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Sarah Gold McBride
Whiskerology

Whiskerology traces how hair became a significant marker of identity and belonging in nineteenth-century America. Viewed during the colonial period as disposable, to be donned or removed like clothing, ha…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lesa Cline-Ransome
Ida B. Wells and the Untold Truth of a Country

In the 1890s, Ida B. Wells documented the horrific lynchings of African-Americans and revealed the untold truths of the U.S. Her legacy as a trailblazing journalist and activist is honored in this definit…

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Carla A Simonini
Traveling Italy, Writing America

Illuminates why Italy continues to captivate the American imagination, connecting classic literature to contemporary memoirs and popular media that still view Italy as a site of transformation, desire, an…

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Carla A Simonini
Traveling Italy, Writing America

Illuminates why Italy continues to captivate the American imagination, connecting classic literature to contemporary memoirs and popular media that still view Italy as a site of transformation, desire, an…

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Sean Teuton, Who Hq,
What Was the Trail of Tears?

Learn about one of the worst tragedies in American history: the Indian Removal Act of 1830.From 1838 to 1839, thousands of people from the Cherokee Nation and other Indigenous tribes were forced off their…

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Sean Teuton, Who Hq,
What Was the Trail of Tears?

Learn about one of the worst tragedies in American history: the Indian Removal Act of 1830.From 1838 to 1839, thousands of people from the Cherokee Nation and other Indigenous tribes were forced off their…

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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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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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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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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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Allyson Nadia Field
Acts of Love

"This book doesn't just fill gaps in film history; it demands that we confront why those gaps existed in the first place. A fascinating read for lovers of film."--Ava DuVernayThe rediscovery of…

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Paul Vandevelder
Kicking the Loose Stones Home

Beyond the flinty glitz of a Hollywood-imagined American West of two-dimensional characters are the town of Taos, New Mexico, at the intersection of the mystical and the rational; tide pools on the remote…

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