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Dear California

Dispatches from a land of extremes, by writers and movie stars, natives and visitors, activists and pioneers, and more.California has always been, literally, a place to write home about. Renowned figures …

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Elliott West
Continental Reckoning

Finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in History Winner of Columbia University's 2024 Bancroft Prize in American History Winner of the 2024 Caughey Western History Prize Winner of the 2024 Spur Award Named…

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Sakina M Hughes
Music, Muscle, and Masterful Arts

Before the heyday of the Chitlin Circuit and the Harlem Renaissance, African American performing artists and creative entrepreneurs---sometimes called Black Bohemians---seized their limited freedoms and g…

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H Zahra Caldwell
The Fiercest Kind

Artists fighting racism and sexism from the end of the Great Depression through the Civil Rights eraIn 1943, the production of the Columbia Pictures film The Heat's On halted for three days due to an on-s…

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Aaron Goings
Red Harbor

Brings to life Grays Harbor's fiery legacy of class conflictIn the early decades of the twentieth century, Grays Harbor was the Lumber Capital of the World. While thousands of lumber and maritime workers …

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Gregg Jarrett
The Trial of the Century

"Nearly a century ago, famed liberal attorney Clarence Darrow defended schoolteacher John Scopes in a blockbuster legal proceeding that brought the attention of the entire country to the small town o…

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A'Lelia Bundles
Joy Goddess

"Raucously immersive...An intimate portrait of Black opulence in the early 20th century." ---Oprah DailyA "scintillating, vibrant" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) and deeply rese…

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Bayard Rustin

2024 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice ReviewsCelebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and FreedomWhile we can all re…

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James L Swanson
The Deerfield Massacre

"Once it was one of the most famous events in early American history. Today, it has been nearly forgotten. In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little village in western Massachusetts, the…

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Mac Smith
Great Fire of 1947

The Great Fire of 1947 and the End of Bar Harbor's Golden Era tells the riveting story of the desperate evacuation of residents through the heart of an uncontrolled forest fire burning all across Mount De…

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Joseph McGill, Herb Frazier
Sleeping with the Ancestors

With a new Afterword and Reading Group Guide exclusive to the paperback edition.In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in former sl…

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Barbara Townsend
Life and Death in Historic Atlantic City, Wyoming

*Life and Death in Historic Atlantic City, Wyoming-*In 1868, thousands made the westward march to a ruthlessly unforgiving locale. These pioneers made the South Pass region the most fascinating spot on th…

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H Zahra Caldwell
The Fiercest Kind

Artists fighting racism and sexism from the end of the Great Depression through the Civil Rights eraIn 1943, the production of the Columbia Pictures film The Heat's On halted for three days due to an on-s…

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Henry David Thoreau,
The Quotable Thoreau

A comprehensive and authoritative collection of Thoreau quotations on more than 150 subjects, from beauty to wisdom. This title gathers more than 2,000 memorable passages from this iconoclastic American a…

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David W Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker
Tales of Ohio's Underground Railroad

Authors David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker separate fact from fiction in the story of Ohio's Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a macabre sort of dance between good and evil in which eac…

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Cassadaga

This book tells the story of the south's oldest spirtualist community, Cassadaga, founded in central Florida over 125 years ago on the principle of continuous life, the idea that spirits of the dead commu…

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Stephen L Hardin,
Texian Macabre: The Melancholy Tale of a Hanging in Early Houston

Mandred Wood may have caught a glint off the Bowie knife that sank into his belly--but probably not. On the afternoon of November 11, 1837, he had exchanged "harsh epithets" with David James Jon…

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Leslie Stainton
Scarlett

A sixth-generation descendant of the Scarlett family of Georgia, Leslie Stainton grew up hearing about her heroic ancestors and their tragic plunge from wealth to poverty in the wake of the Civil War-and …

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Nicole Carr
The Price of Exclusion

From award-winning journalist Nicole Carr comes a landmark narrative revealing the untold history of Black medical professionals who have long fought to heal their communities ---while confronting a syste…

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Beryl Satter
Cash on the Block

An incisive history of government and corporate failures to infuse capital into Black urban neighborhoods--as well as the organizers and activists who stood up to predatory financial practices.In the 1960…

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