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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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| The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818-1915 by Joseph KellyHistorian Joseph Kelly's well-researched revisionist account explores the origins of American fascism in the Antebellum South, detailing how the 1818 Missouri Compromise helped advance the ideology. Further reading: The Secret War Against Hate: American Resistance to Antisemitism and White Supremacy by Steven J. Ross. |
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| But Have You Read the Book? Romance Edition: 40 Love Stories That Inspired Our... by Kristen LopezIn her lively and richly detailed follow-up to But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films, pop culture essayist Kristen Lopez spotlights 40 literary romances and their film adaptations. For fans of: Falling in Love at the Movies: Rom-Coms from the Screwball Era to Today by Esther Zuckerman. |
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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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| Tin Can Coast: A History of Industry, Greed, and Fishing in the Golden State by Joseph OgilvyIn his sweeping and eye-opening debut, chef and author Joseph Ogilvy explores the complexities of the California coast, detailing how the area's industries and ecosystems have been shaped by the exploitation of immigrant laborers. For fans of: The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California by Mark Arax. |
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| Triage by Claudia RankinePoet Claudia Rankine's thought-provoking, genre-defying latest blends cultural criticism with elements of fiction and memoir, exploring our current moment through the lens of a longtime friendship between the narrator (implied to be Rankine herself) and "the theorist." Try this next: Self-Portrait in Green by Marie Ndiaye. |
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