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Heart Mountain Chronicles: The History of a Japanese Relocation Center

Heart Mountain Chronicles: The History of a Japanese...

Author: Bernard Murphy ,  James Murphy
ISBN: 9781733489720
Format: Paperback
$95.04

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The Amusement Park at Sloan's Lake: The Lost History of Denver's Manhattan Beach

The Amusement Park at Sloan's Lake: The Lost History...

Author: David Forsyth
ISBN: 9781493076970
Format: Paperback
$50.99

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Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War

Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and...

Author: Dr Edda L Fields-Black ,  Machelle Williams
ISBN: 9798874709693
Format: Audio
$158.27

The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original...  Read More >>

Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain: Networks, Power, and Everyday Life

Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain: Networks, Power,...

Author: Saara Kekki
ISBN: 9780806193908
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Timely in its implications for debates over immigration and assimilation, Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain presents...  Read More >>

Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860

Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest...

Author: Michael J. Alarid
ISBN: 9780826366252
Format: Paperback
$79.07

In this groundbreaking study, historian Michael Alarid examines New Mexico's transition from Spanish to Mexican...  Read More >>

Legend & Lore of the Lost Adams

Legend & Lore of the Lost Adams

Author: John Lemay
ISBN: 9781953221193
Format: Paperback
$52.77

For years, the tale of a group of miners who found a hidden canyon of gold only to be massacred by the Apache was...  Read More >>

California Gold: Sidney Robertson and the WPA California Folk Music Project

California Gold: Sidney Robertson and the WPA California...

Author: Catherine Hiebert Kerst ,  Library of Congress
ISBN: 9780520391314
Format: Hardback
$57.95

California Gold offers a compelling cultural snapshot of a diverse California during the 1930s at the height of...  Read More >>

To Risk It All: General Forbes, the Capture of Fort Duquesne, and the Course of Empire in the Ohio Country

To Risk It All: General Forbes, the Capture of Fort...

Author: Michael McConnell
ISBN: 9780822967262
Format: Paperback
$71.28

While most histories of the time period include the Forbes Campaign as an aside, McConnell documents how and why...  Read More >>

Class-Conscious Coal Miners: The Emergence of a Working-Class Movement in Central Pennsylvania

Class-Conscious Coal Miners: The Emergence of a Working-Class...

Author: Alan J. Singer
ISBN: 9781438497716
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Multifaceted study of Pennsylvania's coal miners during the post-World War One era.  Read More >>

Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries

Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s...

Author: Davida Siwisa James
ISBN: 9781531506148
Format: Hardback
$68.99

Explores four centuries of colonization, land divisions, and urban development around this historic landmark neighborhood...  Read More >>

Tent City, Seattle: Refusing Homelessness and Making a Home

Tent City, Seattle: Refusing Homelessness and Making...

Author: Tony Sparks
ISBN: 9780295752617
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Transforms our understanding of being unhoused in the United States Tent City 3 provides Seattle’s unhoused people...  Read More >>

Guidelines for Conducting California Standardized Regulatory Impact Assessments

Guidelines for Conducting California Standardized Regulatory...

Author: David Metz ,  Benjamin M Miller
ISBN: 9781977412553
Format: Paperback
$47.52

""Sponsored by the California Department of Industrial Relations""  Read More >>

The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930

The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration...

Author: John Bardes
ISBN: 9781469678177
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders inflicted...  Read More >>

Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton...

Author: Kathryn Olivarius
ISBN: 9780674295551
Format: Paperback
$38.95

In antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were...  Read More >>

Citizen Carl: The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge, and Invented the Parking Meter

Citizen Carl: The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot...

Author: Jack McElroy
ISBN: 9780826365767
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Educator, lawyer, editor, inventor, entrepreneur, and civic booster, Carl Magee helped shape New Mexico and Oklahoma...  Read More >>

Hell Put To Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

Hell Put To Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and...

Author: Earl Swift
ISBN: 9780063265387
Format: Hardback
$65.00

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes a gripping new work of narrative...  Read More >>

Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate

Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery,...

Author: Jared Ross Hardesty
ISBN: 9781479830985
Format: Paperback
$47.99

""Mutiny on the Rising Sun is a deeply human history of smuggling that demonstrates how interconnected the future...  Read More >>

One Thousand Days: Northern Vermont, 1970s

One Thousand Days: Northern Vermont, 1970s

Author: Bob Verneuille
ISBN: 9781637775639
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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Along McIntyre Road

Along McIntyre Road

Author: Mary Ann (Cooper) Smith ,  Jerome Smith
ISBN: 9781662897726
Format: Hardback
$60.69

A small rural village in Eastern Ohio called McIntyre is bursting with rich history and culture. Mary Ann (Cooper)...  Read More >>

Carolina Currents, Studies in South Carolina Culture: Volume 1. New Directions

Carolina Currents, Studies in South Carolina Culture:...

Author: Christopher Johnson
ISBN: 9781643364636
Format: Paperback
$65.97

The first in a collection of essays and book reviews devoted to vital aspects of South Carolina history and culture....  Read More >>

It Happened on the Mackinac Bridge

It Happened on the Mackinac Bridge

Author: Mike Fornes ,  Lawrence Rubin
ISBN: 9781467161480
Format: Paperback
$65.97

"The Mackinac Bridge has seen it all since opening in 1957, and it continues to stand tall, thanks to the close-knit...  Read More >>

Woodland Cemetery in Des Moines: A History

Woodland Cemetery in Des Moines: A History

Author: Mary Christopher ,  Mike Rowley
ISBN: 9781467154291
Format: Paperback
$65.97

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Pueblo

Pueblo

Author: Victoria Miller
ISBN: 9781467161312
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Located at the confluence of the Arkansas River and Fountain Creek, Pueblo, Colorado, began as a trading post but...  Read More >>

White Ice: Race and the Making of Atlanta Hockey

White Ice: Race and the Making of Atlanta Hockey

Author: Thomas Aiello
ISBN: 9781621908357
Format: Hardback
$145.20

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