United States - 20th Century
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Tribal Laws, Treaties, and Government: A Lakota Perspective
$13.95 Add to cartOglala Chief Red Cloud is quoted as saying, “The white man made many promises to us, but he kept only one; he promised to take our land and he took it.”
Initially the method of taking Indian land was
- Author: Lee, Patrick A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1475986866
- Language: English
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The Twentieth Century: A People’s History
$19.99 Add to cart“Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history….[His] chapter on Vietnam–bringing to life once again the fire-free zones, secret bombings, mass
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0060530340
- Language: English
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The Great Depression: A Diary
$19.99 Add to cartWhen the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set dow… [more below]
- Author: Roth, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31, 2010
- ISBN10: 1586489011
- Language: English
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The Shores of Bohemia: A Cape Cod Story
$23.00 Add to cartAn intimate portrait of a legendary generation of artists, writers, activists, and dreamers who created a utopia on the shores of Cape Cod during the first half of the twentieth century
Their names ar- Author: Williams, John Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1250867169
- Language: English
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My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
$18.99 Add to cartI think Eleanor Roosevelt has so gripped the imagination of this moment because we need her and her vision so completely. . . . She’s perfect for us as we enter the twenty-first century. Eleanor Roose… [more below]
- Author: Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 8, 2001
- ISBN10: 0306810107
- Language: English
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The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America
$30.00 Read moreA gripping account of an alien abduction and its connections to the breakdown of American society in the 1960s
“Excellent and exhaustive.”–Colin Dickey, Slate In the mid-1960s, Betty and Barney Hill- Author: Bowman, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0300251386
- Language: English
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Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson
$31.99 Add to cartA compelling narrative of the trials and triumphs of tennis champion Althea Gibson, a key figure in the integration of American sports and, for a time, one of the most famous women in the world.
From- Author: Brown, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0197551750
- Language: English
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A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism
$39.95 Add to cartHow the Clinton administration betrayed its progressive principles and capitulated to the right
When Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, he ended twelve years of Republican rule and seemed poi- Series: Politics and Society in Modern America #155
- Author: Lichtenstein, Nelson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691245509
- Language: English
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Killing Kennedy: Exposing the Plot, the Cover-Up, and the Consequences
$32.99 Add to cartStartling new insights into the JFK assassination
In Killing Kennedy: Exposing the Plot, the Cover-Up, and the Consequences, author Jack Roth interviews researchers, scholars, eyewitnesses, and fami- Author: Roth, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1510775439
- Language: English
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
$23.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Missis… [more below]
- Author: Barry, John M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 02 1998
- ISBN10: 0684840022
- Language: English
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Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
$25.00 Read moreA leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics
● A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 and winner of the Pushkin House Book Priz- Series: Henry L. Stimson Lectures
- Author: Sarotte, M. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268033
- Language: English
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Amache: The Story of Japanese Internment in Colorado During World War II
$22.95 Read moreThroughout its history, America has often been guilty of inflicting the very injustices it has tried to exterminate. One such period came in the first stages of the second world war when Americans, se
- Author: Harvey, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: March 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 1637840187
- Language: English
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The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in… [more below]
- Author: Abbott, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0451498631
- Language: English
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Behind the Scenes: Covering the JFK Assassination
$29.95 Read moreOn November 22, 1963, the author of Behind the Scenes was a young Dallas Times Herald reporter who sprinted from his newspaper desk to Dealey Plaza minutes after shots were fired at President John F. … [more below]
- Author: Payne, Darwin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1574419110
- Language: English
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Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States
$20.99 Add to cart- Author: Hart, Bradley W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 2, 2018
- ISBN10: 1250871883
- Language: English
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Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America’s World War II Concentration Camps
$30.00 Add to cartIt is 1942, and World War II is raging. In the months since Pearl Harbor, the US has plunged into the war overseas–and on the home front, it has locked up tens of thousands of innocent Japanese Ameri… [more below]
- Author: Muller, Eric L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 1469673975
- Language: English
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The Wee Wah Beach Club in Tuxedo Park: An American Story of Social Change
$26.99 Add to cartAmericans have always had a fascination with the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Perhaps you have watched “The Gilded Age” series on HBO by Julien Fellows reliving the life of the socially rich and
- Author: McGregor, Stuart J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 444
- Publish Date: January 15, 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218259969
- Language: English
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Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression
$19.99 Add to cartChristopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression… [more below]
- Author: Knowlton, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 12, 2021
- ISBN10: 1982128380
- Language: English
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Crooked: The Roaring ’20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scan
$30.00 Read moreThe riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator who stopped at nothing to take him down
Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime- Author: Masters, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0306826135
- Language: English
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
$30.00 Add to cartIf the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn’t lynching the law?
In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice P
- Author: Burnham, Margaret A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 27, 2022
- ISBN10: 0393867854
- Language: English
