Recs if you like The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power...

Niche nonfiction, aka micro-histories!

microhistory: the intensive historical investigation of a well defined smaller unit of research (such as an event, community, individual or a settlement); it aspires to "ask large questions in small places"

history you probably didn't learn in school

A list of books about how we remember, or avoid remembering history.

Commemoration, memorials, monuments, narratives, and rhetoric.

Philosophical, creative and social justice themes. Decolonization focused.

Considering statues, museums, journalism, books, etc. with nuance and depth.