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Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPheeAn annotated guide to the work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, teacher, and pioneer of creative nonfiction John McPhee has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1965 and has written more than thirty acclaimed books that began on the magazine's pages....
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Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica RevoltA radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitionist movements and transformed prisons. Tip of the Spear boldly and compellingly argues that prisons are a domain of hidden warfare within US borders. With this book, Orisanmi Burton explores what he terms...
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Crabgrass Catholicism: How Suburbanization Transformed Faith and Politics in Postwar AmericaHow suburbanization was a crucial catalyst for reforms in the Catholic Church. The 1960s in America were a time of revolt against the stifling conformism embodied in the sprawling, uniform suburbs of the 1950s. Typically, the reforms of the Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council,...
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Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial MarriageA dual biography of two activists whose marriage challenged the gender and racial norms of their time Like any set of star-crossed lovers, Elaine and Charles came from different worlds. Elaine, an acclaimed childhood poet from a remote corner of the Massachusetts Berkshires, traveled...
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A New History of IowaThe state of Iowa is largely unappreciated and often misunderstood. It has a small population and sits in the middle of a huge country. It's thought of as an uninspiring place full of farms and fields of corn. But Iowa represents America as surely...
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Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United StatesHow a system of colonial trusteeship converted Native wealth into settler capital From the earliest days of its founding, the United States set its sights on Native territory. Amid better-known "Indian wars," the federal government quietly built an empire by treaty, offering payments to...
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Transforming Darkness Into Light: A Holocaust Survivor's Lessons in Fighting HateIn 1941, when Philip Lazowski was 11 years old, his mother and two younger siblings were murdered by the Nazis, along with most of the Jews from his village in Poland. His mother's last words to him exhorted Phillip to "be somebody" because "the...
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Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade HistoryWinner, 2025 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, Organization of American Historians Winner, 2024 Arline Custer Memorial Book Award, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference Winner, 2025 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award, Library History Round Table of The American Library Association Honorable Mention, 2025 Lawrence W. Levine...
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Saving Our Survivors: How American Jews Learned about the HolocaustHow did American Jews come to learn about the Holocaust in the immediate aftermath of the war? What kinds of images and representations of Holocaust survivors first circulated in America, when most Jewish survivors were still stuck in European displaced persons camps? Drawing on...
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The JFK Assassination ChokeholdsBy James DiEugenio, Paul Bleau, Matt Crumpton, Andrew Iler, and Mark AdamczykIn The JFK Assassination Chokeholds, readers will find up to date evidence that would have compelled any jury to conclude that Oswald was not guilty beyond reasonable doubt, and that there is clear...
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False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933-1947A definitive history of the United States' recovery from the Great Depression--and the New Deal's true part in it. FDR's New Deal has long enjoyed a special place in American history and policy--both because it redefined the government's fundamental responsibilities and because Roosevelt's "bold...
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Holocaust Heroines: Jewish Women Saving Jewish ChildrenThis book highlights the role of Jewish women in saving Jewish children's lives during the Holocaust. How many people rescued Jews during the Holocaust? There is no certain answer to this question other than "far too few." Fewer than 0.5% of the 700 million...
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The Spy and the State: The History of American IntelligenceA novel and comprehensive narrative of American intelligence from the Revolutionary War to the present day.Intelligence is all around us. We read about it in the news, wonder who is spying on us through our phones or computers, and want to know what is...
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The Abortion Market: Buying and Selling Access in the Era Before RoeA revealing investigation into how businesses and businessmen selling abortion access shaped the experience of buying abortions for millions of women between 1962 and 1972 The abortion market was a powerful economic force in American life. Before legalization lowered the cost, one million women...
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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Volume 2/2: Large Print EditionBorn in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point rather against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Grant was appointed by the governor to command an...
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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Volume 1/2: Large Print EditionThis is volume 1 of a 2 volume set. Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point rather against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. At the outbreak of the Civil War,...
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Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our TimeUNCENSORED! Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley is the ultimate insider admission of a secret global elite that has impacted nearly every modern historical event. Learn how the Anglo-American banking elite were able to secretly establish...
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Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American CultureHow has a game brought together Americans and defined separate ethnic communities? This book tells the first history of mahjong and its meaning in American culture. Click-click-click. The sound of mahjong tiles connects American expatriates in Shanghai, Jazz Age white Americans, urban Chinese Americans...
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The Dandy: A People's History of Sartorial SplendourA history of the dandy from below, from Beau Brummell and Baudelaire to Bowie and Bolan... and beyond. The historical figure of the dandy has commonly been described as an upper-class gentleman, often exemplified by well-known men such as Beau Brummell, Charles Baudelaire, Oscar...
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Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial InjusticeHow the historic resistance to racial desegregation in schools led to the over-punishment of students today Every year, millions of public school students are suspended. This overused punishment removes students from the classroom, but it does not improve their behavior. Instead, suspension disrupts their...
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