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Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity
By Frank Dikötter
The USSR played a key role in Mao’s rise and rule.
American Poison
By Daniel Stone
A timely tale about corporate whitewashing that contaminated a nation.
Making Sense of Slavery
By Scott Spillman
A reflection on the ways historians frame the peculiar institution.
They Kill People: Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution, and America’s Obsession with Guns and Outlaws
By Kirk Ellis
Once upon a time, onscreen crime was more scandalous than the real thing.
A comprehensive, entertaining compendium of military lingo.
A Fate Worse than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War
By W. Fitzhugh Brundage
A harrowing assessment of a savage penal system.
You Can’t Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads
By Brad Snyder
Why a 1930s Black activist could’ve gotten the chair.
The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress
By James Cheshire
An exquisite homage to the charts that plot the way.
