history you probably didn't learn in school
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A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History)
Michael Bronski
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine
Rosemary Sayigh
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
Nur Masalha
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green
The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
Nathalia Holt
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
Rebecca Solnit
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg
The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption
Barbara Bisantz Raymond
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
Gabrielle Glaser
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
Ann Fessler
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
C. Riley Snorton
Trans History: A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
Alex L. Combs
Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History
Hannah McElhinney
Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance
Syan Rose
Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters
Sacha Coward
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
Kit Heyam
A Short History of Queer Women
Kirsty Loehr
Queer: A Graphic History (Graphic Guides)
Meg-John Barker
The Mercury 13
Martha Ackmann
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
Liza Mundy
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Rebecca Hall
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
Saidiya Hartman
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Ghosts Of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
Gordon H. Chang
Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland
Scott Shane
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
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