A Promised Land, Four Hundred Souls, What Racism Costs Everyone, and More in US History | Academic Best Sellers

Best sellers in the field of United States history, September 2020 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

September 2020 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

Cover of Promised Land with black and white profile headshot of Barack Obama1. A Promised Land.
Obama, Barack
Crown
2020. ISBN 9781524763169. $45.00

2. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Editor: Ibram X. Kendi
One World Ballantine
2021. ISBN 9780593134047. $32.00

3. Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together.
McGhee, Heather C.
One World Ballantine
2021. ISBN 9780525509561. $28.00

4. Just Us: An American Conversation.
Rankine, Claudia
Graywolf
2020. ISBN 9781644450215. $30.00

5. Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism.
Gomez, Laura E.
New Press
2020. ISBN 9781595589170. $25.99

6. His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope.
Meacham, Jon
Random House
2020. ISBN 9781984855022. $30.00

7. Rage.
Woodward, Bob
Simon & Schuster
2020. ISBN 9781982131739. $30.00

8. Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America.
Currie, Elliott
Metropolitan Henry Holt
2020. ISBN 9781250769930. $27.99

9. Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity.
Ramos, Paola
Vintage
2020. ISBN 9781984899095. $16.95

10. Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit.
Winters, Mary-Frances
Berrett-Koehler
2020. ISBN 9781523091300. $15.95

11. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World.
Johnson, Jessica Marie
University of Pennsylvania Press
2020. ISBN 9780812252385. $34.95

12. Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance.
Bay, Mia
Belknap Harvard
2021. ISBN 9780674979963. $35.00

13. Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution.
Oakes, James
W.W Norton
2021. ISBN 9781324005858. $26.95

14. How the Streets Were Made: Housing Segregation and Black Life in America.
Bailey, Yelena
University of North Carolina Press
2020. ISBN 9781469660585. $95.00

15. Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World.
Kupchan, Charles
Oxford University Press
2020. ISBN 9780199393022. $29.95

16. Oak Flat: Fight for Sacred Land in the American West.
Redniss, Lauren
Random House
2020. ISBN 9780399589720. $30.00

17. Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights.
Holt, Thomas C.
Oxford University Press
2021. ISBN 9780197525791. $18.95

18. White Fright: The Sexual Panic at the Heart of America's Racist History.
Dailey, Jane Elizabeth
Basic Books
2020. ISBN 9781541646551. $30.00

19. Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism.
Darby, Seyward
Little, Brown
2020. ISBN 9780316487771. $28.00

20. His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life.
Alter, Jonathan
Simon & Schuster
2020. ISBN 9781501125485. $37.50

21. Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom.
Brands, H. W.
Doubleday
2020. ISBN 9780385544009. $30.00

22. Fear in Our Hearts: What Islamophobia Tells Us About America.
Elfenbein, Caleb Iyer
New York University Press
2021. ISBN 9781479804580. $28.00

23. America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present.
Ghazvinian, John H.
Alfred A Knopf
2021. ISBN 9780307271815. $37.50

24. Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots.
Jerkins, Morgan
HarperCollins
2020. ISBN 9780062873040. $27.99

25. Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War.
Thomas, William G.
Yale University Press
2020. ISBN 9780300234121. $35.00

26. Julian Bond's Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement.
Bond, Julian, 1940-2015 | Editor: Pamela Horowitz
Beacon
2021. ISBN 9780807033203. $29.95

27. Eleanor.
Michaelis, David
Simon & Schuster
2020. ISBN 9781439192016. $35.00

28. Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation.
Cozzens, Peter
Alfred A Knopf
2020. ISBN 9781524733254. $35.00

29. Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream.
Alba, Richard D.
Princeton University Press
2020. ISBN 9780691201634. $29.95

30. Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice.
Editor: Hanna Garth
University of Minnesota Press
2020. ISBN 9781517908133. $112.00

31. Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis 1945-1962.
Sherwin, Martin J.
Alfred A Knopf
2020. ISBN 9780307266880. $35.00

32. Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy.
Wertheim, Stephen
Harvard University Press
2020. ISBN 9780674248663. $29.95

33. Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation.
Tubbs, Anna Malaika
Flatiron Books
2021. ISBN 9781250756121. $28.99

34. Down Along with That Devil's Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy.
O'Neill, Connor Towne
Algonquin of Chapel Hill
2020. ISBN 9781616209100. $26.95

35. Man, Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III.
Baker, Peter
Doubleday
2020. ISBN 9780385540551. $35.00

36. Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship.
Willis, Deborah
New York University Press
2021. ISBN 9781479809004. $35.00

37. Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans.
Holloway, Jonathan Scott
Oxford University Press
2021. ISBN 9780190915193. $18.95

38. What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era.
Lozada, Carlos
Simon & Schuster
2020. ISBN 9781982145620. $28.00

39. Why Didn't We Riot? A Black Man in Trumpland.
Bailey, Issac J.
Other Press
2020. ISBN 9781635420289. $21.99

40. Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics.
Maraj, Louis Maurice
Utah State University Press
2020. ISBN 9781646421466. $25.95

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