75 Collage of Books in the History / Social History Category — View a list.

Click for more detail about Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It by Adia Harvey Wingfield
Click for more detail about The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker by William Jelani Cobb and David Remnick
Click for more detail about Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies by Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Paul Gardullo
Click for more detail about America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton
Click for more detail about White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
Click for more detail about Who Stole the Soul? the Weaponization of Hip Hop: A Historical & Sociological Perspective by Bernard O. Creamer
Click for more detail about Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins
Click for more detail about Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Click for more detail about Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The Aclu’s 100-Year Fight for Rights in America by Ellis Cose
Click for more detail about The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask
Click for more detail about Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman
Click for more detail about Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain
Click for more detail about Virginia Slavery and King Salt in Booker T. Washington’s Boyhood Home by Larry Linwell Rowe
Click for more detail about Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre by Randy Krehbiel
Click for more detail about Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell
Click for more detail about Solving The Race Issue In America by H. J. Harris
Click for more detail about The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Click for more detail about American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World by Christina Proenza-Coles
Click for more detail about The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South by Osha Gray Davidson
Click for more detail about Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II by John Strausbaugh
Click for more detail about Hollywood Black by Donald Bogle
Click for more detail about Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul by Stuart Cosgrove
Click for more detail about The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham
Click for more detail about Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant
Click for more detail about Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance by Mark Whitaker
Click for more detail about The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
Click for more detail about Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era by Ashley D. Farmer
Click for more detail about Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies by Dick Gregory
Click for more detail about Rise of the Phoenix: Voices from Chicago’s Black Struggle 1960-1975 by Useni Eugene Perkins
Click for more detail about White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
Click for more detail about Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination by Herb Boyd
Click for more detail about Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box by Angela P. Dodson
Click for more detail about Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?: Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era by Shannon King
Click for more detail about The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights by Dick Lehr
Click for more detail about Leadership Under Fire: Advancing Progress, Communicating, Teaching and Setting Communities at Liberty by Roland C. Barksdale-Hall
Click for more detail about Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr.
Click for more detail about The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
Click for more detail about Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul by Stuart Cosgrove
Click for more detail about Harlem: The Crucible of Modern African American Culture by Lionel C. Bascom
Click for more detail about The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland by Damaris B. Hill
Click for more detail about Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation by Nicholas Guyatt
Click for more detail about I Am Because We Are: Readings in Africana Philosophy by Fred Lee Hord
Click for more detail about Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond by Langston Hughes
Click for more detail about Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy
Click for more detail about Stamped from the Beginning (Revised): The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Click for more detail about Firefight: The Century-Long Battle to Integrate New York’s Bravest by Ginger Adams Otis
Click for more detail about America The Black Point Of View by Tony Rose
Click for more detail about George Padmore and Decolonization from Below: Pan-Africanism, the Cold War, and the End of Empire by Leslie James
Click for more detail about 1919, The Year of Racial Violence by David F. Krugler
Click for more detail about Voices of a People’s History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition by Howard Zinn
Click for more detail about Stop Being Niggardly: And Nine Other Things Black People Need to Stop Doing by Karen Hunter
Click for more detail about SNCC: The New Abolitionists by Howard Zinn
Click for more detail about Blood: The Stuff Of Life (Cbc Massey Lecture) by Lawrence Hill
Click for more detail about Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009 by Howard Zinn
Click for more detail about American Lynching by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
Click for more detail about The Black Chicago Renaissance (New Black Studies Series) by Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey Jr.
Click for more detail about Help Me To Find My People: The African American Search For Family Lost In Slavery by Heather Andrea Williams
Click for more detail about The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972 by Ibram H. Rogers
Click for more detail about Black Gotham: A Family History Of African-Americans In Nineteenth Century New York City by Carla L. Peterson
Click for more detail about Fraternity: In 1968, a visionary priest recruited 20 black men to the College of the Holy Cross and changed their lives and the course of history. by Diane Brady
Click for more detail about In Defense of Taboos by Stanley Crouch
Click for more detail about The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration  by Isabel Wilkerson
Click for more detail about Women in Grenadian History, 1783-1983 by Nicole Laurine Phillip
Click for more detail about Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District by Hannibal B. Johnson
Click for more detail about On The Shoulders Of Giants: My Journey Through The Harlem Renaissance by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Click for more detail about Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy by James S. Hirsch
Click for more detail about The Cruel Years: American Voices at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century by William L. Katz
Click for more detail about Southern History Across the Color Line by Nell Irvin Painter
Click for more detail about The Quest for Cosmic Justice by Thomas Sowell
Click for more detail about Black Reconstruction In America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
Click for more detail about The Origin of Races and Color by Martin R. Delany
Click for more detail about The Souls of Black Folk: Includes “The Talented Tenth” and ”The Souls of White Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois
Click for more detail about Black Writers Redefine the Struggle: A Tribute to James Baldwin by James Baldwin
Click for more detail about From Columbus To Castro: The History Of The Caribbean 1492-1969 by Eric Williams
Click for more detail about Pioneers in Protest by Lerone Bennett