United States - 20th Century
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Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
$31.99 Add to cart“Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!” That legendary and apocryphal phrase, allegedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, seemed to encapsul
- Author: Ansfield, Bench
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 132409351X
- Language: English
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The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
$32.00 Add to cartA sweeping chronicle of four tumultuous years in 1980s New York that changed the city forever–and anticipated the forces that would soon divide the nation–from the bestselling author of Ladies and G… [more below]
- Author: Mahler, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 052551063X
- Language: English
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The Imperial Presidency
$29.99 Add to cartFrom two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., comes one of the most important and influential investigations of the American presidency. The Imperial Presidency traces the
- Author: Schlesinger, Arthur M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 589
- Publish Date: March 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0618420010
- Language: English
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Letter from Birmingham Jail
$22.99 Add to cartA beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s essay “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.
With an afterword by Reginald Dway
- Series: Essential Speeches of Dr. Martin Lut
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0063425815
- Language: English
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Letter from Birmingham Jail
$17.99 Add to cartA beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s essay “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.
With an afterword by Reginald Dway
- Series: Essential Speeches of Dr. Martin Lut
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0063425831
- Language: English
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Notre Dame Vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan
$24.95 Read moreTodd tells of the weekend in May 1924 when members of the anti-Catholic organization and students at the Catholic university fought in South Bend, Indiana. To that conflict he traces the decline of th… [more below]
- Author: Tucker, Todd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 261
- Publish Date: August 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0829417710
- Language: English
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The Plot to Kill President Kennedy in Chicago: And the Other Traces of Conspiracy Leading to the Assassination of JFK – A Visual Investigation
$24.95 Add to cartThe Plot to Kill President Kennedy in Chicago and the Other Traces of Conspiracy Leading to the Assassination of JFK: A Visual Investigation delves deep into one of the lesserknown yet critical elemen… [more below]
- Author: Palamara, Vincent Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1634244893
- Language: English
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On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR
$35.00 Add to cartAn epic, decade-long reported history of National Public Radio that reveals the unlikely story of one of America’s most celebrated but least understood media empires.
Founded in 1970, NPR is America’s- Author: Oney, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1451656092
- Language: English
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Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-Hop
$32.00 Add to cartA political and intellectual history of American counterculture and the historical figures who redefined mainstream understandings of freedom, culture, art, and politics–from The Beat Generation to B… [more below]
- Author: Zamalin, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0807045187
- Language: English
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Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
$18.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller
“Medgar Evers deserves a place alongside Malcolm X and Dr. King in our historical memory. Evers, with Myrlie as his partner in activism and in life, was doing civil rights
- Author: Reid, Joy-Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 006306880X
- Language: English
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I’ve Been to the Mountaintop
$22.99 Add to cartA beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s last speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.
On April 3, 1968, Dr. Marti
- Series: Essential Speeches of Dr. Martin Lut #2
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0063351048
- Language: English
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James Baldwin. Steve Schapiro. the Fire Next Time
$23.33 Add to cartFirst published in 1963, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America’s so-called “Negro problem.” As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account of
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 07 2024
- ISBN10: 3836596997
- Language: English
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The Wonder and Complexity of the 1904 World’s Fair
$30.00 Read moreSt. Louis scholars contribute essays on the untold stories of the 1904 World’s Fair.
The 1904 World’s Fair was a complex, fascinating event that continues to evoke a range of emotions. It was grand.- Author: The Missouri Historical Society Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 25 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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America’s Nazi Secret
$24.95 Read moreFully revised and expanded, this stirring account reveals how the U.S. government permitted the illegal entry of Nazis into North America in the years following World War II. This extraordinary invest… [more below]
- Author: Loftus, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 11 2010
- ISBN10: 1936296047
- Language: English
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The Downtown Pop Underground: New York City and the Literary Punks, Renegade Artists, DIY Filmmakers, Mad Playwrights, and Rock ‘n’ Roll Glitter Que
$20.00 Add to cartThe Downtown Pop Underground presents an artistic history ofNew York City and the literary punks, renegade artists, DIY filmmakers, mad playwrights, and rock ‘n’ roll glitter queens who revolutionized… [more below]
- Author: McLeod, Kembrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1419738046
- Language: English
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Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
$29.99 Add to cartBetween 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. This book tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States
- Author: Kennedy, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 936
- Publish Date: April 19 2001
- ISBN10: 0195144031
- Language: English
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Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
$26.99 Add to cartWhile many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of the great plutonium disasters of the United States and the Soviet Uni… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190233109
- Language: English
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The Fight for Sex Ed: The Century-Long Battle Between Truth and Doctrine
$29.95 Add to cartThe first comprehensive trade history of sex ed in American schools–and an impassioned call to reform sex ed into a powerful tool for reproductive justice and social equality
The U.S. has some of the- Author: Myers, Margaret Grace
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0807008060
- Language: English
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That Day in Dallas: Lee Harvey Oswald Did Not Kill JFK
$29.99 Add to cartThat Day in Dallas: Lee Harvey Oswald Did Not Kill JFK is best described as a prosecution by Robert K. Tanenbaum of those corrupt, unscrupulous government and unelected agency officials, who from ince… [more below]
- Author: Tanenbaum, Robert K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1510783652
- Language: English
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A Blacklist Education: American History, a Family Mystery, and a Teacher Under Fire
$26.95 Add to cartIn A Blacklist Education, a mysterious file of family papers triggers a journey through the dark days of political purges in the 1950s. Jane S. Smith tells the story of the anticommunist witch hunt th… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Jane S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1978845057
- Language: English
