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  • Agrarian Women, the Gender of Dairy Work, and the Two-Breadwinner Model in the Swedish Welfare State

    by Lena Sommestad ...
    In this volume, Lena Sommestad explores the significance of rural womanhood in the formation of Sweden’s gender-egalitarian welfare state in the early 20th century. Drawing on a rich array of documents, photographs, and interviews with women and men, she analyzes the changing gender division of labor in dairying and illuminates the dynamic processes and debates that shaped industrial workplaces. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Reshaping Women's History

    Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians

    by Nupur Chaudhuri, Midori Green, Frances L Buss, Lisa DiCaprio, Julie R Enszer, Catherine Fosl, La Shonda Mims, Stephanie Moore, Grey Osterud, Barbara Ransby, Linda Reese, Annette Rodriguez, Linda Rupert, Kathleen Sheldon, Donna Sinclair, Rickie Solinger, Pamela J. Stewart, Waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy, Ann Marie Wilson ...
    Series series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
    Award-winning women scholars from nontraditional backgrounds have often negotiated an academic track that leads through figurative--and sometimes literal--minefields. Their life stories offer inspiration, but also describe heartrending struggles and daunting obstacles. Reshaping Women's History presents autobiographical essays by eighteen accomplished scholar-activists who persevered through ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Putting the Barn Before the House

    Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York

    by Nancy Grey Osterud ...
    Putting the Barn Before the House features the voices and viewpoints of women born before World War I who lived on family farms in south-central New York. As she did in her previous book, Bonds of Community, for an earlier period in history, Grey Osterud explores the flexible and varied ways that families shared labor and highlights the strategies of mutuality that women adopted to ensure they had ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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    The New York Landmark and the Incomparable City That Arose with It

    by Alice Sparberg Alexiou ...
    The marvelous story of the Flatiron: the instantly recognizable building that signaled the start of a new era in New York history.Critics hated it. The public feared it would topple over. Passersby were knocked down by the winds. But even before it was completed, the Flatiron Building had become an unforgettable part of New York City.The Flatiron Building was built by the Chicago-based Fuller ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Up from Zero

    Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York

    by Paul Goldberger ...
    In Up from Zero, Paul Goldberger, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the inside story of the quest to rebuild one of the most important symbolic sites in the world, the sixteen acres where the towers of the former World Trade Center stood. A story of power, politics, architecture, community, and culture, Up from Zero takes us inside the controversial struggle to create and build one of the most ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sisters of Fortune

    America's Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad

    by Jehanne Wake ...
    Perfect for fans of the Emmy Award–winning series Downton Abbey, whose creator, Julian Fellowes, raved that Sisters of Fortune is “absolutely fascinating”—a real-life Jane Austen story, that follows the fabulous Caton sisters, the first American heiresses to take Europe by storm.Based on intimate and previously unpublished letters written by the sisters, this is a portrait of four lively and ... Read more

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  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into Pennsylvania

    by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...
    Series series Plunges Into
    From Pittsburgh to Philly, Steelers to Eagles, chocolate to Peeps--it's all here. Uncle John has put together this absolutely awesome anthology of Pennsylvania facts, firsts, famous feats, and much more.Take a ride on the Reading Railroad! (Either pronunciation of “Reading” works here.) Yes, the Keystone State is rich in history, beauty, and the world’s most delicious cheesesteak (Whiz wit!). ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • This I Believe

    Philadelphia

    by This I Believe, Inc. ...
    An essay collection highlighting guiding principles, containing 30 works from the contemporary Philadelphia radio series, and 30 from the 1950s original.This I Believe is an international project engaging people in writing, sharing, and discussing the core values that guide their daily lives. And it all started in Philadelphia more than seven decades ago with a local radio series that became an ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The WPA Guide to Pennsylvania

    The Keystone State

    by Federal Writers' Project ...
    During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors-many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures-were ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A First Class Temperament

    The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, 1905-1928

    by Geoffrey C. Ward ...
    In this classic of American biography, based upon thousands of original documents, many never previously published, the prize-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward tells the dramatic story of Franklin Roosevelt’s unlikely rise from cloistered youth to the brink of the presidency with a richness of detail and vivid sense of time, place, and personality usually found only in fiction.In these pages, FDR ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Curiosities of the Finger Lakes

    Hidden Ancient Ruins, Flying Machines, the Boy Who Caught a Trout with His Nose and More

    by Melanie Zimmer ...
    The Finger Lakes region is known for its beauty, but look carefully and you will discover some of New York's other abundant--and unusual--treasures. The cliffs of Excelsior Glen are scattered with ancient Indian pictographs, and Bluff Point conceals the ruins of an unknown civilization. The wine industry has its own strange stories; discover why one wine producer was banned from using his own name ... Read more

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  • The Search for the Underground Railroad in Upstate New York

    by Tom Calarco ...
    A historian investigates evidence for the existence of the Underground Railroad in upstate New York.Because of its clandestine nature, much of the history of the Underground Railroad remains shrouded in secrecy—so much so that some historians have even doubted its importance. After decades of research, Tom Calarco recounts his experiences compiling evidence to give credence to the legend's oral ... Read more

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