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Monoray
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2026-04-16
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At the turn of the twentieth century Colorado's coalfields were the site of the nation's most violent labor conflicts. The remote mountains were home to mining companies that provided workers and their families with supervised housing, education, health care, and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-02-27
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An authoritative history of the radical environmental movement in the United States, No Option But Sabotage explores how far activists are willing to go to defend the planet in the face of repression and the escalating climate crisis.
After 9/11, the radical...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-01-16
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A rich history of cross-racial coalitions and alliances of the Sixties' freedom movement, acclaimed historian Alice Echols's Black Power, White Heat reshapes our understanding of the entire era.
One of the most divisive issues in recent progressive politics has been...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-23
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On March 2, 1945, five Mexican American families and their Jewish American lawyer filed a class-action lawsuit against four school districts in Orange County, California, to end the segregation of ethnic Mexican children. In a shocking decision, the court ruled in favor...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-10
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Discover the meteoric rise of one of the most extraordinary and singular figures in American jurisprudence, Robert H. Jackson, from self-trained lawyer to influential Supreme Court Justice and chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, in this compelling new...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-09-03
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Embark on a captivating photographic journey beyond Earth, from the dawn of human space exploration, through the untold story of the Mercury and Gemini missions'Wickedly exciting' Tom Hanks'Experience the same incredible awe as we astronauts did on those very first...
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Penguin
Parution :
2025-08-28
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The culminating volume in the acclaimed Gotham series, Gotham at War delivers an unforgettable portrait of America's greatest city during history's most catastrophic conflict.
Gotham at War unveils the history of New York and the Second World War, from isolationism and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-27
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Mountain of Paradise challenges conventional taxonomies of world civilizations by introducing a new and formidable candidate: the civilization of Greater California presently incubating as the evolution of California into a veritable «nation-state» or «world...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-07-14
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"McNally masterfully combines many disparate lineages of political, social, art, and pop history into one singular, sweeping portrait. The result is a stunning vision of a broad and powerful idealism that gripped the world for more than two...
Editeur :
Da Capo
Parution :
2025-05-13
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Weaving together poetry, personal narrative, and never-before-seen documents from the Jefferson Lewis Edmonds' family archive, Arianne Edmonds provides a wide-ranging look at how the Black Press of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries defined Black...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-05-05
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A “brilliantly researched and surprising” (Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University) history of Southern segregationists’ long war against interracial relationships, and the century-long fight to restore the freedom to love, marry, and inherit Interracial...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2025-01-28
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The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century. Thirty city blocks were burned to the ground, perhaps 150 died, and the prosperous black community of Greenwood, Oklahoma, was turned to rubble.
Alfred L. Brophy draws on his own...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-01-03
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Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, rooted in an unarticulated patriarchy in the Supreme Court’s historical narrative, represents an untimely expression of deeply religious and conservative hostility towards women. Anti-Dobbs: An Interdisciplinary Polemic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-01-02
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It was perhaps fitting that in an age of industrialization, Americans began to think of the law as a tool, one that could be forged to fit their needs, without regard to the traditional ways of litigating cases in court. Law's Machinery explores how innovators like New...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-12-20
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Historians argue that the years following the Emancipation Proclamation and those immediately after the Civil War were formative years in the trajectory of the United States as a country. So, why then, does this era of history not get the proper attention it deserves in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-12-13
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Trust the power of cognitive science to help students to understand more, remember more and feel more confident about their exams.This textbook is guaranteed to make learning more effective. The approach was created by author and teacher Dale Banham, who has amazing...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2024-10-25
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The Business of Bobbysoxers reconsiders the story of American popular music, celebrity following, and fan behavior during World War II through close examination of “bobbysoxers.” Preserved in popular memory as primarily white, hysterical, teen girl devotees of Frank...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-18
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The migration between Mexico and the United States is the largest emigration of people between two states in modern history. Today, thirty-six million Mexican Americans call the United States home.The Bracero period and recent Mexican migration have been well explored,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-08
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"Talkin’ Greenwich Village is impeccably researched, elegantly written and consistently fascinating."--New York Times "Browne relates the extensive cast of characters and historical events with journalistic clarity and cinematic scope--so much so...
Editeur :
Da Capo
Parution :
2024-09-17
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