The Color of Law sounds really interesting, I've popped it on my wishlist. I'm half way through A Distant Mirror, European history 1340-1400. So far I'm getting the impression it was not a great time to be poor, Jewish or female - although the plague seemed to pick on everyone.
Namaste & Hello Justin😊That was a great book & I'll try to grab a copy of too! I'm currently reading "The Many Adventures of Mrs Mary Seacole" (actually listening to it on audio book) & its simply fascinating!!! Hopefully, I should be able to get through my very "ambitious" TBR for history challenge this year. Happy Reading😊👍👍👍
I’m currently reading The Library Book by Susan Orlean about the fire at the LA library in 1986. Also recently finished The Woman they could not Silence by Kate Moore about Elizabeth Packard. Both great books.
I didn't finish David Blight's book about Frederick Douglas before it was due at the library. I've just started American Insurgents, American Patriots by T.H. Breen. It could be relevant to today, since it talks about how 18th century regular people, especially in rural areas, became willing to essentially become part of an insurgent movement against the British government. I recently finished Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe by Sheri Berman. It's an excellent analysis of how transitions to democracy happen over centuries. The Art of Inventing Hope by Howard Reich is emotional, but insightful. He interviewed Elie Wiesel about his experience being the son of Holocaust survivors grappling with the trauma and moral quandaries faced by survivors and their descendants.
The Comor of Law sounds very interesting. I started the history challenge a bit early, so I have about 50 pages left in Cleopatra by Stacey Schiff, and I’ve read Women and Power by Mary Beard, which is not quite history, but an essay where Beard traces the roots of modern misogyny to Greek and Roman times.
Thank you for the great suggestions - and for sharing the #historyreadingchallenge! I'm late! But hopefully can catch up - looking through my TBR I'm going to go for Twisted The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture by By Emma Dabiri thanks again!
I’m actually reading a book on west Africa history book written before 1800 by a Ghana school headmaster. I’m wondering do you do black Africa history as well I just was looking for another video and yours popped up right after my morning reading. I guess in the context of this book it would be interesting to relate it back to in west Africa where there was racial and there still is today segregation amongst west Africans. for the people in the comments who said it’s gonna make them angry remember that it isn’t a black-and-white issue there has been more segregation in Africa itself against blacks of different ethnic groups than any other part of the world for blacks. I just hope that people keep an open mind and actually try to find the root of concepts in history rather than assuming they start at any certain time in the present era.
Not that black American history is it important it just seems that people have such an inaccurate view of African history that they wanna blame a certain group in America when that was a blip compared to what west Africa was already doing to itself including selling off their own people at the start of the transatlantic slave trade and they had been selling their own people across the Sahara for hundreds of years American slavery didn’t even come close to west Africa Arab slave trade
All of those books sound so interesting, especially The Color of Law. I didn’t know a lot of that 😱
The Color of Law sounds really interesting, I've popped it on my wishlist. I'm half way through A Distant Mirror, European history 1340-1400. So far I'm getting the impression it was not a great time to be poor, Jewish or female - although the plague seemed to pick on everyone.
Yeah Europe at that time was not so fun a place to be.
Ooh, definitely going to add Color of Law to my TBR. I'm sure it's gonna piss me off but it sounds like essential reading.
Namaste & Hello Justin😊That was a great book & I'll try to grab a copy of too! I'm currently reading "The Many Adventures of Mrs Mary Seacole" (actually listening to it on audio book) & its simply fascinating!!! Hopefully, I should be able to get through my very "ambitious" TBR for history challenge this year. Happy Reading😊👍👍👍
This book sounds great! I’ve never heard of Mary Seacole before. I’ll have to look more into it.
The Color of Law sounds really interesting, I like the title. I'll see if my library has it!
these sound like amazing books, thanks for a great review!
I’m currently reading The Library Book by Susan Orlean about the fire at the LA library in 1986. Also recently finished The Woman they could not Silence by Kate Moore about Elizabeth Packard. Both great books.
I didn't finish David Blight's book about Frederick Douglas before it was due at the library. I've just started American Insurgents, American Patriots by T.H. Breen. It could be relevant to today, since it talks about how 18th century regular people, especially in rural areas, became willing to essentially become part of an insurgent movement against the British government. I recently finished Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe by Sheri Berman. It's an excellent analysis of how transitions to democracy happen over centuries. The Art of Inventing Hope by Howard Reich is emotional, but insightful. He interviewed Elie Wiesel about his experience being the son of Holocaust survivors grappling with the trauma and moral quandaries faced by survivors and their descendants.
These books sound great!
I’m reading _Forget The Alamo_ and off to a slow start
That sounds like a good read.
The Comor of Law sounds very interesting. I started the history challenge a bit early, so I have about 50 pages left in Cleopatra by Stacey Schiff, and I’ve read Women and Power by Mary Beard, which is not quite history, but an essay where Beard traces the roots of modern misogyny to Greek and Roman times.
Sounds like great reads
I’m reading Night by Elie Wiesel and The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead.
Two great books!
Thank you for the great suggestions - and for sharing the #historyreadingchallenge! I'm late! But hopefully can catch up - looking through my TBR I'm going to go for Twisted
The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture by By Emma Dabiri
thanks again!
Read and love Twisted! Learned a lot from that book
@@ghostreader9766 I'm on chapter 2 so far - it is so good!
I am reading 'The IsIs Papers by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing'.
Nice!
I’m actually reading a book on west Africa history book written before 1800 by a Ghana school headmaster. I’m wondering do you do black Africa history as well I just was looking for another video and yours popped up right after my morning reading. I guess in the context of this book it would be interesting to relate it back to in west Africa where there was racial and there still is today segregation amongst west Africans. for the people in the comments who said it’s gonna make them angry remember that it isn’t a black-and-white issue there has been more segregation in Africa itself against blacks of different ethnic groups than any other part of the world for blacks. I just hope that people keep an open mind and actually try to find the root of concepts in history rather than assuming they start at any certain time in the present era.
Not that black American history is it important it just seems that people have such an inaccurate view of African history that they wanna blame a certain group in America when that was a blip compared to what west Africa was already doing to itself including selling off their own people at the start of the transatlantic slave trade and they had been selling their own people across the Sahara for hundreds of years American slavery didn’t even come close to west Africa Arab slave trade