History: African American (History)

History: United States – 20th Century Social Science: Anthropology – Cultural & Social

The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice

by Scott Ellsworth

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3 author interviewsFrom the archive

Biography & Autobiography: Personal Memoirs History: United States – 19th Century

The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family

by Bettye Kearse

Smithsonian Magazine – 10 Best History Books of the Year

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2 author interviewsFrom the archive

Biography & Autobiography: Cultural. Ethnic & Regional – General Social Science: Ethnic Studies – African American Studies

Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance

by Mia Bay

Bancroft Prize

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2 author interviews1 links confirmed active

Social Science: Slavery Social Science: Violence in Society

Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence

by Kellie Carter Jackson

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2 author interviews1 links confirmed active

Biography & Autobiography: Cultural. Ethnic. & Regional – African American & Black Biography & Autobiography: Women (Biography)

Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

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10 author interviews3 links confirmed active

Literary Collections: Essays (Literary Collections)Literary Criticism: American – African American

A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars

by Erin Sharkey

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2 author interviewsFrom the archive

Biography & Autobiography: Cultural. Ethnic. & Regional – African American & Black Social Science: Black Studies (Global)

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha Blain

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10 author interviews2 links confirmed active

Social Science: Discrimination & Race Relations Social Science: Ethnic Studies – African American Studies

The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto

by Charles M. Blow

Amazon – Best Nonfiction Books of the Year

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12 author interviews12 links confirmed active

The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation

by Diana Ramey Berry

Social Science: Slavery

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8 author interviews1 links confirmed active

History: United States – Civil War Period (1850 – 1877)Political Science: American Government – Executive Branch

The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

by Robert S Levine

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4 author interviews1 links confirmed active

History: United States – 19th Century

Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery

by Calvin Schermerhorn

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4 author interviews2 links confirmed active

Biography & Autobiography: Cultural. Ethnic. & Regional – African American & Black Biography & Autobiography: Women (Biography)

The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail

by Kristen Gr

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3 author interviewsFrom the archive

History: United States – 19th Century History: United States – 20th Century

Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class

by Blair LM Kelley

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5 author interviewsFrom the archive

Biography & Autobiography: Historical History: United States – Civil War Period (1850 – 1877)

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

by Ilyon Woo

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13 author interviewsFrom the archive

Education: Higher History: United States – 19th Century

The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church

by Rachel L. Swarns

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4 author interviewsFrom the archive

History: United States – 20th Century Self – Help: Substance Abuse & Addictions – General

When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era

by Donovan X. Ramsey

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10 author interviews5 links confirmed active

History: Africa – West History: United States – Colonial Period (1600 – 1775)

African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals

by David Hackett Fischer

Barnes & Noble – Best History Books of the Year

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2 author interviewsFrom the archive

Biography & Autobiography: Cultural. Ethnic. & Regional – African American & Black Biography & Autobiography: LGBTQ+

Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy

by Damien Lewis

Goodread’s Choice Awards – History & Biography

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8 author interviewsFrom the archive

History: Historiography History: Social History

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

by Michael Harriot

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10 author interviewsFrom the archive

History: United States – 20th Century Law: Discrimination

By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners

by Margaret A. Burnham

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7 author interviewsFrom the archive

Biography & Autobiography: Lawyers & Judges Biography & Autobiography: Women (Biography)

Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

by Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Smithsonian Magazine – 10 Best History Books of the Year

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4 author interviews2 links confirmed active

History: United States – State & Local – South (AL. AR. FL. GA. KY. LA. MS. NC. SC. TN. VA. WV)Political Science: Political Ideologies – Democracy

Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

by Jefferson Cowie

Pulitzer Prize

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6 author interviews2 links confirmed active

History: Military – World War II Social Science: Ethnic Studies – African American Studies

Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

by Matthew Delmont

BookTube Prize

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12 author interviewsFrom the archive

History: United States – Civil War Period (1850 – 1877)History: United States – State & Local – South (AL. AR. FL. GA. KY. LA. MS. NC. SC. TN. VA. WV)

I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction

by Kidada Williams

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12 author interviews6 links confirmed active

History: Africa – West History: United States – State & Local – South (AL. AR. FL. GA. KY. LA. MS. NC. SC. TN. VA. WV)

The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning

by Ben Raines

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2 author interviewsFrom the archive

History: Military – Strategy History: United States – 20th Century

Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

by Thomas Ricks

Barnes & Noble – Best History Books of the Year

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8 author interviewsFrom the archive

History: Asia – Southeast Asia History: United States – General

Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century

by Yunxiang Gao

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4 author interviews2 links confirmed active

Art: American – African American (Art)Art: Folk & Outsider Art

Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South

by Winfred Rembert

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4 author interviewsFrom the archive

Biography & Autobiography: Cultural. Ethnic. & Regional – African American & Black Biography & Autobiography: Literary Figures

Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik

by Winston James

Hurston / Wright Foundation Legacy Award Nonfiction

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8 author interviews1 links confirmed active

History: United States – 20th Century Music: History & Criticism – General

May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem

by Imani Perry

Hurston / Wright Foundation Legacy Award Nonfiction

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2 author interviews2 links confirmed active

History: United States – 19th Century Political Science: Civil Rights

Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

by Kate Masur

Pulitzer Prize

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5 author interviewsFrom the archive

History: United States – Civil War Period (1850 – 1877)Social Science: Slavery

Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps

by Amy Murrell Taylor

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4 author interviewsFrom the archive

History: United States – State & Local – South (AL. AR. FL. GA. KY. LA. MS. NC. SC. TN. VA. WV)Social Science: Anthropology – Cultural & Social

North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885

by Warren Eugene Milteer Jr

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2 author interviews1 links confirmed active

History: United States – 19th Century Social Science: Slavery

Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home

by Richard Bell

George Washington Prize

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10 author interviewsFrom the archive

History: United States – Revolutionary Period (1775 – 1800)Social Science: Women’s Studies

Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World

by Jessica Marie Johnson

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6 author interviewsFrom the archive

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy

by Carol Anderson

Political Science

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10 author interviews5 links confirmed active

Biography & Autobiography: Women (Biography)History: Women (History)

She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman

by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

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5 author interviewsFrom the archive

History: United States – Civil War Period (1850 – 1877)Social Science: Anthropology – Cultural & Social

Standard-Bearers of Equality: America’s First Abolition Movement

by Paul Polgar

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6 author interviewsFrom the archive

History: United States – 20th Century Social Science: Penology

Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State

by Garrett Felber

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2 author interviews2 links confirmed active

Sports & Recreation: Baseball – General Sports & Recreation: Basketball

Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing

by Wil Haygood

Hurston / Wright Foundation Legacy Award Nonfiction

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2 author interviewsFrom the archive

History: United States – 19th Century

Recaptured Africans: Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, and Dislocation in the Final Years of the Slave Trade

by Sharla Fett

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2 author interviews1 links confirmed active

History: United States – Civil War Period (1850 – 1877)Social Science: Slavery

The Captive’s Quest for Freedom: Fugitive Slaves, the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and the Politics of Slavery

by R.J.M. Blackett

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2 author interviewsFrom the archive

Biography & Autobiography: Cultural. Ethnic & Regional – General Social Science: Black Studies (Global)

Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora

by Kevin Dawson

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6 author interviews2 links confirmed active

Political Science: Human Rights Social Science: Slavery

The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition

by Manisha Sinha

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11 author interviews5 links confirmed active

Biography & Autobiography: Cultural. Ethnic & Regional – General History: United States – Civil War Period (1850 – 1877)

Women in the World of Frederick Douglass

by Leigh Fought

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2 author interviewsFrom the archive