Social History
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Charleston’s Avery Center: From Education and Civil Rights to Preserving the African American Experience (Revised)
$37.99 Add to cartFor 140 years, Charleston s Avery Research Center has been a hub of African American education and study in the South Carolina Lowcountry. No other institution compares to Avery s scope and impact on … [more below]
- Author: Drago, Edmund L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: July 06 2006
- ISBN10: 1540203824
- Language: English
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Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving
$29.99 Add to cartFrom beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and humorist Mo Rocca, an entertaining and rigorously researched book that celebrates the dead people who have long fascinated him.
Mo Rocca has always lo- Author: Rocca, Mo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1501197622
- Language: English
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The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
$17.95 Read moreFor fans of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, a groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression–its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat it
For centuri- Author: Saini, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0807093335
- Language: English
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Malachy McCourt’s History of Ireland (Paperback)
$21.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Malachy McCourt offers an authoritative and engrossing one-volume chronicle of Ireland from pre-Christian times to the present, told with Irish flair by the gifted st… [more below]
- Author: McCourt, Malachy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0762431814
- Language: English
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This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America
$15.99 Add to cartEverything we know about drugs-from acid to epidemics to DARE and salvia-turns out to be wrong
Stock up on munchies and line up your water bottles: journalist Ryan Grim will take you on a cross-country
- Author: Grim, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0470643897
- Language: English
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China’s Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty
$23.99 Add to cartThe Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the golden age of China, was a time of patricians and intellectuals, Buddhist monks and Taoist priests, poetry and music, song and dance. In China… [more below]
- Author: Benn, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 217
- Publish Date: October 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0195176650
- Language: English
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Jane Austen’s England: Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods
$24.00 Add to cartAn authoritative account of everyday life in Regency England, the backdrop of Austen’s beloved novels, from the authors of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018)… [more below]
- Author: Adkins, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125729
- Language: English
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The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the Chicago Tribune‘s 2013 Heartland Prize
A critically acclaimed history of Chicago at mid-century, featuring many of the incredible personalities that shaped American culture Before air t- Author: Dyja, Thomas L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125095
- Language: English
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The Black Suitcase
$15.51 Add to cartGrowing up poor in mid-century Limerick is a nightmare of eviction, food deprivation, flea-bites, and never enough heat. An orange at Christmas is a massive treat. And yet Seanie Morrisey, despite hav… [more below]
- Author: Morrison, John E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 152557700X
- Language: English
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Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
$23.95 Read moreThe gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world
The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #94
- Author: Scheidel, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0691216738
- Language: English
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Brooklyn: The Once and Future City
$21.95 Add to cartAn unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to today
America’s most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has- Author: Campanella, Thomas J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0691208611
- Language: English
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100 Amazing Facts About The Negro: With Complete Proof
$8.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1934 and revised in 1962, this book gathers journalist and historian Joel Augustus Rogers’ columns from the syndicated newspaper feature titled Your History. Patterned after the loo
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1631820796
- Language: English
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Sudbury: Rail Town to Regional Capital
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1900, Sudbury was a small town with a population of about 2,000. Now, it is the largest city in northeastern Ontario.
- Author: Wallace, C. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 25 1996
- ISBN10: 1550021702
- Language: English
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Washington’s History, Revised Edition: The People, Land, and Events of the Far Northwest
$14.99 Add to cartNow with a new design and updated content, including three brand-new chapters plus a new preface and a postscript from the author.
An anything-but-dry history textbook in a take-it-with-you package,
- Author: Ritter, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 151326169X
- Language: English
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American Dreams: The United States Since 1945
$18.00 Add to cartThe story of our nation from the A-bomb to the iPhone from bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands
With keen insight and an impeccable sense of the spirit of the times, H. W. B- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119559
- Language: English
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Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
$27.95 Read more“A deep dive into the world of Flat Earth conspiracy theorists . . . that brilliantly reveals how people fall into illogical beliefs, reject reason, destroy relationships, and connect with a broad ran
- Author: Weill, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 1643750682
- Language: English
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Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States
$24.95 Add to cartGeorge R. Stewart’s classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the nation’s peoples. More than half a century later, Name… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Stewart, George R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1590172736
- Language: English
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Making Long Island: A History of Growth and the American Dream
$24.99 Read moreDiscover the history of the development of Long Island and its intimate relationship with New York City.
Beginning in the Roaring Twenties, Wall Street money looked eastward to Nassau and Suffolk cou
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Samuel, Lawrence R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154970
- Language: English
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Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs
$26.95 Add to cartTwo classic collections of freedom songs, We Shall Overcome (1963) and Freedom Is A Constant Struggle (1968), are reprinted here in a single edition which includes a major new introduction by the edit… [more below]
- Author: Carawan, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1588381935
- Language: English
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A Chance to Harmonize: How Fdr’s Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression–One Song at a Time
$29.95 Add to cartThe remarkable story of a hidden New Deal program that tried to change America and end the Great Depression using folk music, laying the groundwork for the folk revival and having a lasting impact on … [more below]
- Author: Kaskowitz, Sheryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365710
- Language: English
