NC Museum of History Docent Book Club


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Book cover for "The bondwoman's narrative"
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5 stars
Book cover for "From here to equality"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Book cover for "The half has never been told"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Historian Edward Baptist reveals how the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States.
Book cover for "Hearts torn asunder"
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5 stars
Description:
"This book explores the psychological experience of these soldiers and civilians during the end of the Civil War in North Carolina. Using letters, diaries, and accounts the book explores how deeply "hard war" hurt soldiers and civilians and shaped the memory of the war's end."--
Book cover for "The second founding"
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5 stars
Book cover for "Soul City"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"A history of Floyd McKissick's 1969 plan to build a Black city in North Carolina, examining the story of the idealists who settled there, the obstacles that derailed the project, and what Soul City's saga says about Black opportunity, capitalism, and power then and now"--
Book cover for "Upon her shoulders"
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5 stars
Description:
"This book documents the autobiographical stories and poems of Southeastern American Indian women whose hard work and daily fight to keep their communities well and safe is all too often disregarded by mainstream publications and the general public. ... Aimed at general readers and especially American Indian women themselves, [it] celebrates the voices of those in native communities in the US Southeast, a region rarely covered in other publications....
Book cover for "Wilmington's lie"
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Average Rating:
4.9 stars
Description:
"By 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina, was a shining example of a mixed-race community-a bustling port city with a thriving African American middle class and a government made up of Republicans and Populists, including black alderman, police officers, and magistrates. But across the state-and the South-white supremacist Democrats were working to reverse the advances made by former slaves and their progeny. They were plotting to take back the state legislature...