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John R Haddad
Thrill Ride

More than an amusement park linked to a chocolate empire, Hershey Park in its early years was an extension of industrialist Milton Hershey's paternalistic capitalism. Hershey sought to avoid the labor str…

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Marie Carter
Mortimer and the Witches

UNTAPPED NEW YORK: THE BEST NYC BOOKS OF ALL TIMEThe neglected histories of 19th-century NYC's maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit themUnder the pseudonym Q. K. Phi…

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Michele Wehrwein Albion
The Florida Life of Thomas Edison

Discover the little-known story of the famous inventor's time in the Sunshine StateFlorida Historical Society Rembert Patrick AwardThomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) was America's most famous and, arguably, m…

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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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David Shane Lowry
Lumbee Pipelines

In Lumbee Pipelines David Shane Lowry (Lumbee) examines the historical and modern paths, or "pipelines," through which members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina maintain Lumbee national iden…

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Amanda Bellows
The Explorers

A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary---and often overlooked---adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the b…

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

Frank Farley (1870-1949) was a passionate naturalist and enthusiastic booster for rural development in western Canada. He supported and managed newly designated migratory bird sanctuaries, networked with …

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Krista Maxwell
Indigenous Healing as Paradox

A social history of the ways Indigenous Peoples have engaged and navigated the welfare state to promote survival and well-being amidst Canadian settler colonialism.

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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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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…

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Catharine Melin-Moser
When Montana Outraced the East

"The untold history of when Montana horses dominated the eastern thoroughbred racing establishment"--

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Karin A Martin
Get Plum Island!

An environmental history of resistance, negotiation, and conservation on the Massachusetts coastAn hour north of Boston, Parker River National Wildlife Refuge occupies the southern three-quarters of Plum …

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Davida Siwisa James
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill

Explores four centuries of colonization, land divisions, and urban development around this historic landmark neighborhood in West Harlem It was the neighborhood where Alexander Hamilton built his country …

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Morris MacGregor
The Emergence of a Black Catholic Community

Since the early days of the Republic, Washington has nurtured an increasingly prosperous and articulate community of black Catholics. For much of that time the spiritual welfare of these citizens as well …

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Todd M Compton
A Frontier Life

Winner of the Juanita Brooks Prize in Mormon Studies Winner of the Evans Biography Award, the John Whitmer Historical Society Best Biography Award, and the Francis Armstrong Madsen Best Book AwardFrontier…

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Karin A Martin
Get Plum Island!

An environmental history of resistance, negotiation, and conservation on the Massachusetts coastAn hour north of Boston, Parker River National Wildlife Refuge occupies the southern three-quarters of Plum …

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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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Peter Bacho
Uncle Rico's Encore

A love note to the city and its once vibrant Pinoy communityFrom the 1950s through the 1970s, blue-collar Filipino Americans, or Pinoys, lived a hardscrabble existence. Immigrant parents endured blatant r…

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Richard Cimino, Hans Tokke
Micro-City

An on-the-ground study of how faith communities create belonging and build bridges across one of the most diverse urban landscapes in the worldMicro-City follows congregations, clergy, and everyday New Yo…

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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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