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The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing DeathA moving, intimate portrait of the Enlightenment philosophers as they faced the end of their lives and their historical moment"Original and beautifully written."--Ruth Scurr, Wall Street JournalWhat would the Enlightenment look like if we viewed it through the eyes of the philosophers as they...
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John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life Under American Racial LawA revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday lives of Chinese people in the American West--and of those who negotiated, circumvented, and resisted discrimination. Legal discrimination against Chinese people in the United States began in 1852, when California passed a tax on...
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For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in AmericaThe remarkable story of how confession became a defining rite for American Catholics--and then, beginning in the 1970s, all but disappeared. For generations, American Catholics went faithfully to confession, admitting their sins to a priest and accepting through him God's forgiveness. The sacrament served...
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Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted AmericaA sweeping new history of the changing meaning of work in the United States, from Horatio Alger to Instagram influencers. How Americans think about work changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century. Thrift and persistence came to seem old-fashioned. Successful workers were...
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Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles RyderSelected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory.The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love...
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A Carpetbagger in Reverse: Arthur W. Mitchell, America's First Black Democratic CongressmanFrom Alabama to Congress--Arthur W. Mitchell's fight for justice rewrote the rules of Black political power.A Carpetbagger in Reverse offers a landmark reassessment of the life, career, and accomplishments of groundbreaking Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell, the first Black Democrat elected to Congress and the...
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The Last Mixtape: Physical Media and Nostalgic CyclesA reflection on the evolution of physical media into metaphor, through the history of music curation. Obsolescence makes the heart grow fonder, at least in the case of the mixtape. Not all technologies are so lucky. Some (say, wax cylinders) fade almost completely from...
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How the Irish Became WhiteThe Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded them as the lowest form of humanity. In the new country - a land of opportunity - they found a very different form...
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My Struggle: Mein Kamphf - Mein Kampt - Mein KampfMein Kampf ("My Struggle") is a political manifesto written by Adolf Hitler. It was his only complete book and became the bible of National Socialism in the German Third Reich. It was published in two volumes, which dated 1925 and 1927. By 1939 it...
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1825 Fur Trade Rendezvous: Chasing General William H. Ashley's ReturnAn incredible journey of perseverance and history to recreate a 2000 mile trek by General William Henry Ashley and his men from the first Fur Trade Rendezvous of 1825 from southwest Wyoming to St. Louis, MO. These three men replicated this incredible feat of...
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Hollywood on the TiberHollywood on the Tiber is a dazzling blend of the epic and intimate featuring a glittering cast of screen gods and goddesses. This vibrant chronicle recounts how Hank Kaufman and Gene Lerner became unsung movers and shakers of a unique and unrepeatable era: the...
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Society as I Have Found ItStep back in time to 19th-century New York high society with Ward McAllister's captivating account, "Society As I Have Found It." A prominent figure and self-proclaimed arbiter of taste, McAllister offers an unparalleled glimpse into the exclusive world of socialites and the intricate rules...
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Menhaden: A Biologist's Thirty-Two Year Journey with the Fish and the FisheryA Narrative of the U.S. Menhaden Fisheries: IndustryHistory, Fishing Operations, Product Journey, Fisheries Management, and Government Research Insights from the Beaufort Laboratory offers a well-detailed exploration of the U.S. purse-seine fisheries for menhaden, a cornerstone of American commercial fisheries.Covering the decades since the 1980s,...
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The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer"...a wise book about an important and overlooked American journalist and intellectual." -- The Wall Street Journal Frank Meyer devised the blueprint for American conservatism--fusionism--championed by Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and so many to this day. Yet long before and far away, Communists in...
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Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age SpyAuthor: Elizabeth A. DeWolfePublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 04/29/2025Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.84w x 0.97dISBN: 9781985902244About the AuthorDeWolfe, Elizabeth A.: - Elizabeth A. DeWolfe, professor of history and cofounder of the women's and gender studies program at the University of New...
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The Breach: Iran-Contra and the Assault on American DemocracyA president defying Congress. Disrespect for the law. Attacks on the press. Evasion in the courts. The privatization of war. Quid pro quos with foreign nations. The mounting dangers to American democracy have long been with us. But all these perils first emerged together...
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Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American PatriotismCountry music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn't just happen. This readable history reveals how country music's Nashville-based business leaders on Music Row created partnerships with the Pentagon to sell their audiences on military service while selling...
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The Pink Scar: How Nazi Persecution Shaped the Struggle for LGBTQ+ RightsThe Third Reich subjected some one hundred thousand individuals to a pernicious anti-homosexual campaign that included censorship, surveillance, medical experimentation, and death. Credible scholarship suggests that as many as fifteen thousand were interned in concentration camps, though the actual names and numbers of all...
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Black Cowboys in the American West: On the Range, on the Stage, behind the BadgeWho were the black cowboys? They were drovers, foremen, fiddlers, cowpunchers, cattle rustlers, cooks, and singers. They worked as wranglers, riders, ropers, bulldoggers, and bronc busters. They came from varied backgrounds--some grew up in slavery, while free blacks often got their start in Texas...
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You Are Not a Kinesthetic Learner: The Troubled History of the Learning Style IdeaA compelling history of the learning style concept and how it was shaped by shifting ideas in psychology, anthropology, and education. The widely embraced notion that we all process information in one of three distinct modes--visual, auditory, or kinesthetic--has informed educational practices for decades....
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