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Book Display - June 2025

Juneteenth

Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day or Freedom Day, commemorates June 19, 1865. On this day, 250,000 enslaved African Americans in the state of Texas were freed by executive decree, marking the end of slavery in the United States.

Find related materials on our Juneteenth resource guide and the National Museum of African American History & Culture, or consult with a librarian by emailing ask@dickinson.libanswers.com

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Call Number: E441 .A15 2021
Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
Call Number: PS3555 .L625 J86 1999
Black Futures by Kimberly Drew; Jenna Wortham
Call Number: CB235 .B595 2020
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Call Number: E444 .N87 2017
Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation & Reconstruction by Eric Foner
Call Number: E668 .F655 2005
Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition by Michelle D. Commander (Editor)
Call Number: E444 .U57 2021
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston
Call Number: E444 .L49 H87 2018
Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing by Christopher Hager
Call Number: PS153.B53 H17 2013
Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery by Deborah Willis; Barbara Krauthamer
Call Number: E185.2 .W68 2013
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Call Number: E185.6 .W685 2010
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel
Call Number: E444.W815 M35 2019
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom by David W. Blight
Call Number: E450 .W325 B58 2007
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Call Number: E185.61 .B7335 2018
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Call Number: E185.61 .G253 2019
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry; Kali Nicole Gross
Call Number: E185.86 .B475 2020
Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition by Katherine Franke
Call Number: E185.89.R45 F73 2019
Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation by Marcus Anthony Hunter
Call Number: E185.89.R45 H86 2024
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
Call Number: E185.93.T4 G67 2021
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: PS3573 .H4768 U53 2016
The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman (Editor)
Call Number: E185.86 .B52365 2022
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: E185.615 .C6335 2015
Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery by Joseph P. Reidy
Call Number: E441 .R35 2019
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner
Call Number: E450 .F66 2015
To Raise up a Nation: John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and the Making of a Free Country by William S. King
Online
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: E184.A1 K344 2019
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by Tiya Miles
Online
Reparations and Reparatory Justice: Past, Present, and Future by Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua (Editor); Mary Frances Berry (Editor); V. P. Franklin (Editor)
Call Number: E185.89.R45 R47 2024

Book Display - June 2025

Timely Topics: Alumni Publications

In celebration of Alumni Weekend (June 13-15), check out one of these books published by Dickinson alumni from reunion classes. This display features books published by Dickinson graduates from 1955-2020!

For more information, you can consult with a librarian by emailing ask@dickinson.libanswers.com.

Footsteps: In Love with a Frenchman by Susan M. Tiberghien '55
Call Number: PS3570 .I24 Z46 2015
Repression, Resistance, and Democratic Transition in Central America by Ariel C. Armony (Editor); Thomas W. Walker (Editor); Mark Ruhl '70
Call Number: JL1416 .R47 2000
Italian Christian Democracy by Robert. Leonardi; Douglas A. Wertman '70
Call Number: JN5657.D43 L43 1989
Seneca and the Idea of Tragedy by Gregory A. Staley '70
Call Number: PA6685 .S73 2010
God and Government: Twenty Five Years of Fighting for Equality, Secularism, and Freedom of Conscience by Rev. Barry W. Lynn '70
Call Number: BR516 .L96 2015
The Tao of Socrates by Stefan Schindler '70
Call Number: B111 .S35 2011
Reflections and Undercurrents: Ernest Roth and Printmaking in Venice, 1900-1940 by Eric Denker '75
Call Number: NE962 .V45 D46 2012
Germany at the Crossroads: Foreign and Domestic Policy Issues by Gale A. Mattox (Editor); A. Bradley Shingleton '75 (Editor)
Call Number: DD290.25 .G48 1992
The Raw Food Lifestyle: The Philosophy and Nutrition Behind Raw and Live Foods by Ruthann Russo '80
Call Number: RM237.5 .R874 2009
The Brontës: A Family Writes by Christine Nelson '85
Call Number: PR4168 .N45x 2016
The Sense of Death by Matty Dalrymple '85
Call Number: PS3604 .A4232 S45 2013
The Surgeon and the Cowgirl by Heidi Hormel '85
Call Number: PS3608 .O758 S87 2015
The Stress Solution: The Complete Guide to Winning in Business without Sacrificing in Life by David A. Weiman '85
Call Number: HD38.2 .W45 2005
Heat and Light by Jennifer Haigh '90
Call Number: PS3608 .A544 H43 2016
Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe? by Brock Clarke '90
Call Number: PS3603.L37 W48 2019
Babymouse #1: Queen of the World! by Jennifer L. Holm '90; Matthew Holm (Illustrator)
Call Number: PN6727 .H592 B33 2005
Growing up Old: Child of an Addict by Melissa Vayda, EdD '00
Call Number: HV5805 .V39 A3 2016
Trees of Stone by Sean D. Mooney '00
Call Number: PS3613 .O6529 T74 2016
Boundary Lines by Nichole Finger '00
Call Number: PS3606 .I544 B6 2001
How to Play Video Games by Matthew Thomas Payne (Editor); Nina B. Huntemann (Editor), Jeremy Barnes '15 (Contribution By)
Call Number: GV1469.34 .S52 H68 2019
Targeted Tracks: The Cumberland Valley Railroad in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Scott L. Mingus; Cooper H. Wingert '20; Scott L. Mingus
Call Number: F157.C9 M56 2019

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