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Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Much of the focus on the Dakota people in Minnesota rests on the tragic events of the 1862 U.S.–Dakota War and the resulting exile that sent the ...
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Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The Red Lake Nation has a unique and deeply important history. Unlike every other reservation in Minnesota, Red Lake holds its land in common—and...
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Enslavement and the Underground Railroad in Missouri and Illinois
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 Path to Freedom in Missouri and Illinois People enslaved here experienced the same horrors as those held captive in other states, and their st...
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The Geography of Hate: The Great Migration Through Small-Town America
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The uncomfortable truths that shaped small communities in the midwest During the Great Migration, Black Americans sought new lives in midwestern sm...
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Advertising Revolutionary: The Life and Work of Tom Burrell
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The ad exec who revolutionized the image of Black Americans in advertising Over a forty-year career, Chicagoan Tom Burrell changed the face of adve...
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Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Early in the twentieth century, the black community in Tulsa- the "Greenwood District"- became a nationally renowned entrepreneurial center. Freque...
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We Got By: A Black Family's Journey in the Heartland
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Life along the color line in rural Ohio was hard. Being Black often meant feeling frightened and alone. For a family like Ric S. Sheffield's, exami...
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The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central: High School Basketball at the '68 Racial Divide
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 spring of 1968, the Omaha Central High School basketball team made history with its first all-black starting lineup. Their nickname, the R...
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Cincinnati's Underground Railroad
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Cincinnati played a large part in creatng a refuge for escaped salaves and in the Underground Railroad movement.Nearly a century after the American...
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Cincinnati
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Fascinating images of Cincinnati's African-American heritage.Located on the banks of the Ohio River, Cincinnati was incorporated as a town in 1802....
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Better Homes of South Bend, Indiana: An American Story of Courage
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: 9781467118651 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: History Press The Publication Date: 09-07-2015 Pages: 144 Product Dimensions...
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Another Ann Arbor
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A fascinating look at Ann Arbor's heroic African-American communitiy's journey and progress. A must-have for African-American and Michigan history ...
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African Americans Color Line in Ohio: 1915-1930
PaperbackOriginal price $33.95 - Original price $33.95Original price $33.95$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /Writing in true social history tradition, William W. Giffin presents a magisterial study of African Americans focusing on times that saw the culmin...
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A People's History of Chicago
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Known variously as “‘the Windy City,”’ “‘the City of Big Shoulders,”’ or “‘Chi-Raq,”’ Chicago is one of the most widely celebrated, routinely dem...
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Out in Evansville: An LGBTQ+ History of River City
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /From arrests and ostracization to public festivals and drag shows, the LGBTQ+ people of Evansville have walked a twisting path to their current exi...
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A History of Jonathan Alder: His Captivity and Life with the Indians
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A History of Jonathan Alder: His Captivity and Life with the Indians is one of the most extensive first person accounts to survive from Ohio's pi...
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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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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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Battlefields of Nebraska
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press"Today, the state of Nebraska is as peaceful a place as one is likely to find in A...
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The Ville: St. Louis
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A few miles from downtown St. Louis, The Ville was once locked off from much of the area. In spite of racial obstacles, this small community became...
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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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African Americans in Chicago
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Here is the black Chicago family album, of African Americans leaving the violent, racist South and goin' to Chicago to find the American Dream.The ...
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