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Tiya Miles
A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a deeply layered and insightful testament to people who are…
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A National Book Award-winning, The New York Times best-selling historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became women who changed America
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Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The…
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From the National Book Award-winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really…
Tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. This title presents the story of Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, and Doll, an African slave he…
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In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis, the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag with a few precious…
A beautifully written and revelatory look at the slave origins of a major northern American city.
Three contemporary women discover historical truths about the Cherokee slaveholder who owned the Georgia plantation where their ancestors lived.
Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, and Doll, an African slave he acquired in the late 1790s. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived…
House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story
Explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of ghost tours , frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the US South. Examining popular sites and stories…
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER . NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft…
A book that opens the door on a completely hidden past, The Dawn of Detroit is a powerful and elegantly written history, one that completely changes our understanding of slavery’s…
Combines histories of the complex interactions between blacks and Natives in North America with examples and readings of art that has emerged from those exchanges.
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In recent years, Detroit has been touted as undergoing a renaissance, yet many people have been left behind. Drawing on action research and counter-cartography, A People’s Atlas of Detroit aims…
A distinctive feature of the Georgia coast is its deep and diverse human history. In this book, editors Paul Sutter and Paul Pressly have brought together work from historians and…
