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Bench Ansfield
Born in Flames

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!" Supposedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, the phrase encapsulated a chaotic era in US histo…

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Driven brings a seasoned perspective to today's conversations about government, media, and the future of truth in the form of a deeply personal and long-awaited autobiography by Tom Johnson, an award-winn…

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Elyse Graham
Book and Dagger

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the warAt the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency…

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Norman Ohler,
Tripped

"A fleet-footed and propulsive account . . . Brilliantly sifting a massive history for its ideological through lines, this is a must-read." --- Publishers Weekly (starred review)The author of th…

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Francine Prose
1974

"In this remarkable memoir, the qualities that have long distinguished Francine Prose's fiction and criticism---uncompromising intelligence, a gratifying aversion to sentiment, the citrus bite of iro…

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Randy Krehbiel
Tulsa, 2021

"An account of a city under inordinate pressure, Tulsa, 2021 offers a behind-the-scenes view of how Tulsans and Americans met a cluster of overlapping crises - COVID-19, a combustible presidential vi…

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Michael Harriot
Black Af History

From beloved columnist Michael Harriot comes a comprehensive and bitingly hilarious appraisal of American history, confronting and correcting the record to showcase the perspectives and experiences of Bla…

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John Samuel Harpham
The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery

A landmark account of the origins of American slavery, revealing how ancient Roman ideas were used to defend the establishment of a slave empire in the English Atlantic world.The period from 1550 to 1700 …

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John Crowe Ransom,
Land!

Ransom's Land! is a previously unpublished work that unites John Crowe Ransom's poetic sensibilities with his argument for an agrarian economy as an alternative to capitalism.

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Rosser Newton
Richard Coke: Texan

Richard Coke played one of the most crucial roles in Texas history. His leadership of his beloved Texas still resonates today -- 150 years after he became governor. Richard Coke: Texan weaves a rich mosai…

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John Shjarback
Chasing Change in Camden

Forthcoming Fall 2025

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Sherry Robinson
James Silas Calhoun

Veteran journalist and author Sherry Robinson presents readers with the first full biography of New Mexico's first territorial governor, James Silas Calhoun. Robinson explores Calhoun's early life in Geor…

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The Presidency of Joseph R. Biden

Leading historians offer the first look at Biden's four years in the White HouseThe Presidency of Joseph R. Biden presents a first draft of history by providing insights into how this one-term president f…

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Clara Luper,
Behold the Walls

This first organized sit-in in Oklahoma--almost two years before the more famous sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina--sparked other demonstrations in Oklahoma and other states. Behold the Walls is Luper…

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Jonathan Bach
High Desert, Higher Costs

"Nestled against the Cascade Mountains, former lumber town Bend, Oregon, entices residents who long to live in a wonderland of sagebrush and forests. But like so many other communities across the Wes…

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Louis P Masur
A Journey North

The story of a road trip undertaken in early summer 1791 through upstate New York and New England by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. A Journey North opens a window onto the post-revolutionary landscap…

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James M Bradley
Martin Van Buren

A new biography of the 8th president of the United States, the first chief executive not born a British citizen and the first to use the party system to chart his way from tavern-keeper's son to the pinna…

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Joseph J. Ellis
Founding Brothers

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

In this landmark work of history and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Joseph J. Ellis explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals-Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Ada…

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Rosser Newton
Richard Coke: Texan

Richard Coke played one of the most crucial roles in Texas history. His leadership of his beloved Texas still resonates today -- 150 years after he became governor. Richard Coke: Texan weaves a rich mosai…

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John Gaventa, Gabe Schwartzman
Power and Just Transitions

Struggles over power and justice in the Clear Fork ValleyPublished in 1982, John Gaventa's award-winning Power and Powerlessnessexamined the dominance of the absentee coal industry in Central Appalachia. …

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