The Life and Adventures of Venture

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A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of

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Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes

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The Sum of Our Dreams: A Concise History of America

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

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American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World

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From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad

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The Colored Cadet at West Point

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Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama

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Light and Legacies: Stories of Black Girlhood and Liberation

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Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass

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Sing and Shout: The Mighty Voice of Paul Robeson

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The March Against Fear: The Last Great Walk of the Civil Rights Movement and the Emergence of Black Power

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Helping Others (Unabridged)

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Sunset in the Tropics

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Revolted Woman

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Sweeper In The Sky: The Life of Maria Mitchell

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Summary of Ned Blackhawk's The Rediscovery of America

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Henry Louis Gates: Many Rivers to Cross

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28 Days: Moments in Black History That Changed the World

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I Wish I Could: Younger & Older Women Trailblazers in Black American History

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A Day With Great Poets

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The History of Asian Immigrants in the United States during the 20th Century

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Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

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The Legend of Buddy Bush

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Leading Ladies

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The Pool

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Getting Down to Mother Earth (Unabridged)

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Unchain My Heart: A Novel Based on a True Story

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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

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Morning, Noon and Night

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel

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Fairy Tale

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And Then There Were None

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Local Woman Missing

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Nothing to See Here

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From Blood and Ash

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Divine Rivals: A Novel

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The House in the Cerulean Sea

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The Bell Jar

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Leave the World Behind: A Novel

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Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes

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Hang the Moon: A Novel

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Twisted Love

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Series of Unfortunate Events #1 Multi-Voice, A: The Bad Beginning

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The Overstory

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The Paris Apartment: A Novel

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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The Dutch House: A Novel

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Good Girls Don't

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A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive

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How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

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Later

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The Ivy League Counterfeiter

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The Year of Magical Thinking

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

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If He Had Been with Me

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The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

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The Dead Zone

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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001

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Episode 58: Kiese Laymon: On studentship, using your art to heal, and becoming heavy enough to hold it all. Kiese Laymon is the author of three books, most recently the NY Times bestselling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir. He is a Professor of English born and raised in...

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Rewriting our story: Jamil Smith in conversation with author Kiese Laymon on revision, restoration, and repair

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Lacy M. Johnson : The Other Side: “[Lacy M. Johnson’s] powerfully moving and brilliantly structured memoir, The Other Side, asks, ‘How is it possible to reclaim the body after devastating violence?’ Her intense desire and demand for a life lived in the body is triumphant.

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Crazy Brave: A Memoir

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‘1619,’ Episode 4: How the Bad Blood Started

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Allen Tate: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of the poet Allen Tate, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 1947, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

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Diverse Experience of the Enslaved w/ Deirdre Cooper Owens: Most students leave school thinking enslaved people lived like characters in Gone with the Wind. Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens reveals the remarkable diversity of lived experiences within slavery and explains the gap between what scholars and students...

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Anita Hill on Believing Women

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The Short Stacks 8: Lacy M. Johnson//The Reckonings: The Reckonings made The Stacks favorite books of 2018, and today we're talking with the author of that essay collection, Lacy M. Johnson. The Reckonings is a meditation on justice and mercy in relationship to some of the most...

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Anna Quindlen, NANAVILLE: Adventures in Grandparenting

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Inseparable Separations: Slavery and Indian Removal: Indian Removal was a brutal and complicated effort that textbooks often simplify. It is also inseparably related to slavery. Enslavers seeking profit drove demand for Indigenous lands, displacing hundreds of thousands of Indigenous people. Some of...

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Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh, "The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South" (UNC Press, 2021): An interview with Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh

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Ravitch on Education: Diane Ravitch talks to host Russ Roberts about the ideas in her new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System. Ravitch argues that accountability and choice have had unintended consequences that have done great harm to the current generation of students. She argues that reforms like No Child Left Behind have corrupted the testing process, taken time away from subjects other than math and reading, and failed to boost success in math and reading. She argues that the empirical record has provided little evidence that school choice as it has been implemented has boosted achievement. The discussion closes with a discussion of what reforms might make a difference.

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Best of HTS: "Taking Up Space" (with Amber J. Phillips, Brittany Gibson)

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Episode 216: Frederick Douglass Opie on Zora Neale Hurston: Zora Neale Hurston is one of the most notable authors of the Harlem Renaissance. Her extensive ethnographic research on African American foodways throughout the state of Florida remains a critical historic resource to this day. Her work provides insight i

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Ep. 55 The Art of Performance with Gabrielle Civil: Today we have performance artist, author, poet, and professor Gabrielle Civil on the podcast to discuss the creative process, books that bite, overachieving Black girls, and books in translation. We spend time discussing Performance Memoir...

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Toni Morrison's Legacy

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‘1619,’ Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2

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Myriam J. A. Chancy : What Storm, What Thunder: Haitian-Canadian-American writer Myriam Chancy is an acclaimed novelist but she is also a literary scholar who studies, among other things, storytelling. As a scholar instrumental in inaugurating Haitian women’s studies as a contemporary field of speci...

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The Barrel That Could Save A Forest

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Beyond Blood Quantum

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Episode 127: Writing the Elegy - Challenges and Approaches - Suzan Aizenberg

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Where Are All the "Bad" Black Moms?: This week, Brittany lets Eric (and the world!) know that she's finally mom-curious... but there's a catch. She doesn't just want to be any mom, she wants to be a "bad" mom. More specifically, a "Bad Black Mom."

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Reckoning with America’s History of Slavery: History is taught with textbooks and lectures, but it’s also passed down in more informal ways, within families from generation to generation. Different groups of people can become attached to varying stories of the same past, and some narratives are erased or distorted. Writer and scholar Clint Smith takes a close look at the mechanisms and consequences of those distortions in his new book, “How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America.” He visited historical sites around the U.S., such as Thomas Jefferson’s plantation, Monticello, and a Confederate cemetery, and talked with docents and descendents about how they explain and make sense of what happened in those places. Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic, and a poet and education scholar. As part of the Winter Words series from Aspen Words, he is interviewed by James Merle Thomas, a curator and art history professor, and the director of the Resnick Cent

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Patricia Park's new YA novel captures the complexities of race and adolescence

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Safia Elhillo — Ode to My Homegirls: Friendships deserve praise songs and here’s a praise song — an ode — to friends that have crossed continents for each other, and would go further if needed.

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Louise Erdrich on THE SENTENCE: “I'd always wanted to write a ghost story. And I always wanted to write about what it was like to be haunted, because I feel that so many of us are.” Louise Erdrich’s new novel, The Sentence—her first after The Night Watchman, winner...

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Hisham Matar and Louise Steinman | The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

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Anthony Hecht: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of the poet Anthony Hecht, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded at Harvard University.

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Simone White, "Or, on Being the Other Woman" (Duke UP, 2022): An interview with Simone White