United States - 20th Century
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What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times
$39.95 Read moreFour stories of resilience, mutual aid, and radical rebellion that will transform how we understand the Great Depression
Drawing on little-known stories of working people, What Can We Learn from the G- Author: Frank, Dana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0807046906
- Language: English
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Combing Through the White House: Hair and Its Shocking Impact on the Politics, Private Lives, and Legacies of the Presidents
$24.99 Read moreDiscover a fascinating and novel look at the U.S. presidents, the first families, and American history–all through the lens of hair. With meticulous detail, engaging storytelling, and full-color visu
- Author: Pappas, Theodore
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1400246156
- Language: English
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L.A. Birdmen: West Coast Aviators and the First Airshow in America
$29.95 Read moreAlthough most credit Wilbur and Orville Wright with America’s first powered flight, two months before the brothers lifted off the sands of Kitty Hawk, a French immigrant named August Greth flew the Ca
- Author: Goodrich, Richard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1493084399
- Language: English
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The Last Honest Man: The Cia, the Fbi, the Mafia, and the Kennedys–And One Senator’s Fight to Save Democracy
$21.99 Add to cartIn this “gripping . . . spectacular piece of reporting” (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center of numerous investigations into the abuses… [more below]
- Author: Risen, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0316565148
- Language: English
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The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
$20.00 Add to cartThe devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult.
In the middle of the Ozzie and Harriet 1950s, the birth control pill was introduced and a maverick- Author: Stille, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1250872499
- Language: English
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Palm Springs Tiki: Polynesia in the Desert
$35.00 Read morePalm Springs Tiki presents a visual exploration of a mid-century tropical paradise in the California desert.
From the 1930s through the 1970s, Palm Springs and other desert communities embraced the mid
- Author: Kirsten, Sven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1423666038
- Language: English
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The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play
$32.00 Add to cartThe “deep and impactful” story of the American stadium (Howard Bryant, author of Full Dissidence)–from the first wooden ballparks to today’s glass and steel mega-arenas–revealing how it has made, an… [more below]
- Author: Guridy, Frank Andre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1541601459
- Language: English
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Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and a Legacy of Rage.
$19.99 Add to cart“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is the definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featurin… [more below]
- Author: Guinn, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1982186119
- Language: English
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A Nation of Immigrants
$15.99 Add to cart“In this timeless book, President Kennedy shows how the United States has always been enriched by the steady flow of men, women, and families to our shores. It is a reminder that America’s best leader
- Author: Kennedy, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0062859692
- Language: English
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Authentic Chicago: The Fairway Flapper, the Lincolnwood Lone Ranger, the Wandering Church and Other Quirky History
$24.99 Read moreDiscover the history most Chicagoans don’t know—the real Chicago Way.
The Windy City is full of forgotten landmarks and unusual stories that rarely get the benefit of a guided tour. Meet the African-
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Schmidt, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154911
- Language: English
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Democracy’s Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them
$20.00 Read moreFrom the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data.
The census isn’t simply data; it’s a ritual of American democracy. And beh- Author: Bouk, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872170
- Language: English
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This Is Not Who We Are: America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue
$29.95 Add to cartThis Is Not Who We Are examines America’s struggle to be good once it became an undisputed superpower. A unique and compelling insight into how a country’s humanity affects us all, this book is for lo… [more below]
- Author: Shore, Zachary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: January 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1009203444
- Language: English
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Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America’s Soul
$19.99 Read moreFrom the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest election stories of all time, as Truman mounted… [more below]
- Author: Baime, A. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 358522498
- Language: English
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Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties
$32.99 Add to cartFrom the speechwriter and top adviser to presidents Kennedy and Johnson: A behind-the-scenes history of the most momentous decade in American politics.
Richard N. Goodwin entered public service in 19- Author: Goodwin, Richard N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 828
- Publish Date: September 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1497676576
- Language: English
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Making a New Deal
$29.99 Add to cartThis book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as t… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Cohen, Lizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 566
- Publish Date: November 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1107431794
- Language: English
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Inside the Dream Palace
$15.95 Add to cartWinner of the Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing
“Tippins tells riveting stories about the Chelsea’s artists, but she also captures a much grander, and more pressing, narrative: that of t- Author: Tippins, Sherill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0544334477
- Language: English
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A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
$23.99 Add to cartWith America’s current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle class, the Progressive Era stands out as a time when the middle cl… [more below]
- Author: McGerr, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0195183657
- Language: English
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Eating Up Route 66: Foodways on America’s Mother Road
$34.95 Add to cartFrom its designation in 1926 to the rise of the interstates nearly sixty years later, Route 66 was, in John Steinbeck’s words, America’s Mother Road, carrying countless travelers the 2,400 miles betwe… [more below]
- Author: Baker, T. Lindsay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0806190698
- Language: English
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JFK to 911 Everything Is a Rich Man’s Trick
$29.95 Read moreJFK to 911 is already a global phenomenon, having began as a Youtube video which achieved over a billion hits by becoming the first documentary in human history to untangle all the establishment lies … [more below]
- Author: Conolly, Francis Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: October 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1634243749
- Language: English
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We Fought the Road
$19.95 Add to cartWe Fought the Road is the story of the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway during World War II. More than one third of the 10,607 builders were black; thought to be incapable of performing on a war
- Author: McClure, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1935347772
- Language: English
