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Christopher Everette Cenac
Hard Scrabble to Hallelujah, Volume 2: The Bowie Brothers and Bayou Buffalo, Dularge

This second installment in a planned four-volume series chronicles the saga of one of the most rural and rustic regions of coastal Louisiana---Bayou DuLarge. In a story that has its origin centuries ago, …

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Miriam Chaiken
Creative Ozone

A captivating portrait of Westbeth, the legendary artists' residence that shaped contemporary art, activism, and New York's cultural landscape for over fifty yearsIn 1970, the former Bell Telephone Labora…

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Charles D Chamberlain
New Orleans

"Intended for general readers, Charles D. Chamberlain's New Orleans: A Concise History of an Exceptional City offers a broad, reliable overview of the city's history. Although many excellent books ar…

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Gordon H Chang
War, Race, and Culture

"Writing history, the systematic effort to understand the human past, is a demanding intellectual endeavor. For historian Gordon H. Chang, it has also been a personal and moral enterprise intimately …

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Joyce E Chaplin
The Franklin Stove

A Washington PostNoteworthy Book One of The New Yorker 's Best Books of the Year So Far "[A] richly textured history . . . This story holds numerous lessons for our era." -The New Yorker "F…

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Joyce E Chaplin
The Franklin Stove

A Washington PostNoteworthy Book One of The New Yorker 's Best Books of the Year So Far "[A] richly textured history . . . This story holds numerous lessons for our era." -The New Yorker "F…

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Patricia Chappine
New Jersey Women During World War II

While World War II has long been viewed as a pivotal period that allowed women expanded opportunities in the military and the labor force, locally focused considerations have long been left out of the nat…

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James D Charlet
Shipwreck Rescues of the Outer Banks

Along North Carolina's Outer Banks, where thousands of ships met their doom, the brave surfmen of the U.S. Life-Saving Service braved raging seas, defied death itself, and saved countless lives from certa…

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Erwin Chemerinsky
No Democracy Lasts Forever

The American Constitution has become a threat to American democracy. Due to its inherent flaws Erwin Chemerinsky, has concluded that the nearly 250-year-old founding document can no longer hold. One might…

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Kuan-Jen Chen
Charting America's Cold War Waters in East Asia

Shifting the focus from land to sea when considering the Cold War in East Asia, Kuan-Jen Chen sheds light on the importance of the 'oceanic' lens as a structural imperative in grand strategic thinking. De…

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Wendy E Chmielewski, Jill Norgren
Her Hat Was in the Ring

Reveals the untold story of over 6,000 women who ran for office between 1850-1920, expanding our understanding of women's fight for full political citizenship beyond suffrageHer Hat Was in the Ring detail…

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Tom Chorneau
Mrs. Cook and the Klan

A true-crime investigation of the 1925 unsolved killing of an Iowa Sunday school teacher and temperance advocate, Mrs. Cook and the Klan explores the confluence of forces that brought the Ku Klux Klan, la…

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Rob Christensen
Southern News, Southern Politics

Newspapers are a tough business, and no one knows that better than Rob Christensen, who was chief political reporter at North Carolina's capital newspaper, the News and Observer , for decades. Here he tel…

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Andrew Wender Cohen
Gangster of New York

This is the story of Louis Bieral, a nineteenth-century gangster, politician, sportsman, and Civil War hero. Kidnapped from his birthplace in revolutionary South America, he doused fires in Jacksonian New…

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Aaron Cometbus
Downtown Local

Tired of handwringing reports about "lost" and "disappearing" New York? These dispatches show a different side of the city---resilient and flourishing despite the naysayers and high re…

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Steven Conn
Americans Against the City

ENG It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, an…

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Steven Conn
The Lies of the Land

A "piercing, unsentimental" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic declin…

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Geoffrey Connor
The Rise of Houston as a Global City

Houston is the largest city in Texas and the fourth largest in the nation. It has long been regarded as the "Energy Capital of the World." Trademarked boasts frequently refer to the "world'…

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David Conrad-Pérez
Fire in the Heart of the City

A compelling and original narrative history of New York's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, exposing how New York's elite transformed the tragedy into the foundation of modern American charity.Fire in the…

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David Cook
Dark Tales of the Eno River

Mayhem on the Eno RiverVisitors to the Eno River don't expect to encounter haunted houses, train wrecks or fun outings that turn into tragedy, but some of them have experienced just that. In 1771, a few o…

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