Social History
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Brooklyn: The Once and Future City
$21.95 Read moreAn unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to today
America’s most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has- Author: Campanella, Thomas J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0691208611
- Language: English
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100 Amazing Facts About The Negro: With Complete Proof
$8.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1934 and revised in 1962, this book gathers journalist and historian Joel Augustus Rogers’ columns from the syndicated newspaper feature titled Your History. Patterned after the loo
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1631820796
- Language: English
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Sudbury: Rail Town to Regional Capital
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1900, Sudbury was a small town with a population of about 2,000. Now, it is the largest city in northeastern Ontario.
- Author: Wallace, C. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 25 1996
- ISBN10: 1550021702
- Language: English
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Washington’s History, Revised Edition: The People, Land, and Events of the Far Northwest
$14.99 Add to cartNow with a new design and updated content, including three brand-new chapters plus a new preface and a postscript from the author.
An anything-but-dry history textbook in a take-it-with-you package,
- Author: Ritter, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 151326169X
- Language: English
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American Dreams: The United States Since 1945
$18.00 Read moreThe story of our nation from the A-bomb to the iPhone from bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands
With keen insight and an impeccable sense of the spirit of the times, H. W. B- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119559
- Language: English
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Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
$27.95 Read more“A deep dive into the world of Flat Earth conspiracy theorists . . . that brilliantly reveals how people fall into illogical beliefs, reject reason, destroy relationships, and connect with a broad ran
- Author: Weill, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 1643750682
- Language: English
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Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States
$24.95 Read moreGeorge R. Stewart’s classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the nation’s peoples. More than half a century later, Name… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Stewart, George R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1590172736
- Language: English
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Making Long Island: A History of Growth and the American Dream
$24.99 Read moreDiscover the history of the development of Long Island and its intimate relationship with New York City.
Beginning in the Roaring Twenties, Wall Street money looked eastward to Nassau and Suffolk cou
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Samuel, Lawrence R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154970
- Language: English
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Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs
$26.95 Add to cartTwo classic collections of freedom songs, We Shall Overcome (1963) and Freedom Is A Constant Struggle (1968), are reprinted here in a single edition which includes a major new introduction by the edit… [more below]
- Author: Carawan, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1588381935
- Language: English
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A Chance to Harmonize: How Fdr’s Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression–One Song at a Time
$29.95 Add to cartThe remarkable story of a hidden New Deal program that tried to change America and end the Great Depression using folk music, laying the groundwork for the folk revival and having a lasting impact on … [more below]
- Author: Kaskowitz, Sheryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365710
- Language: English
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Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
$23.00 Read moreNow an Apple TV+ documentary, Lincoln’s Dilemma.
One of the Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book A Christian Science Monitor and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of- Author: Reynolds, David S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1088
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0143110764
- Language: English
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In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea
$19.95 Read moreA major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should be
Many Zionists who advocated for the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel’s fo- Author: Brenner, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0691203970
- Language: English
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When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends
$29.93 Read moreWhen Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them–one in which art and architecture… [more below]
- Author: McAuliffe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1538121808
- Language: English
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The Civil Rights Movement: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Civil Rights Movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively ch… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Holt, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0190605421
- Language: English
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History Year by Year: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Events That Shaped the World
$50.00 Add to cartDiscover the world’s most significant events through a detailed, dynamic, book-long timeline of over 7 million years.
When did Hannibal cross the Alps? What caused the War of Jenkins’ Ear? Who was Ros- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0744091993
- Language: English
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Don’t Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip
$17.00 Add to cart“A lighthearted, entertaining trip down Memory Lane” (Kirkus Reviews), Don’t Make Me Pull Over! offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips–before portable DVD players, smartphone… [more below]
- Author: Ratay, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1501188755
- Language: English
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Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships. They have often, though not always, sparked cataclysmic violence, and h… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Goldstone, Jack A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0197666302
- Language: English
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The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age
$24.00 Add to cartA classic examination of the roots of corporate culture, newly revised and updated for the twenty first century
Alan Trachtenberg presents a balanced analysis of the expansion of capitalist power in t- Author: Trachtenberg, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0809058286
- Language: English
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Born for Liberty
$22.00 Add to cartThe most concise and comprehensive one-volume history of American women–from the indigenous women of the 16th-century wilderness to the dual-role career women and mothers of contemporary times–this … [more below]
- Author: Evans, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 22 1997
- ISBN10: 0684834987
- Language: English
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Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World
$20.00 Add to cartFew stories in the annals of American counterculture are as intriguing or dramatic as that of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.
Dubbed the Hippie Mafia, the Brotherhood began in the mid-1960s as a smal- Author: Schou, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0312607172
- Language: English
