Andrew Hartman
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"Chill Commie." Professor of History at Illinois State University. Intellectual historian. I write books about US history, Karl Marx, culture wars, history of education.
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![Freeman's Challenge
The Murder That Shook America's Original
Prison for Profit
Robin Bernstein
"The virtuosity with which [Bernstein] has made dry bones live again fuels a vital contribution to American history and the history of the prison, even as it poses unsettling questions about how and to what end we confront the past."
-LA Review of Books
Plantation Goods
A Material History of American Slavery
Seth Rockman
"Beautifully written, incredibly researched, and shows us a single, entwined economy north and south-through the lives and work of men and women in New England who produced goods like shoes and clothing and tools for people enslaved on southern plantations," -Scholarly Kitchen, Best Books of 2024
The Internal Colony
Race and the American Politics of Global
Decolonization
Sam Klug
"...Klug powerfully centers decolonization's significance for American politics and documents the persistence of Black internationalism."-Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking after Empire
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand
Despots
A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography
John Swanson Jacobs
"The rediscovery of a long-forgotten slave narrative would be notable enough. But this one, scholars who have seen it say, is unique for its global perspective and its uncensored fury."
—Jennifer Schuessler, NYT
The Nation That Never Was
Reconstructing America's Story
Kermit Roosevelt IlI
"Roosevelt argues that the conventional story of the United States, which credits the Founders for inaugurating the American project, is false. ... it was Reconstruction, which followed the Civil War and pursued the ideals of liberty and equality, that forged the nation Americans today inherit."
-Yale Law Report
Lydia Maria Child
A Radical American Life
Lydia Moland
"Moland wants us to think hard about what we owe each other as citizens and human beings. ... an ample, honest, and immensely readable book."—Wall Street Journal](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w35yxkgrto7zvqc3wvsn435n/bafkreieyitgtbham4z2ax7cc33yc4rb6ma6cozmk2wmlzuevylrvobko5i@jpeg)
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