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The 1619 Project (2021) is an anthology of essays investigating the origins of the slave trade in America, and how it has shaped what the country would become. It’s also an exploration of how we create history, and how these stories shape our political present. The essays are accompanied by fictional excerpts and poetry, bringing to life the experiences of enslaved people in America.

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Nikole Hannah-Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist covering racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine, and creator of the 1619 Project. She has received a MacArthur Foundation Grant as well as a Peabody Award, two George Polk Awards and the 2018 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism from Columbia University. In 2016, Hannah-Jones founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting with the aim of supporting the work of investigative reporters of color.

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Wildland (2021) recounts the story of how America became unraveled throughout the first two decades of the twenty-first century. Drawing on stories from residents of three US cities –⁠ Greenwich, Connecticut; Clarksburg, West Virginia; and Chicago, Illinois –⁠ it examines the undercurrents of change that tie together the fates of these varied landscapes. Finally, it describes how the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 laid the foundation for the violent insurrection on January 6, 2021.

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Evan Osnos is a journalist who has worked as a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2008. Previously, he worked for the Chicago Tribune – first as a metro reporter and then as a national and foreign correspondent stationed in the Middle East and China. His book Age of Ambition won the 2014 National Book Award for nonfiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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The Reckoning (2021) is an unflinching look at contemporary American society. This sharp treatise draws informative connections between the nation’s traumas and its current issues.

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Mary L. Trump holds a PhD in clinical psychology from Adelphi University and is the author of the best seller Too Much and Never Enough. She is the niece of former US President Donald Trump.

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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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Clint Smith is a staff writer at the Atlantic and the author of Counting Descent, an award-winning book of poetry. His writing has also appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Paris Review, and Poetry, among others. Smith has been awarded fellowships from the Art for Justice Fund, Cave Canem, New America, and the National Science Foundation. He holds a BA in English from Davidson College and a PhD in Education from Harvard University.

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The Authoritarian Moment (2021) is a plea to preserve America’s foundational freedoms in an era of rising authoritarianism. Rejecting a culture of censorship and conformity, it urges readers to stand up against the intolerance endemic to many modern institutions.

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Ben Shapiro is an American political commentator and host of the popular daily podcast, The Ben Shapiro Show. The author of three national best sellers, Brainwashed; Porn Generation; and Project President, he has also appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows to date. He holds a bachelor of arts in political science from UCLA and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School.

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Extra Life (2021) looks at some of the breakthroughs that allowed the global human life expectancy to double in just one hundred years. From seat belts to explosives, from Ireland to Constantinople, it’s an account as gripping as it is wide-ranging.

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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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The Narrow Corridor (2019) weaves together a rich tapestry from disparate parts of history to answer the question: Why do some countries achieve liberty while others do not? From the ancient city of Uruk to Revolutionary America, from 1950s China to modern-day Argentina, it examines the conditions that enable governments and citizens to thrive as one –⁠ and the consequences when this fails to occur.

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Daron Acemoglu is a multi-award-winning economist and an Institute Professor –⁠ the highest title a faculty member can achieve –⁠ at MIT. In 2015, the Research Papers in Economics database named him the most-cited economist of the previous decade. Along with James A. Robinson, he is the coauthor of the best-selling book Why Nations Fail.

James A. Robinson is a political scientist who previously taught at Harvard and now serves as one of nine University Professors at the University of Chicago. His major areas of interest are Africa and Latin America, where he continues to conduct extensive research.

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Florence Nightingale (1951) tells the legendary story of the “Lady with the Lamp,” the famed nurse who arrived to soothe the souls of those wounded in the Crimean War. It chronicles her journey to the conflict’s horrific medical barracks, and how she used her experiences to forever change the way hospitals are run and how the sick are treated.

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Mar Olshaker is a New York Times bestselling writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His previous work on criminal psychology is the basis for the hit television series Mindhunter.

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This is Going to Hurt (2017) is a revealing look at the daily reality of working as a doctor in the UK today, as experienced by one man who rose through the ranks of the country’s National Healthcare System (NHS). At times painfully funny, and in others disturbingly grim, author Adam Kay’s personal recollections and diary entries offer a warts-and-all look at the life of a doctor in the NHS.

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