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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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| 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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Data Empire: The Power of Information to Organize, Control, and Dominate
by Roopika Risam
A powerful and thought-provoking deep history of data and power. From clay tablets to the algorithmic state, a groundbreaking new lens on human history arguing that information has always been the seed of power. Long before writing existed, at the dawn of civilization in Mesopotamia, rulers pressed marks into clay to keep track of land, people and grain. As ships and navigation expanded our horizons, a new age of European empires took control of more than 80 percent of the world's surface using censuses, maps and ledgers to decide who belonged, who owed, and who could be sacrificed. Today, we live in the third great era, when trading our information for access can feel harmless or inevitable. Data Empire reveals how data has always been the seed of power: a technology of control that has shaped civilizations and upheld empires.
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