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  • The Battle for Wisconsin

    Scott Walker and the Attack on the Progressive Tradition

    by Andrew E. Kersten ...
    This past January, the newly elected governor Scott Walker declared war on Wisconsin's progressive roots. Under the guise of budget repair, he and his Republican colleagues in the state legislature introduced a whole host of initiatives meant to roll back hard-won gains for workers and recast the role of government in the state to fit his own conservative ideology.In The Battle for Wisconsin, the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Labor's Home Front

    The American Federation of Labor during World War II

    by Andrew E. Kersten ...
    One of the oldest, strongest, and largest labor organizations in the U.S., the American Federation of Labor (AFL) had 4 million members in over 20,000 union locals during World War II. The AFL played a key role in wartime production and was a major actor in the contentious relationship between the state, organized labor, and the working class in the 1940s. The war years are pivotal in the history ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Clarence Darrow

    American Iconoclast

    by Andrew E. Kersten ...
    Clarence Darrow is best remembered for his individual cases, whether defending the thrill killers Leopold and Loeb or John Scopes's right to teach evolution in the classroom. In the first full-length biography of Darrow in decades, the historian Andrew E. Kersten narrates the complete life of America's most legendary lawyer and the struggle that defined it, the fight for the American traditions of ... Read more

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  • Reframing Randolph

    Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph

    by Andrew E. Kersten, Clarence Lang ...
    Series Book 12 - Culture, Labor, History
    Atone time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a household name. As president ofthe all-black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), he was an embodimentof America’s multifaceted radical tradition, a leading spokesman for BlackAmerica, and a potent symbol of trade unionism and civil rights agitation fornearly half a century. But with the dissolution of the BSCP in the 1970s, theassaults ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • A. Philip Randolph

    A Life in the Vanguard

    by Andrew E. Kersten ...
    Series series The African American Experience Series
    Before the emergence of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., there were several key leaders who fought for civil rights in the United States. Among them was A. Philip Randolph, who perhaps best embodied the hopes, ideals, and aspirations of black Americans. Born in the South at the start of the Jim Crow era, Randolph was by his thirtieth birthday a prime mover in the movement to expand civil, social, ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

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  • There is Power in a Union

    by Philip Dray ...
    From the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for the American bounty has shaped our national experience.In this stirring new history, Philip Dray shows us the vital accomplishments of organized labor and illuminates its central role in our social, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Hammer and Hoe

    Alabama Communists during the Great Depression

    by Robin D. G. Kelley ...
    A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the “long Civil Rights movement,” Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama’s repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality.The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Standing at Armageddon

    A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era

    by Nell Irvin Painter ...
    **“A gripping and forceful narrative.”—Nancy F. Cott, author of Public VowsAn “enthralling” (Michael Kazin, Washington Post) account of America’s shift from a rural and agrarian society to an urban and industrial society.**In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, technological innovation made possible dramatic increases in industrial and agricultural productivity; by 1919, per capita ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • What It Took to Win

    A History of the Democratic Party

    by Michael Kazin ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice**One of Kirkus Reviews' ten best US history books of 2022A leading historian tells the story of the United States’ most enduring political party and its long, imperfect and newly invigorated quest for “moral capitalism,” from Andrew Jackson to Joseph Biden.One of Kirkus Reviews' 40 most anticipated books of 2022One of Vulture's "49 books we can't wait ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • A Treasure Chest of Hidden History

    Fun Facts and Serious Episodes That You May Have Missed in Your American History Class

    by Rusty Glover ...
    As a high school history teacher for the past 25 years, I have collected and read hundreds of books pertaining to my subjects taught. On the completion of each book, I would carefully take notes on the most interesting events, quotes, or interpretations that I felt would enhance instruction for my students. After filling numerous notepads of information on over 800 books, I contemplated a project ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Speak Now Against The Day

    The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South

    by John Egerton ...
    Speak Now Against the Day is the astonishing, little-known story of the Southerners who, in the generation before the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, challenged the validity of a white ruling class and a “separate but equal” division of the races.The voices of the dissenters, although present throughout the South’s ... Read more

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  • The Great Depression

    America 1929-1941

    by Robert S. McElvaine ...
    One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today.In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine’s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era. Combining clear-eyed ... Read more

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