Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)
10 best books like Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone) (Sam Wineburg): An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873, The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women, Tomboy Bride: A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West, Together, Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place, Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight, New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship, The Space between Us: Social Geography and Politics, Lost Chicago, Beirut
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
| Author | Benjamin Madley |
| ISBN | 0300181361 |
The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule
Between 1846 and 1873, California’s Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter,...
The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women
| Author | Scott W. Stern |
| ISBN | 0807042757 |
The nearly forgotten story of the American Plan, one of the largest and longest-lasting mass quarantines in American history, told through the lens of one young woman's story.
In 1918, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, Nina McCall was told to report to the local health officer to be...
Tomboy Bride: A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West
| Author | Harriet Fish Backus |
| ISBN | 0871085127 |
A true pioneer of the West, Harriet Backus writes about her amusing and often challenging experiences with heart-felt emotion and vivid detail. New foreword by Pam Houston and afterword by author's grandson Rob Walton are featured.
It is a woman named Hattie's personal account of life in...
| Author | Susan Wittig Albert |
| ISBN | 0292719701 |
What does it mean to belong to a place, to be truly rooted and grounded in the place you call home? How do you commit to a marriage, to a full partnership with another person, and still maintain your own separate identity? These questions have been central to Susan Wittig Albert's life, and in this beautifully...
| Author | James Attlee |
| ISBN | 0241144329 |
One of our favourite travel books of the past decade was James Attlee's debut, Isolarion, a journey around the author's own Oxford neighbourhood, published to acclaim by the University of Chicago Press. In this follow-up, Nocturne, the author starts again outside his own front door, but this time...
Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of this country, in fact Early America already existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the subsequent European invasion remade much...
In Shapeshifters Aimee Meredith Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit homeless shelter contest stereotypes, critique their status as partial citizens, and negotiate poverty, racism, and gender violence to create and imagine lives for themselves. Based on eight years of fieldwork at the...
The Space Between Us brings the connection between geography, psychology, and politics to life. By going into the neighborhoods of real cities, Enos shows how our perceptions of racial, ethnic, and religious groups are intuitively shaped by where these groups live and interact daily. Through the...
| Author | David Garrard Lowe |
| ISBN | 0823028712 |
30th Anniversary
These dazzling, poignant pages recreate the magical built environment that thrilled generations of Chicago residents and visitors alike before falling victim to the wrecking ball of “progress.”
Here are the grand residences and hotels, opulent theaters,...
| Author | Samir Kassir |
| ISBN | 0520256689 |
Widely praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civilization for more than four thousand years. The last major work completed by Samir Kassir before his tragic death in 2005, Beirut is a tour de force that takes the reader...
| Author | Amy T. Schalet |
| ISBN | 0226736199 |
For American parents, teenage sex is something to be feared and forbidden: most would never consider allowing their children to have sex at home, and sex is a frequent source of family conflict. In the Netherlands, where teenage pregnancies are far less frequent than in the United States, parents aim...
We are not born readers, we learn to turn words into worlds. But why is fine writing lauded while excellent reading is ignored?
In The Art of Reading, philosopher Damon Young reveals the pleasures of this intimate pursuit through a rich sample of literature: from Virginia Woolf's diaries to...
| Author | Sterling Mace |
| ISBN | 1250005051 |
A POWERFULLY WROUGHT MEMOIR BY A MEMBER OF WWII’S FABLED 1ST MARINE DIVISION
Sterling Mace's unit was the legendary “K-3-5” (for Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division) and his story takes readers through some of the most intense action of the Pacific...
| Author | Robert Hunt Rhodes |
| ISBN | 0679738282 |
All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a 23-year-old lieutenant colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted...
The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life
| Author | Roy Rosenzweig |
| ISBN | 0231111495 |
Some people make photo albums, collect antiques, or visit historic battlefields. Others keep diaries, plan annual family gatherings, or stitch together patchwork quilts in a tradition learned from grandparents. Each of us has ways of communing with the past, and our reasons for doing so are as varied...
West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776
| Author | Claudio Saunt |
| ISBN | 0393351157 |
In this unique history of 1776, Claudio Saunt looks beyond the familiar story of the thirteen colonies to explore the many other revolutions roiling the turbulent American continent. In that fateful year, the Spanish landed in San Francisco, the Russians pushed into Alaska to hunt valuable sea otters,...
| Author | John Joe Schlichtman |
| ISBN | 1442650451 |
GENTRIFIER opens up a new conversation about gentrification, one that goes beyond the statistics and the clichés, and examines different sides of a controversial, deeply personal issue. In this lively yet rigorous book, John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, and Marc Lamont Hill take a close look at...
Abandoned in Hell: The Fight For Vietnam's Firebase Kate
| Author | William Albracht |
| ISBN | 0451468082 |
In October 1969, William Albracht, the youngest Green Beret captain in Vietnam, took command of a remote hilltop outpost called Fire Base Kate, held by only 27 American soldiers and 150 Montagnard militiamen. He found their defenses woefully unprepared. At dawn the next morning, three North Vietnamese...
Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression
| Author | Dale Maharidge |
| ISBN | 0520274512 |
In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life—through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis—the deepening crises of poverty...
Common People: The History of An English Family
| Author | Alison Light |
| ISBN | 1905490380 |
Family history is a massive phenomenon of our times but what are we after when we go in search of our ancestors? Beginning with her grandparents, Alison Light moves between the present and the past, in an extraordinary series of journeys over two centuries, across Britain and beyond.
Epic in...
Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing
| Author | Miranda Fricker |
| ISBN | 0198237901 |
In this exploration of new territory between ethics and epistemology, Miranda Fricker argues that there is a distinctively epistemic type of injustice, in which someone is wronged specifically in their capacity as a knower. Justice is one of the oldest and most central themes in philosophy, but in...
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools
| Author | Rachel Devlin |
| ISBN | 1541697332 |
A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education
The struggle to desegregate America's schools was a grassroots movement, and young women were its vanguard. In the late 1940s, parents began to file desegregation...
The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis
| Author | Martha C. Nussbaum |
| ISBN | 1501172492 |
From one of the world’s most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend our divided country.
For decades Martha C. Nussbaum has been an acclaimed scholar and humanist, earning dozens of honors for her...
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
| Author | Craig Steven Wilder |
| ISBN | 1596916818 |
A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery-setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's troubling past was far from unique. In Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven...
White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America
| Author | Margaret A. Hagerman |
| ISBN | 1479803685 |
Riveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about race American kids are living in a world of ongoing public debates about race, daily displays of racial injustice, and for some, an increased awareness surrounding diversity and inclusion. In this heated context, sociologist Margaret...
