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Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator an...
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200 Waterfalls in Central and Western New York: A Finder's Guide
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /There are more waterfalls in central and western New York State than anywhere in the East. Some are well known, like Niagara and Taughannock Fall...
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Iroquois on Fire: A Voice from the Mohawk Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In their homelands in what is now New York state, the Iroquois have assumed a prominent role in public debate as residents of the region seek ...
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In the Shadow of Kinzua: The Seneca Nation of Indians since World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The Kinzua Dam has cast a long shadow on Seneca life since World War II. The project, formally dedicated in 1966, broke the Treaty of Canandaigua...
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Great Plains Indians
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /David J. Wishart's Great Plains Indians covers thirteen thousand years of fascinating, dynamic, and often tragic history. From a hunting and gat...
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From Greenwich Village to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan's
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Ralph Emerson Twitchell AwardThey all came to Taos: Georgia O'Keefe, D. H. Lawrence, Carl Van Vechten, and other expatriates of New York City. Fl...
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Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /The story of Roanoke is a tale marked by courage, miscalculation, exhilaration, intrigue, and enduring mystery. Now in its second edition, Roanok...
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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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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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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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Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Inseparable from its communities, Northwest Coast art functions aesthetically and performatively beyond the scope of non-Indigenous scholarship, ...
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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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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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Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A world-renowned Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman, Mabel McKay expressed her genius through her celebrated baskets, her Dreams, her cures, a...
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The Creole Rebellion: The Most Successful Slave Revolt in American History
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The Creole Rebellion tells the suspenseful story of a successful mutiny on board the slave ship Creole. En route for a New Orleans slave-auction...
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Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Development Drowned and Reborn is a “Blues geography” of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom stru...
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Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization: The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /This ethnohistory, now in paperback, examines Indian life in the twenty-one missions Franciscans established in Alta California. In describing ho...
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Blackfeet Indian Stories
PaperbackOriginal price $9.60 - Original price $9.60Original price $9.60$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /The Blackfeet were hunters, travelling from place to place on foot. They used implements of stone, wood, or bone, wore clothing made of skins, an...
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Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Written by a master storyteller, Tycoon's War is the remarkable account of an epic imperialist duel--a violent battle of the capitalist versus th...
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California through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Most California histories begin with the arrival of the Spanish missionaries in the late eighteenth century and conveniently skip to the Gold Rus...
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People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From the beginning, what has given our culture its distinctive texture, pattern, and thrust, according to Michael Kammen, is the dynamic interact...
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Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson
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 Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson, prize-winning historian Christina Snyder reinterprets the history of Jac...
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The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader: 1865-1877
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877 provides the first comprehensive look at the Indian Wars in Nebraska, focusing on the years immediatel...
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Nez Perce Country
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The rivers, canyons, and prairies of the Columbia Basin are the homeland of the Nez Perce. The Nez Perce, or Nimiipuu, inhabited much of what is ...
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