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Gerald van Dusen
Detroit's Lost Stove Industry

Casting a legacyLong before automobiles made Detroit the Motor City, the city boasted a flourishing and diverse industrial economy, albeit on a more modest scale. Among the myriad industries that defined …

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Natalie Dykstra
Chasing Beauty

The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner---creator of one of America's most stunning museums---an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella'…

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Steven C. Eames
Rustic Warriors

The early French Wars (1689-1748) in North America saw provincial soldiers, or British white settlers, in Massachusetts and New Hampshire fight against New France and her Native American allies with minim…

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Alice Echols
Black Power, White Heat

A rich history of cross-racial coalitions and alliances of the Sixties' freedom movement, acclaimed historian Alice Echols's Black Power, White Heat reshapes our understanding of the entire era.One of the…

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Patrick G. Eddington
The Triumph of Fear

A history with surprising new revelations about the depths of government surveillance and constitutional rights abusesIn the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, anarchist and socialist political movements…

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Justene Hill Edwards
Savings and Trust

In the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman's Bank. African Americans envisioned this new bank as a launching pad for e…

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Marc Egnal
Challenging the Myths of Us History

A provocative, critical take on the traditional narrative of US history--and a call to reimagine America's past.According to textbooks, the media, and politicians of all stripes, the story of the United S…

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Jon Elster
America Before 1787

An original account, drawing on both history and social science, of the causes and consequences of the American RevolutionWith America before 1787, Jon Elster offers the second volume of a projected trilo…

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Melvin Patrick Ely
A Terrible Intimacy

From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a revelatory new account of slavery, uncovering a surprising web of relationships between Black and white people that ranges far beyond the familiar template of &q…

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Gregory Enns
Cow Creek Chronicles

A boom-to-bust generational saga of a pioneer family and their cattle empireCattle ranching has long been a major force in Florida, covering over 12 percent of the state's lands. In Cow Creek Chronicles, …

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Chris Enss
Meet the Kellys

Gangsters. Lovers. Legends. Meet the Kellys---the bootlegging, bank-robbing, husband-wife duo known as "Machine Gun" Kelly and Kathyrn Thorne---who masterminded one of the most infamous kidnappi…

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Dominic Erdozain
To Love a Country

On the eve of America's 250th anniversary comes a groundbreaking history of patriotism and the question of how to love a country.American patriotism is a love that kills. From the nation's earliest days, …

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Mary Eyring
Saltwater

Death is easy to locate in the archives of early America. Grief is not so easily pinned down. Yet it was a near constant companion for the men and women that settled in what is now New England. Their live…

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Daniel Faas
The Granger Railroads of Wisconsin

A contest between grassroots activism and corporate greedIn one of the great political and economic movements of the nineteenth century, a fraternal organization of Midwest farmers permanently changed the…

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Amy Erdman Farrell
Intrepid Girls

When eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean girls. Shy by nature, she dreaded her long, unhappy days at…

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Peter Fay, Valerie J Southern
A Peaceful Patch of Earth

In Jamestown, a thriving Black community took root far earlier, in the late 19th century. A Peaceful Patch of Earth explores their remarkable journey in a time marked by racial turbulence in America.The s…

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Kevin L Ferguson, Melissa Lenos
Generation X

"This all-in-one resource provides an illuminating overview of Generation X and its enduring impact on American life in such realms as music, television and film, literature, advertising, and societa…

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Christopher Finan
Freedom of Speech

An essential look at how, throughout American history, the powerless have exercised their 1st Amendment right to free speech, informing how we can defend democracy today. "Great storytelling about th…

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Moira Fitzgibbons
Drawn by the River

Places comics studies in lively dialogue with landscape art and regional studies to shed new light on the Hudson River Valley as an artistic, social, cultural, and natural environment. Drawn by the River …

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Kevin C. Fitzpatrick
Dorothy Parker's New York

Walk in the footsteps of Dorothy Parker and explore her world.Taking the reader through the New York that inspired, and was in turn inspired by, the formidable Dorothy Parker, the third revised edition of…

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