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A Chess Memoir
This is the autobiography of chess grandmaster and journalist Andy Soltis, one of the very few grandmasters who had a professional career outside of t...
A Perfect Constitutional Storm in Alaska's Capital
Before Sarah Palin, Alaska gave us Morse v. Frederick, the 2007 Supreme Court case conventionally known as "Bong HiTs 4 Jesus." Foster's book puts the...
The Story of Patty Conklin and Conklin Shows
The story of the audacious showman who built the greatest carnival dynasty in North America. Enter the realm of the carnie king, Patty Conklin, the fl...
U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism
For more than fifty years, the United States supported the Colombian military in a war that cost over 200,000 lives. During a single period of heighte...
Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Approaches
How does anxiety impact narratives about African history, culture, and society? This volume demonstrates the richness of anxiety as an analytical lens...
Don Hofsommer chronicles the twentieth-century history of a transportation giant. Here is a story of divestiture and merger, Sunset Route, and Prosper...
Catholic, Socialist, Feminist
Shares the story of the revolutionary Marxist and Catholic Grace Holmes Carlson and her life-long dedication to challenging social and economic inequa...
Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon a...
A History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Romania
After forty-five years of strict rule, it took nothing less than a miracle for communism in Romania to fall in such a short period of nine days. It wa...
The Hudson Valley's Ross Brothers and the Union's Fight for Emancipation
Chronicles the Civil War experiences of four brothers from New York’s Hudson Valley....
The 2010s were a decade of transformation and conflict in the Middle East, bookended by the Arab Uprisings and the coronavirus pandemic. Throughout th...
The New Zealand Soldier in the First World War 1914–1918
The New Zealand soldiers who left these shores to fight in the First World War represented one of the greatest collective endeavours in the nation’s...
Violence, Injustice, and the Rise of Black Politics in the 1970s
In February 1971, racial tension surrounding school desegregation in Wilmington, North Carolina, culminated in four days of violence and skirmishes be...
A Biography
For more than six decades, William F. Winter (1923–2020) was one of the most recognizable public figures in Mississippi. His political career spanne...
An Olive in the Cocktail
Clyde Fitch (1865-1909) was the most successful and prolific dramatist of his time, producing nearly sixty plays in a twenty-year career. He wrote wit...
An American History
Homesickness today is dismissed as a sign of immaturity, what children feel at summer camp, but in the nineteenth century it was recognized as a power...
Youth Voting Rights and the 26th Amendment
The fascinating tale of how a bipartisan coalition worked successfully to lower the voting age “Let Us Vote!” tells the story of the multifaceted ...
A History
The largest by far of the fifty states, Alaska is also the state of greatest mystery and diversity. And, as Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick show...
****Included on the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force's reading list for 2008 and the Royal Air Force's Centre for Air Power Studies 2008 ...
Race and Power in the South after the Civil Rights Movement
Once one of the wealthiest cities in America, Charleston, South Carolina, established a society built on the racial hierarchies of slavery and segrega...
A Political History
The former executive director of the Texas GOP offers a “granular blow-by-blow account” of his party from Reconstruction to the 21st century (Publ...
A Memoir of a Quarter Century at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
“As is well known, Pete is an outstanding storyteller, and this book is no exception." —Claire Strom, Journal of Southern History In addition to c...
Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South
With a Foreword by Angela Y. Davis Winner of the 2003 Oral History Association Book AwardWinner of the 2003 Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights Out...
Catholic Women in Memphis, 1950–1970
This book examines the intersections of faith, race, and gender within the social justice movement in the civil rights era in Memphis, Tennessee. The ...
The first collection of essays on public history in the American West....
H. Beam Piper is one of science fiction's most enigmatic writers. In 1946 Piper appeared seemingly from out of nowhere, already at the top of his form...
A Treasure House of Words and Knowledge
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Why a Group Continues to Come Together to Address Community Needs : a Case Study of a Michigan Grange
Robert Barnet and Boston Musical Theatre
The entertaining tale of Robert Barnet (1853-1933) and the enormously popular musicals he produced as fundraisers for a volunteer militia group in Bos...
Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation
Many prominent and well-known figures greatly impacted the civil rights movement, but one of the most influential and unsung leaders of that period wa...
The Anarchist Life and Times of Jay Fox
Jay Fox (1870–1961) was a journalist, intellectual, and labor militant whose influence rippled across the country. In Writing Labor's Emancipation, ...
Rural Radicalism in Norfolk, 1872-1923
The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America's Most Exclusive Shoreline
“A well-documented—and dispiriting—history of prejudice and inequality . . . An unsparing exposé of white supremacy among Northern elites.” �...
Memoir of a Soldier's Journey from Bataan to Nagasaki
The first to admit that he did not volunteer for military service, Myrrl W. McBride, Sr., was just a young man trying to work and return to college wh...
The Harry Dexter White Spy Case
Armed with a wealth of new information, Craig examines the controversial 1948 allegations that Communist spies had penetrated the American government,...
The 121st New York Infantry in the Civil War
The harsh realities of Civil War life as seen through the eyes of the hard-fighting upstate New York regiment (the 121st New York State Volunteer Infa...
City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920–1980
One of Planetizen’s Top Ten Books of 2006 "But for Birmingham," Fred Shuttleworth recalled President John F. Kennedy saying in June 1963 when he inv...
From the basic knowledge and skill sets of a sport manager to the current trends and issues in the sport management industry, this best-selling text p...
Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy
In "No One Helped" Marcia M. Gallo examines one of America's most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese ...
Paul "Bear" Bryant and the 1971 Season of Change
This study of a watershed year in Bear Bryant's legendary football career shows the potential for sports history to educate us about the broader cultu...