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Don Romesburg
Contested Curriculum

Contested Curriculum recounts the fight for LGBTQ-inclusive K-12 history education in the United States. Historian Don Romesburg makes a powerful case for why teaching about LGBTQ lives in schools can hel…

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David Morton
Motion Picture Paradise

This book is a sweeping story of filmmaking in Florida, chronicling the state's importance to producers throughout 125 years by looking at the many iconic films and television shows made across the penins…

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Mary I Unger
Reading the Renaissance

"From 1932 to 1953, during the Black Chicago Renaissance, numerous literary events were held within and for the city's Black community. In book clubs, public forums, print reviews, little magazines, …

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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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Brian Vandemark
Kent State

On 4 May 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protestors wearing bell-bottom jeans and long hair hurled taunts an…

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Marion Ransell Dobbins
The Lost Black Communities of Merrifield, the Pines and Williamstown

After the Civil War, Black landownership in Fairfax County increased by leaps and bounds.By the 1870s, retired Union officers were purchasing land that they sold to African Americans like Joshua Ball, Jos…

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Maurice Jackson
Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience

"In the nation's capital, music and sports have always played a central role in the lives of African Americans and have often served as a barometer for social conflict and social progress. Sports clu…

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Ernesto Sagás
Latino Colorado

Mexican Americans and other Latinos make up more than 22 percent of Colorado's population, play a vital role in its major economic sectors, and are becoming a political force to be reckoned with. Yet most…

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James K Nelsen
Milwaukee Through History

"Milwaukee Through History encourages middle and high schoolers to study the history of their own community and find the links among the individual, the local, and the national communities. The book …

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Milli Knudsen
Murder and Mayhem

"In Murder and Mayhem, veteran author and genealogist Milli Knudsen looks at true crime in New Hampshire. In the rapidly changing world of 1883-1915, criminals and good citizens learned to cope with …

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Mary I Unger
Reading the Renaissance

"From 1932 to 1953, during the Black Chicago Renaissance, numerous literary events were held within and for the city's Black community. In book clubs, public forums, print reviews, little magazines, …

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Scott L Mingus, David Schultz
The Second Day at Gettysburg

On July 2, 1863, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet struck the Union left flank with a blow that collapsed Sickles' advanced position in the Peach Orchard and rolled northward, tearing open a gap in the center of …

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Jonathan Bach
High Desert, Higher Costs

"Nestled against the Cascade Mountains, former lumber town Bend, Oregon, entices residents who long to live in a wonderland of sagebrush and forests. But like so many other communities across the Wes…

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C Brenden Martin
The Most Controversial State Park

The Most Controversial State Parkoffers a unique study of Jekyll Island State Park from the 1940s to the present. Relying on more than sixty oral histories, governors' records, and a variety of archival m…

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Marci Spencer
Cherokee National Forest

Explore the sacred homeland of the Cherokee peopleCreated in 1920, the 650,000-acre Cherokee National Forest lies north and south of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Located in the sacred homeland…

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Don Lago
Canyon and Cosmos

This book "takes readers on a journey through the Grand Canyon's deep time, geological forces, and biological evolution, making them very real, personal, and meaningful. Ranging through world mytholo…

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Ty Bannerman
Nuclear Family

A lyric exploration of the complicated shared legacy of the atomic west through the lens of family history and the aftermath of the Manhattan Project.Ty Bannerman's family came to Los Alamos in 1952 to bu…

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Margaret Lynn Brown
The Wild East

The Wild East explores the social, political, and environmental changes in the Great Smoky Mountains during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This revised edition is updated with information about n…

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Theodore J Karamanski
Great Lake

Looking down from outer space a vast expanse of blue appears in the heart of North America. Of the magnificent chain of inland seas, only one of those bodies of water--Lake Michigan--is entirely within th…

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Alistair Reece, J Mark Stewart
Virginia Cider

Dig into the long history of cider in Virginia--the Old Dominion's original craft beverage.When the adventurers aboard the Susan Constant , Discovery , and Godspeed stepped foot on Virginian soil they bro…

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