United States - 20th Century
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A High Courage: A Novel Based on a Young Woman’s Journey to Protect Her Children
$27.99 Add to cartWidowed. Homeless. Alone.
How will a brave young woman support her six children in a man’s world?
When her husband dies suddenly in 1928, North Carolina farmwife, Mary Heath, has to figure out how to ra
- Author: Piner, Gail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 14 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988116103
- Language: English
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The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation
$25.99 Add to cartRome’s genial new book . . . brings to life another era. —Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker
The first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay rit- Author: Rome, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 08 2014
- ISBN10: 0865477744
- Language: English
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St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth
$34.95 Add to cartThe culmination of a century-long dream to link the Great Lakes interior industrial hubs to the Atlantic Ocean, the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project stands as one of the largest and most importan
- Author: Parham, Claire Puccia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0815609132
- Language: English
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To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian
$19.99 Add to cartCompleted shortly before Ambrose’s untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation’s history through the eyes of one of the twentieth century’s most influential historians.
Ambrose ro- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 07, 2003
- ISBN10: 0743252128
- Language: English
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Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why
$27.99 Add to cartThe Warren Commission’s major conclusion was that Lee Harvey Oswald was the “lone assassin” of President John F. Kennedy. Gerald McKnight rebuts that view in a meticulous and devastating dissection of… [more below]
- Author: McKnight, Gerald D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0700619399
- Language: English
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Riot and Remembrance: America’s Worst Race Riot and Its Legacy
$18.99 Add to cartWith a new preface, a “profound, chilling, and heartbreaking, contribution to American history” that investigates the causes of the twentieth century’s deadliest race riot and how its legacy has scarr
- Author: Hirsch, James S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0618340769
- Language: English
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1959: The Year Everything Changed
$17.95 Add to cartAcclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America
While conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the era of p
- Author: Kaplan, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0470602031
- Language: English
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I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales from NPR’s National Story Project
$30.00 Add to cartThe true-life stories in this unique collection provide a window into the American mind and heart (The Daily News). One hundred and eighty voices – male and female, young and old, from all walks of li
- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 383
- Publish Date: September 07 2002
- ISBN10: 0312421001
- Language: English
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The Dillinger Days
$24.99 Add to cartFor thirteen violent months in the 1930s, John Dillinger and his gang swept through the Midwest. The criminals of the Depression robbed almost at will (the Indiana State Police had only 41 members, in… [more below]
- Author: Toland, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0306806266
- Language: English
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Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy
$19.99 Add to cartThe former dean of the Yale School of Management and Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration chronicles the 1971 August meeting at Camp David, where President Nixon unilaterally ended
- Author: Garten, Jeffrey E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0062887688
- Language: English
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Hell, No, We Didn’t Go!: Firsthand Accounts of Vietnam War Protest and Resistance
$34.99 Add to cartAs long as there have been wars, there has been conscription. And conscription has never been popular.
When asked in a Gallup poll taken in August 1965 whether the US decision to send troops to Vietnam
- Author: Greenbaum, Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0700636307
- Language: English
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American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism
$19.99 Add to cartAmerican Leviathan is the story of the rise of Progressive Statism and their massive, bureaucratic Administrative State at the turn of the 20th century and how we got to where we are today in the 21st
- Author: Ryun, Ned
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1641774371
- Language: English
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A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World’s First National Park
$34.00 Add to cartThis epic history of America’s first national park explores how a remote Western landscape became an iconic symbol of our country and its vast wilderness so influential to our understanding of the nat… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Randall K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1640096655
- Language: English
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Tough Enough: Twenty-Five Years In Hells Canyon
$15.95 Add to cartThe roar of jet boats, the shouts and calls of fishermen and floaters echo between canyon walls. Is that what Congress anticipated when they allotted funds to purchase, preserve and protect in its nat
- Author: Meyer, Virginia Woods
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: December 15 2016
- ISBN10: 099843860X
- Language: English
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Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Ww2 Era America
$17.95 Read moreNow in paperback! The stunning true story of the rise of Nazism in America in the years leading to WWII–and the fearless Jewish gangsters and crime families who joined forces to fight back. With an i… [more below]
- Author: Benson, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0806541806
- Language: English
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We Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s
$39.00 Add to cartA brilliant, disturbing portrait of the dawn of the culture wars, when America started to tear itself apart with doubts, wild allegations, and an unfounded fear for the safety of children.
During the- Author: Beck, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 1610392876
- Language: English
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To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire
$23.93 Add to cartThe story of one of the deadliest fires in American history that took the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago. “An absorbing account…a tale of terr… [more below]
- Series: Illinois
- Author: Cowan, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 1998
- ISBN10: 156663217X
- Language: English
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Unexampled Courage
$18.00 Add to cart*The book that inspired the 2021 PBS American Experience documentary, The Blinding of Isaac Woodard.*
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How the blinding of Sergeant Isaac Woodard changed the course of America’s civil rights history.- Author: Gergel, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1250251265
- Language: English
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The Wayward Blonde
$17.99 Add to cartWelcome to the playfully seamy side of the 80’s where Novak’s tales capture the spirit of a decade that changed L.A. with its neon colored subcultures and big hair. Follow Novak’s evocative adventures
- Author: Novak, Nora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1088190154
- Language: English
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The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets
$22.00 Add to cartSHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE – Every day, thousands of new secrets are created by the United States government. What is all this secrecy really for? And whom does it benefit?
“A brillian- Author: Connelly, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1101973676
- Language: English
