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Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation

Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and...

Author: Samuel Charters ,  Ann Charters
ISBN: 9798874886752
Format: Audio
$158.27

John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life...  Read More >>

Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation

Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and...

Author: Samuel Charters ,  Ann Charters
ISBN: 9798874886745
Format: Audio
$158.37

John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life...  Read More >>

Set the Earth on Fire: The Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 and the Birth of Police as We Know It

Set the Earth on Fire: The Great Anthracite Coal Strike...

Author: David Correia
ISBN: 9798888901304
Format: Hardback
$89.99

An eye-opening account of the Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902, showing how the strike-and the violent backlash...  Read More >>

1000 American History Facts and 101 True Tales: A Journey Through America's Defining Moments and Figures

1000 American History Facts and 101 True Tales: A Journey...

Author: Ahoy Publications
ISBN: 9798892961028
Format: Paperback
$60.69

Discover America's Rich History with Amazing Facts and Stories Two manuscripts in one book: American...  Read More >>

The Feminist Pacific: International Women's Networks in Hawai'i, 1820–1940

The Feminist Pacific: International Women's Networks...

Author: Rumi Yasutake
ISBN: 9780231208536
Format: Paperback
$57.95

The Feminist Pacific examines transnational networks in Hawai‘i beginning in 1820, with the arrival of American...  Read More >>

The American Art-Union: Utopia and Skepticism in the Antebellum Era

The American Art-Union: Utopia and Skepticism in the...

Author: Kimberly A. Orcutt
ISBN: 9781531506995
Format: Paperback
$105.47

The first comprehensive treatment in seventy years of the American Art-Union’s remarkable rise and fall For over...  Read More >>

Telling Blackness: Young Liberians and the Raciosemiotics of Contemporary Black Diaspora

Telling Blackness: Young Liberians and the Raciosemiotics...

Author: Krystal A. Smalls (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
ISBN: 9780197697580
Format: Paperback
$54.95

Telling Blackness looks at the everyday lives of a small group of young Liberians in the US as they make meaning...  Read More >>

Radical Atlas of Ferguson, USA

Radical Atlas of Ferguson, USA

Author: Patty Heyda
ISBN: 9781953368751
Format: Paperback
$89.76

Ferguson, Missouri, became the epicenter of America's racial tensions after the 2014 murder of Michael Brown and...  Read More >>

The Feminist Pacific: International Women's Networks in Hawai'i, 1820–1940

The Feminist Pacific: International Women's Networks...

Author: Rumi Yasutake
ISBN: 9780231208529
Format: Hardback
$232.95

The Feminist Pacific examines transnational networks in Hawai‘i beginning in 1820, with the arrival of American...  Read More >>

Lone Star Mind: Reimagining Texas History

Lone Star Mind: Reimagining Texas History

Author: Ty Cashion
ISBN: 9780806194783
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Classic Diesel Years Northumberland

Classic Diesel Years Northumberland

Author: Paul Shannon
ISBN: 9781840339772
Format: Paperback
$30.92

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Old Shetland Country Life

Old Shetland Country Life

Author: David Pettigrew
ISBN: 9781840339840
Format: Paperback
$30.92

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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
$67.99

The never-before-told story of Project Mayflower--the building of the replica ship docked in Plymouth, Massachusetts--from...  Read More >>

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

Author: Evan Friss
ISBN: 9780593299920
Format: Hardback
$79.20

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ""A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail...  Read More >>

This Stolen Land: A People's History of the Gwent Levels

This Stolen Land: A People's History of the Gwent Levels...

Author: Marsha O'Mahony
ISBN: 9781781727645
Format: Paperback
$25.85

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Telling Blackness: Young Liberians and the Raciosemiotics of Contemporary Black Diaspora

Telling Blackness: Young Liberians and the Raciosemiotics...

Author: Krystal A. Smalls (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
ISBN: 9780197697573
Format: Hardback
$181.95

Telling Blackness looks at the everyday lives of a small group of young Liberians in the US as they make meaning...  Read More >>

Among the Layers of the Land

Among the Layers of the Land

Author: Frank Rennie ,  Fiona Rennie
ISBN: 9781789071603
Format: Paperback
$36.22

Combining fact and fiction, the natural environment is viewed by alternating thoughtful non-fiction pieces and short...  Read More >>

Runaways and the Last of the Guale

Runaways and the Last of the Guale

Author: Jack Anderson
ISBN: 9781959563259
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Inside these pages lies an epic tale, hidden in metaphorical clay vessels, hidden in word of mouth. Set on Tybee...  Read More >>

Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place

Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place

Author: Sandhya Shukla
ISBN: 9780231208475
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Southern Ghost Stories: Knoxville

Southern Ghost Stories: Knoxville

Author: Allen Sircy
ISBN: 9798330313723
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Dive into Knoxville's haunted past with 'Southern Ghost Stories: Knoxville.' Venture into the shadowy corridors...  Read More >>

White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port

White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at...

Author: Kate Storey
ISBN: 9781982159191
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Journalist Kate Storey provides a multigenerational account of the Kennedy family as seen through their Hyannis...  Read More >>

Nobody's Boy and His Pals: The Story of Jack Robbins and the Boys’ Brotherhood Republic

Nobody's Boy and His Pals: The Story of Jack Robbins...

Author: Hendrik Hartog
ISBN: 9780226834351
Format: Hardback
$190.95

An engaging account of social reformer Jack Robbins, the Boys' Brotherhood Republic, and their legacy. In 1914,...  Read More >>

NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement

NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement

Author: Brian C Odom ,  Brian C Odom
ISBN: 9798874886219
Format: Audio
$121.31

American Astronautical Society Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award As NASA prepared for the launch of...  Read More >>

NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement

NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement

Author: Brian C Odom ,  Brian C Odom
ISBN: 9798874886202
Format: Audio
$121.41

American Astronautical Society Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award As NASA prepared for the launch of...  Read More >>

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