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Monoray
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2026-04-16
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In this fascinating book, the first ever published on The Patty Duke Show (1963-66), Caryl Flinn and Dana Polan examine the significance of this classic US sitcom within popular culture and within American society at the time. Child acting sensation Patty Duke plays the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-04-14
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A gripping story that reveals what happened to a small American town when an influential white nationalist group relocated its headquarters there, illustrating how radical changes in American politics impact our psyches and divide our communities. “A timely and...
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Bold Type Books
Parution :
2026-04-07
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Tracing the moments after its creation, this groundbreaking book follows how news of the Declaration of Independence spread to people throughout the thirteen United States and the Atlantic world.
In 1776 people could hear the Declaration of Independence proclaimed in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-03-17
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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...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-02-27
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The groundbreaking guide to trans history in America, revised and updated for a new political era.Transgender History is the modern classic on transgender life in America since the nineteenth century, encompassing the major movements, writings, and events that shape...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2026-02-03
ePub
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The stock market crash of 1929 didn’t cause the great depression by itself, but it is a powerful symbolic starting point to the greatest economic disaster of the twentieth century. On that dark day in october 1929, fortunes were lost and fear of financial insecurity...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
Parution :
2026-02-04
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Meet the man who couldn’t be killed—even when poisoned, frozen, and gassed. Discover how flour sacks became fashion statements. Witness a piano marathon that lasted over 100 days, a chain letter craze that fooled millions, and two brothers who turned their harlem home...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
Parution :
2026-01-26
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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...
Editeur :
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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Though never more than a tiny percentage of the population, Jews have been persistent--if perplexing--participants in the American community at least since they first arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654. This volume creates a vibrant dialogue among the varied approaches to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-24
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By the early 1850s, the former slave James W.C. Pennington had become an internationally prominent African American minister, abolitionist and reformer. With its scathing analysis of the chattel system, gripping account of his escape, and inspirational story of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-11
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The forgotten life and complex legacies of Wakara, the mighty, once-notorious Native leader whose battles and conquests shaped the American West “A sobering reassessment of the history of the Great Basin and locates the disruptive and violent influences of...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2025-11-04
ePub
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“A devastating, passionate takedown of Chief Justice John Roberts's Supreme Court by a Washington insider.” —Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money In the last twenty years the US Supreme Court has radically curtailed voting rights, undermined...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2025-09-30
ePub
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The idea of self-determination is one of the most significant in modern international politics. For more than a century diplomats, lawyers, scholars, activists, and ordinary people in every part of the globe have wrestled with its meaning and implications for...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-09-30
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Popular representations of history tend to meet the moral demands of the present. Before the social crises of the postwar era began to influence Jews' thinking and at a time when global antisemitism posed the most obvious threat to their continuity and survival, Jews in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-09-23
ePub
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Historical perspective shows that concerns about the "kids these days" are as old as civilization itself. Today's young people are healthier than in the past and less likely to drink, smoke, or engage in reckless sex. The digital age has enabled them to learn, grow, and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-09-18
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From “one of our most prodigious constitutional scholars” (Jonathan Eig), the definitive history of how the ideal of birth equality reshaped the American Constitution, from antebellum debates over slavery and secession, to the Civil War and emancipation, to...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2025-09-16
ePub
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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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