Social History
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We Are as Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America
$30.00 Add to cartAt the dawn of the 1970s, waves of hopeful idealists abandoned the city and headed for the country, convinced that a better life awaited. They were full of dreams, mostly lacking in practical skills, … [more below]
- Author: Daloz, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1610392256
- Language: English
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Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life
$26.95 Read moreAn insightful account of how medieval people experienced time.
Alle Thyng Hath Tyme recreates medieval people’s experience of time as continuous, discontinuous, linear, and cyclical–from creation thr- Series: Medieval Lives
- Author: Adler, Gillian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1789146798
- Language: English
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Alguien Habló de Nosotros / Someone Spoke of Us
$17.95 Read more«Se puede ser un fil?logo magistral y al mismo tiempo escribir como los ?ngeles. Irene Vallejo riza el rizo de la comunicaci?n hasta convertir su di?logo con el lector en una fiesta literaria. … [more below]
- Author: Vallejo, Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 6073826230
- Language: Spanish
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Missing Persons: Or, My Grandmother’s Secrets
$27.00 Read moreBlending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the holes in the fabric of modern Ireland, and in her own family story.
“Clair Wills shines a brilliant, unsparing light into the dark- Author: Wills, Clair
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 374611866
- Language: English
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Nebraska Roots
$15.95 Add to cartIn Nebraska Roots, Leah Lambert presents the story of her own evolution from sheltered child to self-aware young woman.
Throughout the book, Lambert weaves in historical references along with some ghos
- Author: Lambert, Leah Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: May 31 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886792225
- Language: English
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Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
$20.00 Add to cart“Fascinating.”–Thomas W. Hodgkinson, The Guardian
“Richly detailed and frequently illuminating.”–Rhys Blakely, Times (UK) “Excellent.”–Clare Bucknell, New Yorker A New Yorker Best of the Week Pic- Author: Jay, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276095
- Language: English
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A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603
$19.95 Add to cartThe Compendium of Common Knowedge (1558-1603) offers insight into ordinary lives-both common and noble-in the England of Queen Elizabeth I and Shakespeare. In this little book you’ll find notes on Eli… [more below]
- Author: Secara, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 193
- Publish Date: June 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0981840108
- Language: English
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Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
$22.00 Add to cartMore than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in th… [more below]
- Author: Webb, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0767916891
- Language: English
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1215
$20.99 Add to cartFrom bestselling author Danny Danziger and medieval expert John Gillingham comes a vivid look at the signing of the Magna Carta and how this event illuminates one of the most compelling and romantic p… [more below]
- Author: Danziger, Danny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0743257782
- Language: English
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A People’s Guide to Richmond and Central Virginia: Volume 6
$24.95 Add to cartAn expansive guide for resistance and solidarity across this storied region.
Richmond and Central Virginia are a historic epicenter of America’s racialized history. This alternative guidebook foregro- Series: People’s Guide
- Author: Ooten, Melissa Dawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0520344162
- Language: English
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Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
$28.99 Add to cartRelying on meticulous original archival research, historian Peter Silver uncovers a fearful and vibrant early America in which Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics and Covenanters, Irish, G
- Author: Silver, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334902
- Language: English
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Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History
$18.99 Add to cartIn an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo’s key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters
- Author: Gaddy, Kristina R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074485
- Language: English
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Life in a Medieval Village
$18.99 Add to cartMedieval history comes alive in Joseph and Frances Gies’s classic bestseller on life in medieval villages
This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies
- Series: Medieval Life
- Author: Gies, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0062415662
- Language: English
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Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States
$18.99 Add to cartA sweeping and original work of economic history by Michael Lind, one of America’s leading intellectuals, Land of Promise recounts the epic story of America’s rise to become the world’s dominant econo
- Author: Lind, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0061834815
- Language: English
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
$19.99 Add to cart“A perfectly grand piece of historical record and synthetic journalism.” — Chicago Daily Tribune
From Frederick Lewis Allen, former editor-in-chief of Harper’s magazine, comes a classic history of 192
- Author: Allen, Frederick L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0060956658
- Language: English
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History of American Holidays
$12.95 Add to cartThis book reveals the overall connection between American holidays, history, culture, and patriotism. Each chapter presents an interesting home-spun account of the holiday’s unique history and its tie
- Author: Bensch, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 06 2021
- ISBN10: 173596736X
- Language: English
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This Land Is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma from the 1870s to the 2010s Volume 1
$24.95 Add to cartSince well before ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 secured their right to vote, women in Oklahoma have sought to change and uplift their communities through political activism. This La… [more below]
- Series: Women and the American West #1
- Author: Janda, Sarah Eppler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: July 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0806169265
- Language: English
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Little Lodges on the Prairie: Freemasonry & Laura Ingalls Wilder
$33.33 Add to cartThe Little House on the Prairie books and TV show have inspired generations, but few people know the history of the Ingalls family in Freemasonry.
Why did they join this mysterious organization, and wh
- Author: Lynn, Teresa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1950481174
- Language: English
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Storied & Scandalous Kansas City: A History of Corruption, Mischief and a Whole Lot of Booze
$19.95 Add to cartThis collection celebrates a storied history of one notorious city. Meet the mobsters and victims, bootleggers, madams, political bosses and raucous entertainers who brought the party to the plains. W… [more below]
- Author: Deel, Karla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1493042432
- Language: English
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We Have Taken A City: The Wilmington Racial Massacre and Coup of 1898
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1898, Wilmington, North Carolina was the scene of what many describe as the only successful coup d’ etat in the history of the United States, when angry whites overthrew the duly elected government… [more below]
- Author: Prather, Sr. H., Leon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: February 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0972324089
- Language: English
