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Robert O’Neill is a Navy SEAL veteran who became famous for firing the bullet that killed Osama bin Laden. He’s also worked as a contributor for Fox News and Newsmax TV, as well as being a motivational speaker and author. He’s published a book called The Operator, recounting his SEAL career and the raid on bin Laden’s compound.

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How the Word Is Passed (2021) is a travelogue that underscores how slavery has shaped America’s collective history and its reality today. Nine locations serve as gateways to important stories that are hidden in plain sight. They exemplify how communities have reckoned, or not, with their roles in the history of slavery and invite us all to dig deeper into what we believe – and why.

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Forget the Alamo (2021) charts the history of the Alamo, both real and imagined. It looks at how a popular, heroic mythology sprung from the events of 1836 and came to represent both a noble version of Texas independence and a metaphor for American valor. Find out how the Alamo became a touchstone in American culture wars, and discover how the real story paints a not-so-virtuous picture of American history.

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Chris Tomlinson is a former war correspondent for the Associated Press, having covered nine wars in over 30 different countries. He currently works as a columnist for the San Antonio Express-News and the Houston Chronicle. His previous books include Tomlinson Hill.

Jason Stanford is a former writer for Texas Monthly and the Texas Tribune. He also works as a political consultant and a contributor to the Austin American-Statesman.

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Steven Johnson is a science writer and podcast host from Washington, DC. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He’s also the author of 13 books, including Emergence and Farsighted.

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Black Spartacus (2020) tells the story of Toussaint Louverture, one of the leading figures in the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century. It explores how Louverture, a man born into slavery, managed to overcome his position in society to lead the enslaved people of Haiti to first their freedom and then their independence from France. It was the first successful slave rebellion in history.

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Four Hundred Souls (2021) is an innovative and insightful recounting of African American history. This collection brings together ninety different authors to reflect on four-hundred years of struggle, oppression, and hope.

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Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is the best-selling author of How to Be an Antiracist, Stamped, and Antiracist Baby.

Keisha N. Blain is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and president of the African American Intellectual History Society. Her work includes the Washington Post’s “Made in History” section and the book Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom.

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Thomas Morris is a London-based medical historian and writer. His first book The Matter of the Heart (2017) recounted the history of heart surgery and was awarded a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award.

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You Never Forget Your First (2020) is a playful history of America’s first president, the first biography of George Washington to be written by a woman in over 40 years. A unique departure from the typical Washington biography, these blinks cut through the hero worship to reveal a nuanced character with problems – just like the rest of us.

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Alexis Coe is a best-selling author, historian, and writer. Her novel Alice + Freda Forever made the New York Times Best-seller List and is soon to be a major motion picture. She was a consulting producer on the History Channel series Washington and hosts the podcast series Presidents Are People Too! from Audible.

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Black and British (2016) traces Britain’s long and complex relationship with the people of Africa and the Caribbean. Reaching all the way back to Roman Britain, when the first Africans arrived in England, the book reveals that Black people have been at the heart of British history from the very start. A major player in the transatlantic slave trade, Britain further entwined its destiny with that of the Africans it enslaved. Ultimately, David Olusoga illustrates how the story of Black Britain is the story of all of Britain.

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Songs of America (2019) explores the music that has shaped American History. From African American spirituals to Elvis Presley’s rock and roll, these blinks shine a light on the music that has defined the progress, defeats and protests of Americans from all walks of life, over the last three centuries.

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America Before (2019) is a mind-expanding quest for an ancient and lost way of life. Drawing on lesser-known DNA and archeological evidence, it proposes the existence of a great, early civilization based in North America. Lost to history in the aftermath of a cataclysmic comet strike, this civilization is visible today only in the traces it left in Egyptian, Native American and other great ancient cultures.

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