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Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance
By Nikki M. Taylor
A scorching, stunning look at private revolts against bondage.
The Fifth Act
By Elliot Ackerman
A painful, essential read from perhaps the only author who could’ve written it.
Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade
By Jonathan W. White
An ambitious, bloated tale of 19th-century derring-do.
Formidable
By Elisabeth Griffith
A dense, comprehensive look at an ongoing struggle.
The Devils Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War
By James B. Conroy
A valuable, overly dense account of the pivotal Casablanca Conference.
The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season that Defined the American West
By Chris Wimmer
A fascinating rundown of the frontier’s famed good and bad guys (and girls).
O Say Can You Hear?
By Mark Clague
A captivating chronicle of America’s song.
A persuasive claim that Yankee feistiness was born across the pond.
