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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant South. That effort failed--and that failure serves as a warning today about...
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The Negro Motorist Green Book CompendiumYou've heard the tales, you've watched the movie, but have you seen The Green Book?During the dangerous days of Jim Crow segregation, it was difficult to be an African-American traveler, as hotels that would take you or restaurants that would serve you were few...
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Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of DemocracyDuring his seven-decade career in public life, George Sewall Boutwell sought to "redeem America's promise" of racial equality, economic equity, and the principled use of American power abroad. From 1840 to 1905, Boutwell was at the center of efforts to abolish slavery, establish the...
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Seven Social Movements That Changed AmericaHow do social movements arise, wield power, and bring about meaningful change? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these and other salient questions in this "visionary, cautionary, timely, and utterly necessary book" (Nicole Eustace), narrating how some of America's most influential twentieth-century social movements transformed...
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69 Day Run: A Sea Story About Winning the Cold WarA Sea Story About Winning the Cold War - and so much more. . .It is the Fall of 1985, and the Cold War is at its peak. American Thresher Class nuclear powered attack submarine USS GATO (SSN 615) - the Black Cat -...
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Bend In The RiverEvery bend hides a story. Every story has a cost. Winter, 1964. Tom Crutchfield arrives in the barren coal fields of western Kentucky searching for the mother who abandoned him twenty-one years ago. A mysterious Christmas card has unsettled the life mapped out for...
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The Circus of SatanIn 1878 a teenage Jew, the Hessex Kid, kills an Irish thug in a Five Point's bar fight in front of hundreds of drugged and drunken killers, all members of the Whyo Gang, which controls all crime in Manhattan under the aegis of the...
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Forty-Three Ways of Looking at HemingwayThe multifaceted, cubist, and comprehensive perspective of Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway appears on the fortieth anniversary of Meyers's magisterial biography of Hemingway. This approach has never before been used to illustrate the complexity of his character, the range of his interests, and...
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A Task Force Called Faith: The Untold Story of the U.S. Army Soldiers Who Fought for Survival at Chosin Reservoir--And Honor Back HomeThe forgotten heroes of Chosin--how Task Force Faith fought against impossible odds and a legacy of unfair shame. On the 75th anniversary of the legendary Battle of Chosin Reservoir, Steve Vogel tells the little-known story of the Army soldiers who gave all during the...
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Nuremberg's Citizen Prosecutor: Benjamin Ferencz and the Birth of International JusticeThe remarkable life of one of the twentieth century's great warriors for justice, from Nuremberg to the first trial of the International Criminal Court On September 29, 1947, in Courtroom 600, before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal, twenty-seven-year-old Benjamin Ferencz approached the lectern to deliver...
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Go, Flight!: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965-1992The inspiration for the documentary Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo At first glance, it looks like just another auditorium in just another government building. But among the talented men (and later women) who worked in mission control, the room located on the...
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Defending Dixie's Land: What Every American Should Know About The South and The Civil WarARE YOU INTERESTED IN KNOWING the actual history of your country, or are you content with the propagandized version the winners of wars conjure up to feed school children? When it comes to the story and tradition of the U.S. South, and especially the...
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Smithson's Gamble: The Smithsonian Institution in American Life, 1836-1906Discover the incredible history of the Smithsonian as it grew to meet the needs of a nation Follow the fascinating growth and development of the world's largest museum and research complex during its first 60 years. The English chemist and mineralogist James Smithson never...
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Seattle Samurai: A Cartoonist's Perspective of the Japanese American ExperienceBetween 2012 and 2018, Sam Goto drew over 250 multi-paneled Seattle Tomodachi ("friend of Seattle") comic strips for The North American Post. These comics chronicled the lives and stories of early Japanese settlers and their American-born offspring. Through his work, he captured elements of...
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Goethe: A Life in IdeasA new intellectual biography of Goethe, examining the paradox of his thought Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a poet, a novelist, a scientist and an essayist on a dizzying range of topics. In the nineteenth century, he was widely regarded as one of...
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The West: The History of an IdeaA comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the West How did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did "Westerners" begin to refer to themselves in this way? Was the idea handed down from...
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident MovementWINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize - Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize A "riveting history" (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and still provides a model...
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This Way Out"A moving and entertaining account of youthful resilience." -Edward Zuckerman, Emmy-winning writer for Law & Order, author of Wealth Management: A ThrillerA gutsy coming-of-age novel that may rip your heart out. Set in Philadelphia during the tumultuous 1960s, This Way Out is the story...
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Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated EditionThis book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy-a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth...
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Beyond the Fence Line: The Eyewitness Account of Ed Hoffman and the Murder of President John F. KennedyForty-five years ago, n November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Deaf witness Ed Hoffman saw the man who fired the fatal shot that killed the Presidentand it was not Lee Harvey Oswald. His eyewitness account destroys the governments version of a...
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