United States - 20th Century
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The Oswalds: An Untold Account of Marina and Lee
$28.99 Read moreThe closest friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and his Soviet wife Marina upon the couple’s arrival in Texas breaks a sixty-year silence with a riveting story of his time with JFK’s assassin and his candid a… [more below]
- Author: Gregory, Paul R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1635768217
- Language: English
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Gateway to the Moon: Building the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex
$28.00 Add to cartGateway to the Moon presents the definitive history of the origins, design, and construction of the lunar launch facilities at Kennedy Space Center, the terrestrial site of one of the greatest achieve… [more below]
- Author: Benson, Charles D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: March 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0813020913
- Language: English
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Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise
$21.99 Add to cart“[A] concise, meticulously researched, century-spanning chronicle of queer life on Fire Island captures, with a plain-spoken yet lyric touch, the locale’s power to stun and shame, to give pleasure and
- Author: Parlett, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 1335454977
- Language: English
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War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion
$20.00 Add to cartAn “engagingly written” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the “Punitive Expedition” of 1916 that brought Pancho Villa and Gen. John J. Pershing into conflict, and whose reverberations continue in t… [more below]
- Author: Guinn, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1982128879
- Language: English
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Crosses of Iron: The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico, and Its Twin Mining Disasters
$21.95 Add to cartIn October 1913, 261 miners and two rescuers died when a massive explosion ripped through a mine operated by Phelps, Dodge & Company in Dawson, New Mexico. Ten years later, a second blast claimed the … [more below]
- Author: Pappas, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0826365280
- Language: English
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H.L. Hunt: Motive & Opportunity
$19.95 Add to cartAfter being summarily thrown out of the upcoming 1964 World’s Fair project, presumably at the instruction of JFK himself, billionaire H.L. Hunt turned to John Curington, his attorney, and said, “I’ve
- Author: Curington, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: June 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1939306248
- Language: English
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Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy
$24.99 Add to cartThe explosive search for the truth about who killed JFK, “the final word until 2039-when government files on the case can be unlocked.” (Kirkus)
Will we ever know the truth about the Kennedy assassin- Author: Marrs, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0465031803
- Language: English
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Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in WW2 Era America
$27.00 Read moreThe 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 intense cinematic s
- Author: Benson, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 26, 2022
- ISBN10: 0806541792
- Language: English
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Nowhere to Remember: Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland to 1943
$24.95 Add to cart“There wasn’t that many people, but they were good people.”–Madeline Gilles
“First time I ever tasted cherries or even seen a cherry tree was [in White Bluffs]. Or ever ate an apricot or seen an apric
- Series: Hanford Histories #1
- Author: Bauman, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: September 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0874223601
- Language: English
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Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps
$17.00 Add to cartThe author at 16 years old was evacuated with her family to an internment camp for Japanese Americans, along with 110,000 other people of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast. She faced an indef… [more below]
- Author: Gruenewald, Mary Matsuda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 18 2005
- ISBN10: 0939165538
- Language: English
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Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020
$19.95 Read more“An essential history of the struggle by both Black and white women to achieve their equal rights.”–Hillary Rodham Clinton
The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. Black and white women fo- Author: Griffith, Elisabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1639363971
- Language: English
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
$18.95 Read moreWith this explosive analysis, Ira Katznelson fundamentally recast our understanding of twentieth-century American history, demonstrating that the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal … [more below]
- Author: Katznelson, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1324051086
- Language: English
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The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941
$23.00 Add to cartA comprehensive, sweeping history of America’s rise to global superpower–from the Spanish-American War to World War II–by the acclaimed author of Dangerous Nation
“With extraordinary range and resea- Series: Dangerous Nation Trilogy
- Author: Kagan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1400095689
- Language: English
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What Has Government Done to Our Money?
$19.99 Add to cartWhat Has Government Done to Our Money? details the history of money, from early barter systems, to the gold standard, to present-day systems of paper money. Rothbard explains how money was originally … [more below]
- Author: Rothbard, Murray N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: October 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1607967766
- Language: English
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Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980
$25.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020
From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power. Over- Author: Perlstein, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1120
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1476793069
- Language: English
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Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: Power and Human Rights, 1975-2020
$44.99 Add to cartThe dual biography of the powerful First Couple who attempted to use their presidency to bring peace, human rights, and justice to all peoples of the world and dedicated the remainder of their long li… [more below]
- Author: Godbold Jr, E. Stanly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 904
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0197581560
- Language: English
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Paradise Falls: A Deadly Secret, a Cover-Up, and the Women Who Forged the Modern Environmental Movement
$18.00 Read moreThe staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical’s deadly secret of Love Canal–exposing one of America’s most devastating toxic waste disasters and spar… [more below]
- Author: O’Brien, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0593312090
- Language: English
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
$19.95 Read moreIf the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn’t lynching the law?
In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice P
- Author: Burnham, Margaret A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1324066059
- Language: English
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
$24.99 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time… [more below]
- Author: Goodwin, Doris Kearns
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1416547878
- Language: English
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The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui’s Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling inspirational story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers.
In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of- Author: Checkoway, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 21 2016
- ISBN10: 1455523453
- Language: English
