Picking gifts for friends and family can be tough, but if your friend or family member loves history these suggestions may be helpful.
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A well-orchestrated examination of Lincoln's changing views of slavery, bringing unforeseeable twists and a fresh sense of improbability to a familiar story.
Camilla Townsend (Rutgers Univ[https://www.amazon.) for com/gp/product/0190628995/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0190628995&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=f1214f50c842fff902106dbc94eb6348 Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive ] by Camilla Townsend (Oxford Univ. Press, 2016)Annals of Native America brings alive, in ways both exacting and exhilarating, the social and linguistic worlds inhabited by the authors of Nahuatl-language yearly accounts in colonial Mexico. By following their trajectory from their inception as documents in Roman script to their manifold transformations in a 'golden age' of native historical writing, Townsend provides a fresh and compelling perspective on the most vibrant set of historical narratives by indigenous scholars in the colonial Americas. ---Historian David Tazarez
Jeremy Hartnett (Wabash Coll[http://The%20Roman%20Street:%20Urban%20https://www.amazon.) for com/gp/product/1107105706/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1107105706&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=8d51cd9c416108c9b8c3b6cc21127676 The Roman Street: Urban Life and Society in Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome ] by Jeremy Hartnett(Cambridge Univ. Press, 2017)By combining textual evidence, comparative historical material, and contemporary urban theory with architectural and art historical analysis, this book charts the street's key role in the social and political lives of Romans and restores its rightful place as the primary venue for social performance in the ancient world.
Ann M[https://www. Little (Colorado State Univamazon.) for com/gp/product/0300234570/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300234570&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=3d1511896254f7aa4f36c298f20f6eef The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright ] by Ann M. Little (Yale Univ. Press, 2016)Esther Wheelwright’s journey—from Puritan girl, to Wabanaki captive, to mother superior of the largest Catholic convent in French Canada—is one of the most fascinating personal stories in the annals of what we call ‘colonial history.’ And now, as recounted by Ann Little, it offers something more. Deeply researched, and wonderfully contextualized, The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright opens a wide window on three major cultural venues, whose interplay defined and shaped a whole era. --Historian John Demos
[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/029930664X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=029930664X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=3cb419d4d8652c7090bd050513b730ff Understanding and Teaching American Slavery] edited by Bethany Jay (Salem State Univ.) and Cynthia Lynn Lyerly (Boston CollUniv.of Wisconsin Press, 2016), editors, for Understanding and Teaching American Slavery (Univpurports to do what any thinking person in this country might consider an impossible task: provide an academic scheme for explaining the insidious institution of slavery in this country and its continuing ramifications within American culture. The book's editors--Bethany Jay, associate professor of Wisconsin Presshistory at Salem State University, and Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, 2016)associate professor of history at Boston College--have done just that. --John Senger
Julia Guarneri (Univ[https://www.amazon. of Cambridge) for com/gp/product/022634133X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=022634133X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=decf6a13dd9648365bc164a93b2e8cf5 Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans ] by Julia Guarneri (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2017)As social history, Newsprint Metropolis offers a deeply sourced and engaging account of the complicated relationship between newspapers and cities, and the ways in which the two intersected. . .One of the strengths of Newsprint Metropolis is Guarneri's holistic approach with primary sources. She dives beyond front pages and intro newspaper folds, examining Sunday sections, comics, advice columns, theater sections, and business directories. And while large metropolitan dailies are covered, she does not forget the role weekly, African-American, and foreign language newspapers played in the lives of city dwellers. --''American Journalism''
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An exploration of the legendary life and provocative views of one of the most significant African-Americans in U.S. history, a work that separates fact from fiction and blends the heroic and tragic.
Manning Marable is the exemplary black scholar of radical democracy and black freedom in our time. His long-awaited magisterial book on Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marable (Viking)An exploration is the definitive treatment of the legendary life greatest black radical voice and provocative views of one figure of the most significant Africanmid-Americans in U.S. history, a work that separates fact from fiction and blends the heroic and tragictwentieth century.Glory Hallelujah! --Professor Cornel West
Tera W[https://www. Hunter (Princeton Univamazon.) for com/gp/product/0674045718/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674045718&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=cad0359787f1b1cdf5991df146049661 Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century ] by Tera W. Hunter (Belknap Press, 2017)Bound in Wedlock is the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century. Uncovering the experiences of African American spouses in plantation records, legal and court documents, and pension files, Tera W. Hunter reveals the myriad ways couples adopted, adapted, revised, and rejected white Christian ideas of marriage. Setting their own standards for conjugal relationships, enslaved husbands and wives were creative and, of necessity, practical in starting and supporting families under conditions of uncertainty and cruelty.
The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, by Jack E. Davis (Liveright/W.W. Norton)
