Social History
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
$22.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0399589821
- Language: English
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Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
$32.99 Read moreA vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of
- Author: Schama, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1328974839
- Language: English
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50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution
$50.00 Read moreThe New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice – A celebration of Ms.–the most startling, most audacious, most norm-breaking of the magazine’s groundbreaking pieces on women, men, politics (sexual an… [more below]
- Author: Spillar, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0593321561
- Language: English
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Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
$28.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1668002426
- Language: English
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The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food–Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes
$28.00 Read moreAn Eater Best Food Book of 2023
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt, a delectable look at the cultural, historical, and gastronomical layers
A Smithsonian Best Food Book of 2023- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1635575931
- Language: English
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Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law
$25.00 Add to cartIn his best-selling book The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein demolished the de facto segregation myth that black and white Americans live separately by choice, providing “the most forceful argument ev
- Author: Rothstein, Leah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324093242
- Language: English
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the National Jewish Book Award – New York Times Bestseller
“A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information—and misinformation. Is it p
- Author: Freedland, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0063112361
- Language: English
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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
$36.00 Add to cartNamed One of the Year’s Best Books by VULTURE – THE NEW REPUBLIC – DAZED – WIRED – BLOOMBERG – ESQUIRE – SALON – THE NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB
The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is- Author: Harris, Malcolm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: February 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 031659203X
- Language: English
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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
$32.50 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE * AMAZON’S TOP 20 HISTORY BOOKS OF 2023 * B&N BEST OF EDUCATIONAL HISTORY * THE ROOT’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FAVORITE BOOKS
- Author: Harriot, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0358439167
- Language: English
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction – An NPR Best Book of the Year – A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year – A Chicago Review of Books Best Book of the Year – A N
- Author: Egan, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 0735225265
- Language: English
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The Student: A Short History
$26.00 Read moreFrom the president of Wesleyan University, an illuminating history of the student, spanning from antiquity to Zoom
“[Roth] has a clear vision for what it ought to mean to be a student: Learn what you- Author: Roth, Michael S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0300250037
- Language: English
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One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink
$35.00 Read moreThis critical historical exploration shows a portrait of the British Empire at both the peak of its global reach–and the moment it began to topple.
September 29, 1923. Once the Palestine Mandate off- Author: Parker, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703820
- Language: English
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The Hijacking of American Flight 119: How D.B. Cooper Inspired a Skyjacking Craze and the Fbi’s Battle to Stop It
$30.99 Add to cartHe pulled off what some deem the crime of the century: skyjacking a commercial jetliner, collecting a ransom of $200,000, parachuting off the aft stairs of the Boeing 727 into the night, and simply di… [more below]
- Author: Wigger, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0197695752
- Language: English
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Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century
$25.00 Read morePULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – “A fascinating read about a true genius and his unrelenting thirst for beauty in art and in life.”–MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV
Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography and th- Author: Homans, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0812984781
- Language: English
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Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sense of the world. In this revelatory work of science and social his
- Author: Vincent, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324066148
- Language: English
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
$38.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BEST SELLER – NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – NAMED ONE OF TIME‘S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE AND ONE OF BUZZFEED‘S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE
“A brilliant and stirring … [more below]- Author: Wilkerson, Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 07, 2010
- ISBN10: 0679444327
- Language: English
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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
$19.99 Read moreLonglisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards
“A smart and accessible cultural history.”-Los Angeles Times A portrait–by turns celebratory, skeptical, and surprisingly moving–of one of America- Author: Lange, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1639732055
- Language: English
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W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
$32.50 Add to cart“As visually arresting as it is informative.”–The Boston Globe
“Du Bois’s bold colors and geometric shapes were decades ahead of modernist graphic design in America.”–Fast Company’s Co.Design W.E.B.- Author: The W E B Du Bois Center at the Universi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1616897066
- Language: English
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California: An American History
$24.00 Add to cartA concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation
- Author: Faragher, John Mack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0300274238
- Language: English
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Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
$28.99 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
One of Barnes and Noble’s Best History Books of 2022 * Finalist for the CALIBA Golden Poppy Award * A Goodreads Readers Choice Nominee
“Hip, entertaining…imaginative.
- Author: Yang, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0358508096
- Language: English
