Birmingham Foot Soldiers: Voices from the Civil Rights Movement

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Behind the Magic Curtain: Secrets, Spies, and Unsung White Allies of Birmingham's Civil Rights Days

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Civil Rights in Birmingham

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The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America

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Civil War Maryland: Stories from the Old Line State

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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, With a New Preface

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Among the Valiant: Mexican-Americans in WWII and Korea

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Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence

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Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

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Don't Know Much About the Civil War: Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned

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All the News Unfit to Print: How Things Were... and How They Were Reported

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Daybreak of Freedom: The Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Kings Mountain and Cowpens: Our Victory Was Complete

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Charlotte: Murder, Mystery and Mayhem

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History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens

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Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America

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North Mississippi Murder & Mayhem

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Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era

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Independent Press in D.C. and Virginia: An Underground History

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Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction

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Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying On a Montgomery Family's Civil Rights Legacy

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Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life

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True Crime in the Civil War: Cases of Murder, Treason, Counterfeiting, Massacre, Plunder & Abuse

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America on the Eve of the Civil War

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We Had a Dream: Eyewitnesses to the struggle for justice and equality

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Hidden History of Old Atlanta

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The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War

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The Atlanta Ripper: The Unsolved Case of the Gate City's Most Infamous Murders

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Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914

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Closed Ranks: The Whitehurst Case in Post-Civil Rights Montgomery

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The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere: Human Rights and U.S. Cold War Policy toward Argentina

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Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class

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U.S. History 101: Historic Events, Key People, Important Locations, and More!

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Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett

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Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner

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A People's History of the United States

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

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Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

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The Great Reset: And the War for the World

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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer: An Edgar Award Winner

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1776

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One Thought Scares Me...: We Teach Our Children What We Wish Them to Know; We Don't Teach Our Children What We Don't Wish Them to Know

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Land of Delusion: Deep inside the world of crackpots, conspiracy theorists, and radical ideas that are becoming dangerously mainstream

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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

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Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

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The Fifties

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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

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Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

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The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

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Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America

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The White Album: Essays

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The Underground Railroad

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Slavemasters In Your Neighborhood with Clint Smith: The debates over U.S. monuments that celebrate Confederate generals, soldiers, and politicians show just how pervasive slavery's legacy is - and how it continues to impact the way Black America moves and exists in the world today.

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[RERUN] EPISODE 51 A Life for a Whistle: Emmett Till and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement

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EPISODE 98: Machine Gun Blues

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109. The Lesser-Known Events that Birthed the Civil Rights Era, for Black History Month: Sandwiched between the better-known periods of history, we have a lesser-known set of events that served as the catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. There are four major happenings that define the 1900s - 1950s. In this episode, we'll uncover them...

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EPISODE 51 A Life for a Whistle: Emmett Till and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement

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Clint Smith with Brittany Packnett Cunningham: Reckoning with Slavery's History: Please join us for this critically important conversation on history, memory and how it connects with the present.

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Jonathan S. Holloway, "The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans" (Oxford UP, 2021): An interview with Jonathan S. Holloway

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Jonathan S. Holloway, "The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans" (Oxford UP, 2021): An interview with Jonathan S. Holloway

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335: Christy S. Coleman on the role museums play in shaping public understanding of history: Today on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with public historian and museum executive Christy S. Coleman. Her museum career started at seventeen portraying enslaved women at Colonial Williamsburg in their living history...

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Martha S. Jones, "Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America" (Cambridge UP, 2018): Jones weaves together the legal and constitutional dimensions of citizenship...

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The purpose of political violence

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Michael Bryant,” A World History of War Crimes: From Antiquity to the Present,” (Bloomsbury, 2016): Michael Bryant’s book is both less and more ambitious than its title. He’s writing less of a history of war crimes than he is a history of the idea and concept of war crimes. He’s most interested in what people have considered a breach of the norms of ...

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Historian Fergus Bordewich on His Book “Congress At War”

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The Boston Tea Party Explained

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Brief: A History of the Gay Right (w/Neil Young)

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Ian Rocksborough-Smith, “Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism From World War II Into the Cold War” (U Illinois Press, 2018): Activism comes in many forms, be it political, educational, or social. Less often though, do people perceive historical activism in such conversations. Dr. Ian Rocksborough-Smith’s new book: Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism From W...

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Rednecks

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Joanne B. Freeman: Live at Politics and Prose: Joanne B. Freeman discusses her book, "The Field of Blood", at Politics and Prose on 9/20/18.

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What Keeping American Democracy Alive Looks Like: In the wake of the “Stop the Steal” campaign, the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and the wave of voter suppression bills making their way through Republican legislatures across the country, the struggle for American democracy feels, for many, visceral and even existential. But for Martha S. Jones, a legal and cultural historian at Johns Hopkins University, the moment we find ourselves in is anything but an aberration. “I’m not someone who tells stories about a Whiggish arc in which we are always getting better, doing better, improving upon,” Jones says. “Much of American history is a story about contest, about conflict, about disagreement over fundamental ideas and fundamental precepts, fundamental principles, like citizenship and voting rights.” Jones has spent her career documenting the contestation over American democracy. Her 2018 book, “Birthright Citizens,” tells the story of how Black Americans in the 19th century fought to addre

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Sean Wilentz: On the Importance of Studying and Debating American History

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George Washington Williams

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James Kirchick!: Award-winning journalist and author James Kirchick joins Zerlina on the show to discuss his new book, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington, out now!

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Letter from a Birmingham Jail: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Richard Rabinowitz, “Curating America: Journeys through Storyscapes of the American Past” (UNC Press, 2016): Richard Rabinowitz is one of the leading public historians in the United States. He has helped conceptualize, design, organize, and build over 500 history programs across the U.S. at such sites as the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York; the Bi...

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Richard Rabinowitz, “Curating America: Journeys through Storyscapes of the American Past” (UNC Press, 2016): Richard Rabinowitz is one of the leading public historians in the United States. He has helped conceptualize, design, organize, and build over 500 history programs across the U.S. at such sites as the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York; the Bi...

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Ep 189: PragerU, the 'Product Of His Time' Defense and the White Guilt Amelioration Industrial Complex: "Hitler was a product of his time," historian Kent Gardner told us in 1975, just thirty years after the end of World War II. "Was Frank Rizzo racist, or just a product of his time?" The Philadelphia Inquirer pondered in 2017 about the city's...

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Black Lives Matter: Today, instead of our usual 45-minute episode, we’re asking you to use that time to listen, read, or watch content that elevates black voices, black stories, and black businesses.

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Ethel Morgan Smith, "Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement" (UP of Mississippi, 2023): An interview with Ethel Morgan Smith

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How NY Times Bestselling Nonfiction Author Andrew Maraniss Writes: Part Two: In Part Two of this file the award-winning, New York Times bestselling narrative nonfiction author, Andrew Maraniss, returned to chat about what it was like to grow up around so many famous journalists, why he chooses to weave social issues into...