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

"Traces the history of two Philadelphia outdoor music venues, the Mann Center for the Performing Arts and the Robin Hood Dell"-- Provided by publisher.

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Nancy K Williams
Colorado Outlaws & Lawmen

Taming a Tumultuous TerritoryHollywood westerns of the twentieth century brought a history of raucous frontier justice to life, but 1800s Colorado was anything but fiction. Bandits held up the Denver and …

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Don Romesburg
Contested Curriculum

Contested Curriculum recounts the fight for LGBTQ-inclusive K-12 history education in the United States. Historian Don Romesburg makes a powerful case for why teaching about LGBTQ lives in schools can hel…

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Don Romesburg
Contested Curriculum

Contested Curriculum recounts the fight for LGBTQ-inclusive K-12 history education in the United States. Historian Don Romesburg makes a powerful case for why teaching about LGBTQ lives in schools can hel…

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Lindsay Fullerton
Ephemeral City

"Less celebrated than the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the 1933-1934 Century of Progress Exposition brought visitors face-to-face with gleaming American consumerism in the midst of the Great Depression…

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Mary I Unger
Reading the Renaissance

From 1932 to 1953, during the Black Chicago Renaissance, numerous literary events were held within and for the city's Black community. In book clubs, public forums, print reviews, little magazines, local …

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James K Nelsen
Milwaukee Through History

"Milwaukee Through History encourages middle and high schoolers to study the history of their own community and find the links among the individual, the local, and the national communities. The book …

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David Morton
Motion Picture Paradise

This book is a sweeping story of filmmaking in Florida, chronicling the state's importance to producers throughout 125 years by looking at the many iconic films and television shows made across the penins…

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Scott L Mingus, David Schultz
The Second Day at Gettysburg

On July 2, 1863, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet struck the Union left flank with a blow that collapsed Sickles' advanced position in the Peach Orchard and rolled northward, tearing open a gap in the center of …

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Milli Knudsen
Murder and Mayhem

"In Murder and Mayhem, veteran author and genealogist Milli Knudsen looks at true crime in New Hampshire. In the rapidly changing world of 1883-1915, criminals and good citizens learned to cope with …

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Brian Vandemark
Kent State

On 4 May 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protestors wearing bell-bottom jeans and long hair hurled taunts an…

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Marion Ransell Dobbins
The Lost Black Communities of Merrifield, the Pines and Williamstown

After the Civil War, Black landownership in Fairfax County increased by leaps and bounds.By the 1870s, retired Union officers were purchasing land that they sold to African Americans like Joshua Ball, Jos…

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Maurice Jackson
Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience

"In the nation's capital, music and sports have always played a central role in the lives of African Americans and have often served as a barometer for social conflict and social progress. Sports clu…

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Ernesto Sagás
Latino Colorado

Mexican Americans and other Latinos make up more than 22 percent of Colorado's population, play a vital role in its major economic sectors, and are becoming a political force to be reckoned with. Yet most…

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Evan Joseph, Amy Evans
Brooklyn Then and Now

Pairing archive and contemporary photographs of the same location side-by-side, Brooklyn Then and Now® provides a visual chronicle of the borough's past, full of rich history and culture.Home to more than…

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Don Lago
Canyon and Cosmos

This book "takes readers on a journey through the Grand Canyon's deep time, geological forces, and biological evolution, making them very real, personal, and meaningful. Ranging through world mytholo…

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Jack Crowder
The Private Thoughts of a Traveling Preacher's Wife

Louisa Foster came to Texas as a child with the Old Three Hundred, the first settlers brought to Texas by Stephen F. Austin. She married a young traveling preacher from Tennessee, the Rev. Finis Foster. U…

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Denis Fleming
Thomas Jefferson and the Kentucky Constitution

A Major Influence in Kentucky LifeFounding Father Thomas Jefferson had a strong but little-known connection with the constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He had personal and politically motivated…

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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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C Brenden Martin
The Most Controversial State Park

The Most Controversial State Parkoffers a unique study of Jekyll Island State Park from the 1940s to the present. Relying on more than sixty oral histories, governors' records, and a variety of archival m…

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