Tag: History & Biography
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The Secret History of the Rape Kit
This thrilling investigation tells the story of the troubled, heroic woman who kicked off a feminist revolution in forensics, and then vanished into obscurity.
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The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America
A groundbreaking and deeply personal exploration of Tribal enrollment, and what it means to be Native American in the United States.
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Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
A thoroughly entertaining roundup of history’s notorious female con artists and their bold, outrageous scams.
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Confident Women
A thoroughly entertaining roundup of history’s notorious female con artists and their bold, outrageous scams.
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Rikers: An Oral History
An oral history of the infamous Rikers jail complex and an unflinching portrait of injustice and resilience told by the people whose lives have been forever altered by it.
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The Woman They Could Not Silence
The story of Elizabeth Packard, a woman who history has forgotten, but whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change for women’s rights and exposed injustices.
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Under the Banner of Heaven
A multi-layered work of investigative journalism that explores a savage double murder within one of America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities.
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Maus
The story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story.
