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Ralph Brauer
The Age of Discontent

This revisionist view of late-nineteenth-century history credits Main Street, not Wall Street, with laying the foundations of modern AmericaIn American history, the prevailing narratives of the tumultuous…

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Jeremy B Jones
Cipher

In the 1800s, Appalachian farmer and rogue William Prestwood kept salacious coded diaries, leaving his descendent, Jeremy Jones, to reflect on his complicated legacy.In 1975, a man stumbled upon a box of …

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Edward G Gray
Mason-Dixon

"Deeply researched and highly readable." -Eric Foner, Times Literary Supplement"A rich history of regional distinctions, especially as they shaped the antebellum Republic." -Kirkus Rev…

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Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn,
The Shochet (Vol. 2)

This unique book is the memoirs of a kosher slaughterer, a Jewish functionary, who lived in Ukraine and Crimea from the middle of the nineteenth century until the First World War. For the first time, it g…

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Beth Lew-Williams
John Doe Chinaman

A revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday lives of Chinese people in the American West-and of those who negotiated, circumvented, and resisted discrimination.Legal discrimination agai…

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Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn,
The Shochet (Vol. 2)

"A fitting conclusion to a well-researched and meticulously edited memoir translation." -- Kirkus Reviews"You have to read this book... It's not like anything you read before." -- Tabl…

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Richard Parker
The Crossing

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year "'American history did not begin in the Northeast. It began in the Southwest,' Parker asserts, in this sweeping history." ---The New YorkerA revelatory history…

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Michael Hiltzik
Golden State

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Superb. Hiltzik makes a compelling case that California is the heartbeat of our nation."---Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring RevolutionFrom…

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Jennifer Wright
Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2025 PICK From the author of Madame Restell and Get Well Soon, a biography of Mamie Fish that explores how women used parties and social gatherings to gain power an…

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Thomas Jefferson,
Jefferson on Race

From The New York Times --bestselling and Pulitzer Prize--winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson's writings on race that every American should readA…

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A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Eighteenth Century

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies?This volume traces the evolution of the genre over the period known as th…

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Heather M. Herrman
The Corpse Queen

Penguin Young Readers Group

In this twisty feminist historical thriller set in the 1850s, a teenage grave robber quickly becomes entangled in a murderer's plans. Now in paperback! "Deliciously macabre and utterly decadent."…

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Daniel Rood
In the Shadow of the Great House

We imagine the plantation-the big house, the slave quarters, the vast cotton fields-as situated firmly in the American past. Yet as historian Daniel Rood shows, the plantation is still very much with us. …

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N H Senzai,
Prince Among Slaves

The extraordinary and consequential biography of Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori, a Muslim West African prince turned enslaved plantation worker, and his lifelong fight to be free and return home.In 1762, Pr…

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James Willard Schultz
Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park

In 1877 Schultz went to Montana for the summer to buffalo hunt. He ended up staying and joining the Blackfeet tribe. He wrote stories that faithfully recorded their culture. These great legends of the Bla…

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Felipe Galindo Feggo,
History Comics: Ellis Island

"Many Americans know someone who can trace their ancestry through Ellis Island. In addition to being part of the world-famous Statue of Liberty National Monument, this modest-sized piece of land once…

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Felipe Galindo Feggo,
History Comics: Ellis Island

"Many Americans know someone who can trace their ancestry through Ellis Island. In addition to being part of the world-famous Statue of Liberty National Monument, this modest-sized piece of land once…

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Seth Rockman
Plantation Goods

A Pulitzer Prize finalist in History, this eye-opening rethinking of nineteenth-century American history reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor.The industr…

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Lauren Tarshis,
I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (Special Edition: I Survived #1)

A stunning special edition of the first book in Lauren Tarshis's action-packed New York Times bestselling I Survived series, featuring 80 pages of all-new, full-colour bonus content!This special edition p…

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Nancy K Williams
Colorado Outlaws & Lawmen

Taming a Tumultuous TerritoryHollywood westerns of the twentieth century brought a history of raucous frontier justice to life, but 1800s Colorado was anything but fiction. Bandits held up the Denver and …

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