Awards search:ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

by Dee Alexander Brown
Paperback, 2001
Tags
19th century, American West, genocide, removal, nonfiction, ind-read-list, Indians, Native Americans, indigenous, land, land tenure — 22 more, war, violence, history, the West, United States, Apaches, Sioux, Lakotas, Oglalas, Cheyennes, Comanches, Crazy Horse, Publisher-Holt, google partial, American bison, American Indians, book, AQR 2004, OWS/Library overlap, cover-brown, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Status
Available
Call number
E81.B75 2001

The Mismeasure of Man

by Stephen Jay Gould
Hardcover, 1981
Tags
mcr139, Read in 2007, cycle purchase 05/01/07, psychology, history, nonfiction, ability testing, biology, craniometry, IQ, intelligence — 42 more, Cyril Burt, ind-read-list, Publisher-Norton, ability, Arthur Jensen, behavior, Bell Curve, Alfred Binet, biological determinism, brain, Charles Spearman, cranial capacity, measurement, criminals, factor analysis, foramen magnum, Henry H. Goddard, group factors, heredity, innate intelligence, Cesare Lombroso, mental tests, Samuel George Morton, neoteny, Paul Broca, polygenesis, racism, ranking, Richard Herrnstein, skulls, Lewis Terman, Louis Leon Thurstone, Robert M. Yerkes, google partial, anatomy, hardcover, dustjacket, book, AQR 2007, ≥40 global ratings, google terms added, move √
Status
Available
Call number
BF431.G68 1981

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

by Adam Hochschild
Paperback, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, politics, government, 19th century, racism, history, forced labor, human rights movement, colonialism, Belgium, imperialism — 16 more, ivory, rubber, class-ugrad-RU-umhist, Congo, Africa, human rights, rights, indigenous, Publisher-Mifflin, google partial, anti-colonialism, book, cover-black, ≥40 global ratings, William Sheppard, move √
Status
Available
Call number
DT655.H63 1998

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

by Manning Marable
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, biography, Malcolm X, United States, history, African Americans, Nation of Islam, black power, 20th century, 1940s, 1950s — 10 more, 1960s, assassination, OP2011-2015, ≥40 global ratings, needs tags, dustjacket, book, hardcover, move √, Read in 2018
Status
Available
Call number
BP223.Z8L57636 2011

Triangle: The Fire that Changed America

by Dave Von Drehle
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
mcr011, signed, biography, nonfiction, factories, clothing, cloth, 20th century, 1910s, fire, occupational safety — 28 more, work, workers, women, Triangle Shirtwaist Company, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, ind-read-list, labor, labor law, law, New York City, New York, United States, cities, history, disasters, google partial, 1909 shirtwaist strike, Al Smith, Alva Belmont, hardcover, dustjacket, book, OWS/Library overlap, urban history, ≥40 global ratings, urban, women workers, move √
Status
Available
Call number
F128.5.V688 2003

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

by Malcolm X
Hardcover, 1965
Tags
autobiography, Nation of Islam, civil rights, black power, Islam, 20th century, biography, nonfiction, Larry, favorite nonfiction, black Muslims — 30 more, history, United States, African Americans, racism, Malcolm X, black liberation, google snippet, hardcover, dustjacket, book, OWS/Library overlap, Audubon Ballroom, Betty Shabazz, Cassius Clay, Chicago, conk, Detroit, Elijah Muhammad, Fruit of Islam, Hajj, Harlem, Lansing Michigan, Mecca, police, prison, Reginald Little, Roxbury, google terms added, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Status
Available
Call number
E185.97.L5A3 1965

A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

by Howard Zinn
Paperback, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, favorite nonfiction, survey, ind-read-list, United States, history, needs tags, Publisher-Harper, google partial, 1909 shirtwaist strike, 1954 Geneva Conference — 23 more, A. Philip Randolph, abortion, Abraham Lincoln, Adolph Fischer, AFDC, American Federation of Labor, AFL, Alabama, Albert R. Parsons, Alexander Berkman, Alexander Hamilton, CPUSA, American Indian Movement, American Railway Union, Andrew Jackson, Anti-Imperialist League, book, OWS/Library overlap, Hernán Cortés, cover-white, ≥40 global ratings, move √, Abbie Hoffman
Series
A People's History
Status
Available
Call number
E178.1.Z75 1999
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