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Morris MacGregor
The Emergence of a Black Catholic Community

Since the early days of the Republic, Washington has nurtured an increasingly prosperous and articulate community of black Catholics. For much of that time the spiritual welfare of these citizens as well …

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Fray Andrés de San Miguel,
An Early Florida Adventure Story

This book makes available a rare eyewitness account of Florida's Spanish colonial period: the 1595 narrative of a teenager who journeyed from Spain to Mexico, Havana, and Florida, presenting an inside vie…

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Kim M Gruenwald
Philadelphia Merchants on Western Waters

"This book examines how Philadelphia merchant networks used commerce and trade to integrate the Midwest into the United States, shaping the region's development before the 1803 Louisiana Purchase&quo…

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Catharine Melin-Moser
When Montana Outraced the East

"The untold history of when Montana horses dominated the eastern thoroughbred racing establishment"--

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Tony Platt
The Scandal of Cal

Now in paperback: "A profound alternative institutional history, one that sees the long arm of institutional racism implicated everywhere." (Publishers Weekly)"This is a land acknowledgment…

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Karin A Martin
Get Plum Island!

An environmental history of resistance, negotiation, and conservation on the Massachusetts coastAn hour north of Boston, Parker River National Wildlife Refuge occupies the southern three-quarters of Plum …

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Scott D Butcher
Gettysburg Perspectives

While Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is best know for the role it played in a pivotal three-day battle in 1863 during America's Civil War, the beauty of this historic town and its surroundings are less well kn…

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Peter Bacho
Uncle Rico's Encore

A love note to the city and its once vibrant Pinoy communityFrom the 1950s through the 1970s, blue-collar Filipino Americans, or Pinoys, lived a hardscrabble existence. Immigrant parents endured blatant r…

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Richard Cimino, Hans Tokke
Micro-City

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Bruce Goldfarb
The Worst Day

A REAL-LIFE DISASTER MOVIE: A minute-by-minute account of 2 simultaneous catastrophes during a 1982 blizzard---and the extraordinary courage of civilians and first responders For fans of Deep Survival and…

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Deborah Antoine
Two Forks, Two Spoons

TWO FORKS, TWO SPOONS is a historical family memoir by Deborah Cross Antoine, documenting the extraordinary lives, loves, lineage and legacy of the author's parents, Irving and Alzada Cross, also known as…

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Karin A Martin
Get Plum Island!

An environmental history of resistance, negotiation, and conservation on the Massachusetts coastAn hour north of Boston, Parker River National Wildlife Refuge occupies the southern three-quarters of Plum …

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Todd M Compton
A Frontier Life

Winner of the Juanita Brooks Prize in Mormon Studies Winner of the Evans Biography Award, the John Whitmer Historical Society Best Biography Award, and the Francis Armstrong Madsen Best Book AwardFrontier…

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Len Gougeon
Old England, New England, and the Civil War

The first study to document how the Civil War brought about a bitter cultural and political conflict between Great Britain and the United States, a conflict that ignited a global struggle for racial equal…

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Kyle Paoletta
American Oasis

Albuquerque. Phoenix. Tucson. El Paso. Las Vegas. Iconic American cities surrounded by desert and rust. Teeming metropolises that seem to exist independently of the seemingly inhospitable and arid landsca…

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Sergei Kan
The Tlingit in Sitka

"Sitka photographer Elbridge W. Merrill (1870-1929) captured three decades of cultural transformations in the Tlingit community, Russian Orthodox clergy and congregants, and local industry. Born in B…

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Louise Siddons
Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon

"A fundamental dilemma exists in documentary photography: can white artists successfully portray Indigenous lives and communities in a manner that neither appropriates nor romanticizes them? With an …

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Richard Cimino, Hans Tokke
Micro-City

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Marie Carter
Mortimer and the Witches

UNTAPPED NEW YORK: THE BEST NYC BOOKS OF ALL TIMEThe neglected histories of 19th-century NYC's maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit themUnder the pseudonym Q. K. Phi…

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Michele Wehrwein Albion
The Florida Life of Thomas Edison

This book explores Thomas Edison's activities and influence in Fort Myers, Florida, over 45 years, an important facet of Edison's life that is largely unknown.

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