History and Current Events
April 2025
Recent Releases
Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
by Alexander Clapp

Journalist Alexander Clapp's disturbing and well-researched debut explores the history of the global trash trade. Further reading: Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future by Oliver Franklin-Wallis.
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of...
by Eve L. Ewing

In her scholarly and incisive history, sociologist Eve L. Ewing examines how the United States education system has perpetuated structural racism against Black and Indigenous children from the 18th century to the present. Try this next: Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children by Noliwe Rooks.
Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy
by Katherine Stewart

Journalist Katherine Stewart's (The Power Worshippers) thought-provoking latest is an eye-opening exploration of the often disparate factions that comprise the American far right and "offers urgently needed background on the 2024 election results" (Publishers Weekly). Try this next: The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta.
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