Chronological Period/21st Century
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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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Social Contagion: And Other Material on Microbiological Class War in China
$12.00 Read moreSocial Contagion presents the untold story of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Chuang, a collective of communists living inside and outside China, chronicle the struggles of everyday people caught betw… [more below]
- Author: Chuang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 203
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0882860070
- Language: English
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Warrior Spirit: The Story of Native American Patriotism and Heroism
$19.95 Add to cartFor decades, American schoolchildren have learned only a smattering of facts about Native American peoples, especially when it comes to service in the U.S. military. They might know that Navajos serve… [more below]
- Author: Viola, Herman J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0806180315
- Language: English
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American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to Covid-19
$13.00 Read moreA concise history of how American law has shaped–and been shaped by–the experience of contagion, “taking us from the smallpox outbreaks of the colonies to COVID-19. . . . The conclusion [Witt] arriv… [more below]
- Author: Witt, John Fabian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0300261519
- Language: English
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This Land Is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma from the 1870s to the 2010s Volume 1
$24.95 Add to cartSince well before ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 secured their right to vote, women in Oklahoma have sought to change and uplift their communities through political activism. This La… [more below]
- Series: Women and the American West #1
- Author: Janda, Sarah Eppler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: July 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0806169265
- 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 Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump
$20.99 Add to cartThe New York Times opinion writer, media commentator, outspoken Republican and Christian critic of the Trump presidency offers a spirited defense of politics and its virtuous and critical role in main
- Author: Wehner, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 006282080X
- Language: English
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No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
$24.00 Add to cartWhen it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove … [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Cox, Karen L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1469662671
- Language: English
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Contraception: A Concise History
$15.95 Read moreThe development, manufacturing, and use of contraceptive methods from the late nineteenth century to the present, viewed from the perspective of reproductive justice.
The beginning of the modern contra
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Drucker, Donna J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538423
- Language: English
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Black Knights, Dark Days: The True Story of Sadr City’s Black Sunday
$15.95 Add to cartMore than just another ominous catch-phrase from war in the Big Sandbox, Black Sunday was the day in April 2004 when units of America’s 1st Cavalry Division saw their routine deployment turn into a ha
- Author: Fisk, J. Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: December 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1944353127
- Language: English
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The Children of the New Forest
$14.99 Add to cartA classic tale of historical adventure to be enjoyed by children and adults alike, set against the turbulent background of the English Civil War, as well as a charming coming-of-age story
It was in the
- Author: Marryat, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1843914875
- Language: English
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Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela
$21.95 Add to cartBeneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude–the world’s largest reserves–an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist g… [more below]
- Author: Gallegos, Raúl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1640122133
- Language: English
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The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria
$15.95 Add to cartA masterpiece of war reportage, The Morning They Came for Us bears witness to one of the most brutal internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawing from years of experience covering Syria for Vanity
- Author: Di Giovanni, Janine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492950
- Language: English
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Controlled Chaos: Chip Kelly’s Football Revolution
$21.00 Add to cartThe author of The Tao of Chip Kelly returns with deep insight into the mind of one of the NFL’s most innovative and increasingly controversial coaches.
- Author: Saltveit, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: July 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1626818231
- Language: English
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What Is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11
$16.99 Add to cartThe inspiration for the Netflix film ‘Worth, ‘ starring Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci, and Amy Ryan: the true story of the man put in charge of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, and a testament to th… [more below]
- Author: Feinberg, Kenneth R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 29 2006
- ISBN10: 1586484516
- Language: English
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Ever True: 150 Years of Giant Leaps at Purdue University
$44.95 Add to cartIn 1869 the State of Indiana founded Purdue University as Indiana’s land-grant university dedicated to agriculture and engineering. Today, Purdue stands as one of the elite research and education inst
- Series: Founders
- Author: Norberg, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1557538220
- Language: English
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Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction
$21.95 Read moreNorth America is in the grips of a drug epidemic; with the introduction of fentanyl, the chances of a fatal overdose are greater than ever, prompting many to rethink the war on drugs. Public opinion h… [more below]
- Author: Lupick, Travis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 155152712X
- Language: English
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American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
$17.99 Add to cartA comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic — devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusions
The opioid epidemic has been described as “one of the greatest mistakes of moder- Author: McGreal, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1541742753
- Language: English
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Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
$47.50 Read moreA prizewinning political scientist traces the origins of urban-rural political conflict and shows how geography shapes elections in America and beyond
Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Part- Author: Rodden, Jonathan a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1541644271
- Language: English
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Vail: The First 50 Years
$31.99 Add to cartPrior to 1962, sheep ranchers and homesteaders occupied Gore Creek Valley. A sleepy place studded with aspen and pine groves, the valley lay ripe for discovery. Two men, Pete Seibert and Earl Eaton, h… [more below]
- Author: Welch, Shirley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 27 2012
- ISBN10: 1531664431
- Language: English
