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  • A Right to Read

    Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama's Public Libraries, 1900–1965

    by Patterson Toby Graham ...
    This original and significant contribution to the historiography of the civil rights movement and education in the South details a dramatic and disturbing chapter in American cultural history.The tradition of American public libraries is closely tied to the perception that these institutions are open to all without regard to social background. Such was not the case in the segregated South, however ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • History of the Donner Party

    Enriched edition. A Tragedy of the Sierra

    by C. F. McGlashan, Aiden Eastwood ...
    C. F. McGlashan's "History of the Donner Party" presents a meticulous and poignant chronicle of one of America's most harrowing historical episodes. Written in a detailed narrative style that combines elements of both historical documentation and dramatic storytelling, McGlashan explores the fateful journey of the Donner Party, a group of American pioneers who became trapped by snow in the Sierra ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Building the Skyline

    The Birth and Growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers

    by Jason M. Barr ...
    The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world. But how and why did it form? Much has been written about the city's architecture and its general history, but little work has explored the economic forces that created the skyline. In Building the Skyline, Jason Barr chronicles the economic history of the Manhattan skyline. In the process, he debunks some widely held ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Takilma Tales

    The Hippie History of Takilma, Oregon

    by Susanne Kindi Fahrnkopf ...
    Takilma Tales: The Hippie History of Takilma, Oregon, explores the evolution of a small village near the former town of Waldo; a Gold Rush ghost town, in remote Southwest Oregon. In the 60s and 70s, young hippies flocked to the run-down mining and logging town of Takilma on the edge of the Siskiyou Mountains, which straddle the border between California and Oregon. In that wilderness, the hippies ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Bombs in the Backyard

    Atomic Testing and American Politics

    by A. Constandina Titus ...
    Series series Nevada Studies in History and Pol Sci
    On January 27, 1951, the first atomic weapon was detonated over a section of desert known as Frenchman Flat in southern Nevada, providing dramatic evidence of the Nevada Test Site's beginnings. Fifty years later, author A. Costandina Titus reviews contemporary nuclear policy issues concerning the continued viability of that site for weapons testing. Titus has updated her now-classic study of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • City

    Urbanism and Its End

    by Professor Douglas W. Rae ...
    Series series The Institution for Social and Policy St
    How did neighborhood groceries, parish halls, factories, and even saloons contribute more to urban vitality than did the fiscal might of postwar urban renewal? With a novelist’s eye for telling detail, Douglas Rae depicts the features that contributed most to city life in the early urbanist” decades of the twentieth century. Rae’s subject is New Haven, Connecticut, but the lessons he draws apply ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Reforming Hollywood:How American Protestants Fought for Freedom at the Movies

    How American Protestants Fought for Freedom at the Movies

    by William D. Romanowski ...
    Hollywood and Christianity often seem to be at war. Indeed, there is a long list of movies that have attracted religious condemnation, from Gone with the Wind with its notorious "damn," to The Life of Brian and The Last Temptation of Christ. But the reality, writes William Romanowski, has been far more complicated--and remarkable. In Reforming Hollywood, Romanowski, a leading historian of popular ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • The Cradle of Texas Road

    A Model of Cultural Integration for the Nation

    by Robin Navarro Montgomery, Joy Montgomery ...
    The region north of Houston, Texas, is a cultural enclave of communities and sites distinctive in Texas history. Here, significant contributions to the history of the great state of Texas emerged, along with some of its most noted and distinctive personalities, communities, and historical sites.Thoroughly researched and ambitious in scope, The Cradle of Texas Road explores this region of Texas to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Legends of the Outer Banks and Tar Heel Tidewater

    by Charles Harry Whedbee ...
    From Blackbeard's den at Ocracoke, to the Hills of the Seven Sisters at Nags Head, to the misty swamps of Shallote, there is hardly an inch of territory along North Carolina's coast without a legend attached to it. Inlanders may be skeptical regarding the sometimes miraculous, often horror-filled tales that make up coastal folklore, but Outer Bankers accept the incredible as fact. But this book is ... Read more

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  • Couples Scavenger Hunt – New York City

    by SleuthQuests ...
    If you are looking for a quirky and unusual date in New York City, then this book is perfect for you!This book contains 50 clue-based questions that will send you and your date on a scavenger hunt throughout the city. If you want to add a little bit of history into your relationship, then you won’t want to miss this book! ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Embattled Memories

    Contested Meanings in Korean War Memorials

    by Suhi Choi ...
    The Korean War has been called the “forgotten war,” not as studied as World War II or Vietnam. Choi examines the collective memory of the Korean War through five discrete memory sites in the United States and South Korea, including the PBS documentary Battle for Korea, the Korean War Memorial in Salt Lake City, and the statue of General Douglas MacArthur in Incheon, South Korea. She contends that ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Siskiyou Trail

    The Hudson’s Bay Company’s Route to California

    by Richard Dillon ...
    The Hudson’s Bay Fur Company route to California was the fur trappers’ and traders’ road in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s from Fort Vancouver (now in Washington State) to San Francisco and beyond.Does “road” mean a six-lane paved freeway to you? Turn the calendar back and ponder a path that was rough, stony, precipitous, ill-marked, and full of perils at every turn: disease, famine, attacking ... Read more

    $2.99 USD