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DK Super History Boston Tea Party

Find out what happened at Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773, and why the events of that day became a symbol of colonial resistance and ultimately led to the end of British rule in the U.S. Aligned with …

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Marie Lathers
The Okefenokee Swamp

Marie Lathers wades into the history and legends of the Okefenokee Swamp. The Okefenokee, nearly 440,000 acres of bog and swamp lying in south Georgia and north Florida, is the largest blackwater wetland …

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The Arches Reader

"Geology is the star attraction in many national parks, but Arches National Park reveals erosional wonders like no other place on earth. There's something thrilling and slightly unsettling about a massive…

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Mike Tidwell
The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue

"In 2023, author and activist Mike Tidwell decided to keep a record for a full year of the growing impacts of climate change on his one urban block right on the border with Washington, DC. A love letter t…

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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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Andrea Maria McComb Sanchez
Of Corn and Catholicism

Andrea McComb Sanchez examines the development of the patron saint feast days among Eastern Pueblo Indians of New Mexico from the seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century.

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Nancy K Williams
Colorado Outlaws & Lawmen

Taming a Tumultuous Territory Hollywood westerns of the twentieth century brought a history of raucous frontier justice to life, but 1800s Colorado was anything but fiction. Bandits held up the Denver an…

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Nutter
Walnut Street YMCA and YWCA

The Walnut Street YMCA and YWCA opened in September 1940 to much excitement and anticipation within the African American community in Wilmington, Delaware. Jeanne D. Nutter, PhD, an oral historian, has co…

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Latinas/OS in New Jersey

"Since the 1890s, New Jersey has attracted hundreds of thousands of Caribbean and Latin American migrants. The state's rich economic history, high-income suburbs, and strong public sector have all contrib…

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Carol Bradley
Twisting in Air

Twisting in Air brings to life the era when an extraordinary group of horses learned to fall on cue to make Western movies seem more realistic, chronicling how one of them, Cocaine, overcame a debilitatin…

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Ron de Beaulieu
Minnesota's Most Notorious Mobster

"Ninety percent of [what] was written about me is bullshit" Isadore Blumenfeld, aka Kid Cann, came to Minnesota as a toddler when his family emigrated from Romania. In Prohibition-era Minneapolis, a city …

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Tony Wade
Growing Up in Vacaville

Exquisite food coupled with the wonder and whimsy of the world-famous Nut Tree restaurant. Beating the heat at The Blue Lagoon Waterslide Park or getting lost in the giant maze, The Wooz. Trips to the bur…

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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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Taylor Baldwin Kiland
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 libraria…

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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 action Climate change is the existential crisis of our time. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, an…

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Latinas/OS in New Jersey

"Since the 1890s, New Jersey has attracted hundreds of thousands of Caribbean and Latin American migrants. The state's rich economic history, high-income suburbs, and strong public sector have all contrib…

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Stephanie Erickson
Islands of Southern Lake Winnipesaukee

The islands of southern Lake Winnipesaukee have a rich and diverse history. The first summer home on Sleepers Island was Hale's castle, a replica of a medieval castle constructed by the same stone masons…

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Our Nation at Risk

The nation's top political scientists, historians, and legal scholars propose solutions for democracy's future In recent years, the sight of gun-wielding citizens patrolling ballot boxes and voting sites…

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Robert Sorrell
Historic Theaters of the Tennessee Tri-Cities

The Stories Behind Iconic Venues Theaters in the Tri-Cities featured everything from early minstrel shows of the nineteenth century to the modern multiplex movie houses of the twenty-first century. It's a…

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