J C Schermerhorn Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

J C Schermerhorn

Preorder now: American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860 by the extraordinary @edward_l_ayers. It's "an honest but hopeful account of the people who resisted the worst things in the nation’s history [incl.] fiction, art, music & humor" https://t.co/tK4ygpKfwc #twitterstorians

J C Schermerhorn

@AnikaScott1 I thought Edward P. Jones's The Known World did a marvelous job playing with omniscience (zooming in and out of individual focus) in an exquisitely world-built Manchester County, Virginia.

J C Schermerhorn

If you haven’t checked out Myth America by @KevinMKruse and some of the shrewdest scholars writing today, read this essay ⬇️ https://t.co/NNUfRqi3Hr

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J C Schermerhorn

“One of the many strengths of Until I Am Free is the way it utilizes Hamer’s biography, political awakening & subsequent triumphs & challenges to frame the contemporary moment of racial justice struggles…in the US & around the world” @PenielJoseph on @KeishaBlain’s book

J C Schermerhorn

"Literary history is full of examples of complex, difficult books....The most sophisticated...encourage us to bear witness to the suffering of others." -@FJasmineG on lit & #Youngkin's race-baiting Toni Morrison's Beloved in VA,the birthplace of US slavery https://t.co/uHzFhFq8tp