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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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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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Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The chilling tome that launched an entire genre of books about the often gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our national parks, ...
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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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Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /During World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Produc...
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Strategies of Segregation: Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Strategies of Segregation unearths the ideological and structural architecture of enduring racial inequality within and beyond schools in Oxnard,...
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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Mostly probably a hoax, this letter to slave owners in the ante-bellum American South purports to advise on how to manage a slave population. The...
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Days of Darkness: The Gettysburg Civilians
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Many books have documented the military repercussions of the Battle of Gettysburg - but never before has an author delved so deeply into what has...
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Democracy Disrupted: The Politics of Global Protest
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Since the financial meltdown of 2008, political protests have spread around the world like chain lightning, from the "Occupy" movements of the Un...
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We Fed Them Cactus
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Prior to statehood, the Llano Estacado, the great plains of northeastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas, were colonized by Hispanic ranchers. ...
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George Hearst: Silver King of the Gilded Age
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Rising from a Missouri boyhood and meager prospecting success to owning the most productive copper, silver, and gold mines in the world and being...
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The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /How the New Deal was a unique historical moment and what this reveals about U.S. politics, economics, and cultureWhere does the New Deal fit in t...
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Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In the quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Sta...
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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
HardcoverOriginal price $42.99Original price $42.99 - Original price $42.99Original price $42.99Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize...
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Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Stand, Columbia! Alma MaterThrough the storms of Time abideStand, Columbia! Alma MaterThrough the storms of Time abide."Stand, Columbia!" by Gilb...
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Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95Original price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /What makes a place? Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit’s brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many...
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I Like Ike: The Presidential Election of 1952
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /When the 1952 presidential election campaign began, many assumed it would be a race between Harry Truman, seeking his second full term, and Rober...
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Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /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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Broken Trail
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Two cowboys—one old the other young, set off to seek their fortune driving a herd of horses across the West. Before long they find themselves ris...
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The Significance of the Frontier in American History
PaperbackOriginal price $5.14 - Original price $5.14Original price $5.14$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /2014 Reprint of 1894 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. The "Frontier Thesis" or "Turner Thesis," is the argument advanced by histo...
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Henry Ford
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Most great figures in American history reveal great contradictions, and Henry Ford is no exception. He championed his workers, offering unprecede...
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The Making of the President: 1968
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“White unites a novelist's knack of dramatization and a historian's sense of significance with a synthesizing skill that grasps the reader by the...
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