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Winner of the 2020 PEN America/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, the 2020 Summersell Prize, a 2020 PROSE Award, and a Plutarch Award finalis...
How Citizen Activists Nationalized Local Politics in the Fight to Save Green Springs
How a woman-led citizensโ group beat a Southern political machine by enlisting federal bureaucrats and judges to protect their neighborhood from unc...
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Hearings Before the Special Committee Investigating the Munitions Industry, United States Senate, Seventy-third [-Seventy-fourth] Congress, Pursuant to S. Res. 206, a Resolution to Make Certain Investigations Concerning the Manufacture and Sale of Arms and Other War Munitions
A Pre-Lapita to Post-Lapita Site from Caution Bay, South Coast of Mainland Papua New Guinea
Presenting results from Tanamu 1, the first site to be published in detail in the Caution Bay Studies in Archaeology series. Yielding well-provenanced...
How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future
The story of the visionary scientists who invented the future In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as t...
Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom
The 'sit-ins' at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro launched the passive resistance phase of the civil rights revolution. This book tells the s...
How to Transform Punishment in America
A radical rethinking of prisons and their purpose...
Protestant and Mormon Missions of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
In Missionary Interests, David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones bring together works about Protestant and Mormon missionaries in the nineteenth an...
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Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957
"Most accounts of the civil rights movement focus on male leaders and the organizations they led, leaving a dearth of information about the countless ...
Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century
"O'Neill chronicles a history of Navajo labor that illuminates how cultural practices and values influenced what it meant to work for wages or to prod...
The History and Contemporary Relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment
In these original essays, America's leading historians and legal scholars reassess the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and its relevance to i...
Fargo Grapples with the Great Depression
"In Going It Alone: Fargo Grapples with the Great Depression, historian David B. Danbom shows how this exemplary American city struggled to survive pr...
An Inquiry into Cervical Cancer
An analysis of a scandal involving a doctor accused of allowing a number of women to develop cervical cancer from carcinoma in situ as part of an expe...
The Tobacco Syndemic in Oceania
Tobacco kills 5 million people every year and that number is expected to double by the year 2020. Despite its enormous toll on human health, tobacco h...
Building the Hunley and Other Secret Weapons of the Civil War
Facing an insurmountable deficit in resources compared to the Union navy, the Confederacy resorted to unorthodox forms of warfare to combat enemy forc...
Stay on the cutting edge of todayโs most promising trends in complementary and alternative medical treatments with Dr. David Rakelโs Integrative M...
The Change of Worlds for the Native People and Settlers on Puget Sound
The first thorough historical account of the great Washington State city and its hero, Chief Seattleโthe Native American war leader who advocated fo...
The Common Soldier of the Confederacy
Offers a composite portrait of the Southern soldier during the Civil War....
Third series
The President's Dilemma in Asia provides one of the first comprehensive and comparative theory of presidential government formation. In the authoritar...
10th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2019, Lugano, Switzerland, September 9โ12, 2019, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2019, held in Lugano, Switzerland, i...
Archaeology and History of an Industry
Slates from quarries in Wales once went to roof the world. By the late nineteenth century as many as a third of all the roofing slates produced worldw...
The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity
The fiery true story of America's most famous radical fugitives, urgently and passionately told....
The Anarchist Life and Times of Jay Fox
Jay Fox (1870โ1961) was a journalist, intellectual, and labor militant whose influence rippled across the country. In Writing Labor's Emancipation, ...
Moving Higher Education to a Learning Systems Paradigm
Sponsored by Concerned by ongoing debates about higher education that talk past one another, the authors of this book show how to move beyond these an...
Periodicals
Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains
The Natural West offers essays reflecting the natural history of the American West as written by one of its most respected environmental historians. D...
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Case Studies of Labor-Community Coalitions Confronting Plant Closings
Examines the struggle of the unions and communities to save jobs in plant-closing situations in the 1980s, and shows why some labor-community coalitio...
Armed with Bible and primer, missionaries and teachers in colonial America sought, in their words, โto Christianize and civilize the native heathen....
An Activists' History of Mental Health Reform
An essential history of the recovery movement for people with mental illness, and an inspiring account of how former patients and advocates challenged...
The Routledge History of Rural America charts the course of rural life in the United States, raising questions about what makes a place rural and how ...
Gay Folklore and Acculturation in Middle America
Goodwin examines the jokes, language, and behavior that allow gay men to identify and communicate with one another. He identifies how these behaviors ...
Recovering American Rust Belt Icons
Chronicles grassroots efforts to recover, rebuild, and enjoy architecturally iconic but economically obsolete places in the American Rust Belt. A pion...
Religious Cultures and Racial Identities Among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925
Together, and separately, black and white Baptists created different but intertwined cultures that profoundly shaped the South. Adopting a biracial an...