America, USA: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries (Crown Publishers, 2026) details a heart-wrenching exploration of America’s legacy. It is a complex combination of lessons and voices — from W.E.B. DuBois and John Dos Passos to Herman Melville and Martin Luther King, Jr.— that, together, paint a sprawling and honest tableau of the United States, its complicated past, and ever more tenuous future.
Centered around the major celebrations of America’s milestone birthdays across 250 years of history, the book offers a riveting look at the battles over who has a stake in writing the American story.
Candid, moving, and reflective, America, USA pulls no punches, calling on us to interrogate our conceptions of innocence and freedom and the stories we tell ourselves about our past and present.
“Eddie S. Glaude Jr. opens a necessary conversation as we reflect on the meaning of our country’s 250th anniversary” Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello Annette Gordon-Reed said about the book.
Glaude is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University and author of New York Times bestselling Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own and Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul.
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