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Hettie V Williams
The Georgia of the North

The Georgia of the North is a compelling narrative about the little-known struggles that African American women, and their community, faced when they arrived in the Garden State by way of the Great Migrat…

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Henry Alexander Wiencek
Oil Cities

How international oil companies navigated the local, segregated landscape of north Louisiana in the first decades of the twentieth century.

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Timothy Grieve-Carlson
American Aurora

American Aurora explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age in the seventeenth century. Focusing on the life and legacy of Johann…

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Race and Resistance in Boston

Race and Resistance in Boston reconstructs the history of Black sport in Boston, from amateur to professional, reimagining the crucial role it played in shaping the city’s racial identity.

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Hettie V Williams
The Georgia of the North

The Georgia of the North is a compelling narrative about the little-known struggles that African American women, and their community, faced when they arrived in the Garden State by way of the Great Migrat…

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Michael Rawl
The First Settler of Lewes

Learn about efforts underway to save the historic and environmentally important Fourth Street Preserve. IIn 1670, the first officially deeded land in Lewes was granted by the Duke of York to the town's e…

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David Grzybowski
The Big Story

"This book provides an oral history of television news broadcasting in Philadelphia from the late 1970s into the 2020s. In over 200 interviews, journalists in front of and behind the camera reflect on wha…

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Mark Guarino
Country and Midwestern

The untold story of Chicago's pivotal role as a country and folk music capital. Chicago is revered as a musical breeding ground, having launched major figures like blues legend Muddy Waters, gospel soul…

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Davida Siwisa James
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill

Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill explores four centuries of colonization, urban development, and architectural splendor in this historic landmark West Harlem neighborhood. Home to Alexander Hamilton's coun…

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David Shane Lowry
Lumbee Pipelines

David Shane Lowry (Lumbee) examines the historical and modern paths, or “pipelines,” through which members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina engineer settler-colonial conditions to maintain their nati…

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Josh Morgan
The Folsom Prison Bloody 13

On July 27, 1903, spurred into action by inmate Richard 'Red' Gordon, thirteen men attacked their jailers and made a run for freedom.Folsom Prison had only been open for 20 years and was already one of th…

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Rachel Louise Martin
A Most Tolerant Little Town

"An intimate portrait of a small Southern town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history-about the first school to attempt court-ordered desegregation in the…

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Carl Heilman
Lake George

Heilman captures the essence of the lake, as well as the energy of life and activities that make it one of the top tourist destinations in the country.

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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." --Ruth Wils…

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Sue Consolo-Murphy
The Bears of Grand Teton

Sue Consolo-Murphy’s autobiographical narrative traces the history of bear management in Grand Teton National Park and the Jackson Hole area, considering in particular bears’ interaction with livestock.

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Steve Platto
Motor City Famous

Most know Detroit as the hometown of Motown legends like Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. And they're all here! But beyond the well-known list of famous Detroiters awaits a veritable who's who o…

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Glen Hvenegaard, Jeremy Mouat, Heather Marshall
Frank Farley and the Birds of Alberta

This biography explores the fascinating trajectory of amateur naturalist Frank Farley (1870-1949), who in the first half of the twentieth century made significant contributions to the fields of ornitholog…

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Krista Maxwell
Indigenous Healing as Paradox

Indigenous healing is a paradox in the liberal settler colony where efforts to foster well-being can simultaneously undermine distinct Indigenous societies. This book examines the prominence of "Indigenou…

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Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture

"'Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture', the first book by Ivan McClellan, offers an inside look at Black cowboy culture across the United States in the 21st century, creating a bridge between present and p…

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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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