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Two Potts, a Faucett, and a Double Hanging: The Only Married Americans Executed Simultaneously
$22.95 Add to cartManchester, England natives Josiah and Elizabeth Potts have the dubious distinction of being the first-and only-married couple ever executed simultaneously in American history. Somehow their bizarre s… [more below]
- Author: Sharp, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: June 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1977264395
- Language: English
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Realigners
$21.00 Add to cartA VITAL NEW VOICE: Shenk is a leading new voice of the millennial left, and a rising historian who’s something of a prodigy. His ambitious dissertation Inventing the American Economy will be published
- Author: Shenk, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872936
- Language: English
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Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans During the Age of Revolutions
$26.00 Add to cartNew Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major American metropolis as its slave population exploded; in the… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
- Author: Johnson, Rashauna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1107591163
- Language: English
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The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition
$24.95 Add to cartThe story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles.
At once a history for understanding fascism and a
- Author: Hope, Jeanelle K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888900949
- Language: English
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A Radical Suffragist in Washington, D.C.: An Inside Story of the National Woman’s Party
$24.99 Read moreIn September 1918 Elizabeth Kalb boarded a train to Washington, DC to fight for voting rights for women. For over two years, Elizabeth lived and worked at the National Woman’s Party headquarters a blo… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Marshall, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1467155888
- Language: English
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Berkeley 1900: Daily Life at the Turn of the Century
$24.95 Add to cartSince its initial publication a decade ago, Berkeley 1900: Daily Life at the Turn of the Century has captivated readers with its unprecedented blend of serious history, fascinating images, and heartfe… [more below]
- Author: Schwartz, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: September 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0967820448
- Language: English
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Lochsa Story
$30.00 Add to cartThe Lochsa Story explores the lessons drawn from two centuries of human interaction with northern Idaho’s Lochsa country and how those lessons can affect management philosophies of similar regions acr… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Bud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0878423338
- Language: English
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Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877
$25.00 Add to cartAcadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877 by Carl A. Brasseaux An enlightening assessment that provides understanding of how the Acadians of Nova Scotia were culturally transformed into … [more below]
- Author: Brasseaux, Carl a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0878055835
- Language: English
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The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation
$25.99 Add to cartRome’s genial new book . . . brings to life another era. —Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker
The first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay rit- Author: Rome, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 08 2014
- ISBN10: 0865477744
- Language: English
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Antes: Stories from the Past, Rural Cuba, New Mexico 1769-1949
$24.95 Add to cartCuba, New Mexico, was first settled in 1769. Originally known as Nacimiento, it was located on the northwestern edge of the Spanish Colonial Empire. It was very isolated and the people who settled Cub
- Author: Cordova May, Esther V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: November 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0865348405
- Language: English
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The Mesilla Valley
$16.95 Add to cartThe Mesilla Valley in southern New Mexico is an oasis in the Chihuahuan desert. It has attracted people for hundreds of years to its bosques of cottonwood trees, its life giving water, and its opportu… [more below]
- Series: New Mexico Centennial History Series Book
- Author: Hunner, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: April 20 2008
- ISBN10: 0865346275
- Language: English
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Confederate Statues and Memorialization
$21.95 Add to cartNine killed in Charleston church shooting. White supremacists demonstrate in Charlottesville. Monuments decommissioned in New Orleans and Chapel Hill. The headlines keep coming, and the debate rolls o
- Series: History in the Headlines
- Author: Clinton, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0820355577
- Language: English
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St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth
$34.95 Add to cartThe culmination of a century-long dream to link the Great Lakes interior industrial hubs to the Atlantic Ocean, the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project stands as one of the largest and most importan
- Author: Parham, Claire Puccia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0815609132
- Language: English
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Those Who Labor for My Happiness: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
$27.95 Add to cartOur perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent Thomas Jefferson has given way to a more complex view
- Series: Jeffersonian America
- Author: Stanton, Lucia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0813932238
- Language: English
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Skyway: The True Story of Tampa Bay’s Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought It Down
$19.95 Add to cartOn the morning of May 9, 1980, harbor pilot John Lerro was guiding a 600-foot freighter, the Summit Venture, into Tampa Bay. Directly in the ship’s path was the Sunshine Skyway Bridge–two ribbons of
- Author: DeYoung, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0813062977
- Language: English
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Florida Cow Hunter: The Life and Times of Bone Mizell
$19.95 Add to cart“Recounts a time when range wars, cattle drives, rustling, street brawls, and rum running were commonplace in Florida. Though the focus is on Mizell, Tinsley also gives an engaging history of Florida … [more below]
- Author: Tinsley, Jim Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: April 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0813009855
- Language: English
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West of Eden: An American Place
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic Edie
Jean Stein transformed the art of oral history in her ground- Author: Stein, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0812987934
- Language: English
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Circle of Fire: The Indian War of 1865
$24.95 Add to cartThe year 1865 was bloody on the Plains as various Indian tribes, including the Southern Cheyenne and the Southern Sioux, joined with their northern relatives to wage war on the white man. They sought … [more below]
- Author: McDermott, John D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0811738965
- Language: English
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American Transcendentalism
$27.00 Add to cartAmerican Transcendentalism is a sweeping narrative history of America’s first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in t
- Author: Gura, Philip F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0809016443
- Language: English
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Gettysburg–The Second Day
$38.00 Add to cartThe second day’s fighting at Gettysburg–the assault of the Army of Northern Virginia against the Army of the Potomac on 2 July 1863–was probably the critical engagement of that decisive battle and, … [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Pfanz, Harry W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 02 1998
- ISBN10: 0807847305
- Language: English
