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Carolina Beach Music Compilation Albums

The Stories Behind the AlbumsCarolina beach music--those often-soulful songs about the beach, parties, that special love, dancing or just relaxing in the sun--has long been a mainstay of culture in the So…

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Erin Riley
The Mighty Wmmr

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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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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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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

The stories of the Black men and women who combated racial prejudice in Washington, DC, with sports and musicIn the Nation's Capital, music and sports have played a central role in the lives of African Am…

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Dana Berry Frazee
Beyond the Bataan Death March

K. L. (Kearie Lee) Berry was a star athlete at the University of Texas at Austin from 1912 to 1916, playing on the undefeated national championship football team of 1914. Upon graduation, he began his mil…

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New Jersey's Natures

New Jersey's Natures takes up the challenge of expanding academic and popular conceptions of New Jersey and its landscapes through the lens of environmental history. Scholars' essays showcase the ways in …

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Taylor
Murder of the Jujube Candy Heiress

One candy heiress, two bullets and three suspects.The small Southern California island of Coronado rarely makes news for violent crime. But in the spring of 1975, World War II widow and retired librarian …

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David Brown Morris
Ten Thousand Central Parks

A visionary look at Central Park's creation as an urban success story inspiring bold climate actionClimate change is the existential crisis of our time. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, and …

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Beau Cleland
Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria

Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria recenters our understanding of the Civil War by framing it as a hemispheric affair, deeply influenced by the actions of a network of private parties and minor offici…

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Theodore Catton
Mollie Brumley's Civil War

Mollie Brumley, a thirteen-year-old orphan, was living on a farm in the mountainous Ozarks of northwest Arkansas when the Civil War broke out. In a borderland region on the northern periphery of slavery a…

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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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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, local …

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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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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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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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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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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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James K Nelsen
Milwaukee Through History

New perspectives on state and national history through the lens of Wisconsin's oldest cityThis richly illustrated book for middle grade and high school learners uses primary sources and archival photos to…

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