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History and Current Events May 2024
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Jim Crow : Voices from a Century of Struggle; 1876 - 1919; Reconstruction to the Red Summer
by Tyina L. Steptoe
Powerful firsthand writings, from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the“Red Summer” of 1919, reveal the many ways Americans, Black and white, fought against white supremacist efforts to police the color line, envisioning a better nation in the face of disenfranchisement, segregation and widespread lynching, mob violence and police brutality.
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The cave : a secret underground hospital and one woman's story of survival in Syria
by Amani Ballour
This searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Damascus, humanizing the enduring crisis in Syria. There is no one in Syria with a story like Dr. Amani Ballour's. The only woman to have ever run a wartime hospital, she saved her peers from the atrocities of war while contending with the patriarchal conservatism around her.
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| Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De LeónAnthropologist and MacArthur Fellow Jason De León's bleak yet moving account demythologizes the work of human smugglers (also known as "coyotes" or "guías") who help bring migrants to America's southern border. Kirkus Reviews calls it "an exemplary ethnography of central importance to any discussion of immigration policy or reform." Further reading: Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Lives in Between by Jonathan Blitzer. |
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| The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an... by Daniel de ViséJournalist Daniel de Visé's engaging and nostalgic pop culture history offers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the iconic 1980 film The Blues Brothers and the friendship between its two stars, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. Try this next: Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever by Nick de Semlyen. |
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| Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuValAward-winning historian Kathleen DuVal's sweeping and scholarly history offers a corrective to Eurocentric narratives about Indigenous Americans by spotlighting one thousand years of Native autonomy, governance, and resistance. For fans of: National Book Award-winning The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk. |
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| The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.In his accessible and richly detailed latest, historian and bestselling author Henry Louis Gates, Jr. surveys five centuries of the Black literary canon, revealing the complexities and contradictions of Black self-definition in the written word. Try this next: Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin. |
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| Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power by Timothy W. RybackHistorian Timothy W. Ryback's richly detailed, you-are-there latest utilizes previously unseen archival materials to chronicle the six fateful months before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. For fans of: In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson. |
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