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The Accidental Slaveowner

The Accidental Slaveowner

Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family

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Mark Auslander
Mark Auslander
2011

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490 books

Social History

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Paradox of Plenty
The Age of Edison
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Voices from Chernobyl
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

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791 books

History

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The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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341 books

Racism And Colonialism

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Lessons from Turtle Island
Raising White Kids
Uprooting Racism
White fragility : why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism
So You Want to Talk about Race
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Columbus & Beyond: Views from Native Americans

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257 books

History United States

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The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster
A Queer History of the United States for Young People
The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty

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146 books

American Studies

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Fat Shame
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America
The Second Founding
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy

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43 books

Slavery

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Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
The Captive
Sold
Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts
Beloved
Chains
Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery

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32 books

Historiography

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In Search of Stonewall: The Riots at 50 The Gay & Lesbian Review at 25 Best Essays, 1994-2018
Lies across America
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
The Witches: Salem, 1692

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14 books

History United States The South

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Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South
Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South
How the Word Is Passed
Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South
No Common Ground
Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia