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Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
"Astonishingly important.โ โAlex Kotlowitz, The Atlantic Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how ...
Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt
Communities throughout the United States were convulsed in the 1980s and early 1990s by accusations, often without a shred of serious evidence, that r...
"Most Americans first heard of Michael Harrington with the publication of The Other America, his seminal book on American poverty. Isserman expertly t...
When the Irish nationalist Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he observed to Lord Birkenhead that he may have signed his ...
The Historical Experiences of European Blacks, Africans and African Americans During the Nazi Era
Drawing on interviews with the black survivors of Nazi concentration camps and archival research in North America, Europe, and Africa, this book docum...
Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress
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The Kahuzi-Biega National Park (โPNKBโ) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo presents an existential threat to the indigenous Batwa people. For...
Consisting of Literary Gossip, Criticisms of Books and Local Historical Matters Connected with Rhode Island
Consisting of literary gossip, criticisms of books and local historical matters connected with Rhode Island....
From the Sea
U.S. Marines in the Global War on Terrorism. Includes a foreword by Charles P. Neimeyer. Describes how America became involved in the Global War on Te...
Public Health and Medical Care in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany
A collection of essays on fundamental issues in the history of medicine in modern Germany....
Prince Felix Youssoupov was heir to the richest fortune in Russia, and husband to Princess Irina Romanov. He was also involved in the murder of the no...
Women's Activism and the Politics of Welfare, 1940-1971
During World War II, as women stepped in to fill jobs vacated by men in the armed services, the federal government established public child care cente...
The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past thr...
Yosemite Rock Climbers and Nature at Risk
Few things suggest rugged individualism as powerfully as the solitary mountaineer testing his or her mettle in the rough country. Yet the long history...
The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
Now available in paperback, Sybil Exposed is the New York Times bestselling book that offers a new perspective on the smash hit book and film, Sybil, ...
A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934-1990
Do racial minorities in the United States assimilate to American values and institutions, or do they retain ethnic ties and cultures? In exploring the...
The Young People's Records and Children's Record Guild Series, 1946-1977
Young People's Records and Children's Record Guild were the first commercially significant record clubs in the world. By applying proven book club met...
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the re...
Third series
โI have never, ever wanted to write an autobiography. The number of times I have been approached and every time I said no, no, itโs a wankโ Miri...
Fatherhood and Masculinity in Postwar Hollywood
Offering a broad perspective on the Hollywood dad, looking at important Hollywood fathers and discussing films from many genres, this book adopts a mu...
One Year Later: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Aviation of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, First Session, February 27, 2013
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 Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security
How professionalization and scholarly โrigorโ made social scientists increasingly irrelevant to US national security policy To mobilize Americaโ...
Vols. 2- include the 1st- annual report of the council to members of the institute for 1931/32-...
A Holy Impatience
A magnet for controversy, the media, and followers, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr. was the premier voice of northern religious liberalism for more...
The Peace Corps Murder Trial in East Africa
On March 28, 1966, Peace Corps personnel in Tanzania received word that volunteer Peppy Kinsey had fallen to her death while rock climbing during a pi...
Essays on the Secret Social Histories of America's Deadliest Prison
"The name Andersonville has come to be synonymous with "American death camp." Its horrors have been portrayed in histories, art, television, and movie...
How the 1970s Energy Crisis Fostered Renewed Interest in Electric-Generating Technology
It may sound simple. Fashion a set of blades, attach them to a generator, set the machine on top of a tower, and let the wind do the work of creating ...
Race and Gender in the Modern Charismatic Movement
Examines how popular American religious leaders navigate problems of race and gender in society...
The Hudson Valley's Ross Brothers and the Union's Fight for Emancipation
Chronicles the Civil War experiences of four brothers from New Yorkโs 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...
Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek
On November 29, 1864, over 150 Native Americans, mostly women, children, and elderly, were slaughtered in one of the most infamous cases of state-spon...
The Covert War Against the Central America Movement
The core of this book, written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, documents the wide-ranging FBI assault on CISPES....
Politics and Diplomacy
New Zealand and the Vietnam War was published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of New Zealand combat troops leaving for Vietnam. The Vietnam War ...
legislative hearing before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation, and Public Lands of the Committee on Resources, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, October 16, 2001