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What the Children Told Us

The Untold Story of the Famous "Doll Test" and the Black Psychologists Who Changed the World

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Does racial discrimination harm Black children's sense of self?The Doll Test illuminated its devastating toll.Dr. Kenneth Clark visited rundown and under-resourced segregated schools across America, presenting Black children with two dolls: a white one with hair painted yellow and a brown one with hair painted black. "Give me the doll you like to play with," he said. "Give me the doll that is a ... Read more

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Does racial discrimination harm Black children's sense of self?The Doll Test illuminated its devastating toll.Dr. Kenneth Clark visited rundown and under-resourced segregated schools across America, presenting Black children with two dolls: a white one with hair painted yellow and a brown one with hair painted black. "Give me the doll you like to play with," he said. "Give me the doll that is a
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The Untold Story of the Famous “Doll Test” and the Black Psychologists Who Changed the World

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Does racial discrimination harm Black children's sense of self? The Doll Test illuminated its devastating toll.Dr. Kenneth Clark visited rundown and under-resourced segregated schools across America, presenting Black children with two dolls: a white one with hair painted yellow and a brown one with hair painted black. The psychological experiment Kenneth developed with his wife, Mamie, designed to ... Read more

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Does racial discrimination harm Black children's sense of self? The Doll Test illuminated its devastating toll.Dr. Kenneth Clark visited rundown and under-resourced segregated schools across America, presenting Black children with two dolls: a white one with hair painted yellow and a brown one with hair painted black. The psychological experiment Kenneth developed with his wife, Mamie, designed to
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The Blood of Emmett Till

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This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till—“and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren’t often enough asked to do with history: learn from it” (The Atlantic).* A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * Longlisted for the National Book Award * Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy ... Read more

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This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till—“and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren’t often enough asked to do with history: learn from it” (The Atlantic).* A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * Longlisted for the National Book Award * Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy
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At the Dark End of the Street

Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power

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Here is the courageous, groundbreaking story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against Black women by white men."An important step to finally facing the terrible legacies of race and gender in this country.” —The Washington PostRosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent ... Read more

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Here is the courageous, groundbreaking story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against Black women by white men."An important step to finally facing the terrible legacies of race and gender in this country.” —The Washington PostRosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent
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Reagan's America

Innocents at Home

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New York Times Bestseller: A "remarkable and evenhanded study of Ronald Reagan" from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg ( The New York Times).Updated with a new preface by the author, this captivating biography of America's fortieth president recounts Ronald Reagan's life—from his poverty-stricken Illinois childhood to his acting career to his California governorship to ... Read more

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New York Times Bestseller: A "remarkable and evenhanded study of Ronald Reagan" from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg ( The New York Times).Updated with a new preface by the author, this captivating biography of America's fortieth president recounts Ronald Reagan's life—from his poverty-stricken Illinois childhood to his acting career to his California governorship to
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Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A revelation . . . a book in the Caro mold, using Lady Bird, along with tapes and transcripts of her entire White House diary, to tell the history of America during the Johnson years.”—The New York TimesThe inspiration for the documentary film The Lady Bird Diaries, premiering November 13 on HuluPerhaps the most underestimated First Lady of the twentieth century, Lady ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A revelation . . . a book in the Caro mold, using Lady Bird, along with tapes and transcripts of her entire White House diary, to tell the history of America during the Johnson years.”—The New York TimesThe inspiration for the documentary film The Lady Bird Diaries, premiering November 13 on HuluPerhaps the most underestimated First Lady of the twentieth century, Lady
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Letters to Jackie

Condolences from a Grieving Nation

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"A terrific, original, and important work….Fitzpatrick provides a stunningly fresh look at the impact of JFK's assassination on the American people."—Doris Kearns GoodwinFor Letters to Jackie, noted historian and News Hour with Jim Lehrer commentator Ellen Fitzpatrick combed through literally thousands of condolence messages sent by ordinary Americans to Jacqueline Kennedy following the ... Read more

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"A terrific, original, and important work….Fitzpatrick provides a stunningly fresh look at the impact of JFK's assassination on the American people."—Doris Kearns GoodwinFor Letters to Jackie, noted historian and News Hour with Jim Lehrer commentator Ellen Fitzpatrick combed through literally thousands of condolence messages sent by ordinary Americans to Jacqueline Kennedy following the
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Darkology

Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER"This book, I suspect, will detonate over certain corners in America.... Darkology is a major and thrilling work of American history." —Dwight Garner, New York Times Book Review, cover storyAs Heard on NPR's Fresh Air: "Quite enlightening." —Terry Gross"Tremendous.... Barnes has corralled the chaos, contradiction, and surprise of American social reality; evaded mythology; and ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER"This book, I suspect, will detonate over certain corners in America.... Darkology is a major and thrilling work of American history." —Dwight Garner, New York Times Book Review, cover storyAs Heard on NPR's Fresh Air: "Quite enlightening." —Terry Gross"Tremendous.... Barnes has corralled the chaos, contradiction, and surprise of American social reality; evaded mythology; and
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Picturing Black History

Photographs and Stories that Changed the World

by Daniela Edmeier, Damarius Johnson, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Steven Conn ...

** Nominated for a NAACP Image Award **A groundbreaking collection of photographs and essays that shed new light on the history of Black America, from the Picturing Black History project.**“Stunning . . . Provides fresh perspective on historical photographs and snapshots of Black life.” —**NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW“An astonishing work." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Picturing Black Hi... ... Read more

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** Nominated for a NAACP Image Award **A groundbreaking collection of photographs and essays that shed new light on the history of Black America, from the Picturing Black History project.**“Stunning . . . Provides fresh perspective on historical photographs and snapshots of Black life.” —**NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW“An astonishing work." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Picturing Black Hi...
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New World Coming

The 1920s and the Making of Modern America

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Series series 20th Century United States History
A vibrant, fast-paced exploration of the pivotal and dynamic 1920s era, focusing on many of the colorful characters of the time and on three presidents: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover.The images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination: jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh's history-making flight over the Atlantic. But it ... Read more

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A vibrant, fast-paced exploration of the pivotal and dynamic 1920s era, focusing on many of the colorful characters of the time and on three presidents: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover.The images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination: jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh's history-making flight over the Atlantic. But it
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The Movement

How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973

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**This “**indispensable new book that belongs on the shelf of every American woman” (Sally Jenkins, author of The Right Call) is a comprehensive oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes—from the author of the “powerful and moving” (The New York Times) Witness to the Revolution.Through the captivating individual voices ... Read more

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**This “**indispensable new book that belongs on the shelf of every American woman” (Sally Jenkins, author of The Right Call) is a comprehensive oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes—from the author of the “powerful and moving” (The New York Times) Witness to the Revolution.Through the captivating individual voices
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The Playbook

A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War

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**One of The Smithsonian's Ten Best History Books of the YearA brilliant and daring account of a culture war over the place of theater in American democracy in the 1930s, one that anticipates our current divide, by the acclaimed Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro**From 1935 to 1939, the Federal Theatre Project staged over a thousand productions in 29 states that were seen by thirty million (or ... Read more

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**One of The Smithsonian's Ten Best History Books of the YearA brilliant and daring account of a culture war over the place of theater in American democracy in the 1930s, one that anticipates our current divide, by the acclaimed Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro**From 1935 to 1939, the Federal Theatre Project staged over a thousand productions in 29 states that were seen by thirty million (or
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