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Jill Lepore

These Truths: A History of the United States

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

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Further Reading & Resources

Further Reading: Literature

Black Thunder: Gabriel’s Revolt: Virginia, 1800 by Arna Bontemps (1936)

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1922)

 

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1943)

Complete Poetry and Prose by Walt Whitman, ed. Justin Kaplan (1982)

Further Reading: Beyond Literature (Nonfiction)

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight (2018)

Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America by Jonathan Darman (2015)

At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America by Philip Dray (2002)

The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois (1903)

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan (2006)

Reconstruction, America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (1988)

The Enlightenment (Volume II): The Science of Freedom by Peter Gay (1969)

From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World by Eugene Genovese (1979)

Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene Genovese (1976)