11/30/2020
  

  Atlantic Slavery: An Eternal War (Review)

  by Julia Gaffield

  Historian of Haiti Julia Gaffield reviews two new books examining the Atlantic Slave Trade through the lenses of war against slave rebellion and disease. 

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• SOURCE: Contingent
  11/28/2020
  

  2020 Contingent Magazine Booklist

  Contingent Magazine recommends books written by non-tenure track faculty and historians and scholars in non-academic positions. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  11/30/2020
  

  Online Roundtable: Brandon R. Byrd’s ‘The Black Republic’

  The African American Intellectual History Society will present next week a series of responses to Dr. Brandon Byrd's 2019 book examining the relationship between Black American intellectuals and activists and the Republic of Haiti. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  11/17/2020
  

  Online Book Talk with Author Garrett Felber on The Nation of Islam and Mass Incercaration (11/20)

  Garrett Felber's book takes a new look at the Nation of Islam and reveals a multifaceted freedom struggle that focused as much on policing and prisons as on school desegregation and voting rights.