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Does oil make countries autocratic? Can foreign aid make countries democratic? Does taxation lead to representation? In this book, Kevin M. Morrison d...
Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West
"A deep, fascinating dive into a uniquely American brand of religious zealotry that poses a grave threat to our national parks, wilderness areas, wild...
Alabama's Poor Whites
After examining origins, Flynt (Southern history, Auburn U.) studies farmers, textile workers, coal miners, and timber workers in depth and discusses ...
Law, Property, and Early Eighteenth-century Fiction
Engendering Legitimacy: Law, Property, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction is a study of the intersecting of law, land, property, and gender in the prose f...
A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989
The Howard University protests from the perspective and worldview of its participants We Are Worth Fighting For is the first history of the 1989 Howar...
How American Protestant missionaries created a new worldwide religious network Among a wide spectrum of American Protestants, the horrors of World War...
Legendary Matchups That Made Sports History
The sixteen original essays in this collection cover influential and famous rivalries from a variety of sports, including track and field, golf, boxin...
In Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma Karlyn Forner rewrites the heralded story of Selma to explain why gaining the right to vote did not bring abou...
Superfund Success at Milltown, Montana
No sooner had the EPA established the Superfund program in 1980 to clean up the nation’s toxic waste dumps and other abandoned hazardous waste sites...
A Baseball Biography
The history of baseball is filled with players whose careers were defined by one bad play. Mike Torrez is remembered as the pitcher who gave up the in...
An Environmental History of Seattle
"At the foot of the snow-capped Cascade Mountains on the forested shores of Puget Sound, Seattle is set in a location of spectacular natural beauty, B...
The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945
From the liberation of the Philippines to the Japanese surrender, the final volume of John C. McManus's trilogy on the US Army in the Pacific War “B...
Lt. Gen. Friedrich Von Boetticher in America, 1933-1941
Friedrich von Boetticher was Germany's only military attaché accredited to the United States between the world wars. As such, he was Germany's offici...
A Guide to Developing Student, Faculty, and Professional Learning Communities to Improve Student Success and Organizational Effectiveness
Learning communities have been demonstrated to dramatically improve student outcomes by engaging students in their learning.This book constitutes a co...
An Acting Life
Before his rise to superstardom portraying Detective Steve McGarrett on the long-running police drama Hawaii Five-O, Jack Lord was already a dedicated...
Motion pictures, television, radio, music, theater, publishing, sports....
"We put the working class, in all its varieties, at the center of our work. The new working-class studies is not only about the labor movement, or abo...
A History
Popularly known as “Black Seminoles,” descendants of the Seminole freedmen of Indian Territory are a unique American cultural group. Now Kevin Mul...
Local Struggles, a National Movement
After decades of scholarship on the civil rights movement at the local level, the insights of bottom-up movement history remain essentially invisible ...
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...
The Soldiers' Rebellion in Vietnam : Race, Class, and Resistance
The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction “There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we...
How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History
An incredible true tale of espionage and engineering set at the height of the Cold War—a mix between The Hunt for Red October and Argo—about how t...
International Humanitarian Law in War
The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law in War introduces law students and undergraduates to the law of war in an age of terrorism. ...
Treacherous Twin to the Pecos, 1535-1900
In his newest book, Devils River, Patrick Dearen traces the 400-year history of the notorious river from the time of the first Spanish explorers to th...
Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940
The American West conjures up images of pastoral tranquility and wide open spaces, but by 1970 the Far West was the most urbanized section of the coun...
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 ...
Essays on the History of American Environmentalism
From Jamestown to 9/11, concerns about the landscape, husbanding of natural resources, and the health of our environment have been important to the Am...
Joseph Banigan and Nineteenth-century New England Labor
In 1847 Joseph Banigan, an Irish Potato Famine refugee, established himself in Rhode Island as an entrepreneur. This was a time when "No Irish Need Ap...
Food and Cuisine in the African American Struggle for Freedom, Justice, and Equality
At the Table of Power is both a cookbook and a culinary history that intertwines social issues, personal stories, and political commentary. Renowned c...
An Illustrated Guide to How Mistruths Are Sold, Why They Stick, and How to Reclaim Reality
Made to Stick by Chip Heath meets Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe in this illustrated guide to navigating today’s post-truth landscape, filled wit...
Those opposed to the teaching of evolution often make well-rehearsed claims about science that sound powerful and convincing. This work seeks to serve...
Two Centuries of Shakespearean Performance in Lexington, Kentucky
"Lexington's theatrical history provides a template for what so many mid-American towns experienced"--Provided by publisher....
A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil right...
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 sharp wit of a free-thinking Mormon folk hero In The J. Golden Kimball Stories, beloved and iconoclastic Mormon humorist J. Golden Kimball (1853-1...
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