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For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation

10 best books like For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation (Vicki Oransky Wittenstein): Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History, Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies, Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous, Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London, Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football's Make-Or-Break Moment, Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature's Undead, Genius, Bugged: How Insects Changed History, Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded America, Why I March: Images from the Woman's March Around the World

Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History
AuthorJoel Christian Gill
ISBN1938486293
Strange Fruit, Volume I is a collection of stories from African American history that exemplifies success in the face of great adversity. This unique graphic anthology offers historical and cultural commentary on nine uncelebrated heroes whose stories are not often found in history books. Among...
Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies
AuthorMarc Aronson
ISBN0763650250
A fascinating and timely biography of J. Edgar Hoover from a Sibert Medalist.

"King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. . . . You better take it before your filthy, abnormal, fraudulent self is bared to the nation."
Dr. Martin Luther King received this demand in...
Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous
AuthorCatherine M. Andronik
ISBN0805077839
Meet the rebellious young poets who brought about a literary revolution

Rock stars may think they invented sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but the Romantic poets truly created the mold.


In the early 1800s, poetry could land a person in jail. Those who tried to change the world through...
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
AuthorAndrea Warren
ISBN0547395744
Provoked by the horrors he saw every day, Charles Dickens wrote novels that were originally intended as instruments for social change — to save his country’s children.
Charles Dickens is best known for his contributions to the world of literature, but during his young life, Dickens witnessed...
Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football's Make-Or-Break Moment
AuthorCarla Killough McClafferty
ISBN1467710679
When the 1905 football season ended, nineteen players were dead and countless others were critically injured. The public was outraged. The game had reached a make-or-break moment--fourth down and inches. Coaches, players, fans, and even the president of the United States had one last chance: change...
Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature's Undead
AuthorRebecca L. Johnson
ISBN0761386335
oh my god.

zombies are real, and they are mostly insects. i am not leaving my house, ever. although every summer, there are these tiny little beetles that come and live in my apartment, and i am always really nice to them and set them free out the window, and if they are zombies, i hope to all the higher...
Genius
AuthorSteven T. Seagle
ISBN1596432632
Ted Marx works hard at his career as a quantum physicist. But lately the demands of his job have begun to overwhelm him. Then Ted makes a startling discovery: his wife's father once knew Einstein and claims that Einstein entrusted to him a final, devastating secret—a secret even more profound...
Bugged: How Insects Changed History
AuthorSarah Albee
ISBN0802734227
There are about ten quintillion insects in the world-and some of them have affected human history in tremendous ways! For as long as humans have been on earth, we've co-existed with insects . . . for better or for worse. Once you begin to look at world history through fly-specked glasses, you begin to see...
Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded America
AuthorGail Jarrow
ISBN1620917386

A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens

In March 1900, San Francisco’s health department investigated a strange and horrible death in Chinatown. A man had died of bubonic plague, one of the world’s deadliest diseases. But how...
Why I March: Images from the Woman's March Around the World
AuthorEmma Jacobs
ISBN1419728857
On January 21, 2017, five million people in 82 countries and on all seven continents stood up with one voice. The Women's March began with one cause, women's rights, but quickly became a movement around the many issues that were hotly debated during the 2016 U.S. presidential race--immigration, health...
Ick! Yuck! Eew!: Our Gross American History
AuthorLois Miner Huey
Kids study US history, but do they know what life long ago was really like? The past was full of yuckiness. The sounds, smells, filth, bugs, rats, poor hygiene, lack of dental and medical care, and bad food are not portrayed at today's historic sites, in movies, or in most books about US history. Yet this...
A Volcano Beneath the Snow: John Brown's War Against Slavery
AuthorAlbert Marrin
ISBN0307981533
John Brown is a man of many legacies, from hero, freedom fighter, and martyr, to liar, fanatic, and "the father of American terrorism." Some have said that it was his seizure of the arsenal at Harper's Ferry that rendered the Civil War inevitable.

Deeply religious, Brown believed that God had...
Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II
AuthorMartin W. Sandler
ISBN0802722784
While Americans fought for freedom and democracy abroad, fear and suspicion towards Japanese Americans swept the country after Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Culling information from extensive, previously unpublished interviews and oral histories with Japanese American survivors of...
Call of the Klondike: A True Gold Rush Adventure
AuthorDavid Meissner
ISBN1590788230
I feel like I recommend this only under a specific set of circumstances, ie: you are a middle school teacher teaching a unit about the Gold Rush OR Call of the Wild and you want some primary sources.

I picked it up with an eye to booktalk it for fans of nonfiction survival stories, but I just don't...
War Brothers
AuthorSharon E. McKay
ISBN0670067849
Sharon McKay sets her new novel in Uganda, where Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has, since 1987, abducted up to 30,000 children from their villages and homes for use as soldiers and slaves. It is in these nightmarish times that the fates of 5 boys and a girl are entwined. Captured from...
Dogs on Duty: Soldiers' Best Friends on the Battlefield and Beyond
AuthorDorothy Hinshaw Patent
ISBN0802728464
When the news of the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound broke, the SEAL team member that stole the show was a highly trained canine companion. Throughout history, dogs have been key contributors to military units. Dorothy Hinshaw Patent follows man's best friend onto the battlefield, showing readers...
Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker's Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty
AuthorRussell Freedman
ISBN0823423743
In 1723 Ben Franklin arrived in Philadelphia as a poor and friendless seventeen-year-old who had run away from his family and an apprenticeship in Boston. Sixty-two years later he stepped ashore in nearly the same spot but was greeted by cannons, bells, and a cheering crowd, now a distinguished statesman,...
Outbreak! Plagues That Changed History
AuthorBryn Barnard
ISBN0375829865
“An engrossing introduction for young adult readers to the chillingly topical subject of man vs. microbe.” —The Wall Street Journal
 
Did the Black Death destroy medieval Europe? Did cholera pave the way for modern Manhattan? Did yellow fever help end the slave trade? Remarkably,...
Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps
AuthorGreg Palast
ISBN1609804783
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

A close presidential election in November could well come down to contested states or even districts--an election decided by vote theft? It could happen this year. Based on Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s investigative reporting for Rolling Stone...
Thrice Told Tales: Three Mice Full of Writing Advice
AuthorCatherine Lewis
ISBN1442460768
Three Blind Mice. Three Blind Mice. See how they run? No. See how they can make all sorts of useful literary elements colorful and easy to understand!

Can one nursery rhyme explain the secrets of the universe? Well, not exactly—but it can help you understand the difference between bildungsroman,...
Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman Who Challenged Big Business—and Won!
AuthorEmily Arnold McCully
ISBN0547290926
Born in 1857 and raised in oil country, Ida M. Tarbell was one of the first investigative journalists and probably the most influential in her time. Her series of articles on the Standard Oil Trust, a complicated business empire run by John D. Rockefeller, revealed to readers the underhanded, even...
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