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History and Current Events November 2023 |
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The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
by Loren Grush
Bloomberg News reporter Loren Grush's inspiring history spotlights the first six American women astronauts: Anna Fisher, Shannon Lucid, Judy Resnik, Sally Ride, Rhea Seddon, and Kathy Sullivan. Grush's accessible reportage blends biographical sketches with engrossing accounts of the women's triumphs and trials. Read-alike: The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel by Meredith Bagby.
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| Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael HarriotTheGrio columnist and former The Root writer Michael Harriot offers an irreverent and "essential" (Kirkus Reviews) retelling of American history that eschews Eurocentric narratives by placing Black lives and achievements front and center. Read-alike: Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies by Dick Gregory. |
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| Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation by Tiya MilesAward-winning historian Tiya Miles (All That She Carried) thoughtfully explores how 19th-century Black and Indigenous women were shaped by their relationship to the natural world, which freed them from the oppressive confines of domestic spaces. Read-alike: Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy. |
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| Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland by Scott ShanePulitzer Prize-winning journalist Scott Shane evocatively spotlights the pivotal yet little-known role freedman Thomas Smallwood and white abolitionist Charles Torrey played in helping hundreds of enslaved people escape to Canada in the 1840s; Smallwood himself gave the Underground Railroad its name. Read-alike: Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo. |
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For Fans Of: Killers of the Flower Moon
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| An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizHistorian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's sweeping account surveys centuries of American history from an Indigenous perspective, from early colonization efforts to the present day. Read-alike: Indigenous Continent: The Epic Conquest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen. |
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| Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole EustaceHistorian Nicole Eustace's Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award finalist examines the 1722 murder of Seneca man Sawantaeny by two white fur traders, an event that impacted the tenuous relationship between Native populations and colonists for years to come. Read-alike: Terror to the Wicked: America's First Trial by Jury That Ended a War and Helped Form a Nation by Tobey Pearl. |
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| Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for... by Jessica McDiarmidJournalist Jessica McDiarmid debuts with a heart-wrenching exposé of British Columbia's Highway 16, known as the "Highway of Tears" because of the disappearances or murders of Indigenous girls and women in the area. Read-alike: Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many by Mona Gable. |
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| Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane MurdochSierra Crane Murdoch's Pulitzer Prize finalist centers on the 2012 disappearance of a truck driver on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota and the Arikara freelance investigator who took up the cause to find him, seeking redemption for her own troubled past along the way. Read-alike: Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine by Joanna Jolly. |
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| The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David TreuerOjibwe novelist and historian David Treuer's vivid 125-year history of Native America details the ways that tribes have survived -- and thrived -- in the face of adversity. Read-alike: The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk. |
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