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History and Current Events March 2023 |
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| The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets by Matthew James ConnellyWhat it's about: how state secrecy in the United States bolsters the military industrial complex, leads to disinformation campaigns, and prevents oversight and accountability.
Did you know? Classifying government documents costs American taxpayers an estimated $18 billion annually.
Food for thought: "What do we, the people, need to know to do our job as citizens to keep our government accountable?" |
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The storm is here : an American crucible
by Luke Mogelson
An award-winning war correspondent, after years of living abroad, returns to the U.S., presenting an eyewitness account of how during a season of sickness, economic uncertainty and violence Americans started to breakdown, in this unique record of a pivotal moment in history and an urgent warning about those to come.
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| Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System by Jeff HobbsWhat it is: a sobering look at how the juvenile detention system in the United States fuels the school-to-prison pipeline.
What's inside: empathetic profiles of child detainees and educators navigating juvenile detention facilities and diversion programs, each with varying degrees of success.
Is it for you? This latest from prizewinning journalist Jeff Hobbs (The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace) explores complex issues at the intersection of race, class, justice, and reform. |
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Indivisible : Daniel Webster and the birth of American nationalism
by Joel Richard Paul
A historian and law professor examines how Daniel Webster rose to national prominence by planting the seeds of American nationalism and arguing that the Constitution was an agreement made by the states but an expression of the will of all Americans.
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| A Woman's Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from... by Felicia KornbluhWhat it's about: how two women in 1960s New York led grassroots campaigns advocating for reproductive justice, sparking conversations that continue to resonate.
Featuring: lawyer Beatrice Kornbluh (the author's mother), who helped draft a state law decriminalizing abortion; physician and activist Helen Rodríguez Trías (the author's neighbor), who fought to criminalize involuntary sterilization performed primarily on women of color. |
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| Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon WooWhat it's about: In 1848 Georgia, young enslaved couple Ellen and William Craft made a daring 1,000-mile escape to freedom, with Ellen passing as a white man and William playing the role of her servant.
What happened next: Though their plan was initially successful, the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 put the pair in danger again, and they fled to Canada.
Reviewers say: "This novelistic history soars" (Publishers Weekly). |
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