Social History
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Blood River Rising: The Thompson-Crismon Feud of the 1920s
$24.00 Add to cart“The KKK weren’t never about race. It were always about power and greed.”
So begins 86-year-old Hadley Thompson, who insists a rural historian research why two people were murdered. At first, Hubbell
- Author: Hubbell, Victoria Pope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 30 2016
- ISBN10: 1604542349
- Language: English
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Guardians of the Lights: Stories of U.S. Lighthouse Keepers
$21.95 Add to cartIn a charming blend of history and human interest, this book paints a colorful portrait of the lives of a vanished breed–the lighthouse keepers–from the year 1716, when the first lighthouse was esta
- Author: de Wire, Elinor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: June 01 1996
- ISBN10: 1561641197
- Language: English
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Alight
$16.00 Add to cartJoudah, an ER physician who worked with Doctors Without Borders, is a master storyteller who refuses to dramatize or withhold
- Author: Joudah, Fady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: May 14 2013
- ISBN10: 1556594224
- Language: English
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A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Jonestown
$20.00 Add to cart“A gripping account of how decent people can be taken in by a charismatic and crazed tyrant” (The New York Times Book Review).
In 1954, a past or named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis called- Author: Scheeres, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1416596402
- Language: English
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Indiana Jones Collectibles
$25.95 Read moreIt is now over four decades since the famed archaeologist and explorer Indiana Jones first appeared on our screens in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The creation of George Lucas, it borrowed heavily from t- Author: Buss, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1398111589
- Language: English
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The Anarchist Inquisition: Assassins, Activists, and Martyrs in Spain and France (1891-1909)
$26.00 Add to cartOne of the earliest global Human Rights campaigns was launched to defend the rights of anarchists from state repression.
Anarchist bombings in theaters and cafes in the 1890s provoked mass arrests, th
- Author: Bray, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1849355142
- Language: English
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The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions
$35.00 Add to cartA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK – From one of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists, an important and timely work of cultural history that looks at the origins and much debated future of anthropology… [more below]
- Author: Kuper, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593700678
- Language: English
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Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up Volume 71
$18.95 Add to cart“Superbly acute and unashamedly complex.”–The Telegraph
“Rich and provocative.”–Times Literary Supplement
“An engaging exploration.”–The New Yorker
“The phenomenal Ms. Beard has written another c- Series: Sather Classical Lectures
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0520401492
- Language: English
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I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales from NPR’s National Story Project
$30.00 Add to cartThe true-life stories in this unique collection provide a window into the American mind and heart (The Daily News). One hundred and eighty voices – male and female, young and old, from all walks of li
- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 383
- Publish Date: September 07 2002
- ISBN10: 0312421001
- Language: English
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Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike That Changed America
$23.99 Add to cartIn August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an illegal strike. The new president, Ronald Reagan, fired the strikers, establishing a reputation for both decisiv… [more below]
- Author: McCartin, Joseph A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199325200
- Language: English
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Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
$19.99 Add to cart“Le Chambon has long been mythologized in France for the actions of its inhabitants. . . . But, as this riveting history shows, the story is more complex. . . . If the picture Moorhead paints is messi
- Series: Resistance Quartet #2
- Author: Moorehead, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062202480
- Language: English
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Narrative of William W. Brown
$5.99 Add to cartOriginally published in 1847, William W. Brown offers a first-person narrative that details his enslavement and the daring escape that ultimately led to his freedom. It’s a captivating tale and testam
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Brown, William Wells
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: May 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1513278657
- Language: English
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Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
$19.99 Add to cartA “thought-provoking and timely” (The Times) global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate a pattern of demonization and… [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Marion
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1668002434
- Language: English
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The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork
$24.95 Add to cartSince the middle of the eighteenth century, political thinkers of all kinds — radical and reactionary, professional and amateur — have been complaining about “bureaucracy.” But what, exactly, is all
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Kafka, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 194213035X
- Language: English
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All about the Burger: A History of America’s Favorite Sandwich (Burger America & Burger History, for Fans of the Ultimate Burger and the Gre
$16.99 Add to cartAn unlikely culinary history from the founder of the definitive museum on all things burgers. Learn about the sandwich that shaped the world’s culture, economy and politics.
- Author: Gonzalez, Sef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: April 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1633539628
- Language: English
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The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America
$26.00 Add to cartFrom acclaimed historian and biographer Rebecca Fraser comes a vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world.
“There is nothing s- Author: Fraser, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1250108578
- Language: English
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Life of the Automobile
$42.00 Add to cartThe Life of the Automobile is the first comprehensive world history of the car.
The automobile has arguably shaped the modern era more profoundly than any other human invention, and author Steven Paris
- Author: Parissien, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 1250040639
- Language: English
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The Golden Age of Baltimore Theater: A History from Shakespeare to Vaudeville
$24.99 Read moreThe story of Charm City on stage. Baltimore’s dynamic theatrical tradition had hard-scrabble beginnings in the eighteenth century. The popularity of the theater only grew, continuing to the vaudeville… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Mitchell, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1467154482
- Language: English
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What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
$19.99 Add to cartWith a New Afterword by the Author
The New York Times bestseller, praised as “hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic a- Author: Frank, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 080507774X
- Language: English
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Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century
$37.27 Add to cartA sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe that examines its unprecedented destruction–and abiding promise
A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era o- Author: Jarausch, Konrad H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 888
- Publish Date: August 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0691173079
- Language: English
