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Illiberal America: A History
$35.00 Add to cartA storm of illiberalism, building in the United States for years, unleashed its destructive force in the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021. The attack on American democracy and images of mob vio
- Author: Hahn, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 393635929
- Language: English
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At the Base of the Giant’s Throat: The Past and Future of America’s Great Dams
$34.95 Add to cartThere are ninety thousand registered dams in the United States, fifty thousand of them classified as “major.” Nearly all of this infrastructure was built during a forty-year period, from 1932 to 1972,… [more below]
- Author: Palumbi, Anthony R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1640124934
- Language: English
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
$18.00 Add to cartOne of NPR’s Great Reads of 2016
“A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories…absorbing… and] intellectually intriguing.” —The New York Times Book Review From the author- Author: Dickey, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 3, 2017
- ISBN10: 1101980206
- Language: English
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Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks–A Cool History of a Hot Commodity
$29.00 Read moreThe unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation–from the foods Americans eat, to the sports they play, to the way they live today–and what its future might look like on a swiftl… [more below]
- Author: Brady, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0593422198
- Language: English
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Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
$18.00 Add to cartJournalist Greg Melville’s Over My Dead Body is an “astonishing . . . fascinating . . . powerful” (New York Times Book Review) tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and w
- Author: Melville, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1419754866
- Language: English
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An African American and Latinx History of the United States
$18.95 Add to cartAn intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights
Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a rev- Series: ReVisioning American History #4
- Author: Ortiz, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0807005932
- Language: English
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A Little History of the United States
$16.95 Read moreA fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all ages
“This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Davidson, James West
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 030022348X
- Language: English
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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
$22.99 Read moreRonald Takaki’s beloved revisionist history of America, praised by Howard Zinn as “a bold and refreshing new approach to our national history,” now featuring a foreword from Clint Smith, author of the
- Author: Takaki, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0316499072
- Language: English
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Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars
$30.00 Read moreFrom the preeminent historian of modern comedy comes an expansive history of showbiz and the culture wars
There is a common belief that we live in unprecedented times, that people are too sensitive t- Author: Nesteroff, Kliph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 141976098X
- Language: English
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We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know
$18.99 Add to cartA 2022 American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor Book
Twelve Native American kids present historical and contemporary laws, policies, struggles, and victori
A 2022 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book- Author: Sorell, Traci
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1623541921
- Language: English
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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
$19.99 Add to cartThis revelatory and inclusive book “unearths the stories of the people–farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees–behind some of the labor movement’s biggest successes” (The New York Times)
- Author: Kelly, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982171065
- Language: English
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Becoming Irish American: The Making and Remaking of a People from Roanoke to JFK
$30.00 Read moreThe origins and evolution of Irish American identity, from colonial times through the twentieth century
“Subtly provocative. . . . [Meagher] traces the making and remaking of Irish America through se- Author: Meagher, Timothy J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0300126271
- Language: English
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
$22.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0399589821
- Language: English
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
$23.00 Add to cartNamed one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune
A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 A 2019 NPR Staff Pick
A pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the t- Author: Immerwahr, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1250251095
- Language: English
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The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
$26.99 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Part history and part cultural analysis, The Grift chronicles the nuanced history of Black Republicans. Clay Cane lays out how Black Republica
- Author: Cane, Clay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 1728290228
- Language: English
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Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo
$40.00 Add to cartThe epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today–a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history inspired by the PBS series “American Buffalo”
The American buffa- Author: Duncan, Dayton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0593537343
- Language: English
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
$38.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER – A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the … [more below]
- Author: Hannah-Jones, Nikole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0593230574
- Language: English
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I Have a Dream
$19.99 Add to cartIntroducing the Martin Luther King Jr Library
With a New Foreword by Amanda Gorman
A beautiful collectible edition of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s legendary speech at the March on Washington, laid out to
- Series: Essential Speeches of Dr. Martin Lut
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 23, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063236796
- Language: English
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Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
$19.95 Add to cartDebunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States
Whethe- Author: Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 0807055581
- Language: English
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Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
$30.00 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
A vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most impor- Author: Richardson, Heather Cox
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593652967
- Language: English
