Category - History
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Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /During the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence. This interest crea...
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Native Vote: American Indians, the Voting Rights Act, and the Right to Vote
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The right to vote is the foundation of democratic government; all other policies are derived from it. The history of voting rights in America has...
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Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Jewish Community
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Many people are familiar with the story of Jewish support for the American civil rights movement, but this history has another side—one that has ...
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Three Lives for Mississippi / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Three Lives for Mississippi by William Bradford Huie Introduction by Martin Luther King, Jr. Afterword by Juan Williams In the Civil Rights movem...
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Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Winner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the best book on local history from the Alabama Historical AssociationA remarkable story of th...
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The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /If Abraham Lincoln was known as the Great Emancipator, he was also the only president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. Indeed, Lincoln's rec...
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On the Blanket: The Inside Story of the IRA Prisoners' "Dirty" Protest
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The H Block protest is one of the strangest and most controversial issues in the tragic history of Northern Ireland. Republican prisoners, convic...
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Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /From the author of How the World Moves—the classic collection of more than 500 years of Native American HistoryIn a series of powerful and moving...
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Chicano!: The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /BASED ON THE 1996 PBS SERIES of the same name, Chicano! details the struggle of the Mexican-American community for social and legal equality, pol...
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The Columbian Orator
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /An 1797 publication of Enlightenment era thought, read by virtually every American schoolboy in the early 19th centuryFirst published in 1797, Th...
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The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Revised and updated: the definitive primary-source history of US involvement in General Pinochet’s Chilean coup—“the evidence is overwhelming” (T...
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Operation Breadbasket: An Untold Story of Civil Rights in Chicago, 1966-1971
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /This is the first full history of Operation Breadbasket, the interfaith economic justice program that transformed into Jesse Jackson’s Operation ...
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The Orangeburg Massacre
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /On the night of February 8th, 1968, officers of the law opened fire on protesting students on the campus of South Carolina State College at Orang...
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Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America
PaperbackOriginal price $33.99 - Original price $33.99Original price $33.99$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day. On August 11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, a Methodist minister named Edwin Stephenso...
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Seeing through Race: A Reinterpretation of Civil Rights Photography / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Seeing through Race is a boldly original reinterpretation of the iconic photographs of the black civil rights struggle. Martin A. Berger’s provoc...
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Everyday Justice: A Legal Aid Story
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Legal Aid Society's mission is to advance, defend, and enforce the legal rights of low-income and otherwise vulnerable people in order to secur...
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The Transition: Interpreting Justice from Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Every Supreme Court transition presents an opportunity for a shift in the balance of the third branch of American government, but the replacement o...
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a best boo...
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The Court at War: Fdr, His Justices, and the World They Made
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the country--with consequences that endure today By ...
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A National Park for Women's Rights: The Campaign That Made It Happen
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A National Park for Women's Rights chronicles a little-known story in American history: the establishment of the Women's Rights National Historical...
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by lo...
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Shattered Promises: Unveiling the Roots of Civil Unrest in America and the Path to Change
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In this thought-provoking book, the author embarks on a deep exploration of the historical and contemporary challenges that have led to civil unres...
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Fuerte Es El Silencio
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /El acto de resistir trasciende por mucho la indignación que le dio origen. Es un encuentro con el destino, la última y desesperada exhortación d...
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Pity for Evil: Suffrage, Abortion, and Women's Empowerment in Reconstruction America
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In the years following the Civil War, pioneers in the women’s rights movement, women’s medical education, and public-private charitable partnersh...
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