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Joseph Mannard
The Two Worlds of Ann Gertrude Wightt

The first biography of the remarkable historical figure who challenged perceptions of women's experiences in the early American RepublicIn 1831 Sister Gertrude Wightt, the directress of Georgetown Academy…

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Mark Archuleta
The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr

In 1921 headlines across the country announced the death of Henry Starr, a burgeoning silent film star who was killed while attempting to rob a bank in Harrison, Arkansas. Cynics who knew the real Starr w…

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Vincent T Davis
The Front Porch

Throughout his nearly thirty-year career at theSan Antonio Express-News , Vincent T. Davis has perfected his craft of finding the extraordinary in ordinary lives. The Front Porch: Stories from the Soul of…

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Alan Mikhail
Newcomers

A man thought to be Muslim from Morocco and a German barmaid are hardly the image we have of America's founders. In Newcomers , Alan Mikhail upends the traditional story of American beginnings through the…

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Ellen M Snyder-Grenier
The House on Henry Street

""The House on Henry Street" is a critical exploration of the enduring life of a Lower East Side settlement"--

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Randy Krehbiel
Tulsa, 2021

"An account of a city under inordinate pressure, Tulsa, 2021 offers a behind-the-scenes view of how Tulsans and Americans met a cluster of overlapping crises - COVID-19, a combustible presidential vi…

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Meg Gorzycki
Remember the Main

The untold story of how a generation of LGBTQ Minnesotans found a voice, a purpose, and community in a Twin Ports bar.When Bob Jansen was fired from his job as a professor at a religious university in Dul…

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Brian Vandemark
Kent State

Kent State re-creates the divided cultural landscape of America during the Vietnam War and heightened popular anxieties around the country. On college campuses, teach-ins, sit-down strikes and demonstrati…

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Benjamin E Frey
Rising Above

Rising Above examines the process of language shift and revitalization among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina.

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Richard Brust
Chambers v. Florida and the Criminal Justice Revolution

The history and enduring legacy of a breakthrough case in criminal justice reformIn 1940, the United States Supreme Court decided in Chambers v. Florida to ban confessions obtained through mental or physi…

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Lisa G Dill
Around the Bend

The Missouri River is one of the most dangerous rivers in the United States---and one of the most economically important. Even as prolonged drought in the Midwest has imperiled urban drinking water and ag…

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Robert W. Cherny
A Short History of San Francisco

When British explorer George Vancouver arrived at the San Francisco presidio in 1792, he described it as resembling a "compound for cattle"---hardly the opulent outpost he had expected of Spanis…

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DK Super History Boston Tea Party

This series explores history through modern topic books that enhance literacy and background knowledge while aligning with the curriculum.DK Super History: Boston Tea Party is part of the new DK Super His…

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Michael Hiltzik
Golden State

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Superb. Hiltzik makes a compelling case that California is the heartbeat of our nation."---Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring RevolutionFrom…

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Dk
DK Super History Boston Tea Party

This series explores history through modern topic books that enhance literacy and background knowledge while aligning with the curriculum.DK Super History: Boston Tea Party is part of the new DK Super His…

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Mike Tidwell
The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue

"In 2023, author and activist Mike Tidwell decided to keep a record for a full year of the growing impacts of climate change on his one urban block right on the border with Washington, DC. A love let…

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James B Mills
In the Days of Billy the Kid

The legend of Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War remains prominent in the annals of American frontier history, but for men like JosÉ ChÁvez y ChÁvez, Juan PatrÓn, MartÍn ChÁvez, and Yginio Salazar, …

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

Everyone has a memorable story about attending a performance at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts or the Robin Hood Dell---"the Mann" and "the Dell" to their many patrons. Lavish…

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Gregg Andrews
Shoe Workers in Hannibal, Missouri

In Shoe Workers in Hannibal, Missouri, Gregg Andrews examines the history of factory laborers in a celebrated Mississippi River town. In the late 1890s, shoe manufacturing transformed Mark Twain's boyhood…

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David Chadwick
Tassajara Stories

From the award-winning and best-selling author of the biography of Shunryu Suzuki (Crooked Cucumber), comes the second of three books that set out to explore, through personal memoir, oral history, and ra…

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