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Sacramento Renaissance:: Art, Music and Activism in California’s Capital City
$21.99 Read moreTouted as progress, postwar redevelopment spawned a new age in Sacramento, California. As city planners designated areas of urban blight and directed bulldozers to make way for commercial districts an… [more below]
- Author: Burg, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 27 2013
- ISBN10: 1609499395
- Language: English
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The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches
$19.99 Read moreThe classic collection of major speeches, now bundled with an audio download of Malcolm X delivering two of them.
Malcolm X remains a touchstone figure for black America and in American culture at la- Author: X, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1628728299
- Language: English
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Portland Food Cart Stories:: Behind the Scenes with the City’s Culinary Entrepreneurs
$23.99 Read moreFor a fresh take on a variety of cuisines, reservations won’t be necessary. Just step up to a Portland food cart instead. Tour the city’s finest carts with author Steven Shomler and meet the innovativ… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Shomler, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1626193738
- Language: English
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Portland Beer Stories:: Behind the Scenes with the City’s Craft Brewers
$21.99 Read morePortlanders have got it made. Not only is the city filled with nearly countless breweries, brewpubs, bottle shops and homebrew supply venues, but also the people who created the community are nothing … [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Shomler, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1626198993
- Language: English
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Abandoned Cincinnati
$23.99 Read moreDust, shards of glass, gravel, and grit coat heavy vines that spiral down empty stairs. They’re more than concrete and steel–as nature takes over abandoned buildings, they come alive. Through journal
- Series: America Through Time
- Author: Smith, Samuel Wright
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1634992482
- Language: English
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White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea
$49.92 Read moreThe racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom
The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave t- Author: Stovall, Tyler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0691179468
- Language: English
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Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
$29.95 Read moreIn the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois) and Anglo-American colonists, a pair of colonial fur traders brutally
- Author: Eustace, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1631495879
- Language: English
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Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America’s First Humanitarian Mission
$20.00 Read more” A] well-researched and splendidly written chronicle of the Jamestown, its captain, and an Irish priest who ministered to the starving in Cork city…Puleo’s tale, despite the hardship to come, surel
- Author: Puleo, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 125079711X
- Language: English
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Sally in Three Worlds: An Indian Captive in the House of Brigham Young
$34.95 Read moreIn this remarkable and deeply felt book, Virginia Kerns uncovers the singular and forgotten life of a young Indian woman who was captured in 1847 in what was then Mexican territory. Sold to a settler,
- Author: Kerns, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1647690153
- Language: English
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Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books
$18.00 Read more“An elegant, meticulously researched, and eminently readable history of the books that define us as Americans. For history buffs and book-lovers alike, McHugh offers us a precious gift.”–Jake Halpern… [more below]
- Author: McHugh, Jess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1524746649
- Language: English
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Making the Movement: How Activists Fought for Civil Rights with Buttons, Flyers, Pins, and Posters
$29.95 Add to cartPacked with over 200 color photos, this visual journey through Black history and the Civil Rights Movement is told through the objects–buttons, badges, flyers, pennants, posters, and more–designed b… [more below]
- Author: Crane, David L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1648961088
- Language: English
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Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
$39.95 Read moreWinner of the 2024 Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award
An unprecedented collection of African American writings on Lincoln
Though not blind to Abraham Lincoln’s imperfections, Black Americans long ag
- Author: Hord, Fred Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0252044681
- Language: English
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Nca&t vs. Nccu: More Than Just a Game
$24.99 Read moreMore Than Just a Game tells the story of the 100-year football rivalry between NCA&T and NCCU through never-before-seen photographs and images. The work seeks to honor the many coaches, players, and p… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Johnson, Charles D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1467108812
- Language: English
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Oregon Running Legend Steve Prefontaine
$23.99 Read moreIn the Footsteps of Oregon’s beloved U.S. Olympic Athlete, Activist, and Icon
Born in the small town of Coos Bay, Oregon, Steve “Pre’? Prefontaine’s meteoric rise to cross-country and track superstardo
- Series: Sports
- Author: Clerici, Paul C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1467151734
- Language: English
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American Outlaws: True Stories of the Most Wanted: Wild West Outlaws, Bank Robbers, Mobsters, Mafia, and More
$19.99 Read moreTake a step into the criminal underworld of the United States with American Outlaws. Explore the exploits of some of the Wild West’s most notorious murderers and gangs, from Jesse James to Wyatt Earp,… [more below]
- Series: Visual History
- Author: Stahl, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1497103754
- Language: English
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Digging in the City of Brotherly Love: Stories from Philadelphia Archaeology
$35.00 Read moreHistoric Philadelphia has long yielded archaeological treasures from its past. Excavations required by the National Historic Preservation Act have recovered pottery shards, pots, plates, coins, bones,… [more below]
- Author: Yamin, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1439922101
- Language: English
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Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
$19.99 Add to cartWhen–and how–did America become so polarized? In this masterful history, leading historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer uncover the origins of our current moment. It all starts in 1974 with
- Author: Kruse, Kevin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0393357708
- Language: English
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Chicago Stadium
$24.99 Read moreBuilt in 1929, Chicago Stadium was the crowning achievement of local sports promoter Paddy Harmon. The largest sports arena in the world when it was built, the stadium was completed at a total cost of… [more below]
- Series: Images of Sports
- Author: Peterson, Paul Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0738583073
- Language: English
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Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair
$23.99 Read moreStep into the future of the past in Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair
What came to be known as the World’s Columbian Exposition was planned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s 149
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Di Cola, Joseph M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0738594415
- Language: English
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The Last Men Out: Life on the Edge at Rescue 2 Firehouse
$20.99 Read more“An insightful, dramatic and emotional tale that deserves a place alongside Dennis Smith’s classic firefighting memoir, Report from Engine Co. 82.” -Terry Golway, New York Post
Brooklyn’s Rescue 2 ha- Author: Downey, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0805078444
- Language: English
