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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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Deserter Declarations

Deserter Declarations explores nearly two hundred letters from Confederate deserters to Governor Zebulon B. Vance from 1861 to 1865. It shares the voices of deserters or friends and family petitioning on …

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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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New Jersey's Natures

New Jersey's Natures takes up the challenge of expanding academic and popular conceptions of New Jersey and its landscapes through the lens of environmental history. Scholars' essays showcase the ways in …

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Gay Salisbury, Laney Salisbury
The Cruelest Miles

When a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles away…

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Dane Huckelbridge
Queen of All Mayhem

A riveting, deeply researched, blood-on-the-spurs biography of Belle Starr, the most legendary female outlaw of the American West.

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Stephen Doster,
Palms, Priests, and Pirates

In Palms, Priests, Pirates: The Epic History of Amelia Island, Florida, Stephen Doster offers the first comprehensive examination of the rich and captivating history of this unique barrier island off the …

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Murder of the Jujube Candy Heiress

One candy heiress, two bullets and three suspects.The small Southern California island of Coronado rarely makes news for violent crime. But in the spring of 1975, World War II widow and retired librarian …

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David Brown Morris
Ten Thousand Central Parks

A visionary look at Central Park's creation as an urban success story inspiring bold climate actionClimate change is the existential crisis of our time. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, and …

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New Jersey's Natures

New Jersey's Natures takes up the challenge of expanding academic and popular conceptions of New Jersey and its landscapes through the lens of environmental history. Scholars' essays showcase the ways in …

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Dana Berry Frazee
Beyond the Bataan Death March

K. L. (Kearie Lee) Berry was a star athlete at the University of Texas at Austin from 1912 to 1916, playing on the undefeated national championship football team of 1914. Upon graduation, he began his mil…

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Beau Cleland
Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria

Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria recenters our understanding of the Civil War by framing it as a hemispheric affair, deeply influenced by the actions of a network of private parties and minor offici…

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Don Romesburg
Contested Curriculum

Contested Curriculum recounts the fight for LGBTQ-inclusive K-12 history education in the United States. Historian Don Romesburg makes a powerful case for why teaching about LGBTQ lives in schools can hel…

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Don Romesburg
Contested Curriculum

Contested Curriculum recounts the fight for LGBTQ-inclusive K-12 history education in the United States. Historian Don Romesburg makes a powerful case for why teaching about LGBTQ lives in schools can hel…

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Marion Ransell Dobbins
The Lost Black Communities of Merrifield, the Pines and Williamstown

After the Civil War, Black landownership in Fairfax County increased by leaps and bounds.By the 1870s, retired Union officers were purchasing land that they sold to African Americans like Joshua Ball, Jos…

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Ernesto Sagás
Latino Colorado

Mexican Americans and other Latinos make up more than 22 percent of Colorado's population, play a vital role in its major economic sectors, and are becoming a political force to be reckoned with. Yet most…

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Julia Flint
We Were Promised

"Karen "Momma K" Gorrell did not consider herself to be an activist. But when those she cared about were wronged, she refused to remain silent. With the economy still reeling from the Great…

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Scott L Mingus, David Schultz
The Second Day at Gettysburg

On July 2, 1863, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet struck the Union left flank with a blow that collapsed Sickles' advanced position in the Peach Orchard and rolled northward, tearing open a gap in the center of …

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Lindsay Fullerton
Ephemeral City

"Less celebrated than the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the 1933-1934 Century of Progress Exposition brought visitors face-to-face with gleaming American consumerism in the midst of the Great Depression…

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James K Nelsen
Milwaukee Through History

New perspectives on state and national history through the lens of Wisconsin's oldest cityThis richly illustrated book for middle grade and high school learners uses primary sources and archival photos to…

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