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Dona Brown
Hill Farms

There is a stubborn myth that has persisted for almost two centuries: the narrative of the abandoned farm in the rural American northeast. In Hill Farms , historian Dona Brown confronts this myth of rural…

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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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Nina Mackert
Inventing the Calorie

Traces how the calorie became America's way to quantify food, police bodies, and moralize behaviorFrom packaged foods, to lifestyle magazines, and public health discussions, calories are deeply woven into…

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Reconstruction as Violence in Assad's Syria

A sustained critique of postwar reconstruction in Syria as a politically neutral processIn 2011, emboldened by the Arab Spring, the Syrians rose up against their government. The Syrian regime used violenc…

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Paul Schmitz
New York's Family Grocer

From pushcart to pantry staple in the city that never sleepsNew York's Family Grocer tells how a neighborhood name became part of the city's daily rhythm. Patsy and Nicholas D'Agostino arrived from Italy,…

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John Gurda
Milwaukee

Paddle through the watery history of the Midwest's Cream City.The success and survival of Milwaukee lies in the rivers that meander through its streets and the great lake at its eastern boundary. The Indi…

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Anny Gaul
Nile Nightshade

Best Culinary History Book in the World, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2025 "Leaves few cultural-societal stones unturned in chronicling how the tomato gradually came to be a constant presence in Eg…

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Julia Brock
Closed Seasons

"In a unique and personal exploration of the game and fish laws in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi from the Progressive Era to the 1930s, Julia Brock offers an innovative history of hunting in the …

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Tim Wu
The Age of Extraction

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2025 • Tech platforms manipulate attention, extract wealth, and deepen inequality. In this new book, Tim Wu (The Attention Merchants ) explains how we can reclaim control and cre…

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Peter Simons
Global Heartland

"Complicating and expanding ideas of the farm industry's role in American history, Global Heartland shows how Midwestern farmers were at the center of the making of the American Century. Peter Simons…

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Norman Ohler,
Tripped

"A fleet-footed and propulsive account . . . Brilliantly sifting a massive history for its ideological through lines, this is a must-read." --- Publishers Weekly (starred review)The author of th…

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John D Feerick
That Further Shore

A rare and evocative memoir of a respected constitutional scholar, dedicated public servant, political reformer, and facilitator of peace in the land of his ancestors.John D. Feerick's life has all the el…

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Robert M Frame III
Making Mill City

A richly illustrated history of the flour factories that transformed the milling industry worldwide -- and forever changed the culture and architecture of MinneapolisAmong the most consequential advances …

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Diane Coyle
The Measure of Progress

Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today's economy?The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems were enti…

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Diane Coyle
The Measure of Progress

Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today's economy?The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems were enti…

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Allen Frances
Saving Normal

International Bestseller • "An extraordinarily important book." ---Marcia Angell, Harvard Medical SchoolA deeply fascinating and urgently important critique of the widespread medicalization of n…

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Joe Kloc
Lost at Sea

"A deeply personal nine-year account of the lives of the "anchor-outs"--an unhoused community living off the California coast on abandoned boats--that explores the struggles and resilience …

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