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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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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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The Vietnamese Experience in America / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /This concise interpretation of the Vietnamese experience in America begins with the fall of Saigon in 1975, when enormous waves of refugees fled ...
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The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The harrowing account of the black Southern educators who "bravely pressed on for justice in schools" (The New York Review of Books) even as the ...
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Exile and Revolution: José D. Poyo, Key West, and Cuban Independence
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /"Poyo led nationalist efforts in the exile community in Florida for over thirty years and was a fierce advocate for the cause both before and aft...
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Crafting an Indigenous Nation: Kiowa Expressive Culture in the Progressive Era
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /In this in-depth interdisciplinary study, Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote reveals how Kiowa people drew on the tribe's rich history of expressive culture to ...
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Contrary Neighbors: Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /examines relations between Southeastern Indians who were removed to Indian Territory in the early nineteenth century and Southern Plains Indians...
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Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /This compelling book recounts the history of black gay men from the 1950s to the 1990s, tracing how the major movements of the times--from civil ...
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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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Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Long before the indigenous people of southeastern North America first encountered Europeans and Africans, they established communities with clear...
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Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through t...
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Indian Slavery in Colonial America
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /European enslavement of American Indians began with Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World. The slave trade expanded with European colon...
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Prairie Man: The Struggle between Sitting Bull and Indian Agent James McLaughlin / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /One week after the June 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, when news of the defeat of Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops reached the American pub...
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The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an...
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On Our Own Terms: Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /During the Cold War, U.S. intervention in Latin American politics, economics, and society grew in scope and complexity, with diplomatic legacies ...
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Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In recent years, dozens of counties in North Carolina have partnered with federal law enforcement in the criminalization of immigration--what man...
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The Iroquois in the American Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Examines the military and political aspects of the Iroquois' role in the American revolution and describes the impact of the Americans and Britis...
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The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada, Volume 1: To the Massacre at Michillimackinac / 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| /Francis Parkman, America's greatest narrative historian, immortal for The Oregon Trail (1849), devoted much of his career to writing about the st...
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Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who...
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Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The Carlisle Indian School (1879–1918) was an audacious educational experiment. Capt. Richard Henry Pratt, the school’s founder and first superin...
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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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The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The definitive account of the lynching of twenty-three-year-old Matthew Williams in Maryland, the subsequent investigation, and the legacy of "mo...
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My Captivity Among The Sioux
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Travelling to Idaho with an emigrant train from her home in Kansas, the nineteen-year-old Mrs. Kelly was captured west of Fort Laramie by a band ...
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