Social History
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Voices from the Outer Banks
$12.95 Add to cartJohn F. Blair, Publisher, continues its Real Voices, Real History(TM) series with Voices from the Outer Banks. This volume presents the actual words of the people who lived the uncommonly rich history
- Series: Real Voices, Real History
- Author: Kirk, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0895876442
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of Liberty: Coming of Age in the American Revolution
$21.95 Add to cartThe voices of the children and teenagers who witnessed the colonies’ transformation to an independent nation have seldom been heard. This historical account of the American Revolution tells the story … [more below]
- Author: Werner, Emmy E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1597972681
- Language: English
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The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England
$22.95 Add to cartThe shocking and extraordinary story of the most conniving, manipulative Tudor family you’ve never heard of–the dashing and daring House of Dudley.
Each Tudor monarch made their name with a Dudley by- Author: Paul, Joanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366121
- Language: English
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The English and Their History
$29.00 Add to cartNamed a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist
The English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before- Author: Tombs, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: November 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1101873361
- Language: English
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Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
$25.99 Add to cartIn a series of mock lesson plans and a program of study Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking expos of First World privileges and assumptions. From a master class in The Impuni
- Author: Galeano, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0312420315
- Language: English
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Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers
$35.00 Add to cartThe films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of blacks in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing histo… [more below]
- Series: Turner Classic Movies
- Author: Bogle, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 0762491418
- Language: English
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Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West–One Meal at a Time
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Featured in the PBS documentary The Harvey Girls: Opportunity Bound
The legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history fo… [more below]- Author: Fried, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0553383485
- Language: English
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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
$22.00 Add to cart“A classic. I can’t recommend it enough.”–Chris Hayes
On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measure- Author: Klinenberg, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 06 2015
- ISBN10: 022627618X
- Language: English
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A People’s Guide to New York City: Volume 5
$31.18 Add to cartThis alternative guidebook for one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations explores all five boroughs to reveal a people’s New York City.
The sites and stories of A People’s Guide to New Yor- Series: People’s Guide
- Author: Bank Mu?oz, Carolina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0520289579
- Language: English
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LSD — The Wonder Child: The Golden Age of Psychedelic Research in the 1950s
$19.99 Read moreA detailed history of the blossoming of psychedelic research in the 1950s
– Explores the different groups–from research labs to the military–who were seeking how best to utilize LSD and other promis- Author: Hatsis, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 20, 2021
- ISBN10: 1644112566
- Language: English
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The Graveyard Wanderers: The Wise Ones and the Dead in Sweden
$18.00 Add to cartThis work presents the art of the Wise Ones concerning the Dead, collected from thirty-seven Black Art Books. These manuscript books, passed from one Wise One to another and copied, were ideally to be
- Series: Folk Necromancy in Transmission #7
- Author: Johnson, Thomas K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: October 22 2022
- ISBN10: 194754439X
- Language: English
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The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
$22.95 Add to cartA surprising look at how ancestry still determines social outcomes
How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wis- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #49
- Author: Clark, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168377
- Language: English
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Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
$20.99 Add to cartA funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by television’s favorite rare-book expert from HISTORY’s hit series Paw
- Author: Romney, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062412329
- Language: English
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Why Read Moby-Dick?
$16.00 Add to cartA “brilliant and provocative” (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville’s masterpiece–from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane’s Eye
One of the gr- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0143123971
- Language: English
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The Rise of the Creative Class
$21.99 Add to cartWorld-renowned urbanist Richard Florida’s bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century — now updated with a new preface
In his modern classic The Rise of the Cre… [more below]- Author: Florida, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1541617746
- Language: English
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Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJapan is arguably today’s most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluence with social stability and apparent harmony. Japanese goods and cultural products–from animated m… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Goto-Jones, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199235694
- Language: English
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In Search of the Dark Ages: A History of Anglo-Saxon England
$24.99 Read moreFrom Boudica to William the Conqueror, this is the story of the Early Middle Ages and the hidden history of its people Updated with the latest archaeological research new chapters on the most influent… [more below]
- Author: Wood, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1785948202
- Language: English
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From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
$31.15 Add to cartNewly updated: “An enjoyable introduction to American working-class history.” —The American Prospect
Praised for its “impressive even-handedness”, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set- Author: Murolo, Priscilla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1620974487
- Language: English
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Covenant with God: A Biblical and Historical View at Healing Our Nation
$13.95 Add to cartCovenant with God-a Biblical and Historical View at Healing Our Nation is a labor of love truly focused on returning to God as a nation and examining how our country, which was founded on God’s princi… [more below]
- Author: Mahan, David L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: September 13 2023
- ISBN10: 9798889435365
- Language: English
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The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America’s First Labor War
$19.95 Add to cartSensational tales of true-life crime, the devastation of the Irish potato famine, the upheaval of the Civil War, and the turbulent emergence of the American labor movement are connected in a captivati
- Author: Bulik, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1531502954
- Language: English
