Books like The Fire Next Time

#1

Abandoned Industrial Places Factories, laboratories, mills and mines that the world left behind

David Ross

Themes: Photojournalism • Decorative Arts • Design

#2

Women Holding Things

Maira Kalman

Themes: Decorative Arts • Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions • Design

#3

No Justice, No Peace From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter

Devin Allen

Themes: Photojournalism • Human Rights • Photography

#4

American Portrait

PBS

Themes: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Social History

#5

Breach of Peace Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders

Eric Etheridge

Themes: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Photography • African American & Black

#6

The Day in Its Color Charles Cushman’s Photographic Journey Through a Vanishing America

Eric Sandweiss

Themes: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Social History

#7

Moonfire The Epic Journey of Apollo 11

Norman Mailer

Themes: Photojournalism • Social History • Photography

#8

The North American Indian The Complete Portfolios

Edward S. Curtis

Themes: Photojournalism • Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#9

The House I Live in Race in the American Century

Robert Jefferson Norrell

Themes: Minority Studies • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Social History

#10

Abandoned Cold War Places The bunkers, submarine bases, missile silos, airfields and listening posts from the world’s most secretive conflict

Robert Grenville

Themes: Photojournalism • Decorative Arts • Design

#11

Lens of War Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War

James Matthew Gallman

Themes: Photojournalism • Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions • Photography

#12

Gordon Parks A Harlem Family 1967

Gordon Parks

Themes: Photojournalism • Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions • Photography

#13

The Charleston Freedman’s Cottage An Architectural Tradition

Lissa Felzer

Themes: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Photography • African American & Black

#14

African Americans of Tampa

Ersula Knox Odom

Themes: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Photography • African American & Black

#15

Murals of the Palm Beaches

Sharon Koskoff

Themes: Decorative Arts • Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions • Design

#16

Bloody Tuesday The Untold Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa

John M. Giggie

Themes: Minority Studies • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Social History

#17

Let the People See The Story of Emmett Till

Elliott J. Gorn

Themes: Minority Studies • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Social History

#18

City Country Coast Our House Your Home

Soho House

Themes: Decorative Arts • Design • Photography

#19

Blk Mkt Vintage Reclaiming Objects and Curiosities That Tell Black Stories

Jannah Handy

Themes: Decorative Arts • Design • Photography

#20

Freedom’s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

Jefferson Cowie

Themes: Human Rights • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Social History

#21

Tulsa, 1921 Reporting a Massacre

Randy Krehbiel

Themes: Minority Studies • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Social History

#22

Cold War American Exhibitions of Italian Art and Design

Antje Gamble

Themes: Decorative Arts • Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions • Design

#23

Abandoned Castles

Kieron Connolly

Themes: Photojournalism • Decorative Arts • Design

#24

My People Five Decades of Writing about Black Lives

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Themes: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Social History • African American & Black