Below is a list of books and publishers that we consider important resources. Originally entered alphabetically by title, it is sortable by any column and is also searchable.
| Title | Author | Publisher | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1676: The End of American Independence | Stephen Saunders Webb | Syracuse University Press | 1995 |
| Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare | Thomas Rid | Ferrar, Straus and Giroux | 2020 |
| African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals | David Hackett Fischer | Simon and Schuster | 2022 |
| American Schism: How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing our Nation | Seth David Radwell | Greenleaf Book Group Press | 2022 |
| Bananas!: How The United Fruit Company Shaped the World | Peter Chapman | Canongate U.S. | 2008 |
| Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America | Lee Drutman | Oxford University Press | 2020 |
| Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World | James Miller | Ferrar, Straus and Giroux | 2018 |
| Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents | Isabel Wilkerson | Random House | 2020 |
| Changing Lenses: A New Focus for Crime and Justice | Howard Zehr. | Virginia, USA: Herald Press | 2005 |
| Cite Right: A Quick Guide to Citation Styles–MLA, APA, Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More | Charles Lipson | University of Chicago Press | 2018 |
| The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution | Robert G. Parkinson | Omahundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press | 2016 |
| The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today | David Stasavage | Princeton University Press | 2020 |
| Demon Copperhead | Barbara Kingsolver | Harper | 2022 |
| Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century | Dorothy Roberts | The New Press | 2011 |
| The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War | Joanne B. Freeman | Ferrar, Straus and Giroux | 2018 |
| Freedom for Sale: Why the World Is Trading Democracy for Security | John Kampfner | Basic Books | 2010 |
| The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism | Edward E. Baptist | Basic Books | 2014 |
| Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America | Sarah Kendzior | Flatiron Books | 2020 |
| How to Write a Successful Business Plan | Julie K. Brook | AMACOM/American Management Association | 1987 |
| The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower | Michael Pillsbury | Henry Holt and Co. | 2015 |
| Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong | Louisa Lim | Riverhead Books | 2022 |
| Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles | Peter F. Drucker | HarperCollins Publishers | 1985 |
| The Little Book of Restorative Justice | Howard Zehr | Good Books | 2015 |
| Locke: A Very Short Introduction | John Dunn | Oxford University Press | 2003 |
| Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices | Peter F. Drucker | Collins | 1992 |
| The Myths of Meritocracy: A Revisionist History Anthology | Malcolm Gladwell | Scrubs | 2021 |
| New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America | Wendy Warren | Liveright | 2016 |
| On Grand Strategy | John Lewis Gaddis | Penguin Press/Penguin Group USA | year |
| On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century | Timothy Snyder | Tim Dugan Books | 2017 |
| The Origins of Courtliness: Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtly Ideals, 939-1210 | C. Stephen Jaeger | University of Pennsylvania Press | 1985 |
| Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere | Tsedal Neeley | Harper Business | 2021 |
| Research As Resistance: Critical, Indigenous and Anti Oppressive Approaches | Leslie Brown | Canadian Scholars Press | 2005 |
| The Rhetoric of History | Savoie Lottinville | University of Oklahoma Press | 1976 |
| The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America | Timothy Snyder | Tim Dugan Books, 2018 | |
| Saving the News: Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech | Martha Minow | Oxford University Press | 2021 |
| The Second Treatise on Civil Government | John Locke | Originally published anonymously | 1689 |
| Sound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production | Jonathan Kern | University of Chicago Press | 2008 |
| Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence | Robert G. Parkinson | University of North Carolina Press | 2021 |
| Two Concepts of Liberty: An Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 31 October 1958 | Isaiah Berlin | Oxford University Press | 1958 |
| The View from Flyover Country: Essays | Sarah Kendzio | Flatiron Books | 2018 |
| The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America’s Disimagination Machine | Henry A. Giroux | City Lights Publishers | 2014 |
| Webster’s New World Dictionary | Merriam-Webster | William Morrow Paperbacks | 2016 |
| Webster’s New World College Dictionary | Merriam-Webster | Webster’s New World | 2016 |
| Whatever Happened to Justice? | Richard J. Maybury | Bluestocking Press | 1992 |
| White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America | Don Jordan | Simon and Schuster | 1988 |
| White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America | Nancy Isenberg | Well Trained Mind Press | 2020 |
| White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America | Nancy Isenberg | Viking | 2016 |
| Who Said What?: A Writer’s Guide to Finding, Evaluating, Quoting, and Documenting Sources | Kayla Meyers | Well-Trained Mind Press | 2019 |
| Why I Write | George Orwell | Amereon Limited | 1994 |
| Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success | Tom Eisenmann | Currency | 2021 |
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