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Paulina Bren
She-Wolves

First came the secretaries from Brooklyn and Queens-the "smart cookies" who saw that making money, lots of it, might be within their grasp. Then came the first female Harvard Business School gra…

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Linda Watson
Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood was a conundrum. Softly spoken yet forthright, she straddled the worlds of fashion, politics, social justice and sartorial observation. Viewed globally as a quintessentially English figu…

available from 18.6.2026.

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Amani C Morrison
A Kitchenette to Fit Your Needs

Uncovers how Chicago's kitchenette apartments shaped housing, race, and urban life in the twentieth centuryDuring the twentieth century's Great Migration, kitchenette apartments served as the primary home…

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Ileana Nachescu
The National Alliance of Black Feminists

Founded in 1975, the non-partisan National Alliance of Black Feminists (NABF) played a critical role in the Black women's liberation movement and the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment. The Chicago-base…

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Radical Family

**A powerful collection of personal essays from lesbian moms who fought for the right to raise children **For generations, lesbians across the United States were systematically denied opportunities to rai…

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Kelly Biers
Boojoo!

Walloon, a language from and still spoken by a minority population in its home country of Belgium, can also still be found among a few sparse communities in northeastern Wisconsin. Although spoken by a sm…

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Flyover Fictions

Flyover Fictions critically engages the history and contemporary use of the "flyover country" trope in American culture and repurposes the concept as an abstract tool for cultural studies.

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Ka F Wong
Enmity and Empathy

The experiences of Japanese Americans and their allies fighting discrimination in wartime Minnesota demonstrate how diverse groups stood together amidst the turmoil--a legacy relevant in today's divisive …

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Julie Satow
When Women Ran Fifth Avenue

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A glittering portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them, from the award-winning author of The Plaza . A BEST BOOK OF THE…

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Rebecca Jo Kinney
Mapping Asiatown Cleveland

Forthcoming Spring 2025This book examines the tensions that emerged between Asian American racial identity formation and the establishment of organized urban community in Cleveland. Moving from 1943 to th…

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Rebecca Jo Kinney
Mapping Asiatown Cleveland

Forthcoming Spring 2025This book examines the tensions that emerged between Asian American racial identity formation and the establishment of organized urban community in Cleveland. Moving from 1943 to th…

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Lee Hawkins
I Am Nobody's Slave

"Harrowing and insightful. . . . A profound work about the Black experience and white oppression."---Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"This work is vitally important and essential to understa…

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Ric S Sheffield
False Promises

Grounded in primary sources, this book uses critical fabulation to envision how men of color fought against Ohio's racist nineteenth-century voting restrictions. It reveals how contemporary voter-suppress…

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Matheson
Artisans and Designers

One couple's bold vision for American fashionLong before the fashion industry formally addressed questions of sustainability and advocated for "slow fashion," William and Elizabeth Phelps, a hus…

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Ieva Jusionyte
Exit Wounds

"Traces the deadly pipeline of assault weapons into the hands of organized crime."―Rolling StoneMacArthur "Genius" Fellow Ieva Jusionyte turns the familiar border narrative upside down…

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Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Radical Craft

The country's most important social settlement, Hull-House was a nexus for educators who envisioned the arts as a tool for social reform. Radical Craft celebrates the work of these immigrant artists and r…

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Laurie Hertzel
News to Me

The story of a journalist's coming of age in Duluth during the boom days of printLaurie Hertzel wasn't yet a teenager in Duluth, Minnesota, when she started her first newspaper, which she appropriately ch…

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Wilbert L Cooper
The Black Shield

Both an epic history and an intimate family story, a startling account of the lives of Black cops in one Midwestern city.In the wake of the George Floyd protests, a Black police organization in Cleveland …

available from 25.8.2026.

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Lucy M Long
Sweet, Tart, and Golden

Whether Jonagolds or Ida Reds, the apple provides Midwesterners with both a versatile food and a powerful archetype of their culture and heritage. Lucy M. Long examines the ubiquitous fruit's place in reg…

available from 14.4.2026.

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Jonathan Greenblatt
It Could Happen Here

?Refreshingly candid . . . Get off Instagram and read this book.? ?Sacha Baron CohenFrom the dynamic head of ADL, an impassioned argument about the terrifying path that America finds itself on today?and h…

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