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Jul 31, 2024 | hppr.org | Max McCoy |Ned Blackhawk |Kevin Young |Elaine Weiss

More of Seven Books Plus – A Reading List to Save Democracy – Part IIIby Kansas Reflector columnist Max McCoyhttps://kansasreflector.com/2024/07/07/seven-books-for-the-7th-of-july-a-reading-list-to-save-democracy/?emci=542b4462-e83b-ef11-86d2-6045bdd9e096&emdi=a4c99c4c-3f3c-ef11-86d2-6045bdd9e096&ceid=116925 (Edited and used with permission.)Democracy Awakening (2023) by Heather Cox RichardsonThe title comes from Walt Whitman, who wrote in 1871: “We have frequently printed the word Democracy.

Jul 10, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Pekka Hämäläinen |Ned Blackhawk |Nick Estes

The conquest​ of most of the North American continent by Anglophone settlers took roughly three hundred years, from the first stake at Jamestown to the last bullet at Wounded Knee. The Spanish had subdued a much vaster population of Indigenous peoples in Mexico and Peru in just under half a century and expected to repeat the formula, mobilising the Indigenous tributaries against the Indigenous core as they moved up from their outposts in Florida, only to find there was no power centre to replace.

Nov 16, 2023 | barnesandnoble.com | Miwa Messer |Justin Torres |Ned Blackhawk |Craig Santos Perez

“I wanted it to feel like stepping off the world…” Blackouts by Justin Torres (We the Animals) explores love, loss and the stories we leave behind with inventive and transformative form and prose. Justin joins us on our Poured Over podcast to talk about the source material for this novel, the importance of telling queer stories, navigating legacy, loneliness and identity and more. You can find Poured Over wherever you listen to podcasts, stream from our blog, or watch on our YouTube channel.

Nov 1, 2023 | shepherd.com | Ned Blackhawk |Ann Patchett |Barbara W. Tuchman |Gregg Easterbrook

Shepherd is reader supported. When you buy books, we may earn an affiliate commission. Myfavorite read in 2023…Igrew up near Seneca land in western New York and have always felt we’re onlytold half the story of European and then United States interactions with NativeAmericans. This book tells the missing half.

Sep 5, 2023 | nytimes.com | Ned Blackhawk

In "The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy," Robert P. Jones explores the harmful legacy of a 15th-century Christian doctrine used to justify expansion and colonization in the New World. THE HIDDEN ROOTS OF WHITE SUPREMACY: And the Path to a Shared American Future, by Robert P.