United States - 20th Century
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The Tulsa Race Massacre: The Department of Justice Review and Evaluation
$16.99 Add to cartThe full, unexpurgated Department of Justice report on the investigation into the events previously known as the “Tulsa Race Riots” — and the revelation of the government’s own white washing of the m… [more below]
- Author: Department of Justice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1685892213
- Language: English
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So Great the Devastation: The 1916 Flood in Western North Carolina
$10.00 Add to cartIn mid-July 1916, the remnants of two hurricanes collided over western North Carolina, inundating the mountain region and the western Piedmont with historic rainfall. The result was catastrophic. Land… [more below]
- Author: Bandel, Jessica A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0865264813
- Language: English
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The Fifties: An Underground History
$17.99 Add to cartAn “exciting and enlightening revisionist history” (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that upends the myth of the 1950s as a decade of conformity and celebrates a few solitary, br… [more below]
- Author: Gaines, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1439101647
- Language: English
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The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
$22.00 Add to cart“Relying on a rich cache of previously classified notes, transcripts, cables, policy briefs, and memoranda, Andrew Cooper explains how oil drove, even corrupted, American foreign policy during a time … [more below]
- Author: Cooper, Andrew Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1439155186
- Language: English
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Picturing the Space Shuttle: The Early Years
$45.00 Add to cartRare views of the beginnings of the historic space program, selected and presented by two leading space flight authorities
After the excitement of the first Moon landing, the U.S. space program took a
- Author: Bisney, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1683402057
- Language: English
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The Pig War: Standoff at Griffin Bay
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1859 Great Britain and the United States almost went to war over the Northwest boundary when an American farmer shot a British pig. That July, U.S. Army Captain George E. Pickett looked down the gu
- Author: Vouri, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: May 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1638640025
- Language: English
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Taxes Have Consequences: An Income Tax History of the United States
$28.00 Add to cartAs seen on Kudlow on the FOX Business Network!
The definitive history of the effect of the income tax on the economy. Ever since 1913, when the United States first imposed the income tax via constitut- Author: Laffer, Arthur B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1637585640
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
$32.99 Add to cartThe most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the l… [more below]
- Author: Gerstle, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0197519644
- Language: English
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Profiles in Courage
$27.99 Add to cartTHE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CLASSIC OF POLITICAL INTEGRITY
With a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy and introduction by Caroline Kennedy
John F. Kennedy’s enduring classic resounds with timeless lessons on
- Author: Kennedy, John F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0060530626
- Language: English
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The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism
$32.00 Add to cartThe shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation
On a Sunday morning in 1966, a group of white evangelicals dedica- Author: Martin, Lerone A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 069117511X
- Language: English
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Profiles in Courage
$27.99 Read moreTHE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CLASSIC OF POLITICAL INTEGRITY
With a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy and introduction by Caroline Kennedy
John F. Kennedy’s enduring classic resounds with timeless lessons on
- Author: Kennedy, John F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0060530626
- Language: English
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Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement
$29.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of the “stirring, definitive, and engrossing” (NPR) The Woman’s Hour returns with the story of four activists whose audacious plan to restore voting rights to Black Americans laid… [more below]
- Author: Weiss, Elaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668002698
- Language: English
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The Six: The Extraordinary Story of the Grit and Daring of America’s First Women Astronauts
$20.99 Add to cart“Vivid.” —The Guardian * “Engrossing.” —Booklist * “Suspenseful, meticulously observed, enlightening.” –Margot Lee Shetterly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Figures
In this account- Author: Grush, Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1982172819
- Language: English
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They Both Reached for the Gun: Beulah Annan, Maurine Watkins, and the Trial That Became Chicago
$24.95 Read moreExamining the case that inspired a pop culture phenomenon
In 1924 Beulah Annan was arrested for killing her lover, Harry Kalsted. Six weeks later, a jury acquitted her of murder. Inspired by the- Author: Cosgrove, Charles H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0809339382
- Language: English
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Inside Camp David: The Private World of the Presidential Retreat
$18.99 Add to cartThe first-ever insider account of Camp David, the president’s private retreat, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of its inception.
Never before have the gates of Camp David been opened to the public. In… [more below]- Author: Giorgione, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0316509590
- Language: English
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Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front
$19.95 Read moreWinner of a Catholic Media Association Book Award
“A great, but deeply unsettling, revelation…This book is more than an account of Boston in wartime. It is a warning.”–Boston Globe “The rare book b- Author: Gallagher, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0674293878
- Language: English
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Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
$33.99 Add to cartBeginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. At one point, in the late… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States V X
- Author: Patterson, James T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: November 20 1997
- ISBN10: 0195117972
- Language: English
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Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil
$25.00 Read moreThe first book to lay bare the life of a Nazi camp guard who settled in a Chicago suburb and to explore how his community and others responded to discoveries of Nazis in their midst.
Reinhold Kulle s- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Soffer, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0226835545
- Language: English
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Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age
$32.00 Add to cartThe surprising history of old age in modern America, showing how we created unprecedented security for some and painful uncertainty for others
On farms and in factories, Americans once had little cho- Author: Chappel, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1541619528
- Language: English
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The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America
$32.00 Add to cartA riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that profoundly shaped reproductive rights in America
In the 1910s, as the birth control movement was bor
- Author: Gorton, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0063036290
- Language: English
