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History and Current Events September 2026 |
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| The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything by Kathryn Jezer-MortonThe Cut columnist Kathryn Jezer-Morton (Wake Up: Essays on Redefining Our Relationship with Time and Technology) utilizes intimate interviews with everyday social media users to explore how social media complicates identity and impacts how people represent (or mis-represent) themselves to others. Try this next: All the Feels: How to Stay Human in the Digital World by Pamela Pavliscak. |
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**Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture
by Emma Dabiri
What it is: an engaging sociopolitical history of Black hairstyles around the globe.
Why it matters: Combining memoir, history, and pop culture analysis, this incisive own voices debut from Irish Nigerian BBC correspondent Emma Dabiri investigates the myriad ways in which Black hairstyles are colonized, fetishized, criminalized, and appropriated.
Reviewers say: "sure to become the definitive book on the politics, culture, and economics of Black hair" (Kirkus Reviews).
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**Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett
by James Sullivan
What it's about: the USS Plunkett, the United States Navy destroyer that played a crucial role in the Allied war effort.
Why you might like it: This richly detailed history chronicles daily crew life as much as it does the ship's more dramatic wartime exploits.
Featuring: well-researched accounts of five crew members' experiences, including those of John Gallagher, the author's great-uncle.
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| Liberation Summer: The Moment That Changed the Women's Movement and the Future of... by Micki McElyaIn her evocative and well-researched latest, historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist Micki McElya details how the 1968 Miss America pageant, which was protested by civil rights and women's liberation activists (including the newly established Miss Black America organization), became a pivotal moment in American politics. Further reading: Looking for Miss America: A Pageant's 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood by Margot Mifflin. |
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**The Brothers York: A Royal Tragedy
by Thomas Penn
What it's about: As the Wars of the Roses raged on in 15th-century Europe, three men at the center of the conflict -- House of York brothers Edward, George, and Richard -- saw their fragile unity upended by shifting alliances, greed, and paranoia.
Read it for: a dramatic and vivid narrative that reads like fiction, full of court intrigue, conspiracy plots, battles, and betrayals.
For fans of: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare's Richard III.
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