Social History
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Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices
$25.95 Read moreA field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States–and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future
Cultural- Author: Hass, Kristin Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0807006718
- Language: English
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African Americans of Central New Jersey: A History of Harmony and Hostility
$23.99 Read moreThrough grit and determination, the founding Black families of Sourland Mountain and surrounding Central New Jersey put down roots, built homes, established churches and navigated their lives in an un… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Mills, Beverly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154415
- Language: English
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What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Most Mysterious Portrait
$27.00 Read moreThe remarkable true story behind one of history’s most enigmatic portraits–“a glorious picaresque of unbridled passions and unmitigated scoundrels, a glorious romp through the great palaces and palaz… [more below]
- Author: Collinsworth, Eden
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0385546114
- Language: English
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The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals
$28.99 Read moreA chilling, lavishly illustrated who’s who of the most despicable people ever to walk the earth, featuring stories from the Lore podcast–now a streaming television series–including “Black Stockings,… [more below]
- Series: World of Lore #2
- Author: Mahnke, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1524797995
- Language: English
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This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain’s Knitted History
$12.99 Read moreA history of Britain’s long love affair with wool, told through a year of knitting garments from around the British Isles.
Over the course of a year, Esther Rutter – who grew up on a sheep farm in Suff
- Author: Rutter, Esther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1783784369
- Language: English
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important bo… [more below]
- Author: Andersen, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0812978900
- Language: English
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Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict
$25.95 Add to cart‘Precise, clear, accessible, and important. I can think of no better introduction to the historical Jesus for the general reader, no clearer statement on the legacy of the Jesus movement in the sweep
- Author: Crossley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1803410825
- Language: English
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She Who Struggles: Revolutionary Women Who Shaped the World
$22.95 Read more‘Exhilarating and immensely valuable’ Priyamvada Gopal, Professor, University of Cambridge
‘Captivating … captures the resolute vision of revolutionary women in anti-colonial, anti-capitalist and an
- Author: Shamshiri-Fard, Marral
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0745348246
- Language: English
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West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War
$25.00 Read moreFrom the author of the popular “Letters from an American” newsletter: a sweeping story of how Northerners, Southerners, and Westerners together created modern America in the years from Abraham Lincoln… [more below]
- Author: Richardson, Heather Cox
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0300136307
- Language: English
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The Food Adventurers: How Around-The-World Travel Changed the Way We Eat
$30.00 Read moreA delectable gastronomic expedition into the linked histories of global travel and global cuisine.
From mangosteen fruit discovered in a colonial Indonesian marketplace to caviar served on the high s- Author: Bender, Daniel E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147573
- Language: English
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The Age of Guilt: The Super-Ego in the Online World
$26.00 Read moreHow Freud’s concept of the super-ego can help us to understand the harsh cultural climate of the digital age
Cancellation, scapegoating, raving on Twitter. How did the Internet, which began as a plac- Author: Edmundson, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0300265816
- Language: English
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Seven Games: A Human History
$17.95 Read moreCheckers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and
- Author: Roeder, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1324051027
- Language: English
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Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley’s Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization
$27.95 Read moreHalley’s Comet visits the earth every seventy-five years. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets were evil portents. In 1705, Edmond Halley liberated humanity from these primordial
- Author: Goodrich, Richard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888568
- Language: English
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Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR
$26.95 Read moreIn 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Rustam Alexander recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were
- Author: Alexander, Rustam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 152616745X
- Language: English
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Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
$21.99 Add to cartFor centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and
- Author: Grinker, Roy Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 132402013X
- Language: English
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman’s Great War Series
$25.00 Read moreThe classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with “a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish” (The New York Times)–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns… [more below]
- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 27 1996
- ISBN10: 0345405013
- Language: English
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Extreme North: A Cultural History
$18.95 Read moreScholars and laymen alike have long projected their fantasies onto the great expanse of the global North, whether it be as a frozen no-man’s-land, an icy realm of marauding Vikings, or an unspoiled cr
- Author: Chase, Jefferson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050284
- Language: English
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Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland
$19.95 Add to cartAcross the Blue Ridge Mountains stretches a world both charming and complicated.
Jeremy Jones and his wife move into a small house above the creek where his family had settled 200 years prior. He take
- Author: Jones, Jeremy B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1949467546
- Language: English
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After the Nazis: The Story of Culture in West Germany
$35.00 Read moreA wide-ranging, insightful history of culture in West Germany–from literature, film, and music to theater and the visual arts
After World War II a mood of despair and impotence pervaded the arts in- Author: Kater, Michael H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300259247
- Language: English
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A People’s History of the United States: The Civil War to the Present
$42.50 Add to cartAn abridged classroom edition of Howard Zinn’s bestselling history of the United States, with teaching materials to accompany each chapter.
Like Volume I, each chapter in Volume II provides exercises- Series: New Press People’s History #2
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1565847253
- Language: English
