Recs if you like The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power...
Teach me something new and oddly specific π¬
Niche nonfiction, aka micro-histories!
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microhistories: βhow do you even know that??β
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"
They didn't teach us that
history you probably didn't learn in school
Memory : Narratives and Monuments
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.
an Urban Planner's recs
books I can find on PB that my professor's and cohort reference
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