Book — Non-fiction. By Jesse Olsavsky. 2022. 294 pages.
Tells the story of how vigilance committees organized the Underground Railroad and revolutionized the abolitionist movement.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Mike Marqusee. 2017. 352 pages.
Tells the story of Muhammad Ali as not only a boxer but a remarkable political figure in a decade of tumultuous change.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Aaron G. Fountain Jr. 2025. 398 pages.
Highlights the crucial impact of high school activists in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Jelani Cobb. 2025. 496 pages.
Collection of dispatches, mostly published in The New Yorker.
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Book — Historical non-fiction. By Jeff Gottesfeld and Michelle Y. Green, and illustrated by Kim Holt. 2025. 36 pages.
The story of Samuel Wilbert Tucker, who organized a sit-in and subsequent court cases to challenge the exclusion of African Americans from public libraries.
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Book — Historical non-fiction. By Paul Buhle and Raymond Tyler. 2025. 96 pages.
Through vivid illustrations and compelling narratives, Partisans brings to life the struggles and triumphs of those who resisted fascism.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Sherrilyn A. Ifill. 2018. 240 pages.
Examines the lynchings of Black Americans between 1890 and 1960 and the racial trauma still resounds across the country.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Jarvis R. Givens. 2026. 208 pages.
At a time when Black history is under attack, this book offers an inspiring vision for how it can still be a source of power, truth, and possibility.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Jarvis R. Givens. 2025. 464 pages.
A new history of U.S. education through the nineteenth century that rigorously accounts for Black, Native, and white experiences.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Eric Foner. 2020. 304 pages.
Traces the arc of the three foundational Reconstruction amendments from their origins in antebellum activism to their virtual nullification by narrow Supreme Court decisions and Jim Crow state laws.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Madiba K. Dennie. 2024. 304 pages.
Shows readers that the Constitution belongs to them and how, by understanding its possibilities, they can use it to fight for their rights.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Aziz Rana. 2024. 824 pages.
An account of how people in the United States came to revere the Constitution and what this reverence has meant domestically and around the world.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove. 2019. 624 pages.
Tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Mariah Blake. 2025. 320 pages.
An investigation of the chemical industry’s decades-long campaign to hide the dangers of forever chemicals, told through the story of a small town on the frontlines of an epic public health crisis.
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Book — Non-fiction. 2025. By Bench Ansfield. 368 pages.
Examines the arson wave that hit the Bronx and other U.S. cities in the 1970s — and its legacy today.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Stacie Brensilver Berman and Robert Cohen. 2025. 250 pages.
Insights, concrete strategies, and lesson plans for teaching LGBTQ+ history in high schools.
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Book — Non-fiction. Edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith, Juliana Barr, Jean M. O’Brien, Nancy Shoemaker, and Scott Manning Stevens. 2015. 352 pages.
Written by leading scholars in the field of Native American history, these essays reflect the newest directions of the field and are organized to follow the chronological arc of the standard U.S. history survey.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Karen Hao. 2025. 496 pages.
By drawing on the viewpoints of Silicon Valley engineers, Kenyan data laborers, and Chilean water activists, Hao presents the fullest picture of AI and its impact we’ve seen to date, alongside a trenchant analysis of where things are headed.
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Book — Non-fiction. Edited by Nadine M. Kalin and Rebekah Modrak. 2024. 296 pages.
Gives readers a teacher’s-eye view of the radical right crusade to take down public education, coordinated by well-funded, well-connected far-right political interests.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Ashley D. Farmer. 2025. 496 pages.
A biography of Queen Mother Audley Moore — mother of modern Black Nationalism and trailblazer in the fight for reparations.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Emily L. Thuma. 2024. 256 pages.
A vital history of organizing within and beyond the walls of women’s prisons in the 1970s, illuminating a crucial chapter in today’s abolition feminist struggles.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Brian Jones. 2025. 208 pages.
A look at how the study of Black history challenges our understanding of race, nation, and the stories we tell about who we are.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Adapted by Paul Peart-Smith. 2024. 120 pages.
A profound retelling of U.S. history, turning the “nation of immigrants” narrative on its head.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Ilan Pappe. 2024. 146 pages.
The best concise story of the events that took us to Oct. 7, 2023, and the subsequent genocide in Gaza.
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Book — Non-fiction. Edited by Sarah Mirk. 2020. 208 pages.
A graphic novel anthology of illustrated narratives about the prison and the lives it changed forever.
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