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Settler and Creole Re-Enactment Best Price: $62.98 Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment - unexpected...	Booker T. Washington and the Struggle against White Supremacy: The Southern Educational Tours, 1908-1912 Best Price: $12.75 This book narrates and analyzes the southern tours by Booker T. Washington and his associates in...	Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York Best Price: $15.00 New York is the capital of mambo and a global factory of latinidad. This book covers the...	O God of Players: The Story of the Immaculata Mighty Macs (Religion and American Culture) Best Price: $75.54 Between 1972 and 1974, the Mighty Macs of Immaculata College -- a small Catholic women's...	December 7th, 1941: Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor Best Price: $30.80



Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 (Blacks in the New World) Best Price: $1.70	Hooded Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Colorado Univ of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL, 1981. Hard Cover. First edition, NF/VG+, 255pp, text is...	The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920 Best Price: $131.63 This colorful and perceptive study presents persuasive evidence that the saloon, far from being...	The Sponemann Site: The Formative Emergent Mississippian Sponemann Phase Occupations (FAI-270 Series) Best Price: $11.98 This is the type site for the Sponemann phase (A.D. 750-800), a settlement created by...	POLITICAL DELIVERANCE Best Price: $67.22 This book by Edward Leo Lyman is a telling discourse of how The Morman people abandon a...



Settler and Creole Re-Enactment Best Price: $62.98 Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment - unexpected...	Booker T. Washington and the Struggle against White Supremacy: The Southern Educational Tours, 1908-1912 Best Price: $12.75 This book narrates and analyzes the southern tours by Booker T. Washington and his associates in...	Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York Best Price: $15.00 New York is the capital of mambo and a global factory of latinidad. This book covers the...	O God of Players: The Story of the Immaculata Mighty Macs (Religion and American Culture) Best Price: $75.54 Between 1972 and 1974, the Mighty Macs of Immaculata College -- a small Catholic women's...	December 7th, 1941: Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor Best Price: $30.80

Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 (Blacks in the New World) Best Price: $1.70	Hooded Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Colorado Univ of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL, 1981. Hard Cover. First edition, NF/VG+, 255pp, text is...	The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920 Best Price: $131.63 This colorful and perceptive study presents persuasive evidence that the saloon, far from being...	The Sponemann Site: The Formative Emergent Mississippian Sponemann Phase Occupations (FAI-270 Series) Best Price: $11.98 This is the type site for the Sponemann phase (A.D. 750-800), a settlement created by...	POLITICAL DELIVERANCE Best Price: $67.22 This book by Edward Leo Lyman is a telling discourse of how The Morman people abandon a...

Hurricane Katrina, A Nation Still Unprepared: Special Report Together with Additional Views Best Price: $213.52 Effective response to mass emergencies is a critical role of every level of government. It...	My Journey Through Life: The Story of a Russian Immigrant Family This is a fascinating collection of vignettes in the history of a family who immigrates to...	The Pharmacology of Noradrenaline in the Central Nervous System (Oxford Medical Publications) Best Price: $127.55 Here is an up-to-date, detailed account of the research and that has significantly increased our...	Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 (Americans & the California Dream) Best Price: $39.99 In the late nineteenth century, California became "the cutting edge of the American dream,...	The Dodgers Move West Best Price: $24.95 This is a decent urban history book that covers the reasons for the movement of people from the...

The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity Best Price: $16.85 "Cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed," Rupert Vance called it in 1935. "Nowhere but...	Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913 Best Price: $20.00 Dr. Foster provides an intriguing account of how the "Lost Cause" mutated to...	Blood Justice: The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker Best Price: $14.50 This book is well researched and well written. It does an excellent job of chronicling the...	Leadership on the Federal Bench: The Craft and Activism of Jack Weinstein Best Price: $72.95 Leadership on the Federal Bench: The Craft and Activism of Jack Weinstein considers the ways a...	The Massachusetts State Constitution (Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States) Best Price: $127.78 In The Massachusetts State Constitution , Lawrence Friedman and Lynnea Thody present a...

Evolving Complexity And Environmental Risk In The Prehistoric Southwest (Santa Fe Institute Series) Best Price: $24.99 Cultural behavior exhibits many of the features of complex adaptive systems, but is in some ways...	Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives: Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota (Part of the New Immigrants Series) Best Price: $4.97 I usually hate text books but I loved this one! Keep it when your course is over or if you...	Military Laws of the State of Alabama; Governing the Alabama National Guard and Militia Best Price: $14.13 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing...	Bread and Ashes: A Journey Through the Mountains of Georgia	Chicago: City on the Make Best Price: $10.95 Nelson Algren expresses a vision of a city in Chicago: City on the Make like no other New York...

Come In and Hear the Truth: Jazz and Race on 52nd Street Best Price: $27.43 Between the mid-1930s and the late ?40s, the center of the jazz world was a two-block stretch of...	Chicago '68 Best Price: $34.97 The only thing better than reading Farber's book is hearing him speak on the Chicago '68...	The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York: Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple Best Price: $18.00 I am lucky to live in Rochester, close to the temple that Corinne Dempsey so lovingly describes...	The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 Best Price: $21.91 Despite the vast changes in plantation agriculture following the Civil War and Reconstruction,...	Nor-tec Rifa!: Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World (Currents in Iberian and Latin American Music) Best Price: $15.25 At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the Nor-tec phenomenon emerged from the border city of...

Of the People: A History of the United States Best Price: $12.70 Although I received the wrong product, the seller did her best to correct the situation and when...	The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America Best Price: $16.03 THE FRONTIER OF LEISURE: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND THE SHAPING OF MODERN AMERICA earns a place in...	Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber Best Price: $8.74 Enchanted Evenings second edition is a delight for lovers of Broadway musicals, giving musical...	Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England Best Price: $12.46 "A fascinating and in depth narrative of discrimination and hardship that happened in the...	First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Michelle Obama Best Price: $4.99 Betty Boyd Caroli's engrossing and informative First Ladies is both a captivating read and...

Gulf Coast of Florida Best Price: $11.80	Georgia in Antiquity: A History of Colchis and Transcaucasian Iberia, 550 BC-AD 562 Best Price: $105.00 For non-Georgians it is very difficult to learn anything about the history of Georgia because of...	The Story of the Cherokee Best Price: $3.00	Reading and Writing in Social Studies Grade 5 California Vistas Making a New Nation Best Price: $29.99 Lesson Summaries Reading Comprehension Skills Vocabulary Writing Answer Key	Journey to Jerusalem Best Price: $45.65 This is an excellent book about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Grace Halsell describes her...

Steinbrenner's Yankees Best Price: $98.55	Under the guns: New York: 1775-1776 Best Price: $86.22 From back cover: "E.J. Kahn, Jr. says of Under the Guns: " 'A painstaking,...	The Bronx in the Innocent Years, 1890-1925 Best Price: $15.01	Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles Best Price: $15.50 Fans of the movie "Chinatown," Roman Polanski's classic detective melodrama, will...	Government and Politics in the Lone Star State: Theory and Practice Reflecting the insights of authors who have written about, taught, or participated in Texas...

Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center Best Price: $3.93 "Great Fortune" is a history of the people, the buildings, the politics and the...	Rosa Parks: A Life Best Price: $5.50 I knew who Rosa Parks is. Who doesn't? But I had no idea just what all went on in the...	The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave: Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.30 The unique narrative of a slave who fled to freedom and sailed aboard a whaling vessel. ...	The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago Best Price: $4.95 The untold true story of the murders that inspired the iconic musical Chicago . With a...	Half the House: A Memoir Best Price: $28.30 I read "Half the House" because I'm a sucker for anything billed as a...

Purisimeno Chumash Prehistory: Maritime Adaptations Along the Southern California Coast (Case Studies in Archaeology) Best Price: $13.45 ...but then, this book was probably not written for the layman. If you have an interest and at...	Life in Riverfront: A Middle Western Town Seen through Japanese Eyes (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) Best Price: $12.00 LIFE IN RIVERFRONT is a unique case study that offers a fresh approach to ethnography because it...	The Reader's Companion to Alaska Best Price: $4.20 This is a marvelous collection of essays written about life and travel in Alaska during the...	Bingo Night at the Fire Hall: Rediscovering Life in an American Village Best Price: $5.75 When she was in her early 60's author Barbara Holland moved from Philadelphia to Loudon...	Sugarcane Academy: How a New Orleans Teacher and His Storm-Struck Students Created a School to Remember (Harvest Original) Best Price: $0.29 Idly thumbing through the stacks at my local indy the other day, I stumbled across this little...

Proving the Principle: A History of the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, 1949-1999 Best Price: $32.99 I worked at the INL for 3 years in the early 90's and found it very interesting. This book...	Designing the Nation's Capital: The 1901 Plan for Washington, DC Best Price: $26.00 In 1901 the United States Senate, inspired by the City Beautiful movement of the late nineteenth...	Home Town News: William Allen White and the Emporia Gazette Best Price: $5.00 In 1895, a 27-year-old journalist named William Allen White returned to his home town of...	Buildings of Rhode Island (Buildings of the United States) Best Price: $149.95 Rhode Island is the smallest state in the union: slightly more than 1,200 square miles, 14...	The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920 Best Price: $0.75 This important new book charts the economic and social rise and fall of a small, but intriguing...

Church People in the Struggle: The National Council of Churches and the Black Freedom Movement, 1950-1970 (Religion in America) Best Price: $17.95 This comprehensive study represents the first effort by an historian to examine the relationship...	A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten Best Price: $3.23 There was a Revolutionary War sailor who was captured by the British and was offered British...	The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War This collection of essays deals with slavery in the USA, and how the South in particular...	A New Significance: Re-Envisioning the History of the American West Best Price: $101.64 In 1893, Fredrick Jackson Turner published his revolutionary essay, "The Significance of...	Pacific Arcadia: Images of California, 1600-1915 Best Price: $8.00 For anyone who is interested in the history of California and art, this is a very interesting book.

The Natural History of the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains (1819-1820) Best Price: $8.70 A little over 170 years ago--hardly a moment on the clock of history--one half of the United...	Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing (Historical Studies of Urban America) Best Price: $32.81 The failure of public housing in Chicago is something that everyone in the midwest seems to have...	Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion Best Price: $17.40 Kripal, Jeffrey J. (2007). Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion. University of...	The Charnley House: Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Making of Chicago's Gold Coast (Chicago Architecture and Urbanism) Situated in Chicago's famed Gold Coast, just north of the Magnificent Mile, the Charnley...	Papers of James Madison. Volume 10 : May 27, 1787-March 3, 1788 Best Price: $138.79

Chicago Gardens: The Early History (Center for American Places - Center Books on American Places) Best Price: $21.73 Once maligned as a swampy outpost, the fledgling city of Chicago brazenly adopted the motto ...	The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas Best Price: $25.99 To learn about its territories in the New World, Spain commissioned a survey of Spanish...	Streets of Glory: Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood (Morality and Society Series) Best Price: $15.50 This is the most important study of black urban religious life in a long time, and University of...	Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest Best Price: $16.95 Nelson's work is so absolutely excellent. His sentence and paragraph structure are so easy...	Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii, Volume 1: Historical Ethnography Best Price: $25.00 From the late 1700s, Hawaiian society began to change rapidly as it responded to the growing...

The Chicago Conspiracy Trial: Revised Edition Best Price: $18.77 In 1969, the Chicago Seven were charged with intent to "incite, organize, promote, and...	Beautiful Mornin': The Broadway Musical in the 1940s Best Price: $3.99 Ethan Mordden is my favorite author of all time -- his breadth and depth of knowledge and...	Claiming Diaspora: Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural Politics in Asian/Chinese America Best Price: $29.50 Framed by a century and a half of racialized Chinese American musical experiences, Claiming...	Refusing the Favor: The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880 Best Price: $22.00 Deena González's "Refusing the Favor: The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa...	Of Borders and Margins: Hispanic Disciples in Texas, 1888-1945 (American Academy of Religion Academy Series) Best Price: $3.24 The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) has an uneasy relationship with its Hispanic...

Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase Best Price: $4.50 This book had strong content and very weird organization. On the plus side: Kennedy puts...	Crucible of Struggle: A History of Mexican Americans from the Colonial Period to the Present Era Best Price: $17.00 Ranging from the founding of New Mexico in 1598 to the 2008 Obama presidential campaign, ...	The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles Against Urban Inequality (Transgressing Boundaries) Best Price: $60.15 In this landmark case study, historian Rhonda Y. Williams redefines postwar urban history by...	Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950 (Americans and the California Dream) Best Price: $11.72 Kevin Starr has created a brilliant picture of California in an eventful decade. I need not add...	Wall Street: A History: From Its Beginnings to the Fall of Enron In the seven years since the publication of the first edition of "Wall Street",...

The Ghost of Jim Crow: How Southern Moderates Used Brown v. Board of Education to Stall Civil Rights Best Price: $7.29 This exhaustively researched book peels the mask off some of the most cherished myths of the...

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