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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

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  • Four Hundred Souls

    A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

    Edited by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post, Town & Country, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Broken Heart of America

    St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

    by Walter Johnson ...
    **A history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St. Louis“A magisterial book… A searing history.” —Eddie S. Glaude, author of Begin Again**From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how ... Read more

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  • 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

    $15.19 USD

  • The Republic for Which It Stands

    The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

    by Richard White ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America. At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • North of the Color Line

    Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955

    by Sarah-Jane Mathieu ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters, Sarah-Jane Mathieu connects social, political, labor, immigration, and black diaspora history ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Artificial River

    The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817–1862

    by Carol Sheriff ...
    This "enlightening" social history of the construction of the Erie canal explores "19th-century perceptions of progress, politics, and the common good" ( Kirkus Reviews).Woven from a rich tapestry of research, The Artificial River is more than just a historical account of the Erie Canal—it encapsulates a pivotal era in United States history, especially the monumental strides in engineering, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Fierce Discontent

    The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in A

    by Michael McGerr ...
    The Progressive Era, a few brief decades around the turn of the last century, still burns in American memory for its outsized personalities: Theodore Roosevelt, whose energy glinted through his pince-nez; Carry Nation, who smashed saloons with her axe and helped stop an entire nation from drinking; women suffragists, who marched in the streets until they finally achieved the vote; Andrew Carnegie ... Read more

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  • The American South

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Charles Reagan Wilson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The American South is a distinctive place with a dramatic history, and has significance beyond its regional context in the twenty first century. The American South: A Very Short Introduction explores the history of the South as a cultural crossroads, a meeting place between western Europe and West Africa. The South's beginnings illuminate the expansion of Europe into the New World, creating a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Bike Battles

    A History of Sharing the American Road

    by James Longhurst ...
    Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now. So why are most American cities still so ill-prepared to handle cyclists? James Longhurst, a historian and avid cyclist, tackles that question by tracing the contentious debates between American bike riders, motorists, and pedestrians over the shared road.Bike Battles explores the different ways that Americans have thought about the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Gateway Arch

    by Tracy Campbell ...
    Series series Icons of America
    This "fascinating, engaging" history of St. Louis's monument to American expansion reveals a story of greed, discrimination, and community displacement (NextSTL.com).Rising to a triumphant height of 630 feet, the Gateway Arch is one of the world's most widely recognized structures and attracts millions of tourists to St. Louis every year. Envisioned in 1947 but not completed until the mid-1960s, ... Read more

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  • City Life

    by Witold Rybczynski ...
    In City Life, Witold Rybczynski, bestselling author of Now I Sit Me Down, looks at what we want from cities, how they have evolved, and what accounts for their unique identities. In this vivid description of everything from the early colonial settlements to the advent of the skyscraper to the changes wrought by the automobile, the telephone, the airplane, and telecommuting, Rybczynski reveals how ... Read more

    $13.99 USD