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  • Strike!

    Twenty Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers Broke the Law

    by William D. Green ...
    The complex and dramatic history of an illegal teachers’ strike that forever altered labor relations and Minnesota politicsWhen viewed from our turbulent times, the Minneapolis of fifty years ago might seem serene, but Minneapolis schoolteachers of the day remember it quite differently. It was, author William D. Green said of their recollections, as if they’d been through war. This book recreates ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • A Peculiar Imbalance

    The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Early Minnesota

    by William D. Green ...
    In the 1850s, as Minnesota Territory was reaching toward statehood, settlers from the eastern United States moved in, carrying rigid perceptions of race and culture into a community built by people of many backgrounds who relied on each other for survival. History professor William Green unearths the untold stories of African Americans and contrasts their experiences with those of Indians, mixed ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Nellie Francis

    Fighting for Racial Justice and Women's Equality in Minnesota

    by William D. Green ...
    The life and work of an African American suffragist and activist devoted to equality and freedomAt her last public appearance in 1962, at 88 years old, a frail, deaf, and blind Nellie Francis was honored for her church and community service in Nashville, Tennessee. No mention was made of her early groundbreaking work as an activist in Minnesota and nationally. Even today, while her advocacy for ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Children of Lincoln

    White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876

    by William D. Green ...
    How white advocates of emancipation abandoned African American causes in the dark days of Reconstruction, told through the stories of four MinnesotansWhite people, Frederick Douglass said in a speech in 1876, were “the children of Lincoln,” while black people were “at best his stepchildren.” Emancipation became the law of the land, and white champions of African Americans in the state were ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Why Your Vote Doesn't Count

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    David Daley’s “extraordinarily timely” (New York Times Book Review) account uncovers the fundamental rigging of our House of Representatives and state legislatures nationwide.Lauded as a “compelling” (The New Yorker) and “eye-opening tour of a process that many Americans never see” (Washington Post), David Daley’s Ratf**ked documents the effort of Republican legislators and political operatives to ... Read more

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  • How the States Got Their Shapes Too

    The People Behind the Borderlines

    by Mark Stein ...
    Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island? Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware? How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of Colorado? All this and more is explained in Mark Stein's new book.How the States Got Their Shapes Too follows How the States Got Their Shapes looks at American ... Read more

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  • Minority Rule

    The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It

    by Ari Berman ...
    “Voting rights journalist Ari Berman has been detailing threats to our democracy for years, and his new book Minority Rule is a timely and essential read. He expertly shows how Republicans are trying to rig our political system—and shares how we can fight back.” —Hillary Clinton on XA riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench ... Read more

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  • William Henry Harrison

    The American Presidents Series: The 9th President, 1841

    by Gail Collins ...
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    The president who served the shortest term—just a single month—but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking America's highest officeWilliam Henry Harrison died just thirty-one days after taking the oath of office in 1841. Today he is a curiosity in American history, but as Gail Collins shows in this entertaining and revelatory biography, he and his career are ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Give Us the Ballot

    The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

    by Ari Berman ...
    A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, NonfictionA New York Times Notable Book of 2015A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2015A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2015An NPR Best Book of 2015Countless books have been written about the civil rights movement, but far less attention has been pai... ... Read more

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  • Revolutionary Founders

    Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation

    Edited by Alfred F. Young, Ray Raphael, Gary Nash ...
    In twenty-two original essays, leading historians reveal the radical impulses at the founding of the American Republic. Here is a fresh new reading of the American Revolution that gives voice and recognition to a generation of radical thinkers and doers whose revolutionary ideals outstripped those of the Founding Fathers.While the Founding Fathers advocated a break from Britain and espoused ideals ... Read more

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  • The Containment

    Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North

    by Michelle Adams ...
    Winner of the MAAH Stone Book AwardWinner of the 2025 Avern Cohn AwardWinner of the 2026 Hillman Prize for Book JournalismHonorable Mention, 2026 ABA Silver Gavel AwardA New York Times Notable Book of 2025,A New Yorker Best Book of 2025 selectionA Library of Michigan Notable Book of 2026... ... Read more

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  • The Relentless Business of Treaties

    How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property

    by Martin Case ...
    The story of "western expansion" is a familiar one: U.S. government agents, through duplicity and force, persuaded Native Americans to sign treaties that gave away their rights to the land. But this framing, argues Martin Case, hides a deeper story. Land cession treaties were essentially the act of supplanting indigenous kinship relationships to the land with a property relationship. And property ... Read more

    $11.59 USD