Category - History
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The Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /History isn't always written by the winners...Twenty-first-century controversies over Confederate monuments attest to the enduring significance o...
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Deep Ellum and Central Track: The Other Side of Dallas/Where the Black and White Worlds of Dallas Converged
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A new edition of the biography of Dallas' own Deep Ellum. Just outside of downtown Dallas lies a section of the city called Deep Ellum, where graff...
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Oklahoma Freedmen of the Five Tribes
HardcoverOriginal price $36.99Original price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Explore accounts of Oklahoma's Freedmen as told by their descendants in these stories of resistance and resilience on the Western frontier.The Free...
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A Reverence for Wood
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Refreshingly written, delightfully illustrated book remarks expansively on the resourcefulness of early Americans in their use of this valuable c...
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Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Can a group of well-intentioned people fulfill the promise of racial integration in America? In this searing and intimate examination of the ideals...
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00Original price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Notes From Diverse Reads This riveting conversation among journalists, historians, poets, novelists, essayists and photographers lends a Technic...
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Life and Labor in the Old South
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A new edition of the groundbreaking social history of the American South Celebrated as a classic work of historical literature, Life and Labor in...
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Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash ...
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Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /The politics and policies that led to America's expansion of the penal system and reduction of welfare programsIn 1970s America, politicians bega...
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The Black Washingtonians: The Anacostia Museum Illustrated Chronology
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00Original price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /The Black WashingtoniansTHE ANACOSTIA MUSEUM ILLUSTRATED CHRONOLOGYA history of African American life in our nation's capital, in words and pictu...
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Confederate Shipbuilding
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /A classic on the Confederacy's failure to build a successful navy In Confederate Shipbuilding, William N. Still Jr. cogently demonstrates the rea...
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New Hampshire: A History
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /On New Hampshire's thin, cold soil, strewn with rocks, generations of resourceful, tough, independent men and women created a landscape of meadow...
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The Harlem Uprising: Segregation and Inequality in Postwar New York City
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed an African American teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesan...
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Indian Justice: A Cherokee Murder Trial at Tahlequah in 1840 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In Indian Justice, Grant Foreman presents John Howard Payne’s first-hand account of the trial of Archilla Smith, a Cherokee charged with the murd...
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Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Beginning with the birth of the Cherokee patriarch Major Ridge in the 1770’s, Thurman Wilkins tells the events that led to the Trail of Tears, th...
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Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Colonial Pennsylvania Frontier
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"A stunning achievement. . . . A pathbreaking scholarly work by one of the nation's leading historians of the interaction between Native American...
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The Arapaho
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /First published in three parts in 1902, 1904, and 1907, The Arapaho quickly established itself as a model of description of Indian culture. Its d...
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Of Earth and Little Rain: The Papago Indians / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /“This text reveals [Fontana’s] interaction with his [Tohono O’odham] neighbors and how geography and climate define life and culture in this piec...
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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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Chowan Beach: Remembering an African American Resort
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /In 1928, Eli Reid purchased 400 acres of picturesque property on the banks of the Chowan River in Hertford County, North Carolina. Soon after he ...
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A Cowboy Detective: A True Story of Twenty-two Years with a World-Famous Detective Agency
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /After years of cowboying, Charles A. Siringo had settled down to store-keeping in Caldwell, Kansas, when a blind phrenologist, traveling through,...
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The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The New History in an Old Museum is an exploration of "historical truth" as presented at Colonial Williamsburg. More than a detailed history of a...
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Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization, a study of an important horticultural Plains Indian tribe, synthesizes the rich material Alfred W. Bo...
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The Great Sea Island Storm Of 1893
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Heartbreaking and true, The Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 details human courage and perseverance in the face of the second most fatal hurricane ...
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