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1) A black women's history of the United States

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Earliest Publication Date

2020

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"A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are--and have always been--instrumental in shaping our country. In centering Black women's stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American women and to show their allies that Black women's unique ability to make their own communities while combatting centuries of oppression is an essential component...

2) A disability history of the United States

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Nielsen, Kim E

Earliest Publication Date

2012

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The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present Disability is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, A Disability History of the United States is the first book to place the experiences of people with disabilities at the center of the American narrative. In many...

3) An African American and Latinx history of the United States

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Ortiz, Paul, 1964

Earliest Publication Date

2018

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Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress, as exalted by widely taught formulations such as "manifest destiny" and "Jacksonian democracy," and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous...

4) An Afro-Indigenous history of the United States

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Mays, Kyle T., 1987

Earliest Publication Date

2021

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"Mays explores the relationship and differences between the Black American quest for freedom and the Native American struggle for sovereignty in the U.S"-- Provided by publisher.

5) An indigenous peoples' history of the United States

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Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938

Earliest Publication Date

2014

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"Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told...

6) A protest history of the United States

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Browne-Marshall, Gloria J

Earliest Publication Date

2025

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"Exploring 400 years of protest and resistance in US history-and what the unsung heroes of social movements past can teach us about navigating our chaotic world"-- Provided by publisher. In this timely new book in Beacon's successful ReVisioning History series, professor Gloria Browne-Marshall delves into the history of protest movements and rebellion in the United States. Beginning with Indigenous peoples' resistance to European colonization and...

7) A queer history of the United States

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Bronski, Michael

Earliest Publication Date

2011

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"A Queer History of the United States is groundbreaking and accessible. It looks at how American culture has shaped the LGBT, or queer, experience, while simultaneously arguing that LGBT people not only shaped but were pivotal in creating our country. Using numerous primary documents and literature, as well as social histories, Bronski's book takes the reader through the centuries--from Columbus' arrival and the brutal treatment the Native peoples...

8) Asian American histories of the United States

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Choy, Catherine Ceniza, 1969

Earliest Publication Date

2022

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"Asian American Histories of the United States illuminates how an over-century-long history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the United States is fundamental to understanding the American experience and its existential crises of the early twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.