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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban RevolutionDetroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely heralded as one the most...
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Baseball: The New York Game: How the National Pastime Paralleled Us HistoryBASEBALL The New York Game is organized as a linear narrative offacts and events that marries America's illustrious history with therich background of baseball, our national pastime, beginning in theearly nineteenth century until the present. The narrative includesmany watershed moments that illustrate the importance...
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The Revolt of the Black Athlete: 50th Anniversary EditionThe Revolt of the Black Athlete hit sport and society like an Ali combination. This Fiftieth Anniversary edition of Harry Edwards's classic of activist scholarship arrives even as a new generation engages with the issues he explored. Edwards's new introduction and afterword revisit the...
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A Man of Modern LettersThe Modern Movement in art was an authentic response to a much-changing world. The rapid industrialization and urbanization of western society called for a new wave in the arts, a dismantling of past styles, and a rise of new forms of expression. In her...
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The Military Memoirs of a Confederate Line Officer: Captain John C. Reed's Civil War from Manassas to AppomattoxJohn C. Reed fought through the entire war as an officer in the 8th Georgia Infantry, most of it with General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The Princeton graduate was wounded at least twice (Second Manassas and Gettysburg), promoted to captain during the Wilderness...
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The Plea: The True Story of Young Wesley Elkins and His Struggle for RedemptionOn a moonlit night in 1889, Iowa farmer John Elkins and his young wife, Hattie, were brutally murdered in their bed. Eight days later, their son, eleven-year-old Wesley Elkins, was arrested and charged with murder. The community reeled with shock by both the gruesome...
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Same Ground: Chasing Family Down the California Gold Rush Trail"Read him." -- George Elliott Clarke, author of I & I and George and Rue An award-winning author goes looking for the meaning of family and belonging on a glorious wild-goose-chase road trip across middle America Wangersky's great-great-grandfather crossed the continent in search of...
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Osborne Russell's Journal of a Trapper:: Edited from the Original Manuscript in the William Robertson Coe Collection of Western Americana in the YaleReader, if you are in search of a Classical and Scientific tourist, please to lay this Volume down, and pass on, for this simply informs you what a Trapper has seen and experienced. But if you wish to peruse a Hunter's rambles among the...
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H.L. Hunt: Motive & OpportunityAfter being summarily thrown out of the upcoming 1964 World's Fair project, presumably at the instruction of JFK himself, billionaire H.L. Hunt turned to John Curington, his attorney, and said, "I've about got a belly-full of those Kennedy boys. They both need to go."...
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North Carolina in the 1940s: The Decade of TransformationThis book is the first in a series of small, richly illustrated books about North Carolina history through the decades. Originally published as hugely popular serialized articles for Our State magazine, this book chronicles events in North Carolina in the 1940s--a decade which began...
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The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America"From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,000 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This 'placing out, ' an attempt to find homes for the urban poor, was best known...
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Follow the Pipelines: Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil"Charlotte Dennett has written an excellent book summarizing the geopolitics of the Middle East historically through to current events. . . . This is an amazing piece of historical writing. . . . Students, foreign affairs 'experts' and officials should have this work as...
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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working ClassCombining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply...
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The Last Heir: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Two Montana FamiliesThe only thing the Herrins and the Burkes had in common was their Irish ancestry. Opposites in most ways, the families nevertheless personified two common threads in the history of the West. As the owner of an iconic Montana stock-raising operation--the famous Oxbow Ranch...
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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the ArtsThis international bestseller is an encyclopedic A-Z masterpiece--the perfect introduction to the very core of Western humanism. Clive James rescues, or occasionally destroys, the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the twentieth century. Soaring to Montaigne-like heights,...
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Buffalo Dance: The Journey of YorkAuthor: Frank X. WalkerPublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 11/08/2022Pages: 112Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 8.48h x 5.59w x 0.33dISBN: 9780813196459
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"Captain Cook": Pvt. Edwin A. Loosley of the 81st Illinois Volunteer Infantry RegimentThe book consists of a lengthy series of letters and a diary started midway through the American Civil War. Opening with an introduction to Edwin's life, the book dives into the letters he sent to his wife, Ann, who lived in DuQuoin, Illinois. Edwin...
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The Lost Rocks: The Dare Stones and the Unsolved Mystery of Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost ColonyWhat if the 1587 Lost Colony of Roanoke was not lost? What if the survivors left Roanoke Island, North Carolina and found their way to Georgia? That is the scenario scholars contemplated when a series of engraved stones were found in the 1930's. The...
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The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783First published almost a century ago, this classic text on the history and tactics of naval warfare had a profound effect on the imperial policies of all the major powers. Kaiser Wilhelm is said to have devoured this book, and it was avidly read...
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Stories of the Old WestSaddle up for a wild ride through those thrilling days of yesteryear. In Stories of the Old West, Steven Price serves up a heapin' helpin' of tales of America's frontier days: ranches and rodeos, lawmen and desperadoes, saloons and gunslingers, wilderness exploring and range...
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