Books like The Last Plantation by Don Wright

Richard Rothstein’s *The Color of Law* uncovers how federal, state, and local policies deliberately created and maintained racial segregation in U.S. cities.

Edward E. Baptist shows how slavery’s expansion from 1777 to 1847 powered America’s shift to industrial capitalism, turning the South into a cotton empire and reshaping the nation’s economy.

Agent of Byzantium is a historical fiction novel by Harry Turtledove that blends imaginative storytelling with historical context.

Although the book is named Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Lessig uses this theme sparingly. It is a fairly simple concept: since cyberspace is entirely human-made, there are no natural laws to determine its architecture. While we tend to assume that what is in cyberspace is a given, in fact everything there is a construction based on decisions made by people. What we can and can't do there is governed by the underlying code of all of the programs that make up the Internet, which both permit and restrict. So while the libertarians among us rail against the idea of government, our freedoms in cyberspace are being determined by an invisible structure that is every bit as restricting as any laws that can come out of a legislature, legitimate or not. Even more important, this invisible code has been written by people we did not elect and who have no formal obligations to us, such as the members of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) or the more recently-developed Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). It follows that what we will be able to do in the future will be determined by code that will be written tomorrow, and we should be thinking about who will determine what this code will be. [from http://kcoyle.net/lessig.html]

When residents across the country vanish, detective Jonathon Payne follows clues that lead him to a New Orleans plantation, uncovering the South’s darkest secret.

Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague in 1937. A Soviet spy network's clandestine operation in the shadow of World War II espionage and intrigue.