United States - 20th Century
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Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
$18.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller
“Medgar Evers deserves a place alongside Malcolm X and Dr. King in our historical memory. Evers, with Myrlie as his partner in activism and in life, was doing civil rights
- Author: Reid, Joy-Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 006306880X
- Language: English
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I’ve Been to the Mountaintop
$22.99 Add to cartA beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s last speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.
On April 3, 1968, Dr. Marti
- Series: Essential Speeches of Dr. Martin Lut #2
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0063351048
- Language: English
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James Baldwin. Steve Schapiro. the Fire Next Time
$20.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1963, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America’s so-called “Negro problem.” As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account of
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 07 2024
- ISBN10: 3836596997
- Language: English
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The Wonder and Complexity of the 1904 World’s Fair
$30.00 Add to cartSt. Louis scholars contribute essays on the untold stories of the 1904 World’s Fair.
The 1904 World’s Fair was a complex, fascinating event that continues to evoke a range of emotions. It was grand.- Author: The Missouri Historical Society Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 25 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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America’s Nazi Secret
$24.95 Read moreFully revised and expanded, this stirring account reveals how the U.S. government permitted the illegal entry of Nazis into North America in the years following World War II. This extraordinary invest… [more below]
- Author: Loftus, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 11 2010
- ISBN10: 1936296047
- Language: English
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The Downtown Pop Underground: New York City and the Literary Punks, Renegade Artists, DIY Filmmakers, Mad Playwrights, and Rock ‘n’ Roll Glitter Que
$20.00 Add to cartThe Downtown Pop Underground presents an artistic history ofNew York City and the literary punks, renegade artists, DIY filmmakers, mad playwrights, and rock ‘n’ roll glitter queens who revolutionized… [more below]
- Author: McLeod, Kembrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1419738046
- Language: English
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Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
$28.99 Add to cartBetween 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. This book tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States
- Author: Kennedy, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 936
- Publish Date: April 19 2001
- ISBN10: 0195144031
- Language: English
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Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
$25.99 Add to cartWhile many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of the great plutonium disasters of the United States and the Soviet Uni… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190233109
- Language: English
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I Never Did Like Politics: How Fiorello La Guardia Became America’s Mayor, and Why He Still Matters
$30.00 Read more“In our current dismal passage of American politics, it’s exhilarating to read about a politician who exemplified all the qualities–courage, honesty, vision, energy, disdain for hypocrisy, concern fo
- Author: Golway, Terry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 125028578X
- Language: English
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The Fight for Sex Ed: The Century-Long Battle Between Truth and Doctrine
$29.95 Add to cartThe first comprehensive trade history of sex ed in American schools–and an impassioned call to reform sex ed into a powerful tool for reproductive justice and social equality
The U.S. has some of the- Author: Myers, Margaret Grace
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0807008060
- Language: English
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That Day in Dallas: Lee Harvey Oswald Did Not Kill JFK
$29.99 Add to cartThat Day in Dallas: Lee Harvey Oswald Did Not Kill JFK is best described as a prosecution by Robert K. Tanenbaum of those corrupt, unscrupulous government and unelected agency officials, who from ince… [more below]
- Author: Tanenbaum, Robert K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1510783652
- Language: English
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A Blacklist Education: American History, a Family Mystery, and a Teacher Under Fire
$26.95 Add to cartIn A Blacklist Education, a mysterious file of family papers triggers a journey through the dark days of political purges in the 1950s. Jane S. Smith tells the story of the anticommunist witch hunt th… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Jane S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1978845057
- Language: English
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The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America
$30.33 Add to cartA Washington Post Book of the Year
“A masterful study of privacy.”
Winner of the Merle Curti Award
Winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize
Winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
–Sue Halpern, New York Review- Author: Igo, Sarah E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0674244796
- Language: English
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The Nightingale’s Song
$22.00 Add to cartRobert Timberg weaves together the lives of Annapolis graduates John McCain, James Webb, Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, and John Poindexter to reveal how the Vietnam War continues to haunt America. C… [more below]
- Author: Timberg, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 11 1996
- ISBN10: 0684826739
- Language: English
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James Burnham: An Intellectual Biography
$33.95 Add to cartIn this intellectual biography of one of the most important political thinkers of the twentieth century, David T. Byrne reveals the fascinating life of James Burnham.
Beginning his intellectual career
- Author: Byrne, David T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501780042
- Language: English
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Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel, and Charles Lindbergh
$19.99 Add to cartJames Newton’s Uncommon Friends is “a delightful portrayal of five great men who shared special friendships and common visions” (Booklist).Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel, a
- Author: Newton, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0156926202
- Language: English
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The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
$27.00 Add to cartNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history–the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swe… [more below]
- Author: Fountain, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1101904089
- Language: English
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The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
$29.00 Add to cartThe veteran Wall Street Journal science reporter Marilyn Chase’s fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian San Francisco is a real-life thriller that resonates in today’s … [more below]
- Author: Chase, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 09 2004
- ISBN10: 0375757082
- Language: English
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Little Vic and the Great Mafia War
$29.00 Add to cartFrom award-winning New York Daily News reporter Larry McShane, the gritty, bloody, first definite biography of one of the Mafia’s deadliest contenders for boss, “Little Vic” Orena, who battled it out … [more below]
- Author: McShane, Larry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0806543604
- Language: English
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Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security
$29.95 Add to cartThe story of how FDR and fellow New Dealers created the idea of national security, transforming the meaning of defense and vastly expanding the US government’s responsibilities.
National security may- Author: Preston, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674737385
- Language: English
