United States - 20th Century
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Yamato Colony: The Pioneers Who Brought Japan to Florida
$19.95 Add to cartOpening a window onto the little-known Japanese-American heritage of Florida, Yamato Colony is the true tale of a daring immigrant venture that left behind an important legacy. Ryusuke Kawai tells how… [more below]
- Author: Kawai, Ryusuke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 081306810X
- Language: English
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Nebraska POW Camps: A History of World War II Prisoners in the Heartland
$31.99 Add to cartDuring World War II, thousands of Axis prisoners of war were held throughout Nebraska in base camps that included Fort Robinson, Camp Scottsbluff and Camp Atlanta. Many Nebraskans did not view the POW… [more below]
- Author: Marsh, Melissa Amateis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1540223272
- Language: English
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The Game: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968
$19.99 Add to cart*A New York Times Notable Book*
From the bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of The Big House comes “a well-blended narrative packed with top-
*A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year*- Author: Colt, George Howe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1501104799
- Language: English
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Spiked Boots: Sketches of the North Country
$23.99 Add to cartIn the days of log drives on the rivers of New England, whenever a riverman was killed on the drive, his comrades hung his spiked boots on a tree to mark the spot. As a youth, Robert Pike spotted such… [more below]
- Author: Pike, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: September 02 2008
- ISBN10: 088150436X
- Language: English
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America’s War with Militant Islam
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America’s first battle with militant Islam. On November 4, 1979, a group of radical I… [more below]
- Author: Bowden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 0802143032
- Language: English
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Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life (Updated)
$20.95 Add to cart“Anyone who has ever driven on a U.S. interstate highway or eaten at an exit-ramp McDonald’s will come away from this book with a better understanding of what makes modern America what it is.” – Chica
- Author: Lewis, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 11 2013
- ISBN10: 0801478227
- Language: English
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They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967
$21.99 Add to cartDavid Maraniss tells the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties through the events of a few gripping, passionate days of war and peace in October 1967.With meticulous and captivating detail, They March… [more below]
- Author: Maraniss, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 572
- Publish Date: October 04 2004
- ISBN10: 0743261046
- Language: English
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The Prison Guard’s Daughter: My Journey Through the Ashes of Attica
$17.99 Read moreOn the 50th anniversary of America’s deadliest prison riot comes a prison-guard daughter’s quest to uncover the truth about her father’s murder during the uprising―a story of crossing racial div… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Deanne Quinn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1635768047
- Language: English
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The Great Depression: A Captivating Guide to the Worldwide Economic Depression that Began in the United States, Including the Wall Street Cr
$29.99 Add to cartDid you know that the unemployment rate between 1933 and 1934 was one in four people?
The stock market crash of 1929 didn’t cause the Great Depression by itself, but it is a powerful symbolic starting
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: January 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1647483069
- Language: English
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Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Trump
$37.99 Add to cart1. Introduction: The Departure of Michelle Obama from the White House and the Need for Black Feminism.- 2. A History of Black American Feminism.- 3. Black Women’s Relationships with Party Politics.- 4… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Duchess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: September 28 2018
- ISBN10: 3319954555
- Language: English
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Survivor’s Guilt: The Secret Service and the Failure to Protect President Kennedy
$24.95 Add to cartPainstakingly researched by an authority on the history of the Secret Service and based on primary, firsthand accounts from more than 80 former agents, White House aides, and family members, this is t… [more below]
- Author: Palamara, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 22 2013
- ISBN10: 1937584607
- Language: English
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Doughnut Dollies: American Red Cross girls during World War II
$19.95 Add to cartAmerican service men in England during World War II called American Red Cross girls “Doughnut Dollies.” It was a warm and affectionate term designed to show the soldiers’ appreciation for the morale-b
- Author: Airy, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0865341044
- Language: English
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Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation
$26.95 Add to cartWith Stand by Me, Jim Downs rewrites the history of gay life in the 1970s, arguing that the decade was about much more than sex and marching in the streets. Drawing on a vast trove of untapped records… [more below]
- Author: Downs, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0820356441
- Language: English
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The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America
$18.95 Add to cartHow the legendary debate between a civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism illuminates America’s racial divide
On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Unio- Author: Buccola, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0691210772
- Language: English
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Georgia Farmers’ Strike: The American Agricultural Movement vs. Jimmy Carter
$37.99 Add to cartAuthor Lee Lancaster retraces the movement of a remarkable time in our nation’s agricultural history.
In 1976, America sent a peanut farmer from Plains to Washington, D.C. Farmers throughout the nat
- Author: Lancaster, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: July 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1540257371
- Language: English
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Year of the Fire: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910
$20.00 Add to cartIn the summer of 1910, wildfires int eh Northern Rockies scorched millions of acres, darkened skies in New England, and deposited soot on the ice in Greenland. The flames ravaged pristine wilderness a… [more below]
- Author: Pyne, Stephen J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 325
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0878425446
- Language: English
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John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crooks’ Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920-1936
$29.95 Add to cart“Paul Maccabee’s John Dillinger Slept Here is not just one of the best books ever written about Minneapolis-St. Paul, it is one of the best books of local history I have ever read — about any city an
- Series: Minnesota
- Author: Maccabee, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0873513169
- Language: English
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Fatal Politics: The Nixon Tapes, the Vietnam War, and the Casualties of Reelection
$32.25 Add to cartIn his widely acclaimed Chasing Shadows (“the best account yet of Nixon’s devious interference with Lyndon Johnson’s 1968 Vietnam War negotiations”– Washington Post), Ken Hughes revealed the roots of
- Series: Miller Center Studies on the Presidency
- Author: Hughes, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0813939356
- Language: English
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The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters
$26.95 Add to cartThe Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago’s Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts
- Author: Kraus, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1501747312
- Language: English
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Saying It Loud: 1966–The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement
$19.99 Add to cartMark Whitaker “writes with the eye of a journalist and ear of a poet” (The Boston Globe) to tell the story of the momentous year that redefined the civil rights movement as a new sense of Black identi… [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1982114134
- Language: English
