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The Warmth of other suns by Isabel Wilkerson. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants by Peggy Mohan (Indian "deep history" recovered through language). But I read a lot of historical novels, and obvs. The Mirror and the Light.

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Great to see you here and thanks for the suggestions.

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A couple books by female historians I have recently read are Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol by Nell Irvin Painter and Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life by Lori D. Ginzberg.

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Thanks for sharing, Robert.

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Just finished reading Saving Yellowstone and also just finished interviewing Megan. Great book and wonderful person! I went on a audiobook binge of Bernard Cornwell’s Uhtred series. Went through all 13 volumes. I’ve also read Frederick Douglass Narrative, Tales of the Jazz Age by Fitzgerald, Edward Watts’ recent book on the Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome, and a few other novels. I’m almost finished with Extreme North, a new book on how Scandinavian history has been used and the imagery of “the North.”

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Thanks for sharing, David.

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Recently finished Caroline Janney's game changing work on the period after Lee's surrender, "Ends of War." Demonstrates that there was no true "Stillness at Appomattox," - rather, there was confusion in how to treat Confederate soldiers returning to their home states in both the Confederacy and the Union; the continuing violence directed against African-American Union soldiers by Confederate veterans; the seeds of the Lost Cause were already planted, starting with Lee's final Address to the soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia.. Very much changes the narrative of the end of the Civil War and should lead to further study of a period that has been much overlooked. As a UVA grad, very proud of UVA Professor Janney's ground breaking work.

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It's an incredible book. Thanks for sharing.

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Obviously she is far from current, but I've been reading not only stories by, but articles about Ida M. Tarbell and how she was viewed by both men and women at the turn of the 20th century. Just to give you an idea of how she was viewed, Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the Century, sneered to a colleague when he heard S.S. McClure had assigned Tarbell to write about Lincoln, "McClure got a girl to write a biography of Lincoln." If you want to read an exceptional biography of Tarbell, get Kathleen Brady's "Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckraker" which is now published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

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Rob

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Thanks for sharing, Rob.

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Kirsten Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins;

Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder;

Isabel Wilkerson, Caste (some history, some sociology)

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Gold star for Caroline Fraser!

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Thanks for sharing, Karin.

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Megan Kate Nelson’s “The Three-Cornered War” and Carol Anderson’s “White Rage” are both simply outstanding!

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Thanks for sharing.

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Last finished was Fay Yarbrough's Choctaw Confederates. Have started (but haven't finished yet) Kellie Carter Jackson's Force and Freedom and Alice Baumgartner's South to Freedom.

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Three excellent books. Thanks, Chris.

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The last book I read by a woman historian was Barbara Gannon's The Won Cause.

Last year, I read Kathleen M. Brown's Good Wives, Nasty Women and Anxious Patriarchs (on the early history of the colonisation of Virginia and racialisation amongst other things), Edwina S. Campbell's Citizen of a Wider Commonwealth (on Grant's post presidential travels and diplomacy), Elizabeth R. Varon's Southern Lady, Yankee Spy, and Victoria E. Bynum's Free State of Jones.

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Hi Robert. Thanks for sharing. I've read all of these except for Campbell's book. Will definitely check it out.

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Thanks so much for reading *Saving Yellowstone*, Kevin! Right now I’m reading:

* Elizabeth Fenn’s *Encounters at the Heart of the World*

* Juliana Barr’s *Peace Came in the Form of a Woman*

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You are very welcome and thanks for the suggestions. I loved Pox Americana by Elizabeth Fenn.

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Any of the books or writings by Heather Cox Richardson

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Hear, hear!!!

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Couldn't agree more. I've read most of her books, but I am partial to WEST FROM APPOMATTOX. Thanks for the comment.

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