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History and Current Events March 2026 |
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| Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America by Howard BryantAffecting history details how trailblazing Black actor Paul Robeson and Major League Baseball player Jackie Robinson's differing political ideologies often put them at odds with each other, culminating in Robinson's 1949 appearance at the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), where he testified against Robeson. |
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The Feather Wars: And the Great Crusade to Save America's Birds
by James H. McCommons
A definitive history of bird conservation in America. From the time the country was founded, early Americans assumed that the land's natural resources were infinite, including its birds, which were zealously hunted for food, game, and fashion. From many corners of the country the bird protection movement was born and brought together a remarkable coalition of people and organizations to save America's birds. Together they transformed how Americans thought and cared about birds, forever altering the American landscape.
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| Football by Chuck KlostermanThe author ruminates on his lifelong love of football in this funny and wide-ranging cultural history that's a transcendent appraisal of America's favorite sport. |
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Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
by Ibram X. Kendi
The author charts how great replacement theory has become a dominant political idea of our time and ushered in an antidemocratic age. Popular and ruling politicians in every region of the world have expressed some version of great replacement theory, eroding democratic norms in the name of preventing demographic change. This unsettling but indispensable global history of how great replacement theory brought humanity into this authoritarian age--and how we can free ourselves from it.
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Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York's Explosive '80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the Nation
by Elliot Williams
On a dirty New York subway car on December 22, 1984, Bernhard Goetz shot Barry Allen, Darrell Cabey, Troy Canty, and James Ramseur, four teenagers from the Bronx, at point blank range. Goetz claimed they were going to mug him; the teens claim that one of them had simply asked for five dollars. Crime was at an all-time high. So was racial tension. Was Goetz, who was white, a hero who finally fought back? Or a bigot whose itchy trigger finger seriously wounded three unarmed black kids and condemned a fourth to irreversible brain damage? A shocking account of a pivotal moment in our history, the book demonstrates why, in order to understand today's debates about race, crime, safety, and the media, it's imperative to reflect on what went down in the subway four decades ago.
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The Beginning Comes After the End : Notes on a World of Change
by Rebecca Solnit
Offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century. The changes amount to nothing less than dismantling an old civilization and building a new one, whose newness is often the return of the old ways and wisdoms. In this rising worldview, interconnection is a core idea and value.
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