HISTORY / Social History
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HISTORY / Social History
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HISTORY / Social History
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Incoming Resources
- The brand new catastrophe, a memoir, Mike Scalise
- My life on the road, Gloria Steinem
- America on fire, the untold history of police violence and Black rebellion since the 1960s, Elizabeth Hinton
- The trip to Echo Spring, on writers and drinking, Olivia Laing
- Caste, the origins of our discontents, Isabel Wilkerson
- White space, black hood, opportunity hoarding and segregation in the age of inequality, Sheryll Cashin
- Jet set, the people, the planes, the glamour, and the romance in aviation's glory years, William Stadiem
- The library book, Susan Orlean
- Christmas, a biography, Judith Flanders
- A torch kept lit, great lives of the twentieth century, William F. Buckley, Jr. ; edited by James Rosen
- Powers of two, finding the essence of innovation in creative pairs, Joshua Wolf Shenk
- Asking for a friend, three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed, Jessica Weisberg
- In these times, living in Britain through Napoleon's wars, 1793-1815, Jenny Uglow
- Imagining Black America, Michael Wayne
- The honest truth about dishonesty, how we lie to everyone---especially ourselves, Dan Ariely
- The problem of slavery in the age of emancipation, David Brion Davis
- Victorious century, the United Kingdom, 1800-1906, David Cannadine
- Fantasyland, how America went haywire : a 500-year history, Kurt Andersen
- Drunk, how we sipped, danced, and stumbled our way to civilization, Edward Slingerland
- Hippie food, how back-to-the-landers, longhairs, and revolutionaries changed the way we eat, Jonathan Kauffman
- South to freedom, runaway slaves to Mexico and the road to the Civil War, Alice L. Baumgartner
- "Frankly, we did win this election", the inside story of how Trump lost, Michael C. Bender
- Improv nation, how we made a great American art, Sam Wasson
- The gifted generation, when government was good, David Goldfield
- The woman they could not silence, one woman, her incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear, Kate Moore
- Lost in summerland, essays, Barrett Swanson
- Germany, memories of a nation, Neil MacGregor
- The library, a catalogue of wonders, Stuart Kells
- Praying to the west, how Muslims shaped the Americas, Omar Mouallem
- We believe the children, a moral panic in the 1980s, Richard Beck
- The myth of the Titanic, Richard Howells
- Bridge of words, Esperanto and the dream of a universal language, Esther Schor
- The big ones, how natural disasters have shaped us (and what we can do about them), Dr. Lucy Jones
- An idea whose time has come, two Presidents, two parties, and the battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Todd S. Purdum
- The square and the tower, networks and power, from the Freemasons to Facebook, Niall Ferguson
- A bold and dangerous family, the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism, Caroline Moorehead
- The confounding island, Jamaica and the postcolonial predicament, Orlando Patterson
- This is your mind on plants, Michael Pollan
- Happiness in America, a cultural history, Lawrence R. Samuel
- Make good the promises, reclaiming Reconstruction and its legacies, edited by Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Paul Gardullo ; foreword by Eric Foner ; preface by Spencer R. Crew ; contributions by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Mary Elliott, Candra Flanagan, Katherine Franke, Thavolia Glymph [and 3 others]
- The apparitionists, a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost, Peter Manseau
- The House of Government, a saga of the Russian Revolution, Yuri Slezkine
- A dreadful deceit, the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America, Jacqueline Jones
- Acid test, LSD, Ecstasy, and the power to heal, Tom Shroder
- The making of Asian America, a history, Erika Lee
- Good and mad, the revolutionary power of women's anger, Rebecca Traister
- Farewell to the horse, a cultural history, Ulrich Raulff ; translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp
- The unidentified, mythical monsters, alien encounters, and our obsession with the unexplained, Colin Dickey
- Texas blood, seven generations among the outlaws, ranchers, Indians, missionaries, soldiers, and smugglers of the borderlands, Roger D. Hodge
- The heavens might crack, the death and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., Jason Sokol
Outgoing Resources
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