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Edward L Ayers
American Visions

With so many of our histories falling into dour critique or blatant celebration, here is a welcome departure: a book that offers hope as well as honesty about the American past. The early decades of the n…

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John Quincy Adams,
John Quincy Adams: Speeches & Writings (Loa #390)

21 essential works trace a great statesman's lifelong engagement with the promise of America and the legacy of the Founding Fathers"Few presidents ever thought about words as carefully as John Quincy…

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Michelle Adams
The Containment

"A history of post-Brown school desegregation in Detroit, with a focus on Milliken v. Bradley"--

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Michelle Adams
The Containment

A New York Times Best Book of the Year"Passionate and well researched." -Louis Menand, The New Yorker The epic story of Detroit's struggle to integrate schools in its suburbs-and the defeat of d…

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Joseph P Alessi
Settling the Frontier

The Role of Indigenous People in the Founding of America's First Major Border Towns In 1811, while escorting members of John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company up the Columbia River, their Chinookan guide …

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Benjamin F. Alexander
Ararat in America

How has the distinctive Armenian-American community expressed its identity as an ethnic minority while 'assimilating' to life in the United States? This book examines the role of community leaders and inf…

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Sylvester Allen, Belle Boggs
The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw

Wyatt Outlaw's story was one of Black success: He was a Union League leader, business owner, and the first Black town constable and commissioner in Graham, a small town located in North Carolina's Alamanc…

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Eddy Starr Ancinas
Olympic Valley & Alpine Meadows

Since the 1930s, two valleys nestled amid California's High Sierra peaks have enraptured explorers, skiers and winter sport enthusiasts worldwide.Olympic Valley made a name for itself as the host of the 1…

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Gregg Andrews
Hard Times in an American Workhouse, 1853-1920

The first comprehensive examination of a workhouse in the United States, offering a critical history of the institution in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Using the Old St. Louis Workhouse as a repres…

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Bench Ansfield
Born in Flames

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!" Supposedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, the phrase encapsulated a chaotic era in US histo…

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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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Stephanie Azzarone,
Fabulous Fountains of New York

A Stunning Exploration of New York's Most Enchanting FountainsNew York City's fountains are more than just decorative features - they are historical landmarks, cultural icons, and dynamic works of art tha…

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Kathleen D Bailey, Sheila R Bailey
A History Lover's Guide to New Hampshire

"New Hampshire has always been fiercely independent, and its history, museums and festivals reflect that trait. Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe broke baseball's color barrier with the Nashua Dodgers …

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Kenneth C. Barnes
Mob Rule in the Ozarks

On January 15, 1923, a crowd of more than a thousand angry men assembled in Harrison, Arkansas, near the headquarters of the M&NA Railroad, which ran through the heart of the Ozark Mountains. The mob …

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Ron de Beaulieu
Minnesota's Most Notorious Mobster

"Ninety percent of [what] was written about me is bullshit" Isadore Blumenfeld, aka Kid Cann, came to Minnesota as a toddler when his family emigrated from Romania. In Prohibition-era Minneapoli…

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Gretchen M Bell
Maritime Kensington

Discover the Shipbuilding Dynasties that Built Philadelphia's Maritime IndustryThe waterfront of Kensington and Fishtown in Philadelphia attracted a host of innovative and hardworking shipwrights from Ame…

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Scott W. Berg
The Burning of the World

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

WINNER OF THE MIDLAND AUTHORS AWARD FOR HISTORY • LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The "illuminating" (New Yorker ) story of the Gre…

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Anthony Phillip Blasi
Frontier Rangers of Colonial New England

Warfare in the WildernessFew images reflect the character of hardy New Englanders like that of the eighteenth-century colonial ranger. Rugged characters such as Robert Rogers, Israel Putnam and John Stark…

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Jane Borden
Cults Like Us

An author and culture journalist argues that doomsday beliefs, deeply rooted in American history, have shaped the nation's culture, from its fascination with heroism and consumerism to its susceptibility …

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Robert Bowling
Hoosier Vigilantes

The story of the intersection between vigilantism and law enforcementIn frontier Indiana, vigilantism was a grim necessity. Beginning with the vigilance committees of the 1860s that lynched the Reno Gang …

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