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Wisconsin Supper Clubs: An Old Fashioned Experience
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00Original price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Supper clubs guru Ron Faiola is back with updated chronicles and beautiful new photographs from the clubs that captured the attention of readers ...
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Closing Time: Saloons, Taverns, Dives, and Watering Holes of the Twin Cities
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /An entertaining journey into the highs, lows, bright spots, and dark corners of the Twin Cities' most famous and infamous drinking establishments...
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High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Ri...
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Reasons to Persist: A Biography of Isaac Franklin Bradley
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /While America owes a tremendous, invaluable amount of gratitude to Martin Luther King, Jr, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and countless other iconi...
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Missouri Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00Original price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00Current price $74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /From 1936 to 1938, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) commissioned writers to collect the life histories of former slaves. This work was compi...
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Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Tennessee & Virginia Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00Original price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00Current price $74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /From 1936 to 1938, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) commissioned writers to collect the life histories of former slaves. This work was compi...
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Indiana Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00Original price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00Current price $74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /From 1936 to 1938, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) commissioned writers to collect the life histories of former slaves. This work was compi...
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Ohio Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00Original price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00Current price $74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /From 1936 to 1938, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) commissioned writers to collect the life histories of former slaves. This work was compi...
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In My Father's Footsteps: My Journey into Lakota Country
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /For nearly a century, the Lakota and Cheyenne had kept private their ancestors' history of Battle of Little Bighorn. Few non-Lakota knew the full s...
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Minnesota's Black Community in the 21st Century
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /While African Americans comprise just five percent of the total population of Minnesota today, the state boasts many successful, creative, and infl...
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History of Milwaukee Drag: Seven Generations of Glamour
HardcoverOriginal price $43.99Original price $43.99 - Original price $43.99Original price $43.99Current price $39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /p>The queens that made Milwaukee famousFor over a century, drag has been an unstoppable force in Milwaukee nightlife. On June 7, 1884, The Only ...
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African Americans of Des Moines and Polk County
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Although African American pioneers arrived in Des Moines, Iowa, in the early 1860s, the population exploded in the 1880s due to the surrounding coa...
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Making the Carry: The Lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /An extraordinary illustrated biography of a Métis man and Anishinaabe woman navigating great changes in their homeland along the U.S.-Canada border...
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Life Painted Red: The True Story of Corabelle Fellows and How Her Life on the Dakota Frontier Became a National Scandal
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Life Painted Red details Cora's experiences from her Washington, DC, exodus to her years living among the Sioux, and her scandalous, short-lived ma...
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Notable American Indians: Indiana & Adjacent States
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Due primarily to a lack of accurate data, little has been written regarding the life histories of individual American Indians. Biographical Indian ...
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Diary of David Zeisberger, a Moravian Missionary Among the Indians of Ohio;: 2
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is...
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A Narrative of the Life of Mary Jemison: The White Woman of the Genessee
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is...
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Early Life Among the Indians: Reminiscences from the life of Benj. G. Armstrong
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /First published in 1892, Early Life Among the Indians is the biography of Benjamin Armstrong, who in 1840 took up his residence in northern Wiscons...
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Joseph Strunka A Ceska Chicago Man's Tale of Resilience
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The story of Joseph Strunka is a window into the Czech immigrant enclaves of Chicago during the first half of the 1900s. Born in 1910, he grew up i...
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African Americans in Minnesota
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /African Americans have had a profound influence on the history and culture of Minnesota from its earliest days to the present. Author David Vassar ...
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Body Geographic
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A memoir from the award-winning author of My Lesbian Husband, Barrie Jean Borich's Body Geographic turns personal history into an inspired reflecti...
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Women Elders' Life Stories of the Omaha Tribe: Macy, Nebraska, 2004-2005
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Eleanor Baxter, Alice Saunsoci, and Hawate (Wenona Caramony) are female elders of the Omaha Tribe in Macy, in the northeast corner of Nebraska. Al...
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The Wongs of Beloit, Wisconsin
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Through family interviews, original photographs, and national records, Beatrice Loftus McKenzie traces the many lives of a resilient multigeneratio...
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Ojibwe, Activist, Priest: The Life of Father Philip Bergin Gordon, Tibishkogijik
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Born in Wisconsin, Philip Bergin Gordon-whose Ojibwe name Tibishkogijik is said to mean Looking into the Sky-became one of the first Native America...
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