History and Politics Recommendations

Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire By Caroline Elkins Cover Image
$37.50
ISBN: 9780307272423
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Published: Knopf - March 29th, 2022

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe


The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium By Barry Strauss Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781982116675
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Published: Simon & Schuster - March 22nd, 2022

A “splendid” (The Wall Street Journal) account of one of history’s most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, whose outcome determined the future of the Roman Empire.

Following Caesar’s assassination and Mark Antony’s defeat of the conspirators who killed Caesar, two powerful men remained i


The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future By Stephen Marche Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781982123215
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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - January 4th, 2022

The United States is coming to an end.


The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X By Les Payne, Tamara Payne Cover Image
$21.95
ISBN: 9781324091059
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Published: Liveright - October 19th, 2021

An epic, award-winning biography of Malcolm X that draws on hundreds of hours of personal interviews and rewrites much of the known narrative.


The Shortest History of China: From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower—A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History Series) By Linda Jaivin Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9781615198207
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Published: The Experiment - September 28th, 2021

Journey across epic China—through millennia of early innovation to modern dominance.


Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Heroic Struggle for America's Heartland By Peter Cozzens Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780525434887
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Published: Vintage - August 3rd, 2021

"An insightful, unflinching portrayal of the remarkable siblings who came closer to altering the course of American history than any other Indian leaders."⁠ —H.W. Brands, author of The Zealot and the Emancipator


The Undocumented Americans By Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780399592706
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Published: One World - April 6th, 2021

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation.


Why We're Polarized By Ezra Klein Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781476700366
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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - June 15th, 2021

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022

One of Bill Gates’s “5 books to read this summer,” this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed.


An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY #3) By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780807057834
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Published: Beacon Press - August 11th, 2015

New York Times Bestseller

Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck


Recipient of the American Book Award

The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples