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History and Current Events April 2024
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The Holocaust: An Unfinished History
by Dan Stone
Historian and University of London professor Dan Stone explores the origins and ongoing aftermath of the Holocaust in this sweeping study that offers "an urgent new perspective on a much-studied calamity" (Publishers Weekly). Further reading: Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder; Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends by Linda Kinstler.
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Radical reparations : healing the soul of a nation
by Marcus Anthony Hunter
In this thought-provoking and sure-to-be controversial book, a social justice pioneer and inventor of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter offers a unifying and unconventional framework for achieving holistic and comprehensive healing of African American communities by reimagining reparations through a profound new lens.
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The Case for Open Borders
by John Washington
Brilliant and provocative, The Case for Open Borders deflates the mythology of national security through border lockdowns by revisiting their historical origins; it counters the conspiracies of immigration's economic consequences; it urgently considers the challenges of climate change beyond the boundaries of narrow national identities. This book grounds its argument in the experiences and thinking of those on the frontlines of the crisis, spanning the world to do so.
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What the Taliban told me
by Ian Fritz
A memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in Afghanistan in a war that is lost.
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Madness : race and insanity in a Jim Crow asylum
by Antonia Hylton
Tracing the legacy of slavery to the treatment of Black people's bodies and minds in our current healthcare system, a Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregated asylums.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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