Social History
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Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South
$20.00 Add to cartIn 1891, when coal companies in eastern Tennessee brought in cheap convict labor to take over their jobs, workers responded by storming the stockades, freeing the prisoners, and loading them onto frei
- Author: Shirley, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 19 2015
- ISBN10: 1849352070
- Language: English
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Driven by the Movement: Reports from the Black Power Era
$18.00 Add to cartA collective portrait of the Black Power movement by radical journalist and former Black Panther JoNina Abron-Ervin
Driven by the Movement collects the stories of twenty ordinary people who did extraor
- Author: Abron-Ervin, Jonina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1849356068
- Language: English
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Born: A History of Childbirth
$29.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of childbirth filled with medical, political, and social triumphs, Born is the story of how we give birth set against the female struggle to govern their ability to reproduce.… [more below]
- Author: Inglis, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1639365885
- Language: English
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Descendants: The Divided Lineage of a Louisiana Creole Family
$19.95 Read moreBased on extensive genealogical and archival research, Descendants traces evolving attitudes and laws regarding racial identity and relationships in New Orleans over 250 years through the lives of de… [more below]
- Author: Durel, John W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 195956921X
- Language: English
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Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture: 1875-1945
$24.00 Add to cartIn his previous landmark book on youth culture and teen angst, the award-winning England’s Dreaming, Jon Savage presented the “definitive history of the English punk movement” (The New York Times). No… [more below]
- Author: Savage, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0140254153
- Language: English
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The Traitors Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany–And the Spy Who Betrayed Them
$33.99 Add to cart“An astonishing true story of courage, love, and betrayal, told with the verve of a thriller. Freedland is a master at weaving spellbinding entertainments drawn from forgotten corners of history.”–Mi
- Author: Freedland, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0063453118
- Language: English
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What We Stand to Lose: Black Teachers, the Culture They Created, and the Closure of a New Orleans High School
$20.95 Add to cartSpotlights the tireless work of Black teachers in a historic New Orleans public school, one of countless public schools now part of a school closing crisis in cities nationwide
Time and again, teacher- Author: Buras, Kristen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0807019496
- Language: English
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All Roads Lead to Hastings-on-Hudson: A History of the Lower Hudson River Valley and New York City
$22.99 Add to cartA definitive history of Hastings-on-Hudson reflecting the triumphs and challenges of progress within America as a whole
Despite its modest footprint, Hastings-on-Hudson mirrors the growth of America, r
- Author: Lillard, Jonathan Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822977938
- Language: English
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Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation
$24.00 Add to cartChronicling the rich and varied history of Latinos in the United States, this companion to the PBS documentary miniseries vividly and candidly tells how the story of Latino Americans is the story of o… [more below]
- Author: Suarez, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0451238141
- Language: English
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Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View
$30.00 Add to cart“A charming, idiosyncratic meditation on the human urge to see further, and more, in this cultural history of the ‘aerial view’ . . . McPherson makes an elliptical and enchanting case for reinserting … [more below]
- Author: McPherson, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1662602952
- Language: English
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Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough
$22.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2025 Gotham Book Prize
Ian Frazier’s magnum opus: a love song to New York City’s most heterogeneous and alive borough.
Ian Frazier, one of our best observers and describers, has been wal- Author: Frazier, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1250390591
- Language: English
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Cat Tales: A History
$34.95 Add to cartFeared, revered, respected, and beloved, cats have left an indelible paw print on the histories and civilizations of humankind. Over the last two million years, cats and people have interacted in dive
- Author: Moore, Jerry D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0500029539
- Language: English
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America’s Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation
$19.99 Add to cartKenneth C. Davis, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Don’t Know Much About History, presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the
- Author: Davis, Kenneth C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0061118192
- Language: English
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
$24.95 Read moreWINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE
Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize A “riveting history” (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and sti- Author: Nathans, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 069125558X
- Language: English
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Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
$32.00 Add to cartNBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements, told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organ… [more below]
- Author: Adams, Char
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593474236
- Language: English
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The German Genius: Europe’s Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century
$19.99 Add to cartThe German Genius is a virtuoso cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present day, by acclaimed historian Peter Watson (Making of the Modern Mind, Ideas). From Bach, Goethe,… [more below]
- Author: Watson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: August 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0060760230
- Language: English
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Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left
$29.95 Add to cartAfter a tumultuous century, the Jewish radical tradition lives on in the United States
Since October 7, 2023, the world has witnessed a massive American Jewish uprising in support of Palestinian liber- Author: Balthaser, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1804291374
- Language: English
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El Diario de Anne Frank (Novela Gr?fica) / Anne Frank’s Dairy: The Graphic Adaptation
$26.95 Add to cart“12 de junio de 1942. Espero poder confi?rtelo todo como a?n no lo he podido hacer con nadie, y espero que seas para m? un gran apoyo”.
Tras la invasi?n de Holanda, la familia Frank se ocult? de la Ge… [more below]- Author: Frank, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0525564500
- Language: Spanish
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The Traitors Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany–And the Spy Who Betrayed Them
$32.00 Add to cart“An astonishing true story of courage, love, and betrayal, told with the verve of a thriller. Freedland is a master at weaving spellbinding entertainments drawn from forgotten corners of history.”–Mi
- Author: Freedland, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0063373203
- Language: English
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The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding
$31.00 Add to cartA major new history from our most trusted voice on the Revolutionary era, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winner American Sphinx, and featured in… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593801415
- Language: English
