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Daniel T. Fleming
Living the Dream

Living the Dream tells the history behind the establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the battle over King's legacy that continued through the decades that followed. Creating the first national ho…

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Denis Fleming
Thomas Jefferson and the Kentucky Constitution

A Major Influence in Kentucky LifeFounding Father Thomas Jefferson had a strong but little-known connection with the constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He had personal and politically motivated…

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Julia Flint
We Were Promised

"Karen "Momma K" Gorrell did not consider herself to be an activist. But when those she cared about were wronged, she refused to remain silent. With the economy still reeling from the Great…

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Nancy Foner
Immigration

American history is, in part, a history of immigration - of waves of people from other lands making their way to America's shores. That extraordinary history is at the heart of this book by Nancy Foner, o…

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Nancy Foner
Immigration

American history is, in part, a history of immigration - of waves of people from other lands making their way to America's shores. That extraordinary history is at the heart of this book by Nancy Foner, o…

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Blake Fontenay
Saving Stuart, Florida

It was a common story in the 1980s: downtowns were dying.Stuart was right there with the ill-fated. Businesses had largely abandoned Stuart's historic buildings, leaving the streets deserted. The St. Luci…

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Zachary G Ford
Murder at the National Cathedral and Other Historic D.C. Crimes

Washington, D.C. saw its share of grim murders in the mid-twentieth century. From a love triangle gone wrong to an unknown killer on the loose, there was no shortage of sensationalized headlines keeping r…

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Damon L Fordham
Black Folk Tales and Chronicles of South Carolina

Throughout history, African Americans passed along folk tales to ease burdens and make sense of experiences. Tracing back to West Africa, this storytelling tradition provided laughter, instruction and res…

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William L Fox
Envoy to the Archives

How a pioneering manuscript librarian and intellectual uncovered buried records that reshaped America's pastAs the London-based agent of the US Library of Congress, Ruth Anna Fisher (1886--1975) profoundl…

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William L Fox
Envoy to the Archives

How a pioneering manuscript librarian and intellectual uncovered buried records that reshaped America's pastAs the London-based agent of the US Library of Congress, Ruth Anna Fisher (1886--1975) profoundl…

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Robert M Frame III
Making Mill City

A richly illustrated history of the flour factories that transformed the milling industry worldwide---and forever changed the culture and architecture of MinneapolisAmong the most consequential advances o…

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Max Fraser
Hillbilly Highway

"Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the i…

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Max Fraser
Hillbilly Highway

"The best book to explain the world J. D. Vance came from is Max Fraser's Hillbilly Highway."-Jessica Wilkerson, author of To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements fo…

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Suzanne Warwick Freeman
Hidden History of Burnet County

A beloved watchmaker, a reluctant politician and a legendary Texas Ranger.The legacy of Burnet County rises from a solid prehistoric batholith of pink granite that built the state capitol, established an …

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Tom Fucoloro
Biking Uphill in the Rain

Finalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction The rise of an improbable bike culture in the Emerald City Seattle was recently named the best bike city in the United States by Bic…

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Lindsay Fullerton
Ephemeral City

"Less celebrated than the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the 1933-1934 Century of Progress Exposition brought visitors face-to-face with gleaming American consumerism in the midst of the Great Depression…

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John Ganz
When the Clock Broke

A TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR - THE WASHINGTON POST ¿THE NEW REPUBLIC ¿AIR MAIL ¿SLATEPUBLISHERS WEEKLY - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAROBAMA'S SUMMER READING ¿ THE BOSTON GLOBE ¿ MOTHER JONES ¿ CHICAGO TRIBUNE ¿ L…

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Carol R Gardner
The Divided North

Reuben Ruby and Nathaniel Gordon II were born eleven months apart in 1798 and 1799 and spent much of their boyhoods roaming the noisy, bustling waterfront of Portland, Maine. They lived just blocks from o…

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Carol R Gardner
The Divided North

Reuben Ruby and Nathaniel Gordon II were born eleven months apart in 1798 and 1799 and spent much of their boyhoods roaming the noisy, bustling waterfront of Portland, Maine. They lived just blocks from o…

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Richard Garver
New England Metropolis

At the start of the nineteenth century, Boston was at its zenith as a maritime city even as New England was in decline. Many struggling farmers abandoned the area for more promising opportunities to the w…

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