Social History
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Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
$23.00 Read moreNow an Apple TV+ documentary, Lincoln’s Dilemma.
One of the Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book A Christian Science Monitor and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of- Author: Reynolds, David S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1088
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0143110764
- Language: English
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In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea
$19.95 Read moreA major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should be
Many Zionists who advocated for the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel’s fo- Author: Brenner, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0691203970
- Language: English
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When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends
$29.93 Add to cartWhen Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them–one in which art and architecture… [more below]
- Author: McAuliffe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1538121808
- Language: English
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The Civil Rights Movement: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Civil Rights Movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively ch… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Holt, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0190605421
- Language: English
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History Year by Year: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Events That Shaped the World
$50.00 Add to cartDiscover the world’s most significant events through a detailed, dynamic, book-long timeline of over 7 million years.
When did Hannibal cross the Alps? What caused the War of Jenkins’ Ear? Who was Ros- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0744091993
- Language: English
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Don’t Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip
$17.00 Add to cart“A lighthearted, entertaining trip down Memory Lane” (Kirkus Reviews), Don’t Make Me Pull Over! offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips–before portable DVD players, smartphone… [more below]
- Author: Ratay, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1501188755
- Language: English
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Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships. They have often, though not always, sparked cataclysmic violence, and h… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Goldstone, Jack A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0197666302
- Language: English
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The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age
$24.00 Add to cartA classic examination of the roots of corporate culture, newly revised and updated for the twenty first century
Alan Trachtenberg presents a balanced analysis of the expansion of capitalist power in t- Author: Trachtenberg, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0809058286
- Language: English
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Born for Liberty
$22.00 Add to cartThe most concise and comprehensive one-volume history of American women–from the indigenous women of the 16th-century wilderness to the dual-role career women and mothers of contemporary times–this … [more below]
- Author: Evans, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 22 1997
- ISBN10: 0684834987
- Language: English
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Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World
$20.00 Add to cartFew stories in the annals of American counterculture are as intriguing or dramatic as that of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.
Dubbed the Hippie Mafia, the Brotherhood began in the mid-1960s as a smal- Author: Schou, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0312607172
- Language: English
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Since Yesterday: The 1930’s in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939
$19.99 Add to cart“Vividly and with great skills he marshals the men, the mountebanks, the measures, and the events of ten years of American life and causes them to march before us in orderly panathenaic procession.”–… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Frederick L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 16 1986
- ISBN10: 0060913223
- Language: English
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Tucumcari Tonite!: A Story of Railroads, Route 66, and the Waning of a Western Town
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the Southwest Book Award
Tucumcari, New Mexico, was founded in 1901 by the Rock Island Railroad and soon had major railroad lines converging there from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Memphis as
- Author: Stratton, David H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0826363393
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom
$24.93 Add to cartA persuasive account of the philosophy and power of nonviolence organizing, and a resource for building and sustaining effective social movements.
Despite the rich history of nonviolent philosophy, m- Author: Lawson, James M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 520387848
- Language: English
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Pirates in The Caribbean: (The High Risks to Secure Freedom)
$24.95 Add to cartPirates of the Caribbean tells the narrative of Reinaldo, a Cuban teenager who grew up listening to rock and roll and RandB on American radio stations. Reinaldo, seventeen, got caught up in the Cuban
- Author: Nunez, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: January 13 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886850758
- Language: English
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Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car
$28.95 Add to cartFrom the adolescent thrill of getting a driver’s license to the dreaded commutes of adulthood, from vintage muscle cars to electric vehicles, this groundbreaking book reveals the outsized impact the c… [more below]
- Author: Nichols, Nancy A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365591
- Language: English
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A People’s Guide to Los Angeles
$31.18 Read moreA People’s Guide to Los Angeles offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to L.A.’s usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related… [more below]
- Series: People’s Guide
- Author: Pulido, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0520270819
- Language: English
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Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
$19.99 Add to cartHave you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there’s arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of y… [more below]
- Author: Oneill, Therese
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0316357901
- Language: English
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Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination
$17.99 Read moreNAACP 2017 Image Award Finalist
2018 Michigan Notable Books honoree
The author of Baldwin’s Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit–a blend of memoir, l
- Author: Boyd, Herb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0062346636
- Language: English
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Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
For more than four hundred yea- Author: Homans, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0812968743
- Language: English
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The Middle East
$19.00 Add to cartRenowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years–from the birth of Christianity through the modern era, focusing on the successive transformations that… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 07 1997
- ISBN10: 0684832801
- Language: English
