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Alcatraz: The Last Escape

Alcatraz: The Last Escape

Author: Ken Widner ,  Mike Lynch
ISBN: 9781493081233
Format: Paperback
$60.99

When Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin boldly escaped from Alcatraz prison on June 11, 1962, it...  Read More >>

Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden...

Author: Laura F. Edwards (Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of American Law and Liberty, Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of American Law and Liberty, Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780197760406
Format: Paperback
$48.95

Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as...  Read More >>

The University of South Carolina Trivia Book

The University of South Carolina Trivia Book

Author: Elizabeth Cassidy West
ISBN: 9781493074495
Format: Paperback
$46.99

The University of South Carolina Trivia Book features a wealth of new and recent facts, with over 700 questions...  Read More >>

The Princeton University Trivia Book

The Princeton University Trivia Book

Author: Helene van Rossum ,  Daniel J. Linke
ISBN: 9781493074303
Format: Paperback
$46.99

The quintessential source of information about Princeton, one of the world's most respected universities, with more...  Read More >>

The University of Central Florida Trivia Book

The University of Central Florida Trivia Book

Author: Mary A. Rubin
ISBN: 9781493075515
Format: Paperback
$46.99

The quintessential source of information about the University of Central Florida, one of the nation's largest and...  Read More >>

The Washington Apple Volume 7: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture

The Washington Apple Volume 7: Orchards and the Development...

Author: Amanda L. Van Lanen
ISBN: 9780806193984
Format: Paperback
$71.15

How did Washington become the leading producer of America’s most popular fruit? In this enlightening book, Amanda...  Read More >>

The Prince of Pirates

The Prince of Pirates

Author: E H Casteele
ISBN: 9798990418318
Format: Paperback
$44.85

In 1984, a discovery was made off the coast of Massachusetts that rocked the world of nautical archaeology. The...  Read More >>

Folklore of Lake Erie

Folklore of Lake Erie

Author: Judith S. Neulander
ISBN: 9780253069788
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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Publishing Plates: Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture

Publishing Plates: Stereotyping and Electrotyping in...

Author: Jeffrey M. Makala
ISBN: 9780271094045
Format: Paperback
$71.99

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Commanding Old Ironsides: The Life of Captain Silas Talbot

Commanding Old Ironsides: The Life of Captain Silas...

Author: William M. Fowler Jr., Recipient of the 2023 Commodore Dudley W. Knox Naval History Lifetime Achie ,  Anne Grimes Rand
ISBN: 9781493077885
Format: Paperback
$50.99

In a full and energetic life, Silas Talbot went to sea, fought in the Revolutionary War, speculated in western lands,...  Read More >>

Chicana Liberation: Women and Mexican American Politics in Los Angeles, 1945-1981

Chicana Liberation: Women and Mexican American Politics...

Author: Marisela R. Chávez
ISBN: 9780252087813
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Mexican American women reached across generations to develop a bridging activism that drew on different methods...  Read More >>

Associated Labor and Production in the Age of Barbarism: Education Beyond Capital

Associated Labor and Production in the Age of Barbarism:...

Author: Henrique Tahan Novaes
ISBN: 9783031511820
Format: Hardback
$316.77

The book focuses on different practices of associated labor in Brazil and Argentina, in the case of the workers’...  Read More >>

Why the Nineties Matter

Why the Nineties Matter

Author: Terry H. Anderson (Professor of History, Professor of History, Texas A&M University)
ISBN: 9780197763018
Format: Hardback
$52.95

An entertaining and deeply insightful history of a decade that matters more than we think: the 1990s. Nearly a quarter...  Read More >>

The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery

The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of...

Author: Randy M. Browne
ISBN: 9781512825862
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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Folklore of Lake Erie

Folklore of Lake Erie

Author: Judith S. Neulander
ISBN: 9780253069771
Format: Hardback
$154.99

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American Farming Culture and the History of Technology

American Farming Culture and the History of Technology...

Author: Joshua T. Brinkman
ISBN: 9781032637907
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Presenting a history of agriculture in the American Corn Belt, this book argues that modernization occurred not...  Read More >>

My Presidential Life: The Showdown at Putin's Dacha and Other Misadventures on the Diplomatic Road

My Presidential Life: The Showdown at Putin's Dacha...

Author: Judd Swift
ISBN: 9781493081486
Format: Hardback
$60.99

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How America Gets the News: A History of U.S. Journalism

How America Gets the News: A History of U.S. Journalism...

Author: Ford Risley ,  Ashley Walter
ISBN: 9781442235267
Format: Hardback
$70.99

This concise history of American journalism introduces readers to the news media from the first colonial newspapers...  Read More >>

Project Mayflower: Building and Sailing a Seventeenth-Century Replica

Project Mayflower: Building and Sailing a Seventeenth-Century...

Author: Richard A. Stone ,  James W. Baker
ISBN: 9781493084364
Format: Hardback
$55.99

The never-before-told story of Project Mayflower--the building of the replica ship docked in Plymouth, Massachusetts--from...  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: 9780252045844
Format: Hardback
$295.00

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

The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 8: American Fiction since 1940

The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 8:...

Author: Cyrus R. K. Patell (Professor of English, New York University) ,  Deborah Lindsay Williams (Clinical Professor of Liberal Studies, New York University)
ISBN: 9780192844729
Format: Hardback
$260.95

An overview of US fiction since 1940 that explores the history of literary forms, the history of narrative forms,...  Read More >>

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