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Joseph Mannard
Two Worlds of Ann Gertrude Wightt

Georgetown University Press

The first biography of the remarkable historical figure who challenged perceptions of women's experiences in the early American RepublicIn 1831 Sister Gertrude Wightt, the directress of Georgetown Academy…

lieferbar ab 1.10.2025.

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John Trent
The University of Nevada, 1874-2024

With a foreword by University of Nevada, Reno President Brian SandovalIn October 1874, a small preparatory school opened its doors in the remote northern Nevada town of Elko with an enrollment of seven st…

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Arthur Hylen
Los Angeles Before the Freeways

Los Angeles Before the Freeways: Images of An Era 1850-1950 gives a lush, visual tour of a Los Angeles that no longer exists--one of elegant office buildings and stately mansions that were razed in the na…

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Wayne Soini, Robert Fitzgibbon
Murder in Rockport, Massachusetts

"On May 21, 1932, Arthur Oker, a mild-mannered Finnish tailor, was brutally murdered in his shop in the small seaside town of Rockport, Massachusetts. While this unsolved crime terrified local reside…

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John W Boyer
The University of Chicago

"This institutional history of the University of Chicago, as told by the longtime dean of the college, thoroughly engages with the history and the lived politics of the university. Boyer is both swee…

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DK Super History California Gold Rush

This series explores history through modern topic books that enhance literacy and background knowledge while aligning with the curriculum.DK Super History: California Gold Rush is part of the new DK Super…

lieferbar ab 9.9.2025.

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Clay Bryant
Solving the Murder of Vieng Phovixay

"After a daring escape from certain death in a North Vietnamese prison, followed by years in a refugee camp in Thailand, Savang Phovixay and his family sought safety and a better life in the United S…

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Samuel Western
The Spirit of 1889

In August 1889, the five states that were once part of the Dakota 1861 Territory--North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho--drafted their state constitutions in preparation for inclusion in…

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Joshua Ginsberg
Haunted Orlando

Author Joshua Ginsberg guides intrepid readers on a journey into Orlando's haunted history. More than 70 million people visit Orlando annually. Some travel for pleasure, others come for business, but once…

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Lawrence R Samuel
Making Miami

Making Miami takes a deep dive into the history, growth, and development of the city not just in terms of real estate but also a number of other topics, including the expansion of a transportation and inf…

lieferbar ab 2.9.2025.

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Don Zminda
Justice Batted Last

"On May 1, 1951, Orestes "Minnie" Minoso took the field for the Chicago White Sox and broke the color line for Chicago major league baseball. Ernie Banks integrated the Chicago Cubs two yea…

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Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Frank Thompson
The First Movie Studio in Texas

The story of the Star Film Ranch and its pioneering crew, who created the first "authentic" Westerns filmed in Texas.

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Mark Archuleta
The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr

In 1921 headlines across the country announced the death of Henry Starr, a burgeoning silent film star who was killed while attempting to rob a bank in Harrison, Arkansas. Cynics who knew the real Starr w…

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Brooks Blevins
A History of the Ozarks, Volume 3

Between the world wars, America embraced an image of the Ozarks as a remote land of hills and hollers. The popular imagination stereotyped Ozarkers as ridge runners, hillbillies, and pioneers-a cast of co…

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Matthieu Caron
Montreal After Dark

Montreal After Dark elucidates how nighttime regulation became a central issue in Montreal during the second half of the twentieth century. Labour, dissent, sex, noise, and art, as well as sites of leisur…

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Quebec's Eastern Townships and the World

Quebec's Eastern Townships and the World reveals a region with its own gravity, sense of being, and worldly connections, marked not by its insularity but by its long history as a central meeting ground. C…

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Richard H Tomczak
Workers of War and Empire from New France to British America, 1688-1783

Richard Tomczak puts French-Canadian workers front and centre in this historical account of the feudal labour arrangements that propped up the Canadian colonial state in a pivotal era.

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Shaun Scott
Heartbreak City

How the city's marginalized communities have historically used sports as a tool for resilience and resistance To cities, sports have never been just entertainment. Progressive urbanites across the United …

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Paul N Spellman
Spindletop Boom Days

Spindletop. The word conjures images of Texas oil: roustabouts, roughnecks, oil barons, and endless rows of wooden derricks. The discovery of oil at Spindletop in 1901 revolutionized the oil and drilling …

lieferbar ab 8.12.2025.

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Daniel Macfarlane
The Lives of Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario has materially enabled and enriched the societies that have crowded its edges, from fertile agriculture landscapes to energy production systems to sprawling cities. *The Lives of Lake Ontario…

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