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
$22.00 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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Summer of ’71: Five Months That Changed America
$29.00 Add to cartFrom award-winning journalist and author John A. Jenkins comes a revolutionary exploration of the summer before Watergate–a parallel world of a half-century ago when America faced events and crises s… [more below]
- Author: Jenkins, John A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 30 2026
- ISBN10: 0806544465
- Language: English
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A People’s History of the United States American Classics Edition
$25.00 Read more- Series: HarperCollins American Classics #19
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0063484218
- Language: English
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The Reformation: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Reformation transformed Europe and left an indelible mark on the modern world. But what actually was the Reformation and how should it be defi- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Marshall, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 22 2026
- ISBN10: 0198859066
- Language: English
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Blitz: The Club That Created the Eighties
$29.95 Add to cart“A lean, energetic memoir of the club that turned a Tuesday night into a cultural flashpoint.” —Kirkus Reviews
A history of the club that set the ’80s alight.
The short-lived Blitz club in London’s Co- Author: Elms, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0571394183
- Language: English
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The World Before Racism: An Art Story
$50.00 Add to cartThe term racism is understood to mean that race is the principal determinant of specific human traits and capacities and that due to racial differences, one race is inherently superior to all others.
- Author: Farrington, Lisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 15 2026
- ISBN10: 9798987228272
- Language: English
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The Face: A Cultural History
$30.00 Read moreAward-winning historian Fay Bound-Alberti synthesizes over twenty years of research to offer a sweeping cultural history of our most decisive–and sometimes divisive–body part.
What’s in a face? An- Author: Bound-Alberti, Fay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1538766531
- Language: English
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Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
$24.00 Read moreA New Yorker Best Book of 2025
An irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age.
From the darkness of a plagued and war-torn Middle Ages, the Renaissance- Author: Palmer, Ada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: May 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0226852598
- Language: English
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The Making of Bigfoot: The Inside Story
$37.95 Add to cartBigfoot! Huge, hairy, foul smelling, this legendary apelike animal continues to captivate the public’s imagination. This fascination hinges on a single piece of motion-picture film shot in northern Ca… [more below]
- Author: Long, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 476
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1591021391
- Language: English
