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Explore the good, the bad, and the ugly of the United States history Looking for the essentials of more than 200 years of United States history? Starting at the early civilizations, U.S. History For Dummies covers the growing pains of a new nation. Brush up on the major...
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For Dummies
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2025-03-20
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An “essential” (James Oakes, author of The Crooked Path to Abolition) history of the study of slavery in America, from the Revolutionary era to the 1619 Project, showing how these intellectual debates have shaped American public life In recent years, from...
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Basic Books
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2025-03-04
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The term "fundamentalism" has its roots in specific forms of American Protestantism that arose around the turn of the twentieth century in reaction to liberalizing and modernizing trends within the church. In this book, Mark Massa argues that an analogously reactive,...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-02-17
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'Renewed my faith in the human power to resist, imagine and make new, better worlds.’ Susanna Crossman, author of Home Is Where We Start'Compelling' TLS How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, and the persecuted not merely hold on to life but expand its possibilities...
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Vintage Digital
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2025-02-06
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A highly original reinterpretation of how race and class shaped the entirety of Southern history through the experience of four interconnected family lines.
The Southern Fault Line explores the under-appreciated division in the South between the oligarchic rule of...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-02-03
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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
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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...
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Oxford University Press
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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...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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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...
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Oxford University Press
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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...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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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...
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Hodder Education
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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...
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Oxford University Press
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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,...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-10-08
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For most of its existence, the US Supreme Court has sustained slavery, racial discrimination, segregation, racial inequality, and white preference through constitutional interpretation and legal doctrine. During America's first two centuries, slavery was the law of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-10-04
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On July 22, 1847, a group of about forty refugees entered the Salt Lake Valley. Among them were three enslaved men, two of whom shared the religion, Mormonism, that had caused them to flee. The valley was also home to members of the Ute tribe, who would sometimes barter...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-10-04
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"America is the world's biggest haunted house and American Scary is the only travel guide you need. I loved this book." —Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support GroupFrom the...
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Algonquin Books
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2024-10-01
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The definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers. "Impeccably researched, elegantly written and consistently fascinating."...
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Da Capo
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2024-09-17
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The gold standard of American labor history references, updated to include the latest political, social, and economic developments of the 2020s Labor in America: A History, Tenth Edition, is a comprehensive and authoritative discussion of the U.S. labor movement from...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2024-09-04
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A harrowing tale of how political polarization threatens America’s social fabric, told through the differing fates of two communities riven by ideological and partisan battles Donald Trump’s 2016 electoral victory set off a reign of demagoguery and—ten...
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Bold Type Books
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2024-09-03
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Latino USA represents the culmination of Ilan Stavans's lifelong determination to meet the challenges of capturing the joys, nuances, and multiple dimensions ofLatino culture within the context of the English language. In this cartoon history of Latinos, Stavans seeks...
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Basic Books
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2024-09-03
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