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Tampa Bay: The Story of an Estuary and Its People

Tampa Bay: The Story of an Estuary and Its People

Author: Evan P. Bennett
ISBN: 9780813080512
Format: Paperback
$71.15

The largest open water estuary in Florida, Tampa Bay has been a flashpoint of environmental struggles and action...  Read More >>

Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship

Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and...

Author: Omar Valerio-Jiménez
ISBN: 9781469675626
Format: Paperback
$50.60

Addresses the politics of memory by exploring how succeeding generations reinforced or modified earlier memories...  Read More >>

Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South

Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of...

Author: Shannon Eaves
ISBN: 9781469678818
Format: Paperback
$47.30

Unflinchingly investigates how both enslaved people and their enslavers experienced the systematic rape and sexual...  Read More >>

The Violent World of Broadus Miller: A Story of Murder, Lynch Mobs, and Judicial Punishment in the Carolinas

The Violent World of Broadus Miller: A Story of Murder,...

Author: Kevin W. Young
ISBN: 9781469679013
Format: Paperback
$50.60

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From Saloons to Steak Houses: A History of Tampa

From Saloons to Steak Houses: A History of Tampa

Author: Andrew T. Huse
ISBN: 9780813080727
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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On the Trail of Robert the Bruce

On the Trail of Robert the Bruce

Author: David R. Ross
ISBN: 9781913025137
Format: Paperback
$23.26

This text is an illustrated story of Scotland's hero-king and freedom-fighter. The text follows the life of Robert...  Read More >>

More Historic Homes of Waco, Texas

More Historic Homes of Waco, Texas

Author: Kenneth Hafertepe
ISBN: 9781648431180
Format: Hardback
$110.88

As with his first book on the historic homes of Waco, architectural historian Kenneth Hafertepe brings to life the...  Read More >>

100 Years 100 Lumberjacks

100 Years 100 Lumberjacks

Author: Scott Sosebee ,  Perky Beisel
ISBN: 9781622882472
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Stephen F. Austin State Teacher’s College - now Stephen F. Austin State University - opened its doors to students...  Read More >>

The Battles of Fort Watson and Fort Motte, 1781

The Battles of Fort Watson and Fort Motte, 1781

Author: Steven D Smith
ISBN: 9781594164248
Format: Hardback
$73.92

On May 9, 1781, American general Nathanael Greene and his Continental army were outside of British-held Camden,...  Read More >>

Half-Light: Westbound on a Hot Planet

Half-Light: Westbound on a Hot Planet

Author: Amy Kaler (Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta)
ISBN: 9781772127409
Format: Paperback
$54.31

Braiding together personal, collective, and historical explorations of what it means to “go west,” Half-Light offers...  Read More >>

The Lost War for Texas: Mexican Rebels, American Burrites, and the Texas Revolution of 1811

The Lost War for Texas: Mexican Rebels, American Burrites,...

Author: James Aalan Bernsen
ISBN: 9781648431739
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Places a spotlight on division and separatism at a pivotal moment of the ‘second revolution’ of the United States....  Read More >>

Ancient Communities in the Mimbres Valley: Continuity and Change from AD 750 to 1350

Ancient Communities in the Mimbres Valley: Continuity...

Author: Roger Anyon ,  Steven A. LeBlanc
ISBN: 9780816552740
Format: Hardback
$224.40

In the Mimbres Valley of southwestern New Mexico, archaeologists have been working for decades to meticulously excavate...  Read More >>

Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, Its Golden Boy, and the Civil War

Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, Its Golden Boy, and...

Author: Jason K. Friedman
ISBN: 9781643364698
Format: Paperback
$71.25

Delving into the lives of an extraordinary Southern Jewish family, Liberty Street meditates on the uses of memory...  Read More >>

Broadcasting the Ozarks: Si Siman and Country Music at the Crossroads

Broadcasting the Ozarks: Si Siman and Country Music...

Author: Kitty Ledbetter ,  Scott Foster Siman
ISBN: 9781682262511
Format: Paperback
$44.00

Explores the vibrant country music scene that emerged in Springfield, Missouri, in the 1930s and thrived for half...  Read More >>

The German Texas Frontier in 1853 Volume 1: Ferdinand Lindheimer's Newspaper Accounts of the Environment, Gold, and Indians

The German Texas Frontier in 1853 Volume 1: Ferdinand...

Author: Daniel J. Gelo ,  Christopher J. Wickham
ISBN: 9781574419290
Format: Hardback
$92.27

In late 1852, Ferdinand Lindheimer became founding editor of a German-language weekly newspaper for the German settler...  Read More >>

The Ahern Home of Texarkana

The Ahern Home of Texarkana

Author: Doris Douglas Davis ,  Thomas W. Cutrer
ISBN: 9781648431982
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Focused on an early twentieth-century home in Texarkana, Arkansas, Doris Douglas Davis’s The Ahern Home of Texarkana...  Read More >>

Run for Your Lives!: Gender and the Runaway Scrape

Run for Your Lives!: Gender and the Runaway Scrape

Author: Linda English
ISBN: 9781648432194
Format: Hardback
$105.60

In Run for Your Lives! historian Linda English opens a new window into the Runaway Scrape, exploring the events...  Read More >>

King Al: How Sharpton Took the Throne

King Al: How Sharpton Took the Throne

Author: Ron Howell
ISBN: 9781531507299
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The incredible story of the man and legend who has come to symbolize the continuing pursuit of justice for Blacks...  Read More >>

Tampa Bay: The Story of an Estuary and Its People

Tampa Bay: The Story of an Estuary and Its People

Author: Evan P. Bennett
ISBN: 9780813079011
Format: Hardback
$290.40

The largest open water estuary in Florida, Tampa Bay has been a flashpoint of environmental struggles and action...  Read More >>

Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship

Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and...

Author: Omar Valerio-Jiménez
ISBN: 9781469675619
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Addresses the politics of memory by exploring how succeeding generations reinforced or modified earlier memories...  Read More >>

The Violent World of Broadus Miller: A Story of Murder, Lynch Mobs, and Judicial Punishment in the Carolinas

The Violent World of Broadus Miller: A Story of Murder,...

Author: Kevin W. Young
ISBN: 9781469679006
Format: Hardback
$168.30

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Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South

Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of...

Author: Shannon Eaves
ISBN: 9781469678801
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Unflinchingly investigates how both enslaved people and their enslavers experienced the systematic rape and sexual...  Read More >>

The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, The Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age

The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, The Greatest...

Author: Annie Reed
ISBN: 9781635769821
Format: Paperback
$50.13

"Topical Themes: There is no doubt that swindlers are having their moment. From Anna Delvey and Caroline Calloway...  Read More >>

Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier

Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror...

Author: Robert G. Parkinson
ISBN: 9781324091776
Format: Hardback
$57.95

A fundamentally new account of the American frontier, showing that it was defined not by hardy pioneers or imperial...  Read More >>

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