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Telling Blackness: Young Liberians and the Raciosemiotics of Contemporary Black Diaspora

Telling Blackness: Young Liberians and the Raciosemiotics...

Author: Krystal A. Smalls (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
ISBN: 9780197697573
Format: Hardback
$181.95

Telling Blackness looks at the everyday lives of a small group of young Liberians in the US as they make meaning...  Read More >>

Among the Layers of the Land

Among the Layers of the Land

Author: Frank Rennie ,  Fiona Rennie
ISBN: 9781789071603
Format: Paperback
$36.22

Combining fact and fiction, the natural environment is viewed by alternating thoughtful non-fiction pieces and short...  Read More >>

Runaways and the Last of the Guale

Runaways and the Last of the Guale

Author: Jack Anderson
ISBN: 9781959563259
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Inside these pages lies an epic tale, hidden in metaphorical clay vessels, hidden in word of mouth. Set on Tybee...  Read More >>

Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place

Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place

Author: Sandhya Shukla
ISBN: 9780231208475
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Southern Ghost Stories: Knoxville

Southern Ghost Stories: Knoxville

Author: Allen Sircy
ISBN: 9798330313723
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Dive into Knoxville's haunted past with 'Southern Ghost Stories: Knoxville.' Venture into the shadowy corridors...  Read More >>

White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port

White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at...

Author: Kate Storey
ISBN: 9781982159191
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Journalist Kate Storey provides a multigenerational account of the Kennedy family as seen through their Hyannis...  Read More >>

Nobody's Boy and His Pals: The Story of Jack Robbins and the Boys’ Brotherhood Republic

Nobody's Boy and His Pals: The Story of Jack Robbins...

Author: Hendrik Hartog
ISBN: 9780226834351
Format: Hardback
$190.95

An engaging account of social reformer Jack Robbins, the Boys' Brotherhood Republic, and their legacy. In 1914,...  Read More >>

NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement

NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement

Author: Brian C Odom ,  Brian C Odom
ISBN: 9798874886219
Format: Audio
$121.31

American Astronautical Society Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award As NASA prepared for the launch of...  Read More >>

NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement

NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement

Author: Brian C Odom ,  Brian C Odom
ISBN: 9798874886202
Format: Audio
$121.41

American Astronautical Society Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award As NASA prepared for the launch of...  Read More >>

An Historical Map of Ripon: Cathedral City and Market Town

An Historical Map of Ripon: Cathedral City and Market...

Author: Mick Stanley ,  Ripon Together
ISBN: 9781838071981
Format: Sheet map
$31.02

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Chicago House Music: Culture and Community

Chicago House Music: Culture and Community

Author: Marguerite L Harrold
ISBN: 9781953368737
Format: Paperback
$63.36

An inside look at the music born, bred, and perfected in Chicago. Chicago house music originated in the city's...  Read More >>

The Hebrides: From the presenter of BBC TV's Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands

The Hebrides: From the presenter of BBC TV's Grand Tours...

Author: Paul Murton
ISBN: 9781780278926
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Paul Murton has spent half-a lifetime exploring some of the most beautiful islands in the world the Hebrides.In...  Read More >>

The Rise of Newport's Catholics: From Colonial Outcasts to Gilded Age Leaders

The Rise of Newport's Catholics: From Colonial Outcasts...

Author: John F. Quinn
ISBN: 9781625347978
Format: Paperback
$86.99

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Purdue University's Ross-Ade Stadium: 100 Greatest Games

Purdue University's Ross-Ade Stadium: 100 Greatest Games...

Author: Cory W Palm
ISBN: 9781467151382
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Give the ball to Leroy,"" the ""Carmel Connection,"" ""Holy Toledo!"" & More Over its century in existence, Ross-Ade...  Read More >>

Haunted Hotels of Michigan

Haunted Hotels of Michigan

Author: Roxanne Rhoads
ISBN: 9781467157858
Format: Paperback
$58.05

From captivating tales of lingering lumber barons to lovelorn ladies and chilling stories of murder, Michigan's...  Read More >>

Devil's Mile: The Rich, Gritty History of the Bowery

Devil's Mile: The Rich, Gritty History of the Bowery...

Author: Alice Sparberg Alexiou ,  Peter Quinn
ISBN: 9781531507268
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Devil's Mile tells the rip-roaring story of New York's oldest and most unique street. The Bowery was a synonym...  Read More >>

Art Monster: On the Impossibility of New York

Art Monster: On the Impossibility of New York

Author: Marin Kosut
ISBN: 9780231216135
Format: Paperback
$42.95

Art Monster takes readers to the margins of the professional art world, populated by unseen artists who make a living...  Read More >>

Indigenous Missourians: Ancient Societies to the Present

Indigenous Missourians: Ancient Societies to the Present...

Author: Greg Olson
ISBN: 9780826223203
Format: Paperback
$79.07

In this path-breaking narrative, Greg Olson presents Missouri’s Indigenous past as one spanning twelve millennia...  Read More >>

Dreams Achieved and Denied: Mexican Intergenerational Mobility

Dreams Achieved and Denied: Mexican Intergenerational...

Author: Robert Courtney Smith ,  Manuel Castro
ISBN: 9780871549419
Format: Paperback
$105.47

U.S.-born Mexicans in New York City have achieved one of the biggest one-generation jumps in mobility in American...  Read More >>

Spooky South: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore

Spooky South: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings,...

Author: S. E. Schlosser ,  Paul G. Hoffman
ISBN: 9781493069903
Format: Paperback
$40.99

A collection of 40 folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous Southern ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers...  Read More >>

The Raging Erie: Life and Labor Along the Erie Canal

The Raging Erie: Life and Labor Along the Erie Canal...

Author: Mark S. Ferrara
ISBN: 9780231216388
Format: Paperback
$39.95

Mark S. Ferrara tells the stories of the ordinary people who lived, worked, and died along the banks of the Erie...  Read More >>

Mr. President, I've Got Your Back!: The First Ladies of South Carolina State University

Mr. President, I've Got Your Back!: The First Ladies...

Author: Abbiegail H Hugine ,  Mary L Smalls
ISBN: 9781958922897
Format: Paperback
$63.25

South Carolina State College was established in 1896 by the state legislature to provide educational opportunities...  Read More >>

When Paper Collar Bandbox Soldiers Fight: A History of the 4th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865

When Paper Collar Bandbox Soldiers Fight: A History...

Author: Philip Hatfield ,  Terry Lowry
ISBN: 9798988902027
Format: Paperback
$79.07

"The 4th Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry stepped into a cauldron of fire and blood during the Civil War....  Read More >>

Gloucester and Cape Ann

Gloucester and Cape Ann

Author: Ryan A McRae
ISBN: 9781467161176
Format: Paperback
$65.97

"Nestled on the island peninsula of Cape Ann on the North Shore of Massachusetts, Gloucester, known as ""America's...  Read More >>

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