Social History
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A People’s History of the United States
$23.99 Add to cartTHE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A wonderful, splendid book–a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: November 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0062397346
- Language: English
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Raised on Radio: Power Ballads, Cocaine & Payola – The Aor Glory Years 1976-1986
$30.00 Add to cartA massively entertaining oral biography of the golden era of critically derided yet monumentally popular radio rock, when Journey, Boston, REO Speedwagon, Toto, and more ruled the airwaves
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- Author: Rees, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0306836041
- Language: English
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A Gentleman’s Guide to Beard and Moustache Management
$15.95 Read moreDo you know how to trim your whiskers properly?
With beards and moustaches more popular than ever, this delightful little book sets out to answer this pressing question. And if a trim is not require- Author: Martin, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1803990252
- Language: English
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Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District
$24.99 Add to cartEarly in the twentieth century, the black community in Tulsa- the “Greenwood District”- became a nationally renowned entrepreneurial center. Frequently referred to as “The Black Wall Street of America
- Author: Johnson, Hannibal B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: April 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1934645389
- Language: English
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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
$15.99 Add to cartDick Gregory has been an unsparing and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years: a friend of such luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers, Gregory is an unrelenting, lifelon
- Author: Gregory, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0062448714
- Language: English
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The Quest for Cosmic Justice
$17.99 Add to cartThis is not a comforting book — it is a book about disturbing issues that are urgently important today and enduringly critical for the future. It rejects both “merit” and historical redress as princi… [more below]
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 5, 2002
- ISBN10: 0684864630
- Language: English
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
$17.99 Add to cart“Vastly informative and vastly entertaining…A scholarly and fascinating book.” —Los Angeles Times
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricit
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 23, 2001
- ISBN10: 0380715430
- Language: English
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One Summer: America, 1927
$22.00 Add to cartA Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book
The summer of 1927 began with Charles Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Babe Ruth was closing in on the home run record. In Newa
A GoodReads Reader’s Choice- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0767919416
- Language: English
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The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Marche, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982123222
- Language: English
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The Social Contract
$11.00 Add to cart“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains”
These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 30, 1968
- ISBN10: 0140442014
- Language: English
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
$24.00 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Wonderful… [Flanders] shines in her readings of literary novels containing criminal and detective elements, such as Oliver Twist, Mary Barton and Tess of the D’Urbervi
- Author: Flanders, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1250048532
- Language: English
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
$0.00 Read moreThe National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
Some Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist- Author: Kendi, Ibram X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 15, 2017
- ISBN10: 1568585985
- Language: English
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Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings: (When) Do Leaders Matter?
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, multimillion-copy bestselling classic Guns, Germs and Steel, a landmark study of leadership across politics, religion, business, and sports–seeking to d
- Author: Diamond, Jared
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2026
- ISBN10: 0063517663
- Language: English
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Pearl Harbor Ghosts: The Legacy of December 7, 1941
$19.00 Add to cartA landmark book published to rave reviews a decade ago, Pearl Harbor Ghosts has now been updated to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the surprise attack that forever changed the course of history. … [more below]
- Author: Clarke, Thurston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0345446070
- Language: English
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The Tunnels Under Our Feet
$21.95 Add to cartWhat if you were told the sidewalk you stood on outside a quaint little shop in downtown Denver was hollow? Or there was a history that took place under your feet in Leadville and other Colorado mount… [more below]
- Author: Beach, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: July 11 2014
- ISBN10: 155566458X
- Language: English
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Changing Gender
$32.00 Read moreFrom the groundbreaking trans scholar Susan Stryker, a provocative, genre-bending call to reconsider the story we tell about gender itself.
That gender is a hotly contested topic becomes ever clearer- Author: Stryker, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 25 2026
- ISBN10: 0374123500
- Language: English
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Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America
$20.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker
In the tradition of Evicted and Invisible Child, a “remarkably vivid…deeply empathetic” (Los Angeles Times) story that follows a single mother of si- Author: Hobbs, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1668034832
- Language: English
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American Made: Stories of Work from the WPA
$18.00 Read moreDuring the Great Depression, out-of-work writers were hired by the federal government to interview American working-class workers about their jobs. What was it like working in a meatpacking plant in C… [more below]
- Author: Trubek, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 14 2026
- ISBN10: 154027022X
- Language: English
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Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941
$36.00 Add to cartFrom statesmen and military commanders to ordinary Britons, a bold, sweeping history of Britain’s entrance into World War II–and its efforts to survive it–illuminating the ways in which the war perm… [more below]
- Author: Allport, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1101974699
- Language: English
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Fatherhood: A History of Love and Power
$20.00 Add to cart“Superbly intelligent…[a] rewarding Sapiens-style big history.” –The Times (London)
A bold and original history of the invention and transformation of masculinity’s most important institution, from- Author: Sedgewick, Augustine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 166804630X
- Language: English
