White Rage. Carol AndersonThe author was prompted to write this book by the usual framing in terms of black rage of discussions of police shootings of several unarmed black men.…

Stoney the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The author of this book, the eminent Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr., provides…

The Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South fought the Civil War and why the North won.  Edward H. Bonekemper III. (Review from anonymous historian at Edge Induced Cohesion…

White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity.  Robert P. Jones. Reviewed by Jemar Tisby in the NY Times In 1968, James Baldwin wrote in The New…

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.  Michelle Alexander. (Reviewed by Colin Grant in The Guardian 2019) In 2008, months before his election as president, Barack…

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City.  Alice Goffman. Review by Tim Newburn, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2014/07/10/book-review-on-the-run-fugitive-life-in-an-american-city-by-alice-goffman/ There are currently 2.3 million people incarcerated in American prisons and jails. There are…

Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America.  Kathleen Belew. (Edited review from the website Andrew: https://medium.com/@ahseeder/a-short-summary-of-kathleen-belews-bring-the-war-home-8ac4a74f3fe2) Belew’s book is a history of the white power movement’s…

The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels.  John Meacham. Reviewed by Sean Wilentz in the NY Times At the close of his First Inaugural Address, President Abraham Lincoln…

How the South Won the Civil War. Heather Cox Richardson. (Review by John S Gardner in The Guardian—US Edition, 2020) Heather Cox Richardson’s How the South Won the Civil War…