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microhistories: “how do you even know that??”

by anaconda
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288 books

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"

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Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous ItemsSalt: A World HistoryDark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human SkinCSI Told You Lies: Giving victims a voice through forensics.
Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous ItemsSalt: A World History

They didn't teach us that

by wednesdaymourning
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106 books

history you probably didn't learn in school

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America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United StatesOne Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants (Politics and Society in Modern America)The U.S. Antifascism Reader
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United StatesOne Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

Kids Can Be Cruel

by teddydee
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286 books

Name-calling and insults you might hear on the playground and beyond...

Anything can be an insult if you believe it! My kid brother used to get in trouble for calling us "you...you BEAN" with all the spite his little preschool self could manage 🥹

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Venomous LumpsuckerWeird FucksSad JanetDragon Teeth
Venomous LumpsuckerWeird Fucks

Dark Academia but there's Actual Academia Involved

by marointhemoon
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19 books

For those who want to learn a thing or two while they're acting out their dark academia dreams.

(read: dark and broody non-fiction that may or may not also be dense and/or academic)

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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern CrimeThe Ghost: A Cultural HistoryCelebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary RitualHistory of Vampires in New England, A (Haunted America)
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern CrimeThe Ghost: A Cultural History

nonfiction so good, it's like reading a novel

by leannabanana
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23 books

(just a warning: most of these books are very heavy material-wise)

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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and RedemptionThe Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksWe Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and EnduranceFacing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and RedemptionThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

books that radicalized me

by kellysreads
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11 books
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement ForgotA People’s History of the United States: 1492 - PresentMountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the WorldThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement ForgotA People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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