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The Story of Ruby Bridges (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 13,024 ratings — published 1995
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 12,888 ratings — published 2001
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 71,677 ratings — published 1995
Mapping Penny's World (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 593 ratings — published 2000
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 16,790 ratings — published 2007
My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,043 ratings — published 2003
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 632,061 ratings — published 1989
Oh, Freedom!: Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 99 ratings — published 1997
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,283,846 ratings — published 1947
Me On The Map (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,070 ratings — published 1996
The Scrambled States of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,161 ratings — published 1998
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 467,747 ratings — published 1997
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,018 ratings — published 2006
Chains (Seeds of America, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 59,670 ratings — published 2008
We the Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 709 ratings — published 2002
Baseball Saved Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,040 ratings — published 1993
Duck for President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 8,119 ratings — published 2004
So You Want to Be President? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,598 ratings — published 2000
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,305,756 ratings — published 2011
Grace for President (Grace Series, 1)
by (shelved 30 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,915 ratings — published 2007
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 166,129 ratings — published 2020
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,580 ratings — published 2010
Encounter (Voyager Books)
by (shelved 26 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,858 ratings — published 1992
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 863,788 ratings — published 2000
Through My Eyes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 6,213 ratings — published 1999
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 906,945 ratings — published 2005
Rosa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,887 ratings — published 2005
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 511,376 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,560 ratings — published 2010
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.69 — 205,861 ratings — published 1848
John, Paul, George & Ben (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,683 ratings — published 2006
Pink and Say (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 11,706 ratings — published
Rose Blanche (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,129 ratings — published 1985
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,032 ratings — published 2016
Bud, Not Buddy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.98 — 116,399 ratings — published 1999
Esperanza Rising (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 117,223 ratings — published 2000
Freedom Summer (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 2,965 ratings — published 2001
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,644 ratings — published 1990
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 271,430 ratings — published 1980
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 177,964 ratings — published 2019
Locomotive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,211 ratings — published 2013
Letters from Rifka (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 11,323 ratings — published 1992
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 882,759 ratings — published 2008
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,584 ratings — published 2019
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 373,491 ratings — published 2015
Letting Swift River Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 691 ratings — published 1992
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 482,268 ratings — published 2012
George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Two Sides (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,179 ratings — published 2004
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,721,585 ratings — published 1945
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
by (shelved 18 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.90 — 131,352 ratings — published 1976
“Why Humanities Matter (Sonnet 2443)
There's not one but two kinds of knowledge,
one is empirical, another is existential.
Maths, physics, chemistry, biology,
these are empirical knowledge that explore
the building blocks of life and universe,
whereas existential knowledge of the humanities
make us unfold new meanings of life and universe,
not in an archaic, blind, preordained sort of way,
but by fostering a deeper sense of lived community.
Empirical disciplines are instrument of efficiency,
while humanities are the carrier of illumination.
Abundance on the outside counts for nothing,
if the inside is suffering from malnutrition.
Empirical disciplines will take us to the stars,
but it's humanities that make sure,
we don't leave behind our humanity,
otherwise we'll just end up a bunch of space monkeys.”
― Sonnets From The Mountaintop
There's not one but two kinds of knowledge,
one is empirical, another is existential.
Maths, physics, chemistry, biology,
these are empirical knowledge that explore
the building blocks of life and universe,
whereas existential knowledge of the humanities
make us unfold new meanings of life and universe,
not in an archaic, blind, preordained sort of way,
but by fostering a deeper sense of lived community.
Empirical disciplines are instrument of efficiency,
while humanities are the carrier of illumination.
Abundance on the outside counts for nothing,
if the inside is suffering from malnutrition.
Empirical disciplines will take us to the stars,
but it's humanities that make sure,
we don't leave behind our humanity,
otherwise we'll just end up a bunch of space monkeys.”
― Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“I hear my father's voice. "Political differences divided what used to be America into The Nationalist States and The Patriot States: Then Nats declared war on the Patriots. Why?"
Olmo answers in an overly enthusiastic tone. "Because they couldn't agree on the division of derritoryes!"
"Territories," corrects Dad.
"That, too," says Olmo cheerfully.”
― The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
Olmo answers in an overly enthusiastic tone. "Because they couldn't agree on the division of derritoryes!"
"Territories," corrects Dad.
"That, too," says Olmo cheerfully.”
― The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
