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History and Current Events March 2025 |
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| The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Chris HayesMSNBC host and New York Times bestselling author Chris Hayes' thought-provoking latest examines the sociopolitical impacts of attention capitalism, which commodifies our attention spans to "command fortunes, win elections, and topple regimes." For fans of: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell. |
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| Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World by Dorian LynskeyJournalist Dorian Lynskey's sweeping and darkly humorous history explores the evolution of apocalyptic thought from antiquity to the present and "offers a new lens through which to view our current moment" (Booklist). Further reading: A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times by Athena Aktipis. |
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| Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest... by Bennett PartenHistorian Bennett Parten's illuminating debut offers fresh insights on General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea during the American Civil War, particularly noting the ways the military campaign impacted more than 20,000 formerly enslaved people who joined it. Try this next: Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War by Edda L. Fields-Black. |
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| Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani PerryNational Book Award winner Imani Perry (South to America) explores the connections between the color blue and Black history in her lyrical and well-researched latest. Try this next: Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History by Kristina R. Gaddy. |
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Focus on: Women's History Month
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| Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II by Lena AndrewsCIA military analyst Lena Andrews' illuminating history celebrates the crucial yet overlooked contributions of 400,000 American women who served in World War II, featuring interviews with surviving servicewomen. Try this next: The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II by Judith Mackrell. |
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| Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History by Philippa GregoryBestselling novelist Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl) turns to history with this sweeping and well-researched chronicle of everyday British women's lives from 1066 to 1994. For fans of: Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez. |
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| Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West by Katie HickmanHistorian Katie Hickman draws on letters, diaries, and memoirs to explore the roles of influential women in the 19th-century American West. Further reading: New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists by Winifred Gallagher. |
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| Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi, editorInspired by the 2022 fatal beating of Iranian student Mahsa Amini for wearing her headscarf improperly, this impassioned anthology of stories, cartoons, and essays, created in solidarity with the Iranian feminist movement, was edited by award-winning Persepolis author Marjane Satrapi. Further reading: Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art from the Women's Protests in Iran, edited by Malu Halasa. |
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