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📖 Whitewashed History

Books that confront the deliberate erasure and distortion of marginalized voices from historical narratives, restoring complexity to stories long flattened by dominant perspectives.
Lies My Teacher Told Me
by James W. Loewen • 1995
History textbooks don't just teach the past. They teach you not to ask certain questions.
3.97
75k+
🏫 History Education📖 Textbook Bias🏛️ Historical Myths
Lies My Teacher Told Me Summary
Lies My Teacher Told Me 91%
History textbooks don't just teach the past. They teach you not to ask certain questions.
by James W. Loewen 1995
3.97
75k+ ratings
🏫 History Education📖 Textbook Bias🏛️ Historical Myths
The Common Cause
by Robert G. Parkinson • 2016
Racial fear united the colonies. The propaganda outlasted the war to define American citizenship.
4.10
49
⚔️ American Revolution📢 Propaganda Studies🎭 Racial Politics
The Common Cause Summary
The Common Cause 91%
Racial fear united the colonies. The propaganda outlasted the war to define American citizenship.
by Robert G. Parkinson 2016
4.10
49 ratings
⚔️ American Revolution📢 Propaganda Studies🎭 Racial Politics
The Wrath to Come
by Sarah Churchwell • 2022
Thirty million copies of a single novel taught America to love a lie. The lost cause won.
4.22
528
🏚️ Lost Cause Mythology💰 Racial Capitalism📜 Historical Revisionism
The Wrath to Come Summary
The Wrath to Come 90%
Thirty million copies of a single novel taught America to love a lie. The lost cause won.
by Sarah Churchwell 2022
4.22
528 ratings
🏚️ Lost Cause Mythology💰 Racial Capitalism📜 Historical Revisionism
Fake Heroes
by Otto English • 2023
Society manufactures heroes like studios build movie stars. Ten case studies expose the machinery.
3.92
896
🏛️ Revisionist History🦸 Hero Worship👤 Cult Of Personality
Fake Heroes Summary
Fake Heroes 90%
Society manufactures heroes like studios build movie stars. Ten case studies expose the machinery.
by Otto English 2023
3.92
896 ratings
🏛️ Revisionist History🦸 Hero Worship👤 Cult Of Personality
Stony the Road
by Henry Louis Gates Jr. • 2019
Jim Crow was not a backlash. It was a rebranding of white supremacy, using science and stereotypes.
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4k+
🏛️ Reconstruction History⛓️ Jim Crow Era⚖️ White Supremacy
Stony the Road Summary
Stony the Road 90%
Jim Crow was not a backlash. It was a rebranding of white supremacy, using science and stereotypes.
by Henry Louis Gates Jr. 2019
4.16
4k+ ratings
🏛️ Reconstruction History⛓️ Jim Crow Era⚖️ White Supremacy
A People’s History of the United States
by Howard Zinn • 1980
The history you learned in school is a cover story for class war, genocide, and slave revolts.
4.09
268k+
📖 Revisionist History🔍 History From Below🦅 American Empire
A People’s History of the United States Summary
A People’s History of the United States 90%
The history you learned in school is a cover story for class war, genocide, and slave revolts.
by Howard Zinn 1980
4.09
268k+ ratings
📖 Revisionist History🔍 History From Below🦅 American Empire
American Holocaust
by David E. Stannard • 1992
Before 1492, the Americas held more people than Europe. What followed erased 90 percent of them.
4.34
1k+
💀 Colonial Genocide📖 Genocide Studies✝️ Religious Violence
American Holocaust Summary
American Holocaust 90%
Before 1492, the Americas held more people than Europe. What followed erased 90 percent of them.
by David E. Stannard 1992
4.34
1k+ ratings
💀 Colonial Genocide📖 Genocide Studies✝️ Religious Violence
A True History of the United States
by Daniel A. Sjursen • 2021
Genocide, slavery, and concentrated wealth: an unblinking history from the bottom up.
4.43
707
📜 Revisionist History🌍 Settler Colonialism🏛️ American Empire
A True History of the United States Summary
A True History of the United States 90%
Genocide, slavery, and concentrated wealth: an unblinking history from the bottom up.
by Daniel A. Sjursen 2021
4.43
707 ratings
📜 Revisionist History🌍 Settler Colonialism🏛️ American Empire
The White Man's Burden
by Winthrop D. Jordan • 1974
Before cotton, before ideology, cultural disgust and sexual fear set American slavery in motion.
3.89
186
🇺🇸 American Racism⛓️ History Of Slavery🔬 Scientific Racism
The White Man's Burden Summary
The White Man's Burden 90%
Before cotton, before ideology, cultural disgust and sexual fear set American slavery in motion.
by Winthrop D. Jordan 1974
3.89
186 ratings
🇺🇸 American Racism⛓️ History Of Slavery🔬 Scientific Racism
The Black History of the White House
by Clarence Lusane • 2011
Enslaved laborers built the White House. The racial reckoning inside its walls has never stopped.
4.15
434
🏛️ White House History⛓️ Slavery And Resistance🚋 Jim Crow Era
The Black History of the White House Summary
The Black History of the White House 90%
Enslaved laborers built the White House. The racial reckoning inside its walls has never stopped.
by Clarence Lusane 2011
4.15
434 ratings
🏛️ White House History⛓️ Slavery And Resistance🚋 Jim Crow Era
How the South Won the Civil War
by Heather Cox Richardson • 2020
Southern oligarchy lost the war but won the West, rebranding as cowboy individualism.
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5k+
🇺🇸 American Political History🏛️ Oligarchy Studies🐎 Frontier Mythology
How the South Won the Civil War Summary
How the South Won the Civil War 90%
Southern oligarchy lost the war but won the West, rebranding as cowboy individualism.
by Heather Cox Richardson 2020
4.31
5k+ ratings
🇺🇸 American Political History🏛️ Oligarchy Studies🐎 Frontier Mythology
Black AF History
by Michael Harriot • 2023
Stolen land, stolen labor, and Black genius: the history your textbook skipped.
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10k+
🇺🇸 American History✊ Antiracism🔄 Revisionist History
Black AF History Summary
Black AF History 90%
Stolen land, stolen labor, and Black genius: the history your textbook skipped.
by Michael Harriot 2023
4.60
10k+ ratings
🇺🇸 American History✊ Antiracism🔄 Revisionist History
The Secret Token
by Andrew Lawler • 2018
The Lost Colony assimilated. America built its first origin myth to hide that truth.
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2k+
🏴 Colonial America👑 Elizabethan England🔍 Historical Mysteries
The Secret Token Summary
The Secret Token 90%
The Lost Colony assimilated. America built its first origin myth to hide that truth.
by Andrew Lawler 2018
3.76
2k+ ratings
🏴 Colonial America👑 Elizabethan England🔍 Historical Mysteries
White Supremacy
by George M. Fredrickson • 1981
Same racial logic, different regimes: why America built Jim Crow and South Africa built apartheid.
3.88
113
🏛️ Comparative History🌍 Settler Colonialism🎨 Color Line
White Supremacy Summary
White Supremacy 90%
Same racial logic, different regimes: why America built Jim Crow and South Africa built apartheid.
by George M. Fredrickson 1981
3.88
113 ratings
🏛️ Comparative History🌍 Settler Colonialism🎨 Color Line
This Land Is Your Land
by Beverly Gage • 2026
Historic sites are not museums but battlegrounds where America's unresolved fights remain live.
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2k+
🏛️ Historic Sites🧠 Historical Memory📜 Founding Contradictions
This Land Is Your Land Summary
This Land Is Your Land 90%
Historic sites are not museums but battlegrounds where America's unresolved fights remain live.
by Beverly Gage 2026
3.84
2k+ ratings
🏛️ Historic Sites🧠 Historical Memory📜 Founding Contradictions
A More Beautiful and Terrible History
by Jeanne Theoharis • 2018
The civil rights story you know is a sanitized myth that hides an ongoing fight for justice.
4.32
775
✊ Civil Rights Movement🧹 Sanitized History🏙️ Northern Racism
A More Beautiful and Terrible History Summary
A More Beautiful and Terrible History 90%
The civil rights story you know is a sanitized myth that hides an ongoing fight for justice.
by Jeanne Theoharis 2018
4.32
775 ratings
✊ Civil Rights Movement🧹 Sanitized History🏙️ Northern Racism
Wilmington's Lie
by David Zucchino • 2020
Before Jim Crow there was an 1898 coup that erased a Southern city's black leadership.
4.43
4k+
💀 White Supremacy🩸 Racial Violence🏛️ Reconstruction Era
Wilmington's Lie Summary
Wilmington's Lie 89%
Before Jim Crow there was an 1898 coup that erased a Southern city's black leadership.
by David Zucchino 2020
4.43
4k+ ratings
💀 White Supremacy🩸 Racial Violence🏛️ Reconstruction Era
The Bloody Shirt
by Stephen Budiansky • 2008
Emancipation was overthrown by a targeted campaign of terror. The nation was too tired to stop it.
3.85
354
📜 Reconstruction Era🎯 Racial Terrorism🗳️ Voter Suppression
The Bloody Shirt Summary
The Bloody Shirt 89%
Emancipation was overthrown by a targeted campaign of terror. The nation was too tired to stop it.
by Stephen Budiansky 2008
3.85
354 ratings
📜 Reconstruction Era🎯 Racial Terrorism🗳️ Voter Suppression
A Different Mirror
by Ronald Takaki • 1993
The standard American story is a white invention. The real one includes the people it erased.
4.18
5k+
🌍 Multicultural History🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏻 Race In America🧳 Immigrant Experiences
A Different Mirror Summary
A Different Mirror 89%
The standard American story is a white invention. The real one includes the people it erased.
by Ronald Takaki 1993
4.18
5k+ ratings
🌍 Multicultural History🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏻 Race In America🧳 Immigrant Experiences
The Christian Imagination
by Willie James Jennings • 2010
The modern idea of race was not a secular invention; it was born inside Christian theology.
4.51
713
✝️ Race And Theology🧭 Colonial Displacement⛪ Supersessionism
The Christian Imagination Summary
The Christian Imagination 89%
The modern idea of race was not a secular invention; it was born inside Christian theology.
by Willie James Jennings 2010
4.51
713 ratings
✝️ Race And Theology🧭 Colonial Displacement⛪ Supersessionism
Freedom’s Dominion
by Jefferson R. Cowie • 2022
One Alabama county's 'freedom' meant the right to dominate. The history and the national fallout.
4.50
881
🏛️ Southern History🔥 White Supremacy🏗️ Reconstruction History
Freedom’s Dominion Summary
Freedom’s Dominion 89%
One Alabama county's 'freedom' meant the right to dominate. The history and the national fallout.
by Jefferson R. Cowie 2022
4.50
881 ratings
🏛️ Southern History🔥 White Supremacy🏗️ Reconstruction History
Rebellion
by Robert Kagan • 2024
A 250-year rebellion against America's founding promise is closer to victory than ever.
4.39
664
🇺🇸 American Politics📜 Political History🔗 White Supremacy
Rebellion Summary
Rebellion 89%
A 250-year rebellion against America's founding promise is closer to victory than ever.
by Robert Kagan 2024
4.39
664 ratings
🇺🇸 American Politics📜 Political History🔗 White Supremacy
Four Hundred Souls
by Ibram X. Kendi • 2021
Eighty writers tell 400 years of African American history, starting where the textbooks go silent.
4.55
11k+
🖤 African American History⛓️ Transatlantic Slave Trade🔍 Systemic Racism
Four Hundred Souls Summary
Four Hundred Souls 89%
Eighty writers tell 400 years of African American history, starting where the textbooks go silent.
by Ibram X. Kendi 2021
4.55
11k+ ratings
🖤 African American History⛓️ Transatlantic Slave Trade🔍 Systemic Racism
Whiteness of a Different Color
by Matthew Frye Jacobson • 1998
The Irish, Jews, and Italians were not white until politics, law, and war made them so.
4.03
732
🏳️ Whiteness Studies🧳 Immigration History⚖️ Critical Race Theory
Whiteness of a Different Color Summary
Whiteness of a Different Color 89%
The Irish, Jews, and Italians were not white until politics, law, and war made them so.
by Matthew Frye Jacobson 1998
4.03
732 ratings
🏳️ Whiteness Studies🧳 Immigration History⚖️ Critical Race Theory
These Truths
by Jill Lepore • 2018
American politics is a 500-year argument over who counts as a person and whose truth prevails.
4.40
14k+
🇺🇸 American Paradox📜 National Founding Myths🔍 Truth In Politics
These Truths Summary
These Truths 89%
American politics is a 500-year argument over who counts as a person and whose truth prevails.
by Jill Lepore 2018
4.40
14k+ ratings
🇺🇸 American Paradox📜 National Founding Myths🔍 Truth In Politics
Illiberal America
by Steven Hahn • 2024
American liberty as a tradition is a Cold War invention; illiberalism is the nation's true center.
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🏛 Illiberal Politics⛓ Racial Capitalism📚 Revisionist History
Illiberal America Summary
Illiberal America 89%
American liberty as a tradition is a Cold War invention; illiberalism is the nation's true center.
by Steven Hahn 2024
4.16
318 ratings
🏛 Illiberal Politics⛓ Racial Capitalism📚 Revisionist History
Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607–1876
by Nicholas Guyatt • 2007
God's plan for America was a British idea that justified slavery and empire.
3.93
14
🕊️ American Providentialism⛪ Religion And Politics⛓️ Slavery And Religion
Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607–1876 Summary
Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607–1876 89%
God's plan for America was a British idea that justified slavery and empire.
by Nicholas Guyatt 2007
3.93
14 ratings
🕊️ American Providentialism⛪ Religion And Politics⛓️ Slavery And Religion
Not Stolen
by Jeff Fynn-Paul • 2023
Genocide, stolen land, settler colonialism: a historian says the common story gets all three wrong.
4.13
463
🪶 Native American History🌎 Settler Colonialism🔍 Revisionist History
Not Stolen Summary
Not Stolen 89%
Genocide, stolen land, settler colonialism: a historian says the common story gets all three wrong.
by Jeff Fynn-Paul 2023
4.13
463 ratings
🪶 Native American History🌎 Settler Colonialism🔍 Revisionist History
Silencing the Past
by Michel-Rolph Trouillot • 1995
Why the Haitian Revolution was erased from history while it was still happening.
4.35
3k+
📜 Critical Historiography🔍 Historical Methodology💡 Power And Knowledge
Silencing the Past Summary
Silencing the Past 89%
Why the Haitian Revolution was erased from history while it was still happening.
by Michel-Rolph Trouillot 1995
4.35
3k+ ratings
📜 Critical Historiography🔍 Historical Methodology💡 Power And Knowledge
Reconstruction
by Eric Foner • 1988
A brief, revolutionary experiment in interracial democracy. Why the country abandoned it.
4.22
6k+
🏛️ Reconstruction Era🗳️ Black Political Agency🤝 Interracial Democracy
Reconstruction Summary
Reconstruction 89%
A brief, revolutionary experiment in interracial democracy. Why the country abandoned it.
by Eric Foner 1988
4.22
6k+ ratings
🏛️ Reconstruction Era🗳️ Black Political Agency🤝 Interracial Democracy
Race and Manifest Destiny
by Reginald Horsman • 1981
Manifest Destiny had a hidden engine: a pseudo-science that ranked races and justified conquest.
3.84
150
🏛️ Intellectual History🌎 American Expansionism🧬 Scientific Racism
Race and Manifest Destiny Summary
Race and Manifest Destiny 89%
Manifest Destiny had a hidden engine: a pseudo-science that ranked races and justified conquest.
by Reginald Horsman 1981
3.84
150 ratings
🏛️ Intellectual History🌎 American Expansionism🧬 Scientific Racism
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence
by Roberto Sirvent • 2019
American history is the original fake news: a cover story for genocide, slavery, and endless war.
4.08
287
🏛️ American Empire🪓 Settler Colonialism📜 National Myths
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence Summary
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence 89%
American history is the original fake news: a cover story for genocide, slavery, and endless war.
by Roberto Sirvent 2019
4.08
287 ratings
🏛️ American Empire🪓 Settler Colonialism📜 National Myths
The Great Contradiction
by Joseph J. Ellis • 2025
To create a nation, the founders protected slavery. Indian removal was the other price of union.
4.20
1k+
🏛️ Founding Era📜 Constitutional History⛓️ Slavery And The Founders
The Great Contradiction Summary
The Great Contradiction 89%
To create a nation, the founders protected slavery. Indian removal was the other price of union.
by Joseph J. Ellis 2025
4.20
1k+ ratings
🏛️ Founding Era📜 Constitutional History⛓️ Slavery And The Founders
The Wages of Whiteness
by David R. Roediger • 1991
The white working class took racial status as partial payment. The bargain was a trap.
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2k+
🔨 Labor History👤 Whiteness Studies🧬 Racial Identity
The Wages of Whiteness Summary
The Wages of Whiteness 89%
The white working class took racial status as partial payment. The bargain was a trap.
by David R. Roediger 1991
3.99
2k+ ratings
🔨 Labor History👤 Whiteness Studies🧬 Racial Identity
White Storm
by Martin Gelin • 2025
An unhealed racial wound, centuries old, is finally devouring American democracy from the inside.
4.66
35
👥 Us Race Relations🏛️ American Democracy⛓️ Systemic Racism
White Storm Summary
White Storm 89%
An unhealed racial wound, centuries old, is finally devouring American democracy from the inside.
by Martin Gelin 2025
4.66
35 ratings
👥 Us Race Relations🏛️ American Democracy⛓️ Systemic Racism
The South Was Right!
by James Ronald Kennedy • 1991
The South legally seceded. The North invaded for economic gain. The rest is propaganda.
3.93
482
🏴 Lost Cause🏡 Southern Identity📜 Historical Revisionism
The South Was Right! Summary
The South Was Right! 89%
The South legally seceded. The North invaded for economic gain. The rest is propaganda.
by James Ronald Kennedy 1991
3.93
482 ratings
🏴 Lost Cause🏡 Southern Identity📜 Historical Revisionism
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • 2014
Genocide, not liberty, built America. The counterinsurgency tactics born here now circle the globe.
4.37
21k+
🏚️ Settler Colonialism🪶 Native American History📚 Revisionist History
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Summary
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States 89%
Genocide, not liberty, built America. The counterinsurgency tactics born here now circle the globe.
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 2014
4.37
21k+ ratings
🏚️ Settler Colonialism🪶 Native American History📚 Revisionist History
We Are Not Yet Equal
by Carol Anderson • 2018
Every Black American victory was met with a legal counterattack designed to undo it.
4.40
798
⚖ Systemic Racism📚 African American History🔄 Backlash Politics
We Are Not Yet Equal Summary
We Are Not Yet Equal 89%
Every Black American victory was met with a legal counterattack designed to undo it.
by Carol Anderson 2018
4.40
798 ratings
⚖ Systemic Racism📚 African American History🔄 Backlash Politics
The Original Black Elite
by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor • 2017
Reconstruction built a Black elite in Washington D.C. Jim Crow buried them and erased their story.
4.03
279
🏛️ Reconstruction Era📜 Black Elite History🕊️ Racial Uplift
The Original Black Elite Summary
The Original Black Elite 89%
Reconstruction built a Black elite in Washington D.C. Jim Crow buried them and erased their story.
by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor 2017
4.03
279 ratings
🏛️ Reconstruction Era📜 Black Elite History🕊️ Racial Uplift
Was the Cat in the Hat Black?
by Philip Nel • 2017
The Cat in the Hat draws on blackface minstrelsy. So does much of your childhood bookshelf.
4.09
433
📚 Children'S Literature🔍 Literary Criticism⚖️ Structural Racism
Was the Cat in the Hat Black? Summary
Was the Cat in the Hat Black? 89%
The Cat in the Hat draws on blackface minstrelsy. So does much of your childhood bookshelf.
by Philip Nel 2017
4.09
433 ratings
📚 Children'S Literature🔍 Literary Criticism⚖️ Structural Racism
White Borders
by Reece Jones • 2021
Immigration law was never about fairness. From the founding, its purpose was keeping America white.
4.20
140
📋 Immigration Policy🚫 American Nativism🚧 Racial Exclusion
White Borders Summary
White Borders 89%
Immigration law was never about fairness. From the founding, its purpose was keeping America white.
by Reece Jones 2021
4.20
140 ratings
📋 Immigration Policy🚫 American Nativism🚧 Racial Exclusion
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
by George Washington Williams • 2012
The 1883 history that began in African empires and ended with the Constitution enshrining slavery.
4.03
29
🪶 American Slavery🏛️ African Civilizations📚 Black Intellectual Tradition
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens Summary
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens 89%
The 1883 history that began in African empires and ended with the Constitution enshrining slavery.
by George Washington Williams 2012
4.03
29 ratings
🪶 American Slavery🏛️ African Civilizations📚 Black Intellectual Tradition
The Indicted South
by Angie Maxwell • 2014
How media scorn forged the white South's defiant identity across faith, art, and law.
4.24
17
📖 Southern History🔍 Southern Identity😞 Regional Inferiority
The Indicted South Summary
The Indicted South 89%
How media scorn forged the white South's defiant identity across faith, art, and law.
by Angie Maxwell 2014
4.24
17 ratings
📖 Southern History🔍 Southern Identity😞 Regional Inferiority
White Too Long
by Robert P. Jones • 2020
White churches didn't just tolerate racism. Survey data reveals they constructed and sustained it.
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⛪ Religion And Race🇺🇸 American Christianity📖 White Evangelicalism
White Too Long Summary
White Too Long 89%
White churches didn't just tolerate racism. Survey data reveals they constructed and sustained it.
by Robert P. Jones 2020
4.42
3k+ ratings
⛪ Religion And Race🇺🇸 American Christianity📖 White Evangelicalism
The Day Freedom Died
by Charles Lane • 2008
The Easter Sunday slaughter that gave white supremacy a legal shield for a century.
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447
🏛️ Reconstruction Era⚖️ Constitutional Law☠️ White Supremacy
The Day Freedom Died Summary
The Day Freedom Died 89%
The Easter Sunday slaughter that gave white supremacy a legal shield for a century.
by Charles Lane 2008
4.08
447 ratings
🏛️ Reconstruction Era⚖️ Constitutional Law☠️ White Supremacy
The Other Trail of Tears
by Mary Stockwell • 2014
The Cherokee weren't first. Ohio's tribes walked a forgotten removal trail decades earlier.
4.16
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🏛️ Jacksonian Era🏞️ Frontier History🧭 Westward Expansion
The Other Trail of Tears Summary
The Other Trail of Tears 89%
The Cherokee weren't first. Ohio's tribes walked a forgotten removal trail decades earlier.
by Mary Stockwell 2014
4.16
85 ratings
🏛️ Jacksonian Era🏞️ Frontier History🧭 Westward Expansion
A Renegade History of the United States
by Thaddeus Russell • 2010
America's founders feared pleasure. Its drunkards, prostitutes, and gangsters made freedom real.
3.81
2k+
📚 Revisionist History👇 History From Below🚔 Social Control
A Renegade History of the United States Summary
A Renegade History of the United States 89%
America's founders feared pleasure. Its drunkards, prostitutes, and gangsters made freedom real.
by Thaddeus Russell 2010
3.81
2k+ ratings
📚 Revisionist History👇 History From Below🚔 Social Control
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
by Gerald Horne • 2018
Slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism: fused in the 1600s, they still power the modern world.
4.26
189
🌊 Atlantic History🏚️ Settler Colonialism💰 Racial Capitalism
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism Summary
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism 89%
Slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism: fused in the 1600s, they still power the modern world.
by Gerald Horne 2018
4.26
189 ratings
🌊 Atlantic History🏚️ Settler Colonialism💰 Racial Capitalism
The Grift
by Clay Cane • 2024
From Reconstruction to Trump, the Black conservatives who enabled racism for a seat at the table.
4.32
951
🏛️ African American History🐘 Black Conservatism💰 Political Opportunism
The Grift Summary
The Grift 89%
From Reconstruction to Trump, the Black conservatives who enabled racism for a seat at the table.
by Clay Cane 2024
4.32
951 ratings
🏛️ African American History🐘 Black Conservatism💰 Political Opportunism
A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
by Natasha Tidd • 2023
A forged document, a faked war, an imaginary country: the lies that changed history.
3.60
2k+
🗺️ World History🏛️ Political History📢 Propaganda
A Short History of the World in 50 Lies Summary
A Short History of the World in 50 Lies 89%
A forged document, a faked war, an imaginary country: the lies that changed history.
by Natasha Tidd 2023
3.60
2k+ ratings
🗺️ World History🏛️ Political History📢 Propaganda
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