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Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball Integration in the Carolinas

Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball...

Author: Chris Holaday
ISBN: 9781469678849
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Offers readers the first book-length history of baseball’s integration in the Carolinas, showing its slow and unsteady...  Read More >>

Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008

Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers...

Author: Jesse Chanin
ISBN: 9781469678214
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Highlights the significant staying power and political, social, and community impact of the United Teachers of New...  Read More >>

Hollywood's Imperial Wars: The Vietnam Generation and the American Myth of Heroic Continuity

Hollywood's Imperial Wars: The Vietnam Generation and...

Author: Armando Jose Prats
ISBN: 9780806193755
Format: Hardback
$118.80

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I Will Tell No War Stories: What Our Fathers Left Unsaid about World War II

I Will Tell No War Stories: What Our Fathers Left Unsaid...

Author: Howard Mansfield
ISBN: 9781493081080
Format: Hardback
$54.99

I Will Tell No War Stories is about undoing the forgetting in a family and in a society that has hidden the horrors...  Read More >>

Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin

Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century...

Author: Sergio M. González
ISBN: 9780252087943
Format: Paperback
$70.99

Hospitality practices grounded in religious belief have long exercised a profound influence on Wisconsin’s Latino...  Read More >>

Journey to the Jones ACT: U.S. Merchant Marine Policy 1776-1920

Journey to the Jones ACT: U.S. Merchant Marine Policy...

Author: Charlie Papavizas
ISBN: 9781962729048
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Charlie Papavizas captures a rich history from the early 17th century English Navigation Acts to the building of...  Read More >>

One Woman's Century: The Collected Essays of Kay Parley

One Woman's Century: The Collected Essays of Kay Parley...

Author: Kay Parley
ISBN: 9781038304896
Format: Hardback
$104.25

A remarkable, one-of-a-kind collection. Filled with insight, anecdotes, and fascinating snapshots from the past,...  Read More >>

In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States

In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant...

Author: Ana Raquel Minian
ISBN: 9780593654255
Format: Hardback
$75.00

"In 2018, many Americans watched in horror as children were torn from their parents at the US-Mexico border under...  Read More >>

A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden

A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad...

Author: Osamah F. Khalil
ISBN: 9780674244221
Format: Hardback
$61.95

In US foreign policy, conflict has replaced diplomacy. At home, wars on crime, drugs, immigration, and terrorism...  Read More >>

Destined to Fail: The Johnson-Gilmor Cavalry Raid Around Baltimore, July 10-13, 1864

Destined to Fail: The Johnson-Gilmor Cavalry Raid Around...

Author: Eric Wittenberg
ISBN: 9781611216196
Format: Hardback
$65.00

The Johnson-Gilmor Raid represents one of three attempts to free prisoners of war during the American Civil War....  Read More >>

The Geopolitics of Culture: James Billington, the Library of Congress, and the Failed Quest for a New Russia

The Geopolitics of Culture: James Billington, the Library...

Author: John Van Oudenaren
ISBN: 9781501775765
Format: Hardback
$150.35

"""Account of James H. Billington's influence on US policy toward Russia in 1987 to 2015 and of Library of Congress...  Read More >>

Mission Manifest: American Evangelicals and Iran in the Twentieth Century

Mission Manifest: American Evangelicals and Iran in...

Author: Matthew K. Shannon
ISBN: 9781501775949
Format: Hardback
$145.07

"""This book is about Presbyterian missionaries, other Americans with ideals, and their Iranian partners during...  Read More >>

The Architects of Toxic Politics in America: Venom and Vitriol

The Architects of Toxic Politics in America: Venom and...

Author: Kenneth T. Walsh
ISBN: 9780367710507
Format: Hardback
$252.00

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Chicagoland Dream Houses: How a Mid-Century Architecture Competition Reimagined the American Home

Chicagoland Dream Houses: How a Mid-Century Architecture...

Author: Siobhan Moroney
ISBN: 9780252045516
Format: Hardback
$285.00

“Chicagoland Dream Houses is an engaging addition to the growing body of scholarship concerning Chicago’s twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Art Music Activism: Aesthetics and Politics in 1930s New York City

Art Music Activism: Aesthetics and Politics in 1930s...

Author: Maria Cristina Fava
ISBN: 9780252045714
Format: Hardback
$201.00

Surrounded by the widespread misery of the Depression, left-leaning classical music composers sought a musical language...  Read More >>

Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City

Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City...

Author: Adam J. Criblez
ISBN: 9781501773938
Format: Hardback
$84.35

"""During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the circumstances facing the New York Knicks of the National Basketball...  Read More >>

A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War-Era Gulf South

A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race...

Author: Maria Angela Diaz
ISBN: 9780820366487
Format: Hardback
$303.47

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Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity

Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational...

Author: Daniel Widener ,  Vijay Prashad
ISBN: 9781478025917
Format: Hardback
$303.47

Daniel Widener expands conceptions of the struggle for racial justice by reframing twentieth- and twenty-first-century...  Read More >>

Have You Got Good Religion?: Black Women's Faith, Courage, and Moral Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement

Have You Got Good Religion?: Black Women's Faith, Courage,...

Author: AnneMarie Mingo
ISBN: 9780252045653
Format: Hardback
$260.00

What compels a person to risk her life to change deeply rooted systems of injustice in ways that may not benefit...  Read More >>

The Green Space: The Transformation of the Irish Image

The Green Space: The Transformation of the Irish Image...

Author: Marion R. Casey
ISBN: 9781479817450
Format: Hardback
$75.99

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Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection: The Legal Culture and Trials, 1794-1795

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection:...

Author: Linda Myrsiades
ISBN: 9780820366265
Format: Hardback
$303.47

Explores the legal culture that informed the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 and its trials. Linda Myrsiades examines...  Read More >>

Korea Letters in the William Elliot Griffis Collection: An Annotated Selection

Korea Letters in the William Elliot Griffis Collection:...

Author: Young-mee Yu Cho ,  Sungmin Park
ISBN: 9781978828797
Format: Hardback
$105.47

"William Elliot Griffis (1843-1928) graduated from Rutgers College in 1869 and taught four years in Fukui and Tokyo....  Read More >>

One Hundred Years: A Brief History of the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment

One Hundred Years: A Brief History of the North Shore...

Author: Bruce Morton
ISBN: 9781777891275
Format: Hardback
$118.80

One Hundred Years chronicles the evolution of the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment from its inception in New...  Read More >>

Breaking Ground: The Inside Story of Chicago's Greek Nursing Home Movement

Breaking Ground: The Inside Story of Chicago's Greek...

Author: John P Psiharis
ISBN: 9798989072422
Format: Hardback
$105.57

"In December, 1982, a handful of Greek Americans gathered for coffee in the back room of the Elysion Restaurant,...  Read More >>

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