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Luke Manget
Ginseng Diggers

The harvesting of wild American ginseng ( panax quinquefolium), the gnarled, aromatic herb known for its therapeutic and healing properties, is deeply rooted in North America, but nowhere has it played a …

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John Conyers III
My Father's House

In this moving work, part clear-eyed assessment, part memoir, the son of iconic African American Congressman John Conyers Jr. shines a spotlight on his father and his political legacy, and reveals how, as…

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Jeffrey Louis Decker
Rebel Girl and the Godfather

The story of how an Italian American housewife and community organizer battled a Brooklyn Mafia boss and political activist for the hearts and minds of a white working class in revolt.This is the true sto…

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Jeffrey Louis Decker
Rebel Girl and the Godfather

The story of how an Italian American housewife and community organizer battled a Brooklyn Mafia boss and political activist for the hearts and minds of a white working class in revolt.This is the true sto…

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Stephanie Gorton
The Icon and the Idealist

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD FOR BEST BIOGRAPHYWINNER OF THE ASJA AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY/HISTORYA riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that prof…

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Douglas Brinkley
Silent Spring Revolution

**"A work of stunning erudition by one of our most brilliant chroniclers of the American past. By meticulously detailing how courageous activists sparked an environmental revolution that fueled the l…

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Michael Rossi
Capturing Kahanamoku

"An engaging romp." --- New York Times Book Review "A haunting, quietly devastating excavation of a story we should all know but don't: how a surfing legend became the target of eugenic obs…

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Colette Shade
Y2K

"Nothing I've read has cut to the heart of the '00s like Y2K." - BustlePerfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about…

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Stephanie Gorton
The Icon and the Idealist

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD FOR BEST BIOGRAPHYWINNER OF THE ASJA AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY/HISTORYA riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that prof…

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Ruth Braunstein
My Tax Dollars

"When the mundane reality of paying taxes takes on moral significance. In My Tax Dollars, Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in which Americans experience and make sense of the tax sy…

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Chris Jennings
End of Days

The gripping story of the Ruby Ridge siege, showing how the historic standoff between federal agents and a white-separatist family set the stage for the conspiracy-laced politics of the Trump era."Vi…

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Jamie L Brummitt
Protestant Relics in Early America

In Protestant Relics in Early America , Jamie L. Brummitt upends long-held assumptions about religion and material culture in the early United States. Brummitt chronicles how American Protestants cultivat…

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Matthew D Lassiter
The Suburban Crisis

How the drug war transformed American political cultureSince the 1950s, the American war on drugs has positioned white middle-class youth as sympathetic victims of illegal drug markets who need rehabilita…

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Crafting Constitutions in Florida, 1810-1968

This comprehensive volume traces over 200 years of constitutional traditional in Florida, examining constitutions drafted in the state from the territorial era to the most recent version from 1968.

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Ric S Sheffield
False Promises

Grounded in primary sources, this book uses critical fabulation to envision how men of color fought against Ohio's racist nineteenth-century voting restrictions. It reveals how contemporary voter-suppress…

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Tommy Hart Jones
A History of Sautee Nacoochee

"A History of Sautee Nacoochee is a complete local Georgia history that's intended to be a "readily accessible compendium of useful information about the valleys." Indeed, Jones has compile…

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Mississippi, Conflict and Change

Written by James W. Loewen, Charles Sallis, Byron D'Andra Orey, Jeanne M. Middleton, R. Bruce Adams, James A. Brown, Olivia Jones Love, Stephen C. Immer, and Maryellen Hains ClampitOriginally published in…

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Charles Edward Thomas
Scrip

In 1910, the L&N pushed its railroad into remote Harlan County, Kentucky, opening access to billions of tons of coal, the fuel that ran everything during the Industrial Revolution. Coal did it all. St…

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Tyler Priest
Offshore Oildom

Offshore Oildom tells the riveting story of the United States' quest to secure the oil riches of the sea. Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, Tyler Priest reveals how the offshore oil industry emerge…

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Richard Slotkin
A Great Disorder

The culture wars are pitting us against each other with a vitriol that is fueling outright violence. Slotkin looks to the foundational myths that have shaped American identity-the Frontier, the Founding, …

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