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Ian Frazier
Paradise Bronx

"Ian Frazier's magnum opus: a love song to New York City's most various and alive borough"--

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Steven Conn
The Lies of the Land

A "piercing, unsentimental" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic declin…

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Winner 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 walking…

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Tracking the Texas Ranger Historians

The first systematic inquiry into the Texas Rangers did not begin until 1935 with Walter Prescott Webb's publication The Texas Rangers. Since then numerous works have appeared on the Rangers, but no volum…

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Nancy Marguerite Anderson
The Hbc Brigades

A lively recounting of the men who faced a gruelling thousand-mile journey and First Nations people who struggled with the desire to resist, or assist, the fur company's attempts to build their brigade tr…

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Linda English
Run for Your Lives!

"The "Runaway Scrape" is, among Texas historians, at once recognizable but often less understood. While shelves of books examine the fall of the Alamo and the revolutionary victory at San J…

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John M Hutchins
Coronado's Well-Equipped Army

The historic 1540-1542 expedition of Captain-General Francisco Vasquez de Coronado is popularly remembered as a luckless party of exploration which wandered the American Southwest and then blundered onto …

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Edward J Larson
Declaring Independence

The self-evident truths of 1776 hover over America's divisions-as inspiring ideals, as measures of how far the nation still must come, as the hypocrisy of slaveholders, as intrusions on local traditions. …

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Johanna Ogden
Punjabi Rebels of the Columbia River

Punjabi Rebels of the Columbia River traces the global and local forces at play behind two momentous events in Indian and Indo-American history which began in Oregon in the early 1900s: the radical Indian…

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Elizabeth Quinlan
Standing Up to Big Nickel

In 1958, 14,000 miners and smeltermen in Sudbury, Ontario, downed their tools and struck against the International Nickel Company, a corporate titan of the mining industry. Standing Up to Big Nickel is th…

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Stephen L Hardin
Texian Exodus

A narrative account of the evacuation of the Texians in 1836, which was redeemed by the defeat of the Mexican army and the creation of the Republic of Texas.

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Brian Antonson, Mary Trainer, Rick Antonson
Slumach's Gold

Full of intrigue, adventure, greed, and tragedy, the enduring legend of Slumach's Gold is examined in riveting forensic detail in this newly expanded edition of a bestselling classic.

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Nicholas Keefauver Roland
Violence in the Hill Country

An in-depth history of the Civil War in the Texas Hill Country, this book examines patterns of violence on the Texas frontier to illuminate white Americans' cultural and political priorities in the ninete…

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Ron Melugin
Tales from the Gainesville Daily Hesperian

After legendary sheriff Pat Ware was thrown from his horse on a very muddy Commerce Street, the Gainesville Daily Hesperian observed that he "had enough mud sticking to his wardrobe to start a land b…

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Jon Michaels, David Noll
Vigilante Nation

"For readers of How Democracies Die, two legal scholars expose the history of the GOP's hidden political strategy to rollback protected rights, from abortion and gun control to surveillance and LGBTQ…

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James C O'Connell
Boston and the Making of a Global City

In the late twentieth century the American and global economy shifted from manufacturing toward a knowledge industry. Following an economic low point several decades earlier, the city of Boston took advan…

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James C O'Connell
Boston and the Making of a Global City

In the late twentieth century the American and global economy shifted from manufacturing toward a knowledge industry. Following an economic low point several decades earlier, the city of Boston took advan…

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Cold War Workers

Cold War Workers explores how security labour transformed the lives of individuals, families, and communities in Canada in ways that were both predictable and surprising, with the militarization and colon…

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Suzanne Warwick Freeman
Hidden History of Burnet County

A beloved watchmaker, a reluctant politician and a legendary Texas Ranger.The legacy of Burnet County rises from a solid prehistoric batholith of pink granite that built the state capitol, established an …

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Nancy Anne Newhouse,
We Are Nantucket

The thirty-three oral history in this collection reflect the character of Nantucket and represent an important aspect of the Island's legacy.

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