United States - 20th Century
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We Are as Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America
$30.00 Add to cartAt the dawn of the 1970s, waves of hopeful idealists abandoned the city and headed for the country, convinced that a better life awaited. They were full of dreams, mostly lacking in practical skills, … [more below]
- Author: Daloz, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1610392256
- Language: English
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A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century
$29.99 Add to cartEven as historians credit Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II with hastening the end of the Cold War, they have failed to recognize the depth or significance of the bond that developed between the two… [more below]
- Author: Kengor, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1610171527
- Language: English
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Life After Manzanar
$28.00 Read moreFrom the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the “Resettlement” the relatively unexamined period wh… [more below]
- Author: Hirahara, Naomi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1597144002
- Language: English
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Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom, Revised and Expanded
$19.95 Add to cartUnlike other American astronauts, Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom never had the chance to publish his memoirs. Killed along with his crew in a launch pad fire on January 27, 1967, Grissom also lost his chance
- Series: Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Author: Leopold, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1557538298
- Language: English
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Hidden White House
$26.00 Add to cartCritically acclaimed author Robert Klara’s The Hidden White House leads readers through an unmatched tale of political ambition and technical skill: the Truman administration’s controversial rebuildin
- Author: Klara, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 1250053935
- Language: English
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The 1968 Project: A Nation Coming of Age
$24.95 Add to cartIlluminates the extraordinary events of a pivotal year in America, with photography, eyewitness accounts, and iconic art and artifacts of the times.
- Author: Zellar, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 087351842X
- Language: English
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The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth
$24.95 Add to cartIn this book, Claire Puccia Parham reveals the human side of the project in the words of its engineers, laborers, and carpenters. Drawing on firsthand accounts, she provides a vivid portrait of the li… [more below]
- Author: Parham, Claire Puccia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0815610734
- Language: English
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City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
$22.99 Add to cartThe epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America. Here, witness Chicago’s growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world’s most explosively alive cities by… [more below]
- Series: Illinois
- Author: Miller, Donald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 03 1997
- ISBN10: 0684831384
- Language: English
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Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
$27.99 Add to cartTheodore Roosevelt’s writing has the same verve, panache, and energy as the life he lived. Perhaps no president in U.S. history–not even Jefferson–had so many opinions and intellectual interests, be… [more below]
- Author: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 636
- Publish Date: March 22 1985
- ISBN10: 0306802325
- Language: English
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
$19.99 Add to cart“A perfectly grand piece of historical record and synthetic journalism.” — Chicago Daily Tribune
From Frederick Lewis Allen, former editor-in-chief of Harper’s magazine, comes a classic history of 192
- Author: Allen, Frederick L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0060956658
- Language: English
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The Times They Were A-Changin’: 1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle Lines of Today Were Drawn
$29.99 Read moreAn award-winning historian on the transformative year in the sixties that continues to reverberate in our lives and politics–for readers of Heather Cox Richardson.
If 1968 marked a turning point in a- Author: McElvaine, Robert S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1950994104
- Language: English
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The Darkest Hour: A Comprehensive Account of the Smith Mine Disaster of 1943
$5.99 Add to cartOn February 27, 1943, an explosion at Smith Mine #3 in Washoe, MT killed 74 men in the worst mining disaster in Montana’s history. This is the story of the miners, the heroes in the rescue operation,
- Author: Kuhlman, Fay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 42
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0965960943
- Language: English
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Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog: Scripting the Santa Fe Legend, 1920-1955
$24.95 Add to cartAnglos have been coming to Santa Fe for centuries, and early in the last century the city’s beauty and exotic cultural mix became particularly attractive to artistic immigrants looking for freedom fro
- Author: Farge, John Pen La
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0826320155
- Language: English
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Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History
$21.95 Add to cart“Incorporating the career of Admiral Hyman Rickover, the creator of the nuclear navy, Tucker’s work importantly recalls a forgotten warning from nuclear history.”–Gilbert Taylor, Booklist
On January 3
- Author: Tucker, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803234023
- Language: English
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American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division
$34.99 Add to cartIn his presidential inaugural address of January 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson offered an uplifting vision for America, one that would end poverty and racial injustice. Elected in a landslide over the conse
- Series: Pivotal Moments in World History
- Author: Cohen, Michael A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 18 2016
- ISBN10: 019977756X
- Language: English
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You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
$18.95 Add to cartIf you’re both overcome and angered by the atrocities of our time, this will inspire a “new generation of activists and ordinary people who search for hope in the darkness” (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor). … [more below]
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 807043842
- Language: English
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The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to Today
$19.99 Add to cartA noted theologian explains how the radical idea of Christian love animated the African American civil rights movement and how it can power today’s social justice struggles
Speaking to his supporters- Author: Marsh, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2006
- ISBN10: 0465044166
- Language: English
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Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920
$18.99 Add to cart“Fascinating…. A major work by a leading historian at the top of his game–at once engaging and tightly argued.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Dazzling cultural history: smart, provocative, and
- Series: American History
- Author: Lears, Jackson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 08, 2010
- ISBN10: 0060747501
- Language: English
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Fenway 1946: Red Sox, Peace, and a Year of Hope
$31.58 Add to cartFenway 1946 celebrates the city, the team, and the spirit of that wonderful 1946 season in Boston–a season, as usual, that broke fans’ hearts–as America returned to peacetime pastimes. And none was
- Author: Connelly, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493067400
- Language: English
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Devil’s Rooming House: The True Story of America’s Deadliest Female Serial Killer
$19.95 Add to cartThe Devil’s Rooming House is the first book about the life, times, and crimes of America’s most prolific female serial killer. In telling this fascinating story, M. William Phelps also paints a vivid
- Author: Phelps, M. William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1493050125
- Language: English
