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The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn

This book not only focuses on Chinn, but it also presents a complex, contested view of the social and moral ecology of the antebellum South and the nation. Myers extends that story to discuss current racial issues.

The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall

Woolner’s beautiful prose and writing style makes this book a delight to read. Academics and general readers alike will be drawn to it.
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Teaching Public History

Highly recommended for academic libraries, particularly those with strong history departments. Faculty members will find much of interest here.
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Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America’s World War II Concentration Camps

For readers interested in human rights, concentration camps, or the legal history of this period, this is an important work. Readers must determine for themselves how much the imagined parts reflect the legal advisors’ true experiences.
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Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction

Essential reading for those interested in the past and future of U.S. immigration policy.

The Multiracial Promise: Harold Washington’s Chicago and the Democratic Struggle in Reagan’s America

A well written narrative that will engage many readers, especially scholars, activists, and fans of political histories.
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Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics

Strongly recommended for social science students and public collections where similar titles circulate well.
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C. Vann Woodward: America’s Historian

A rewarding read for scholars of Southern and 20th-century historical references in the United States.
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Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination

Like Bearden’s art, Gilmore’s biography pulses with energy and will resonate with readers of Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration.
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