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[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674045718/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674045718&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=cad0359787f1b1cdf5991df146049661 Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century] by Tera W. Hunter (Belknap Press, 2017)

Bound in Wedlock is the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century. Uncovering the experiences of African American spouses in plantation records, legal and court documents, and pension files, Tera W. Hunter reveals the myriad ways couples adopted, adapted, revised, and rejected white Christian ideas of marriage. Setting their own standards for conjugal relationships, enslaved husbands and wives were creative and, of necessity, practical in starting and supporting families under conditions of uncertainty and cruelty.

[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LXZFFW9/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B01LXZFFW9&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=bbcf87b26b1b476fdc8bd49ca148fa0a Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics], by Kim Phillips-Fein (Metropolitan Books)

When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country’s largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the city was indeed billions of dollars in the red, with no way to pay back its debts. Bankers and politicians alike seized upon the situation as evidence that social liberalism, which New York famously exemplified, was unworkable. The city had to slash services, freeze wages, and fire thousands of workers, they insisted, or financial apocalypse would ensue. In this vivid account, historian Kim Phillips-Fein tells the remarkable story of the crisis that engulfed the city.

[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071FBJPMV/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B071FBJPMV&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=a3a93524e1a57d84961dbf4d0a7a4180 Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America], by Steven J. Ross (Bloomsbury)