Books like The way we never were by Stephanie Coontz

Nina Browning, a Nashville socialite, must decide between her elite life and her values when a scandalous photo threatens her family’s reputation, prompting her to reevaluate loyalty, privilege, and the cost of standing with a single father.

In 2001, the Drummond family gathers at Cape Canaveral to witness their daughter Sarah’s launch into space, only to unleash a chaotic succession of crime and misadventure that exposes the family’s deep flaws and unbreakable bonds.

Emily returns from a Chilean mountain trip with her best friend Kristen to a Wisconsin suburb, only to confront a violent past that threatens a new relationship, her career, and her freedom.

Before the next century is out, Americans of African, Asian, and Latin American ancestry will outnumber those of European origin. In the Elmhurst-Corona neighborhood of Queens, New York City, the transition occurred during the 1970s, and the area's two-decade experience of multiracial diversity offers us an early look at the future of urban America. The book examines the ways in which residents - in everyday interactions, block and tenant associations, houses of worship, small business coalitions, civic rituals, incidents of ethnic and racial hostility, and political struggles for more schools, for youth programs, and against over-development - have forged and tested alliances across lines of race, ethnicity, and language.

In the Nazi state, women had received the opportunity to create the largest women's organization in history, with the blessings of the blatantly male-chauvinist Nazi Party. Here was the nineteenth-century feminists' vision of the future in nightmare form. In this book I would bring to light the contribution to evil made by Scholtz-Klink and other women leaders, find out what they had done, what they believed they were doing, and why. I would ask how "normal" people (women, in this case) brought Nazi beliefs home in everyday thought and action. Above all, I would record the history of average people without normalizing life in Nazi society. Women's history during the Third Reich lacks the extravagant insanity of Hitler's megalomania; often it is ordinary. But there, at the grassroots of daily life, in a social world populated by women, we begin to discover how war and genocide happened by asking who made it happen. - Preface.

Examines how American families have evolved across three centuries, covering Indigenous peoples, enslaved people, and immigrants and their adaptation to social change.

Olivia Martin, a 21‑year‑old free‑spirited Californian, is thrust into sudden motherhood when her estranged father is killed and she becomes guardian of his three‑year‑old daughter.