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Bruce Chadwick
Creole Rebellion

The Creole Rebellion tells the suspenseful story of the bloody mutiny on board the slave ship Creole . Bound out of Richmond, Virginia, the Creole was seized in a violent takeover by its captives in the m…

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Miriam Chaiken
Creative Ozone

A captivating portrait of Westbeth, the legendary artists' residence that shaped contemporary art, activism, and New York's cultural landscape for over fifty yearsIn 1970, the former Bell Telephone Labora…

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Charles D Chamberlain
New Orleans

"Intended for general readers, Charles D. Chamberlain's New Orleans: A Concise History of an Exceptional City offers a broad, reliable overview of the city's history. Although many excellent books ar…

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Gordon H Chang
War, Race, and Culture

"Writing history, the systematic effort to understand the human past, is a demanding intellectual endeavor. For historian Gordon H. Chang, it has also been a personal and moral enterprise intimately …

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Joyce E Chaplin
The Franklin Stove

A Washington PostNoteworthy Book One of The New Yorker 's Best Books of the Year So Far "[A] richly textured history . . . This story holds numerous lessons for our era." -The New Yorker "F…

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Joyce E Chaplin
The Franklin Stove

A Washington PostNoteworthy Book One of The New Yorker 's Best Books of the Year So Far "[A] richly textured history . . . This story holds numerous lessons for our era." -The New Yorker "F…

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Patricia Chappine
New Jersey Women During World War II

While World War II has long been viewed as a pivotal period that allowed women expanded opportunities in the military and the labor force, locally focused considerations have long been left out of the nat…

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Daniel S Chard
Nixon's War at Home

During the presidency of Richard Nixon, homegrown leftist guerrilla groups like the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army carried out hundreds of attacks in the United States. The FBI had a lo…

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James D Charlet
Shipwreck Rescues of the Outer Banks

Along North Carolina's Outer Banks, where thousands of ships met their doom, the brave surfmen of the U.S. Life-Saving Service braved raging seas, defied death itself, and saved countless lives from certa…

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Erwin Chemerinsky
No Democracy Lasts Forever

The American Constitution has become a threat to American democracy. Due to its inherent flaws Erwin Chemerinsky, has concluded that the nearly 250-year-old founding document can no longer hold. One might…

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Kuan-Jen Chen
Charting America's Cold War Waters in East Asia

Shifting the focus from land to sea when considering the Cold War in East Asia, Kuan-Jen Chen sheds light on the importance of the 'oceanic' lens as a structural imperative in grand strategic thinking. De…

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Robert W Cherny
A Short History of San Francisco

When British explorer George Vancouver arrived at the San Francisco presidio in 1792, he described it as resembling a "compound for cattle"---hardly the opulent outpost he had expected of Spanis…

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Tom Chorneau
Mrs. Cook and the Klan

A true-crime investigation of the 1925 unsolved killing of an Iowa Sunday school teacher and temperance advocate, Mrs. Cook and the Klan explores the confluence of forces that brought the Ku Klux Klan, la…

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Rob Christensen
Southern News, Southern Politics

Newspapers are a tough business, and no one knows that better than Rob Christensen, who was chief political reporter at North Carolina's capital newspaper, the News and Observer , for decades. Here he tel…

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Rob Christensen
The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys

Louisiana had the Longs, Virginia had the Byrds, Georgia had the Talmadges, and North Carolina had the Scotts. In this history of North Carolina's most influential political family, Rob Christensen tells …

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Chris Christie
What Would Reagan Do?

The first narrative nonfiction book from the former New Jersey Governor, former Trump admin official, and current presidential candidate about President Reagan's little known and deeply impactful relation…

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Steven Conn
Americans Against the City

ENG It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, an…

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Steven Conn
The Lies of the Land

A "piercing, unsentimental" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic declin…

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Geoffrey Connor
The Rise of Houston as a Global City

Houston is the largest city in Texas and the fourth largest in the nation. It has long been regarded as the "Energy Capital of the World." Trademarked boasts frequently refer to the "world'…

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David Contosta
The Survival of American Democracy

David Contosta provides a timely, historical analysis of threats to American democracy and how to protect the United States from future abuses of presidential power.Tracing how presidency has changed sinc…

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