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I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
$19.99 Read moreLonglisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction
A “power
Shortlisted for the Museum of African American History’s Stone Book Award * National Council on Public History Book Award Honorable Mention- Series: Wolf Brother
- Author: Williams, Kidada E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1639734090
- Language: English
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Bartleby and Me: Reflections of an Old Scrivener
$18.99 Add to cart“Literary Legend” (New York) Gay Talese retraces his pioneering career, marked by his fascination with the world’s hidden characters.
In the concluding act of this “incomparable” (Air Mail) capstone bo
- Author: Talese, Gay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0063350645
- Language: English
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Protecting Paradise in the Driftless: How the Kickapoo Valley Reserve Came to Be
$18.00 Add to cartProtecting Paradise takes the reader through the saga of how the US Army Corps of Engineers removed 149 families from their property in southwest Wisconsin to construct a dam on the Kickapoo River-a d
- Author: West, Marcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: September 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1955656835
- Language: English
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Lumberjack: Inside an Era in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan – 70th Anniversary Edition
$21.95 Add to cartWinner–Best Biography/Memoir of 2002, Midwest Book Awards (St. Paul, MN)
A firsthand account of the lumbering era during the white pine boom years of the late 1800s – early 1900s in the northern U.S.
- Author: Crowe, William S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0965057739
- Language: English
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The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America’s Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town
$27.00 Add to cart“A marvelous, compelling tale”(Rocky Mountain News) from the New York Times bestselling author of Salt and Cod.
Gloucester, Massachusetts, America’s oldest fishing port, is defined by the culture of c- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 1594483744
- Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson and the Kentucky Constitution
$24.99 Read moreA Major Influence in Kentucky Life
Founding Father Thomas Jefferson had a strong but little-known connection with the constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He had personal and politically motiv
- Author: Fleming, Denis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158283
- Language: English
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Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car
$48.95 Read moreInsideHook: The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This November
A gripping account of how the automobile has failed NYC and how mass transit and a revitalized streetscape are vital to its post-pandemic re- Author: Gelinas, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1531508219
- Language: English
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Johnson Space Center: The First 50 Years
$31.99 Add to cartNASA ‘s Johnson Space Center (JSC ) in Houston, Texas, has been the home of human spaceflight operations since its inception in 1961. The first US manned spaceflight controlled from its iconic Mission… [more below]
- Author: Bruns, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: February 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1531664237
- Language: English
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The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America’s Forgotten Origin Story
$35.00 Add to cartA radical work of history that re-centers the American story around El Paso, Texas, gateway between north and south, center of indigenous power and resistance, locus of European colonization of North
- Author: Parker, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063161915
- Language: English
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Radical Atlas of Ferguson, USA
$34.00 Add to cartFerguson, Missouri, became the epicenter of America’s racial tensions after the 2014 murder of Michael Brown and the protests that followed in its wake.
Though this suburb just outside St. Louis might
- Author: Heyda, Patty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1953368751
- Language: English
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The Coit Tower Murals: New Deal Art and Political Controversy in San Francisco
$22.95 Read moreCreated in 1934, the Coit Tower murals were sponsored by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the first of the New Deal art programs. Twenty-five master artists and their assistants worked there,
- Author: Cherny, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0252088352
- Language: English
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The Chief Rabbi’s Funeral: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Antisemitic Riot
$34.95 Add to cart2024 American Book Fest Award Finalist in U.S. History
On July 30, 1902, tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets of New York’s Lower East Side to bid farewell to the city’s chief rabbi, the e- Author: Seligman, Scott D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 164012618X
- Language: English
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Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World: Chief Charlo and Father de Smet in the Rocky Mountains
$36.95 Add to cartBlack Robes Enter Coyote’s World brings to life the complicated history of Jesuit missionaries among Montana’s Native peoples–a saga of encounter, accommodation, and resistance during the transformat… [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Sally
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 149623961X
- Language: English
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Building Ghosts: Past Lives and Lost Places in a Changing City
$40.00 Add to cart“Building ghosts” are the idiosyncratic remnants or imprints of demolished buildings, left behind on the sides of neighboring structures. Mostly seen in older Northeastern cities with rowhomes or part… [more below]
- Author: Lester, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: November 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1439924090
- Language: English
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The Galveston Dispatches: A Swiss Missionary’s Account of Nineteenth-Century Texas
$24.99 Add to cartPersonal stories of life in Galveston in the mid-nineteenth century.
In 1855, Friedrich Gloor was just nineteen when he was sent from Basel, Switzerland, halfway around the world to teach at the First
- Author: Rogers, Clay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158712
- Language: English
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The Birth of Seattle Rap
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the Seattle streets to studio beats.
In the early 1980s, a subterranean shift in Seattle’s music scene began. Disco’s reign over parties and dance clubs faded, and hip-hop became the new attractio
- Series: Narrative
- Author: 132, Novocaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158240
- Language: English
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Empire Builders: An Illustrated History of the Rise and Fall of Cleveland’s Van Sweringen Brothers
$45.00 Read moreEmpire Builders tells the story of Oris P. and Mantis J. Sweringen, two brothers from Wooster, Ohio, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Although they were born into abject poverty,
- Author: Pacini, Lauren R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0253069823
- Language: English
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The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North
$35.00 Add to cartThe epic story of Detroit’s struggle to integrate schools in its suburbs–and the defeat of desegregation in the North.
In 1974, the Supreme Court issued a momentous decision: In the case of Milliken- Author: Adams, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0374250421
- Language: English
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American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
$30.00 Add to cartAn expansive and revelatory historical exploration of the multicultural, water-seeking, land-destroying settlers of the most arid corner of North America, arguing that in order to know where the Unite… [more below]
- Author: Paoletta, Kyle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0553387375
- Language: English
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Uvalde’s Darkest Hour
$30.00 Read moreWhen the police scanner announced an active shooter at Robb Elementary on May 24, 2022, Uvalde Leader-News staff writers held their collective breath. In those confusing and terrifying moments, these
- Author: Garnett, Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1648432999
- Language: English
