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W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk: A Graphic Interpretation
$22.95 Add to cart“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” These were the prescient words of W. E. B. Du Bois’s influential 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk. The preeminent Black intell… [more below]
- Author: Du Bois (1868-1963), W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: April 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1978824653
- Language: English
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Menachem Kipnis: Yiddish Folklore and Photographs from Interwar Poland
$39.95 Add to cartMenachem Kipnis (1878-1942) was one of the early twentieth-century’s greatest Jewish eastern European ethnomusicologists, folklorists, and photographers. He had a weekly column in the Warsaw Yiddish n
- Author: Jelen, Sheila E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 197884610X
- Language: English
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Nathan Straus: From Macy’s Magnate to International Humanitarian
$34.95 Add to cartNathan Straus (1848-1931) encompassed worlds. He rose from his Jewish German immigrant family’s ruin in Civil War Georgia to become co-owner of Macy’s and Abraham & Straus department stores. He helped
- Author: Fisher, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 197884347X
- Language: English
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To Life: Jews Exploring Nature
$29.95 Add to cartTo Life explores the Jewish relationship with nature by illuminating significant Jewish thinkers who increased in important ways our understanding of various aspects of natural history. In eight compe
- Author: Greenberg, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1978844484
- Language: English
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Funny Stuff: How Comedy Shaped American History
$39.95 Add to cartA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
The National Comedy Center and Smithsonian Institution hold unparalleled collections of artifacts that illustrate the vitality and importance of comedy i- Author: Laplaca, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1978837968
- Language: English
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Jane Fonda: There’s a Great Deal to Say
$29.95 Add to cartSince the late 1960s, Jane Fonda has identified as an activist first and an actor second, using her celebrity as a vehicle to convey her views and her advocacy. Few stars of her stature have been as s
- Author: Greenwald, Marilyn S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1978841493
- Language: English
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Inheritance: Love, Loss, and the Legacy of the Holocaust
$29.95 Add to cart- Series: Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
- Author: Scheidt, Charlie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1978846746
- Language: English
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Railroaded: A Motorman’s Story of the New York City Subway
$27.95 Add to cartThe New York City subway system is one of the largest and oldest in the world, still carrying traces of the transport systems that came before it. Some of its elevated tracks are remnants of steam rai
- Author: Naiden, Fred S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1978844093
- Language: English
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Rupert Garc?a: The Making of an American Artist, a Testimonio
$34.95 Add to cartThis is the first biography of the renowned American Chicano visual artist and activist Rupert Garc?a, drawing on fifty hours of interviews conducted over thirty years and accompanied by eighty images
- Author: GarcÃa, Mario T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 315
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1978844018
- Language: English
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Unchanged Trebles: What Boy Choirs Teach Us about Motherhood and Masculinity
$28.95 Add to cartBoy choirs are one of the oldest musical traditions in the Western world. While audiences admire boy singers for their distinctive treble notes, boys who sing in soprano voices have to contend with th… [more below]
- Author: Peeples, Rebekah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1978844565
- Language: English
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A View from Life’s Edge: Discovering What Really Matters with Older Women Across the Globe
$29.95 Add to cartIn today’s death-denying, success-driven society, older women’s countercultural voices call for our attention. Recounting emotionally charged conversations from across the world, A View from Life’s Ed… [more below]
- Series: Global Perspectives on Aging
- Author: Dempsey, Corinne G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1978844646
- Language: English
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Unpacking My Father’s Bookstore
$29.95 Add to cartUnpacking My Father’s Bookstore brings to life the history of J. Roth / Bookseller of Fine & Scholarly Judaica, which was a microcosm of the Los Angeles Jewish community from 1966 to 1994 and one of t… [more below]
- Author: Roth, Laurence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1978836600
- Language: English
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Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism
$27.95 Add to cartA survey of the far-reaching measures the U.S. government brought to bear against the CPUSA, from poison-pen letters to the Red Scare and beyond.
Beginning at the turn of the twentieth century and end
- Author: Leonard, Aaron J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1978841809
- Language: English
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The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai
$29.95 Add to cartThe Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai is an accessible collection that explores the cultural, industrial, and historical impact of that beloved American sitcom. Edited by Taylor Cole Miller and Alfre… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Taylor Cole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1978836848
- Language: English
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Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins
$28.95 Add to cartDeath is the great equalizer, but not all deaths are created equal. In recent years, there has been an increased interest and advocacy concerning end-of-life and after-death care. An increasing number… [more below]
- Author: Shea, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1978843984
- Language: English
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The Dari?n Gap: A Reporter’s Journey Through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas
$29.95 Add to cartThe narrow Dari?n Gap, the only land bridge connecting South and Central America, encompasses a spectacularly hostile jungle, covered in steep mountains, dense rainforests, and flood-prone marshes. Kn… [more below]
- Author: Fernández, Belén
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1978842082
- Language: English
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: The Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution
$34.95 Add to cartElizabeth Gurley Flynn was involved in almost every major campaign of the U.S. Left in the first two thirds of the twentieth century. An outstanding orator, writer, and tactician, Flynn is one of the … [more below]
- Series: Ceres: Rutgers Studies in History
- Author: Trasciatti, Mary Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1978817576
- Language: English
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The Black Pack: Comedy, Race, and Resistance
$29.95 Add to cartThe Black Pack: Comedy, Race & Resistance is the first book to chronicle the untold history behind the iconic collaborations between a legendary group of comedians–Eddie Murphy, Paul Mooney, Keenen I… [more below]
- Author: Great, Artel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1978838131
- Language: English
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Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson
$26.95 Read moreThe first-ever graphic biography of Paul Robeson, Ballad of an American, charts Robeson’s career as a singer, actor, scholar, athlete, and activist who achieved global fame. Through his films, concert
- Author: Rudahl, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: October 16 2020
- ISBN10: 1978802072
- 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
