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Alexander D Hyres
Protest and Pedagogy

Protest and Pedagogytraces how, and in what ways, high school teachers and students sustained and propelled the Black freedom struggle in Charlottesville, Virginia. It centers the relationship between pro…

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Bernard Bailyn
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson

Winner of the National Book Award The classic political biography that reimagined Revolutionary history--in a new edition to honor America's 250th year.Thomas Hutchinson, governor of Massachusetts Bay dur…

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Ellen M Snyder-Grenier
The House on Henry Street

""The House on Henry Street" is a critical exploration of the enduring life of a Lower East Side settlement"--

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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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Benjamin E Frey
Rising Above

Rising Above examines the process of language shift and revitalization among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina.

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Brian Vandemark
Kent State

Kent State re-creates the divided cultural landscape of America during the Vietnam War and heightened popular anxieties around the country. On college campuses, teach-ins, sit-down strikes and demonstrati…

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Richard Brust
Chambers v. Florida and the Criminal Justice Revolution

The history and enduring legacy of a breakthrough case in criminal justice reformIn 1940, the United States Supreme Court decided in Chambers v. Florida to ban confessions obtained through mental or physi…

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Mike Tidwell
The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue

"In 2023, author and activist Mike Tidwell decided to keep a record for a full year of the growing impacts of climate change on his one urban block right on the border with Washington, DC. A love let…

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Michael Hiltzik
Golden State

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Superb. Hiltzik makes a compelling case that California is the heartbeat of our nation."---Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring RevolutionFrom…

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Vincent T Davis
The Front Porch

Throughout his nearly thirty-year career at theSan Antonio Express-News , Vincent T. Davis has perfected his craft of finding the extraordinary in ordinary lives. The Front Porch: Stories from the Soul of…

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Lisa G Dill
Around the Bend

The Missouri River is one of the most dangerous rivers in the United States---and one of the most economically important. Even as prolonged drought in the Midwest has imperiled urban drinking water and ag…

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DK Super History Boston Tea Party

This series explores history through modern topic books that enhance literacy and background knowledge while aligning with the curriculum.DK Super History: Boston Tea Party is part of the new DK Super His…

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Stephen Doster,
Palms, Priests, and Pirates

In Palms, Priests, Pirates: The Epic History of Amelia Island, Florida, Stephen Doster offers the first comprehensive examination of the rich and captivating history of this unique barrier island off the …

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Dane Huckelbridge
Queen of All Mayhem

A riveting, deeply researched, blood-on-the-spurs biography of Belle Starr, the most legendary female outlaw of the American West.

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New Jersey's Natures

New Jersey's Natures takes up the challenge of expanding academic and popular conceptions of New Jersey and its landscapes through the lens of environmental history. Scholars' essays showcase the ways in …

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Gay Salisbury, Laney Salisbury
The Cruelest Miles

When a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles away…

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James B Mills
In the Days of Billy the Kid

The legend of Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War remains prominent in the annals of American frontier history, but for men like JosÉ ChÁvez y ChÁvez, Juan PatrÓn, MartÍn ChÁvez, and Yginio Salazar, …

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Jack Mccarthy, The Mann Center for the Performing Arts
A Century of Music Under the Stars

Everyone has a memorable story about attending a performance at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts or the Robin Hood Dell---"the Mann" and "the Dell" to their many patrons. Lavish…

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David Brown Morris
Ten Thousand Central Parks

A visionary look at Central Park's creation as an urban success story inspiring bold climate actionClimate change is the existential crisis of our time. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, and …

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New Jersey's Natures

New Jersey's Natures takes up the challenge of expanding academic and popular conceptions of New Jersey and its landscapes through the lens of environmental history. Scholars' essays showcase the ways in …

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