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Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein’s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant ...
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Reclaiming the Reservation: Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /In the 1970s the Quinault and Suquamish, like dozens of Indigenous nations across the United States, asserted their sovereignty by applying their...
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Washington's China: The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /This book addresses a central question about the Cold War that has never been adequately resolved. Why did the United States go to such lengths n...
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Notes on a Lost Flute: A Field Guide to the Wabanaki
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Anyone interested in Native American lifeways will want to pore over Notes on a Lost Flute. Hardy brings together his expertise in forestry, hort...
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The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban Nor...
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Strike Patterns: Notes from Postwar Laos
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A strike pattern is a signature of violence carved into the land—bomb craters or fragments of explosives left behind, forgotten. In Strike Patter...
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The Pennsylvania Wilds and the Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The Call of Service and the Trial of War From abolitionists to copperheads, from patriotic volunteer soldiers to deserters, the Pennsylvania Wilds ...
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Westminster
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Westminster Colony was founded in 1870 by Presbyterian minister Rev. Lemuel P. Webber. The colony, based on Protestant Christian tenets and tempera...
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Cycling the Erie Canal, Fifth Edition: A Guide to 360 Miles of Adventure and History Along the Erie Canalway Trail
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The Erie Canalway Trail is a cycling destination for riders of all abilities. Following one of the world's most famous manmade waterways, it spans ...
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Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /A poignant, multi-generational saga of a mixed-race family in the US West and South from the antebellum period through the rise of Jim Crow. When S...
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The Reverse Underground Railroad in Ohio
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Prior to the Civil War, thousands escaped slavery via the Underground Railroad. Untold others failed in the attempt.These unfortunate souls were dr...
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Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In the early 1900s, an indomitable entrepreneurial spirit brought national renown to Tulsa's historic African American community, the Greenwood D...
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North Country: The Making of Minnesota
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In 1862, four years after Minnesota was ratified as the thirty-second state in the Union, simmering tensions between indigenous Dakota and white ...
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Cherokee
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The 21st-century town of Cherokee sparkles with modern architecture, a bustling shopping district, and numerous tourist attractions. Beneath its pr...
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Oklahoma Freedmen of the Five Tribes
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /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 Half-Red Sea / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In a half-red sea, Evie Shockley is 'dreaming the lives of the ancestors.' Navigating against prevailing currents, these poems sail on eddy and b...
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Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aest...
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A Bridge to Justice: The Life of Franklin H. Williams
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Documents the life of a gifted African American leader whose contributions were pivotal to the movement for social justice and racial equality Fran...
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Frederick Douglass: Speeches & Writings (Loa #358)
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Library of America presents the biggest, most comprehensive trade edition of Frederick Douglass's writings ever published Edited by Pulitzer Prize-...
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The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /"A great read."—Whoopi Goldberg, The ViewHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illu...
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Forgotten African American Firsts: An Encyclopedia of Pioneering History
HardcoverOriginal price $107.00 - Original price $107.00Original price $107.00$125.99$125.99 - $125.99Current price $125.99| /While the achievements of such individuals as Barack Obama, Toni Morrison, and Thurgood Marshall are well known, many accomplished African American...
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Historically African American Leisure Destinations Around Washington, D.C.
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781467118675 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: History Press Publication Date: 12-07-2015 Pages: 160 Product Dimensions: 8....
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Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In the late 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration embarked upon a project to interview 100 former American sla...
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The Heartland: An American History
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A history of a quintessentially American place—the rural and small town heartland—that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with the w...
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