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  • Seven Social Movements That Changed America

    by Linda Gordon ...
    A brilliantly conceived and provocative work from an award-winning historian that examines how seven twentieth-century social movements transformed America.How do social movements arise, wield power, and decline? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these questions in a groundbreaking work, narrating the stories of many of America’s most influential twentieth-century social movements. ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • The Crossing

    El Paso, the Southwest, and America's Forgotten Origin Story

    The Crossing has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Willard Gibbs

    The Whole is Simpler than Its Parts

    A poet’s lost biography of the forgotten scientist who founded physical chemistry, shaping much of the 20th century—as well as an ingenious and expansive treatise on American creativity, character, and remembrance.Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903) was an American visionary whose work shaped a century of science by bridging classical mechanics and quantum physics. A kindly and shy bachelor who ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Plot Against Native America

    Uncovering the Fateful Legacy of the Native American Boarding Schools

    by Bill Vaughn ...
    The first narrative history revealing the entire story of the development, operation, and harmful legacy of the Native American boarding schools—and how our nation still has much to resolve before we can fully heal.When Europeans came to the Americas centuries ago, too many of them brought racism along with them. Even presidents such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson each ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Bandit Heaven

    The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West

    by Tom Clavin ...
    From multiple New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin comes the thrilling true story of the most infamous hangout for bandits, thieves and murderers of all time—and the lawmen tasked with rooting them out.Robbers Roost, Brown’s Hole, and Hole in the Wall were three hideouts that collectively were known to outlaws as “Bandit Heaven.” During the 1880s and ‘90s these remote locations in Wyoming ... Read more

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  • Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank

    A leading historian exposes how the rise and tragic failure of the Freedman’s Bank has shaped economic inequality in America.In the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman’s Bank. African Americans envisioned this new bank as a launching pad for economic growth and self-determination. But only nine years after it ... Read more

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  • Vengeance Feminism

    The Power of Black Women's Fury in Lawless Times

    by Kali Gross ...
    From an award-winning historian, an alternative model of feminism driven by the legacy of Black women who took justice into their own handsSo often failed by the state, demeaned by racism and sexism, and denied respectable means of redress, Black women have nevertheless patiently resisted myriad injustices. Yet history shows an alternative path. It involved razors, pistols, hatchets, and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • A Hell of a Storm

    The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War

    From popular historian and author of the “marvelous” (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes the fascinating story of how in 1854, a new law—the Kansas-Nebraska Act—unexpectedly became the greatest miscalculation in American history, dividing North and South, creating the Republican party, and paving the way for the Civil War.The history of the United States includes a ... Read more

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  • Beyond Vanity

    The History and Power of Hairdressing

    From the award-winning author of Dressing Up, a riveting and diverse history of women’s hair that reestablishes the cultural power of hairdressing in nineteenth-century America.In the nineteenth century, the complex cultural meaning of hair was not only significant, but it could also impact one’s place in society. After the Civil War, hairdressing was also a growing profession and the hair ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind

    A panoramic account of the most devastating battle of the Civil War, and its far-reaching consequences for American society and culture.The Battle of Antietam, which took place on September 17, 1862, remains the single bloodiest day in America’s history. As a turning point in the Civil War, the narrow Union victory was the key catalyst for Lincoln to issue his Emancipation Proclamation.Yet ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Combing Through the White House

    Hair and Its Shocking Impact on the Politics, Private Lives, and Legacies of the Presidents

    Discover a fascinating and novel look at the U.S. presidents, the first families, and American history—all through the lens of hair. With meticulous detail, engaging storytelling, and full-color visuals, encyclopedia editor Theodore Pappas combs through American history, teasing out long-forgotten and little-known ways that hair has influenced the presidency and the public and private lives, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Nat Turner, Black Prophet

    A Visionary History

    A bold reinterpretation of the causes and legacy of Nat Turner's rebellion—and the new definitive account.In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, rose up to fight for their freedom. They attacked the plantations on which their enslavers lived and attempted to march on the county seat of Jerusalem, from which they planned to launch an uprising across the South. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Red Dead's History

    A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past

    A pathbreaking new way to examine US history, through the lens of a bestselling video gameRed Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history video games since The Oregon Trail. Beloved by millions, they’ve been widely acclaimed for their realism and attention to detail. But how do they fare as re-creations of history?In this engaging book, ... Read more

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  • The Redskins

    Series series The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper
    The Redskins, James Fenimore Cooper's 1846 novel about the Anti-Rent Wars in upstate New York, is now available in a scholarly edition. The final work in the "Littlepage trilogy," The Redskins includes Cooper's enduring theme of Indigenous-White relations but examines it in the context of contemporary tensions between wealthy landlords and their tenant farmers in the Hudson Valley region. The work ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America

    by James Tejani ...
    A deeply researched narrative of the creation of the Port of Los Angeles, a central event in America’s territorial expansion and rise as a global economic power.The Port of Los Angeles is all around us. Objects we use on a daily basis pass through it: furniture, apparel, electronics, automobiles, and much more. The busiest container port in the Western hemisphere, it claims one-third of all US ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum

    The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss

    by Margalit Fox ...
    **America’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady—a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum.“A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket’s finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York.”—Liza Mundy, author of The Sisterhood**In 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in steerage and worked as a peddler on the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Theatres of Value

    Buying and Selling Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century New York City

    Theatres of Value explores the idea that buying and selling are performative acts and offers a paradigm for deeper study of these acts—"the dramaturgy of value." Modeling this multifaceted approach, the book explores six case studies to show how and why Shakespeare had value for nineteenth-century New Yorkers. In considering William Brown's African Theater, P. T. Barnum's American Museum and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • A Fanny Fern Reader

    Selections by a Pioneering Nineteenth-Century Woman Journalist

    by Fanny Fern ...
    In the middle of the nineteenth century, the highest paid and most famous newspaper writer in the US was a woman known to the world as Fanny Fern, the nom de plume of Sara Payson Willis. A Fanny Fern Reader features a selection of Fern's columns, mostly from her years as a weekly columnist for the New York Ledger, along with an introduction that shares the remarkable story of Fern's perseverance ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • John Quincy Adams

    A Man for the Whole People

    by Randall Woods ...
    A magisterial journey through the epic life and transformative times of John Quincy AdamsIn this masterful biography, historian Randall B. Woods peels back the many layers of John Quincy’s long life, exposing a rich and complicated family saga and a political legacy that transformed the American Republic.Born the first son of John and Abigail Adams, he was pressured to follow in his father’s ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Other Presidency

    Thomas Jefferson and the American Philosophical Society

    by Patrick Spero ...
    In The Other Presidency, Patrick Spero resurrects an overlooked but essential part of Thomas Jefferson’s life. For nearly seventeen years, Jefferson served as President of the American Philosophical Society (APS), the nation’s first learned society and one dedicated to promoting new research in the young republic, especially in the sciences. He did so while also serving as Vice President and ... Read more

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  • Proud Shoes

    The Story of an American Family

    by Pauli Murray ...
    First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW, Proud Shoes chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith, daughter of a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Profiles in Freedom

    Heroes Who Shaped America with a Foreword by Senator Markwayne Mullin

    by Carl Higbie ...
    KEY SELLING POINTS >PROFILES IN FREEDOM: HEROES WHO SHAPED AMERICA by Carl HigbieSUMMER 202450,000 Announced 1st Print > 5,000 Laydown Goal w/ Chain, Independent, Mass Merch, Christian & Airport airport placementsA PERFECT GRADS &/OR DADS GIFT!CATEGORY: BIOGRAPHY / American History / Politics / Current Events / Inspirational / Motivational<... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Hidden History of the White House

    Power Struggles, Scandals, and Defining Moments

    by Corey Mead ...
    Presented by the hit podcast American History Tellers, The Hidden History of the White House reveals the behind-the-scenes stories of some of the most dramatic events in American history—set right inside the house where it happenedFor more than two centuries, the White House in Washington, DC, has been the stage for some of the most climactic moments in American history. Its walls and portraits ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Root and the Branch

    Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860

    by Sean Griffin ...
    Series series America in the Nineteenth Century
    The Root and the Branch examines the relationship between the early labor movement and the crusade to abolish slavery between the early national period and the Civil War. Tracing the parallel rise of antislavery movements with working-class demands for economic equality, access to the soil, and the right to the fruits of labor, Sean Griffin shows how labor reformers and radicals contributed to the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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