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David Brown Morris
Ten Thousand Central Parks

A visionary look at Central Park's creation as an urban success story inspiring bold climate actionClimate change is the existential crisis of our time. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, and …

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Dann J Broyld
Borderland Blacks

Winner of the OHS Fred Landon Award In the early nineteenth century, Rochester, New York, and St. Catharines, Canada West, were the last stops on the Niagara branch of the Underground Railroad. Both citie…

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Sylvia A Bruner
The Wyoming Bomber Crash of 1943

Bomber Mountain's Namesake TragedyJune 1943 saw forty-one heavy bombers lost within the continental United States, including a B-17 that went missing over Wyoming late during the night of June 28. That ai…

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Richard Brust
Chambers V. Florida and the Criminal Justice Revolution

This book explores the history and enduring legacy of Chambers v. Florida, a landmark ruling that banned confessions obtained through mental or physical coercion in criminal trials and contributed to what…

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Richard Brust
Chambers V. Florida and the Criminal Justice Revolution

The history and enduring legacy of a breakthrough case in criminal justice reformIn 1940, the United States Supreme Court decided in Chambers v. Florida to ban confessions obtained through mental or physi…

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Erika Marie Bsumek
The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam

A history of the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam and social imbalances that resulted from it.

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Nicholas Buccola
One Man's Freedom

From the acclaimed author of The Fire Is upon Us, the dramatic untold story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.'s decade-long clash over the meaning of freedom---and how their conflicting vision…

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Mike Bunn, Clay Williams
Settling the Mississippi Territory

The Territory That Built Two StatesThe Mississippi Territory existed as a political entity for nearly two decades. It stretched from the Tennessee border southward to the Gulf of Mexico and was bounded on…

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Flannery Burke
Back East

Western imaginations of "Back East" rewrote America's cultural identity, shaping myths and realities alikeJust as easterners imagined the American West, westerners imagined the American East, re…

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Jim Burnett
Saltgrass Prairie Saga

"Texas during the Civil War period is often viewed through the lenses of military tactics and the state's role in the Confederacy. But what was life like for the families who endured wartime separati…

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Jennifer Burns
Milton Friedman

An Economist Best Book of 2023 | One of The New York Times ' 33 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall | Named a most anticipated fall book by the Chicago Tribune and Bloomberg | Finalist for the 2024 Hayek B…

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Edwin G Burrows, Mike Wallace
Gotham

In this epic, Pulitzer Prize-winning work, Burrows and Wallace have produced a monumental history of New York City--ranging from the Indian tribes that settled the island of Manna-hatta to the consolidati…

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Jonathan Butler
Join the Conspiracy

Dive into the electrifying tale of a Brooklyn-born patriot turned radical activist, in an era when America was torn by its ideological extremesIn the shadow of recent turmoil, Join the Conspiracy transpor…

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Tamera J Buzick, Ronald M James, Michael A Bedeau
Bowers Mansion

Few estates born from the discovery of the Comstock Lode still survive. Among the grandest, Bowers Mansion, dates to the height of the Civil War. The property has a tragic history shrouded in legend, laid…

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Kathleen M Byrd
Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1803-1840

Kathleen M. Byrd's Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1803-1840 is an examination of one French Creole community as it transitioned from a fur-trading and agricultural settlement under the control of Spain to a cri…

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Louis P Cain
Chicago Before the Fire

"An advantageous location and entrepreneurial passion helped fuel Chicago's transformation from a fur trading post to a thriving city. Louis P. Cain's economic history places pre-1871 Chicago within …

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Jeff Campbell
Texas Ukulele

Aloha, Texas!Texas may be famous as the birthplace of both Willie Nelson and western swing, but its thriving ukulele community also boasts a rich heritage. Say howdy to the cowboy who plays ukulele and wa…

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Leigh Campbell-Hale
Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine

Mining the American WestRemembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine examines the causes, context, and legacies of the 1927 Columbine Massacre in relation to the history of labor organizing and coal mi…

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Alfredo E Cárdenas
Duval County Tejanos

Showcases Tejanos engaged in community life: they organized politically, cultivated land, and promoted agriculture, livestock raising, the local economy, churches, schools, patriotic celebrations, and soc…

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Marie Carter
Mortimer and the Witches

UNTAPPED NEW YORK: THE BEST NYC BOOKS OF ALL TIMEThe neglected histories of 19th-century NYC's maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit themUnder the pseudonym Q. K. Phi…

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