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  • Reassessing the 1930s South

    by Bryan Giemza, Rebecca Sharpless, Ted Atkinson, Lisa Dorrill, Robert Ferguson, Richard F. Haynes, Ella Howard, Doug Thompson, Emily Senefeld, Anthony Stanonis, Scott Mathews, Steven Knepper ...
    Much of American popular culture depicts the 1930s South either as home to a population that was intellectually, morally, and physically stunted, or as a romantic, sentimentalized haven untouched by the nation’s financial troubles. Though these images stand as polar opposites, each casts the South as an exceptional region that stood separate from American norms. Reassessing the 1930s South brings ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • A Shining Thread of Hope

    The History of Black Women in America

    by Darlene Clark Hine, Kathleen Thompson ...
    At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring history of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two leaders in the fields of African American and women's history.A Shining Thread of Hope chronicles the lives of black women from indentured servitude in the early American colonies to the cruelty of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Crabgrass Frontier

    The Suburbanization of the United States

    by Kenneth T. Jackson ...
    This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The African Americans

    Many Rivers to Cross

    by Donald Yacovone, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross is the companion book to the six-part, six-hour documentary of the same name. The series is the first to air since 1968 that chronicles the full sweep of 500 years of African American history, from the origins of slavery on the African continent and the arrival of the first black conquistador, Juan Garrido, in Florida in 1513, through five centuries of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Making Whiteness

    The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

    by Grace Elizabeth Hale ...
    Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity. In intricately textured detail and with passionately mastered analysis, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how, when faced with the active citizenship of their ex-slaves after the Civil War, white southerners re ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Encyclopedia of New York City

    Second Edition

    Edited by Kenneth T. Jackson, Lisa Keller, Nancy Flood ...
    Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its first printing before it was officially published.But much has changed since the volume first appeared in 1995: the World Trade Center no longer ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Mirror to America

    The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin

    by John Hope Franklin ...
    The legendary man recounts his journey from a childhood in Oklahoma to an Presidential Medal of Honor–winning African American historian."An astonishing beautiful, deeply intelligent record of an extraordinary life. Required reading lest we forget what is possible in a race-based society." —Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature"John Hope Franklin's story is the stuff of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Greater Gotham

    A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919

    by Mike Wallace ...
    Series series The History of NYC Series
    In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale, moving from national to global prominence -- an urban dynamo driven by restless ambition, boundless energy, immigrant ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • A Fierce Discontent

    The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920

    by Michael McGerr ...
    With America's current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle class, the Progressive Era stands out as a time when the middle class had enough influence on the country to start its own revolution. Before the Progressive Era most Americans lived on farms, working from before sunrise to after sundown every day except Sunday with ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Contested Waters

    A Social History of Swimming Pools in America

    by Jeff Wiltse ...
    From nineteenth-century public baths to today’s private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the United States, Jeff Wiltse relates how, over the years, pools have served as asylums for the urban poor, leisure resorts for the masses, and private clubs for middle-class suburbanites. As sites of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Not in My Neighborhood

    How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City

    by Antero Pietila ...
    Baltimore is the setting for (and typifies) one of the most penetrating examinations of bigotry and residential segregation ever published in the United States. Antero Pietila shows how continued discrimination practices toward African Americans and Jews have shaped the cities in which we now live. Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's ... Read more

    $24.79 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow

    Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present

    by Jacqueline Jones ...
    The forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery was abolished. Toiling in sweltering Virginia tobacco factories or in the kitchens of white families in Chicago, black women felt a stultifying combination of racial discrimination and sexual prejudice. And yet, in their efforts to sustain family ties, they shared a common ... Read more

    $12.99 USD