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Brian Vandemark
Kent State

On 4 May 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protestors wearing bell-bottom jeans and long hair hurled taunts an…

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Mary I Unger
Reading the Renaissance

From 1932 to 1953, during the Black Chicago Renaissance, numerous literary events were held within and for the city's Black community. In book clubs, public forums, print reviews, little magazines, local …

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Vince Houghton, Eric Driggs
Covert City

"Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow. The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic an…

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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. Lin…

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Mary I Unger
Reading the Renaissance

From 1932 to 1953, during the Black Chicago Renaissance, numerous literary events were held within and for the city's Black community. In book clubs, public forums, print reviews, little magazines, local …

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Alistair Reece, J Mark Stewart
Virginia Cider

Dig into the long history of cider in Virginia--the Old Dominion's original craft beverage. When the adventurers aboard the Susan Constant, Discovery, and Godspeed stepped foot on Virginian soil they brou…

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Omar Valerio-Jiménez
Remembering Conquest

"This book analyzes the ways collective memories of the US-Mexico War have shaped Mexican Americans' civil rights struggles over several generations. As the first Latinx people incorporated into the natio…

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Margaret Lynn Brown
The Wild East

The Wild East explores the social, political, and environmental changes in the Great Smoky Mountains during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This revised edition is updated with information about n…

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Jim Ellis, Jennifer Ott
A Will to Serve

"Jim Ellis was one of the most influential and impactful civic leaders of Seattle's and Washington's recent history. Without ever seeking elected office, Ellis' vision and drive was the key force behind m…

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Milli Knudsen
Murder and Mayhem

"In Murder and Mayhem, veteran author and genealogist Milli Knudsen looks at true crime in New Hampshire. In the rapidly changing world of 1883-1915, criminals and good citizens learned to cope with new w…

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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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Megan A Smetzer
Painful Beauty

"For over 150 years, Tlingit women artists have beaded colorful, intricately beautiful designs on moccasins, dolls, octopus bags, tunics, and other garments. Painful Beauty suggests that at a time when In…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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