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Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century
The largest social movement by people of Mexican descent in the U.S. to date, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 70s linked civil rights activism w...
A Flawed Victory
Reanalyzing military records and battle plans of the Normandy invasion, Lewis traces the evolution of combined operations (more than one nation) and j...
Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia
This book provides the first comprehensive study of diverse migrant memories and what they mean for Australia in the twenty-first century. Drawing on ...
The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era
This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, liber...
A portrait of a people's historian
In the first integrated biographical study of his work, this book situates British historian Raphael Samuel (1934–1996) in relation to his distincti...
An Oral History of the Arrival of Modern Media in Rural Appalachia and the Melungeon Community
The Electronic Front Porch examines the arrival of radio and television in Appalachia, and the Internet's role in the Melungeon community. It contribu...
The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Early Minnesota
Unearths previously untold stories of African Americans in early Minnesota....
A full-text reporter of decisions rendered by federal and state courts throughout the United States on federal and state labor problems, with case, ta...
An important study of how Swift's texts were circulated, and the different meanings of print and manuscript in his career....
Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas
2022 Best Book Award, Oral History Association Hundreds of stories of activists at the front lines of the intersecting African American and Mexican Am...
The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu Of 1918-1919
Pandemic Re-Awakenings offers a multi-level and multi-faceted exploration of a century of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering the influenza pan...
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"They that go down to the sea . . . these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. . . . Oh that men would praise the Lord for his good...
The History of an American Sport
Since 1935, roller derby has thrilled fans and skaters with its constant action, hard hits, and edgy attitude. However, though its participants’ ath...
The Making of a Christmas Classic
Despite having been made into three TV movies, a radio drama, a stage play, a Broadway musical, a feature-film remake in color, and a book adaptation,...
Personal Lives, Public Histories
The melodramatic and romantic clichÉs that pervade popular conceptions of working-class Londoners in the 19th and 20th century are debunked in this i...
A Biography of D'Arcy McNickle
One of the foremost Native American intellectuals of his generation (1904-77), D'Arcy McNickleøis best known today for the American Indian history ce...
Canada and East Timor, 1975–99
In 1975, Indonesian forces overran East Timor, just days after it declared independence from Portugal. Canadian officials knew the invasion was coming...
A Century of Ecosystem Mismanagement in the Southwest
A collection of writings on the environmental crisis of the Southwestern forests, by historians specializing in either the environment or the Southwes...
Black Artist, Public Radical
A son of poor Jamaican immigrants who grew up in Depression-era Harlem, Harry Belafonte became the first black performer to gain artistic control over...
C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought
Sociologist, social critic, and political radical C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was one of the leading public intellectuals in twentieth century America...
Christian Summer Camp in Theological Perspective
Sacred Playgrounds explores the wisdom of camping ministry for Christian education and faith formation, examining its rich history and fundamental cha...
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and the First Generation Critics of the Warren Report
Finely written and meticulously documented, this book describes how--very early on--a small group of ordinary citizens began extraordinary efforts to ...
A Bibliography of Published Sources
The Genealogy Annual is a comprehensive bibliography of the year's genealogies, handbooks, and source materials. It is divided into three main section...
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...
Politics and Policy Evaluation
Welfare experiments conducted at the state level during the 1990s radically restructured the American welfare state and have played a critical—and u...
An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle
The labor of black workers has been crucial to economic development in the United States. Yet because of racism and segregation, their contribution re...
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret...
Gateway to a Continent
Wallace Stegner called South Pass “one of the most deceptive and impressive places in the West.” Nowhere can travelers cross the Rockies so easily...
The 10th Mountain Division and the Rise of Mountain Warfare
Mountains, Carl von Clausewitz said, introduce a “retarding element” into warfare. To fight in mountains, armies must overcome this challenge via ...
Vols. for 1969-75 include section: Top news of the week in review....
A Biography
Few poets have led lives as tempestuous as that of Vladimir Mayakovsky. Born in 1893 and dead by his own hand in 1930, Mayakovsky packed his thirty-si...
Discrimination Against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights
Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights...
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Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia
The Gospel Working Up offers a history of three generations of Baptist and Methodist clergymen in nineteenth-century Virginia, and through them of the...
A Cumulative Author List Representing Library of Congress Printed Cards and Titles Reported by Other American Libraries
The Western Canadian Radical Movement, 1899-1919
The opening of the twentieth century saw a fervour of radical political movements in Western Canada. Ross McCormack explores the constituencies, ideol...
A History of the AFL-CIO since 1979
From the Reagan years to the present, the labor movement has faced a profoundly hostile climate. As America's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO wa...