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Lillian Bullshows Hogan,
The Woman Who Loved Mankind

The oldest living Crow at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Lillian Bullshows Hogan (1905--2003), recounts in traditional Crow storytelling forms her life---including growing up on the Crow reservatio…

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Sylvester Allen, Belle Boggs
The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw

Wyatt Outlaw's story was one of Black success: He was a Union League leader, business owner, and the first Black town constable and commissioner in Graham, a small town located in North Carolina's Alamanc…

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Joy Schulz
Daily Life in Colonial Hawai'i

Discover the textures of everyday life in colonial Hawai'i-from missionary households and sugar plantations to hula schools and military bases-through the eyes of the people who lived it.Daily Life in Col…

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Joxe K Mallea-Olaetxe, Jess Lopategui
More Than Sheepherders

"In the remote community of Elko, Nevada, the Altube brothers and the Garats started fabled ranches in the early 1870s. These hardy citizens created the foundation of a community that still exists to…

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Craig Thompson Friend
Becoming Lunsford Lane

Discover a biography for our times: a man searching to define life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in a changing American society marred by loss of political rights, and racial violence.

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Jason R Young
The Mask of Memory

Many of the sights and sounds that Americans associate with slavery are rooted in a grand historical myth. The image of the Big House, sitting atop carefully manicured rolling green hills is, in large par…

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Jere Nash
Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862-1877

Throughout the ten-year period following the end of the Civil War, Mississippians responded to broader movements in the country, to changes in the national and international economy, and to congressional …

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Sheree Scarborough
Southwest Virginia Civil Rights Leader Nannie Berger Hairston

Nannie Berger Hairston was a crusader for justice in twentieth-century Virginia.Nannie Berger Hairston was born in West Virginia in 1921, half a century after the end of the Civil War. She attended segreg…

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Craig Thurtell
Short of a Revolution

Chronicling the rise and fall of North Carolina's fusion movement, this book illuminates an intricate interplay between politics, economic agendas, and racism. It examines how wealthy agriculturalists, in…

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Lina-Maria Murillo
Fighting for Control

The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez have confronted various interest groups determin…

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Justin Randolph
Mississippi Law

"In the segregated American South, policing was war. Ungovernable police discretion came to the backroads and cattle pastures of America's rural countryside as ideas of race, property, and belonging …

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Carlos Bulosan
America Is in the Heart

First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinera…

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Hannah Durkin
The Survivors of the Clotilda

NAMED A TOP BOOK OF 2024 BY AMAZON AND WASHINGTON POST"Hannah Durkin lets the enslaved speak for themselves, and they tell a story not only of unimaginable suffering but also of courage and survival.…

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Roberto E Villarreal
Yo Soy

Yo Soyis a memoir of Roberto E. Villarreal's life struggle for social justice and equality and a reclamation of his ancestry, language, and culture, forbidden by the Texas state school policies during his…

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Pearl E Casias
Red Woman

In this singular memoir, Pearl E. Casias tells the story of her rise from poverty to chair of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe in rural southwest Colorado. Casias grew up in poverty and was raised by alcohol…

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Norma E Cantú
Fiestas in Laredo

This book celebrates the many types of fiestas found in the border community of Laredo, Texas. Told from an insider's perspective and blending memoir, ethnography, and a folkloristic analysis, the author …

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M J O'Brien
The Tougaloo Nine

The stunning history of the first student-led, direct-action civil rights demonstration in the state of Mississippi

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Kylie M Smith
Jim Crow in the Asylum

There is a complicated history of racism and psychiatric healthcare in the Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. The asylums of the Jim Crow era employed African American men and women s…

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Kelli Y Nakamura
Legacies of Incarceration

Legacies of Incarceration provides a holistic view of the incarceration experience of Hawaiʻi's Japanese by exploring the factors that shaped the circumstances of confinement on each island before, during…

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Kelli Y Nakamura
Legacies of Incarceration

Legacies of Incarceration provides a holistic view of the incarceration experience of Hawaiʻi's Japanese by exploring the factors that shaped the circumstances of confinement on each island before, during…

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