Recs if you like White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America...
microhistories: “how do you even know that??”
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
Kids Can Be Cruel
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 🥹
Dark Academia but there's Actual Academia Involved
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)
nonfiction so good, it's like reading a novel
(just a warning: most of these books are very heavy material-wise)
books that radicalized me
