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Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction
$30.00 Add to cartIn a world of border walls and obstacles to migration, a lottery where winners can gain permanent residency in the United States sounds too good to be true. Just as unlikely is the idea that the Unite… [more below]
- Author: Goodman, Carly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 2, 2023
- ISBN10: 1469673045
- Language: English
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Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
$22.95 Add to cartSettlers is a uniquely important book in the canon of the North American revolutionary left and anticolonial movements. First published in the 1980s by activists with decades of experience organizing
- Series: Kersplebedeb
- Author: Sakai, J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: September 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1629630373
- Language: English
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And a Bottle of Rum, Revised and Updated: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
$19.00 Add to cartNow revised, updated, and with new recipes, And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of this most American of liquors
From the grog sailors drank on the high seas in the 1700s to the- Author: Curtis, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0525575022
- Language: English
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American Minute
$25.00 Add to cartNotable Events of American Significance Remembered on the Date They Occurred. An interesting and inspiring collection of history vingettes, one for each day of the year. Well-known national holidays a… [more below]
- Author: Federer, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 03 2003
- ISBN10: 0965355780
- Language: English
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A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to America’s Age of Entitlement, Revised Edition
$32.00 Add to cartRevised and updated, this 15th anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller salutes America’s true and proud history.
Fifteen years ago, Professors Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen set- Author: Schweikart, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: November 25 2014
- ISBN10: 1595231153
- Language: English
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A Reverence for Wood
$20.99 Add to cartRefreshingly written, delightfully illustrated book remarks expansively on the resourcefulness of early Americans in their use of this valuable commodity – from the crafting of furniture, tools, and b… [more below]
- Author: Sloane, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: July 1, 2012
- ISBN10: 1607964759
- Language: English
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The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
$21.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
Ever since this nation’s inception, the idea of a
A new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump’s border wall.- Author: Grandin, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 14, 2020
- ISBN10: 1250214858
- Language: English
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Illiberal America: A History
$35.00 Add to cartA storm of illiberalism, building in the United States for years, unleashed its destructive force in the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021. The attack on American democracy and images of mob vio
- Author: Hahn, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 393635929
- Language: English
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At the Base of the Giant’s Throat: The Past and Future of America’s Great Dams
$34.95 Add to cartThere are ninety thousand registered dams in the United States, fifty thousand of them classified as “major.” Nearly all of this infrastructure was built during a forty-year period, from 1932 to 1972,… [more below]
- Author: Palumbi, Anthony R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1640124934
- Language: English
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
$18.00 Add to cartOne of NPR’s Great Reads of 2016
“A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories…absorbing… and] intellectually intriguing.” —The New York Times Book Review From the author- Author: Dickey, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 3, 2017
- ISBN10: 1101980206
- Language: English
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Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks–A Cool History of a Hot Commodity
$29.00 Read moreThe unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation–from the foods Americans eat, to the sports they play, to the way they live today–and what its future might look like on a swiftl… [more below]
- Author: Brady, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0593422198
- Language: English
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Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
$18.00 Add to cartJournalist Greg Melville’s Over My Dead Body is an “astonishing . . . fascinating . . . powerful” (New York Times Book Review) tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and w
- Author: Melville, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1419754866
- Language: English
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An African American and Latinx History of the United States
$18.95 Add to cartAn intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights
Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a rev- Series: ReVisioning American History #4
- Author: Ortiz, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0807005932
- Language: English
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A Little History of the United States
$16.95 Read moreA fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all ages
“This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Davidson, James West
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 030022348X
- Language: English
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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
$22.99 Add to cartRonald Takaki’s beloved revisionist history of America, praised by Howard Zinn as “a bold and refreshing new approach to our national history,” now featuring a foreword from Clint Smith, author of the
- Author: Takaki, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0316499072
- Language: English
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Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars
$30.00 Read moreFrom the preeminent historian of modern comedy comes an expansive history of showbiz and the culture wars
There is a common belief that we live in unprecedented times, that people are too sensitive t- Author: Nesteroff, Kliph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 141976098X
- Language: English
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We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know
$18.99 Add to cartA 2022 American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor Book
Twelve Native American kids present historical and contemporary laws, policies, struggles, and victori
A 2022 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book- Author: Sorell, Traci
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1623541921
- Language: English
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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
$19.99 Add to cartThis revelatory and inclusive book “unearths the stories of the people–farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees–behind some of the labor movement’s biggest successes” (The New York Times)
- Author: Kelly, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982171065
- Language: English
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Becoming Irish American: The Making and Remaking of a People from Roanoke to JFK
$30.00 Read moreThe origins and evolution of Irish American identity, from colonial times through the twentieth century
“Subtly provocative. . . . [Meagher] traces the making and remaking of Irish America through se- Author: Meagher, Timothy J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0300126271
- Language: English
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
$22.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0399589821
- Language: English
