North American History
North American History
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The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine
The life of civil rights leader Daisy Bates is vividly detailed in this stirring new biography by an...Read more
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Murder by Injection: The Story of the Medical Conspiracy Against America
This book aims to shed light on profits from cancer, medical quackery, fertilizers, contamination of...Read more
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The Southern Mystique
Howard Zinn examines the politics of the South and his own experiences there. The South has long bee...Read more
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Justice in Everyday Life: The Way It Really Works
Howard Zinn’s book on the way justice really works in the U.S. The book explores the reality of ju...Read more
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Custer's Last Stand: The Anatomy of an American Myth
Defeat and death at the Little Bighorn gave General George Custer and his Seventh Cavalry a kind of ...Read more
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The Embattled Ladies of Little Rock: 1958-1963 the Struggle to Save Public Education at Central HighThe Embattled Ladies of Little Rock: 1958-1963 the Struggle to Save Public Education at Central High
In 1957, Gov. Orval Faubus ordered the National Guard to bar admission to nine black students seekin...Read more
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Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work
Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant. In th...Read more
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Rank and File
For readers who want to see an alternative view to official U.S. trade union history. Edited by Stau...Read more
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The American Aircraft Factory in World War II
Few, if any, industrial phenomena have been as dramatic as the United States mid-20th-century shift ...Read more
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Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger
Combines biography of M. Sanger with social history of birth control movement. Winner of Bancroft Pr...Read more
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Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger
A history of the birth control movement in the United States must necessarily be in part a biography...Read more
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Dissent in America: Voices That Shaped a Nation
This collection of primary sources presents the story of US History as told by dissenters who, throu...Read more