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Black Revolutionaries: A History of the Black Panther Party

Black Revolutionaries: A History of the Black Panther...

Author: Joe Street
ISBN: 9780820366951
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Black Revolutionaries is an accessible yet rigorously argued history of the Black Panther Party (BPP), one of the...  Read More >>

Black Revolutionaries: A History of the Black Panther Party

Black Revolutionaries: A History of the Black Panther...

Author: Joe Street
ISBN: 9780820366944
Format: Hardback
$316.67

Black Revolutionaries is an accessible yet rigorously argued history of the Black Panther Party (BPP), one of the...  Read More >>

Forty Years a Legislator

Forty Years a Legislator

Author: Elmer Thomas ,  Richard Lowitt
ISBN: 9780806194936
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Tears and Flowers: A Poet of Migration in Old Key West

Tears and Flowers: A Poet of Migration in Old Key West...

Author: Feliciano Castro ,  Joy Castro
ISBN: 9780813079134
Format: Hardback
$250.80

A bilingual edition of poetry that provides a unique window into Cuban émigré life. A rare glimpse into the history...  Read More >>

American Castle: The Notorious Legacy of Mar-a-Lago

American Castle: The Notorious Legacy of Mar-a-Lago...

Author: Mary Shanklin
ISBN: 9781635769869
Format: Paperback
$52.77

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From Revolution to Reunion: The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists

From Revolution to Reunion: The Reintegration of the...

Author: Rebecca Brannon
ISBN: 9781643365220
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Investigates the way in which South Carolinians, Patriot and Loyalist, managed to reconcile their bitter differences...  Read More >>

Lost in Austin: The Evolution of an American City

Lost in Austin: The Evolution of an American City

Author: Alex Hannaford
ISBN: 9780063253025
Format: Hardback
$60.00

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Key West: Paradise Found

Key West: Paradise Found

Author: Ellen T. White
ISBN: 9781683343547
Format: Hardback
$61.99

As the ultimate getaway destination in the country, Key West offers visitors picturesque lodging, spas, dining,...  Read More >>

The State of Sequoyah: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Quest for an Indian State

The State of Sequoyah: Indigenous Sovereignty and the...

Author: Donald L. Fixico
ISBN: 9780806194639
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Few people today know that the forty-sixth state could have been Sequoyah, not Oklahoma. The Five Tribes of Indian...  Read More >>

Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them

Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them

Author: Joseph M. Bagley
ISBN: 9781684582815
Format: Paperback
$49.95

A lavishly illustrated look at some of Boston's most historic buildings, now available in a new, updated edition....  Read More >>

The London Year: What to Do and When

The London Year: What to Do and When

Author: Yolanda Zappaterra ,  Sarah Guy
ISBN: 9780711293359
Format: Paperback
$35.00

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Virginia Cider: A Guide from Colonial Days to Craft's Golden Age

Virginia Cider: A Guide from Colonial Days to Craft's...

Author: Gregory J. Hansard
ISBN: 9780813951966
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Your guide to the remarkable history, and ongoing popularity, of cider in the Commonwealth. A cultural phenomenon...  Read More >>

Getting Off at Elysian Fields: Obituaries from the New Orleans Times-Picayune

Getting Off at Elysian Fields: Obituaries from the New...

Author: John Pope
ISBN: 9781496853622
Format: Paperback
$42.90

Collected here are not just simple, mindless recitations of schools and workplaces, marriages, and mourners bereft....  Read More >>

The Great Genesee Road: Traveling through Time on New York State's Historic Route 5

The Great Genesee Road: Traveling through Time on New...

Author: Richard Figiel
ISBN: 9781493075577
Format: Paperback
$51.99

Featuring rich storytelling, generous illustrations, historical and contemporary photographs, and detailed maps...  Read More >>

Struggling to Learn: An Intimate History of School Desegregation in South Carolina

Struggling to Learn: An Intimate History of School Desegregation...

Author: June M. Thomas
ISBN: 9781643365251
Format: Paperback
$60.69

In Struggling to Learn, June Manning Thomas, revisits her life growing up in the midst of the civil rights movement...  Read More >>

The Mobile River

The Mobile River

Author: John S. Sledge
ISBN: 9781643365275
Format: Paperback
$92.37

In the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse, John S. Sledge weaves chronological...  Read More >>

The Charles W. Morgan: The World's Last Wooden Whaleship

The Charles W. Morgan: The World's Last Wooden Whaleship...

Author: Andrew W. German ,  Mystic Seaport Museum
ISBN: 9781493084432
Format: Paperback
$51.99

As America's oldest merchant ship still afloat and the only wooden survivor of the once-vital whaling industry,...  Read More >>

A Republican's Lament: Mississippi Needs Good Government Conservatives

A Republican's Lament: Mississippi Needs Good Government...

Author: Bill Crawford ,  Lloyd Gray
ISBN: 9781496854421
Format: Hardback
$47.30

Bill Crawford thought his modern-day Republican Party would lift Mississippi off the bottom, a notion born of Gil...  Read More >>

Between the Floods Volume 282: A History of the Arikaras

Between the Floods Volume 282: A History of the Arikaras...

Author: Mark van de Logt
ISBN: 9780806194905
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The creation story of the Sahniš, or Arikara, people begins with a terrible flood, sent by the Great Chief Above...  Read More >>

Colonizing Ourselves Volume 5: Tejano Back-to-Mexico Movements and the Making of a Settler Colonial Nation

Colonizing Ourselves Volume 5: Tejano Back-to-Mexico...

Author: José Angel Hernández
ISBN: 9780806194592
Format: Hardback
$118.80

In the late nineteenth century, the Mexican government, seeking to fortify its borders and curb migration to the...  Read More >>

Angles of Atlanta: A Culture of Resilience and Soul

Angles of Atlanta: A Culture of Resilience and Soul...

Author: Desirée James
ISBN: 9781665307765
Format: Hardback
$118.67

Angles of Atlanta introduces the photographic artistic expressions of diasporic photojournalist and street photographer,...  Read More >>

Dynasty Restored: How Larry Bird and the 1984 Boston Celtics Conquered the NBA and Changed Basketball

Dynasty Restored: How Larry Bird and the 1984 Boston...

Author: Thomas J. Whalen
ISBN: 9781538159712
Format: Hardback
$61.99

Dynasty Restored is a fascinating exploration of the dramatic 1983-84 NBA season and the Boston Celtics’ pursuit...  Read More >>

Sweet Success: How Industry, Immigrants, and Working Women Shaped a Town

Sweet Success: How Industry, Immigrants, and Working...

Author: Barbara Pagni Denton
ISBN: 9781631322402
Format: Hardback
$100.32

Sweet Success tells a story, a vivid narrative of a California company town - Crockett - as it evolved in the 20th...  Read More >>

Oxford's War 1939 - 1945

Oxford's War 1939 - 1945

Author: Ashley Jackson (BA, MA, MSt, DPhil)
ISBN: 9781851246137
Format: Hardback
$49.99

An extraordinary account of the unique role that Oxford played in the Second World War, drawn from first-hand narratives...  Read More >>

The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street

The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History...

Author: Annie Gray
ISBN: 9781800812246
Format: Hardback
$55.00

A people's history of the high street  Read More >>

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