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Strike!: Twenty Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers Broke the Law

Strike!: Twenty Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers...

Author: William D. Green
ISBN: 9781517912956
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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Requiem for Reconstruction: Black Countermemory and the Legacy of the Lowcountry's Lost Political Generation

Requiem for Reconstruction: Black Countermemory and...

Author: Robert D. Bland
ISBN: 9781469691879
Format: Paperback
$71.50

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Basques of the American West: New and Collected Essays on History and Ethnicity

Basques of the American West: New and Collected Essays...

Author: Richard W. Etulain
ISBN: 9781647792275
Format: Paperback
$141.90

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Strike!: Twenty Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers Broke the Law

Strike!: Twenty Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers...

Author: William D. Green
ISBN: 9781517913441
Format: Hardback
$145.00

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Making The Met, 1870–2020

Making The Met, 1870–2020

Author: Andrea Bayer ,  Laura D Corey
ISBN: 9781588398062
Format: Hardback
$82.95

This history of The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates its evolution into one of the world's greatest museums...  Read More >>

Three Towns - A Reminiscence: 1938 to 1953 Growing Up in Southern New England During Two Wars - World War Two And Korean War

Three Towns - A Reminiscence: 1938 to 1953 Growing Up...

Author: Theodore B Ted Carter
ISBN: 9798318818714
Format: Hardback
$105.57

Ted Carter grew up along the southern New England coast, spending his formative years in three historic towns of...  Read More >>

A Capital Idea: An Illustrated History of the Capital Hotel

A Capital Idea: An Illustrated History of the Capital...

Author: Steven Weintz
ISBN: 9781682262832
Format: Hardback
$101.20

The Capital Hotel of Little Rock, Arkansas, is uniquely beautiful, with its cast-iron façade and marble lobby, its...  Read More >>

The Blue Friars, Their Sayings And Doings: Being A New Chapter In The History Of Old Plymouth: Being A New Chapter In The History Of Old Plymouth: Being A New Chapter In The History Of Old Plymouth: Being A New Chapter In The History Of Old Plymouth

The Blue Friars, Their Sayings And Doings: Being A New...

Author: W H K Wright
ISBN: 9781637236512
Format: Paperback
$47.49

The Blue Friars is an interestingly layered work that blends antiquarian scholarship with anecdote, satire, and...  Read More >>

Twelve Mormon Homes Revisited: Touring Polygamous Utah with Elizabeth Kane, 1872-1873

Twelve Mormon Homes Revisited: Touring Polygamous Utah...

Author: Lowell C. Bennion
ISBN: 9781647691783
Format: Paperback
$69.99

In Twelve Mormon Homes , first published in 1874, Elizabeth Kane recorded impressions of what she heard and saw...  Read More >>

Seattle Walks: Discovering History and Nature in the City

Seattle Walks: Discovering History and Nature in the...

Author: David B. Williams
ISBN: 9780295753577
Format: Paperback
$38.50

""In this extensively revised version of a modern-day classic, David Williams shines a light on the city's rapidly...  Read More >>

Brown and Blue: Mexican Americans, Law Enforcement, and Civil Rights in the Southwest, 1935–2025

Brown and Blue: Mexican Americans, Law Enforcement,...

Author: Brian D. Behnken
ISBN: 9781469690704
Format: Paperback
$80.99

This sweeping history tells a story of fits and starts of Mexican Americans' interactions with law enforcement and...  Read More >>

An Armorial of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

An Armorial of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round...

Author: Helmut Nickel ,  John & Caitlín Matthews
ISBN: 9781965646632
Format: Hardback
$211.17

Behold the lost heraldry of Camelot-restored, illuminated, and revealed at last. For centuries, the Knights of...  Read More >>

Strive for Insight: Into Your Local, National, and World History

Strive for Insight: Into Your Local, National, and World...

Author: Ted Warren
ISBN: 9780991584772
Format: Hardback
$60.69

Timely, Bold, Accurate. An excellent overview of 250 years of US history. Warren compels the reader to think critically....  Read More >>

The CopperSpoon Chronicles Cookbook: A Tavern-Inspired Adventure with Good Food and Cozy Vibes

The CopperSpoon Chronicles Cookbook: A Tavern-Inspired...

Author: Emily Teuscher
ISBN: 9781510781986
Format: Hardback
$62.99

The first cookbook from the TikTok's very ownThe CopperSpoon Inn & Tavern (@thecopperspoon_)! The CopperSpoon Chronicles...  Read More >>

Legacies of Incarceration: The World War II Experience of Hawai'i's Japanese

Legacies of Incarceration: The World War II Experience...

Author: Kelli Y. Nakamura
ISBN: 9798880700981
Format: Paperback
$71.25

Legacies of Incarceration provides a holistic view of the incarceration experience of Hawaiʻi’s Japanese by exploring...  Read More >>

Bayonets in Paradise: Martial Law in Hawai'i During World War II

Bayonets in Paradise: Martial Law in Hawai'i During...

Author: Harry N. Scheiber ,  Jane L. Scheiber
ISBN: 9798880702411
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Recounts the extraordinary story of how the army imposed rigid and absolute control on the total population of Hawaii...  Read More >>

Indian Chiefs Vs. Government Agents: Politics and Law Enforcement on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, 1875–1910

Indian Chiefs Vs. Government Agents: Politics and Law...

Author: Robert J. Bigart
ISBN: 9781496244369
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Robert J. Bigart examines the Salish and Kootenai tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation between 1875 and 1910,...  Read More >>

Playing to the End: Elder Black Men, Placemaking, and Dominoes in Denver

Playing to the End: Elder Black Men, Placemaking, and...

Author: Steve Bialostok
ISBN: 9781496244710
Format: Hardback
$200.20

Steve Bialostok explores the lively nightly gatherings of older Black men at Denver's Hiawatha Davis Jr. Recreation...  Read More >>

The Immortal Ten: The Definitive Account of the 1927 Tragedy and Its Legacy at Baylor University

The Immortal Ten: The Definitive Account of the 1927...

Author: Todd Copeland
ISBN: 9781481323390
Format: Paperback
$53.99

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Oregon Gold: A History of Mining from the Civil War Into the Progressive Era

Oregon Gold: A History of Mining from the Civil War...

Author: William F. Willingham
ISBN: 9781962645478
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Based on exhaustive research and a wealth of sources--federal census and mining records, newspapers, mining periodicals,...  Read More >>

Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience

Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the...

Author: Brett Olmsted
ISBN: 9780252089008
Format: Paperback
$58.99

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A Frontier Life: Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary

A Frontier Life: Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian...

Author: Todd M. Compton
ISBN: 9781647692711
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Jacob Hamblin has long been one of the most enigmatic figures in Mormon history. In this biography, Todd Compton...  Read More >>

Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest

Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest

Author: Andy Oler ,  José Olivarez
ISBN: 9780252088971
Format: Paperback
$51.99

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Voces Del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico

Voces Del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano...

Author: Ray Hernández-Durán ,  Irene Vásquez
ISBN: 9780826368737
Format: Paperback
$104.00

Long overdue art catalog for the New Mexican Chicano movement of the 1970s. Vibrant art by activist Chicanx creatives...  Read More >>

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