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New Titles - History
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The Cuban Sandwich: A History in Layers
ANDREW T CRUZBARBARA C HOUCKJEFF HUSE - University Press of Florida; 1st edition Format: Paperback
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A delicious, multilayered tale of a legendary sandwich How did the Cuban sandwich become a symbol for a displaced people, win the hearts and bellies of America, and claim a spot on menus around the world? The odyssey of the Cubano begins with its hazy origins in the midnight cafés... |
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
Margaret A. Burnham - W. W. Norton & Company Format: eBook
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A Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow-era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar.If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law?In... |
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We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
Caleb Gayle - Riverhead Books Format: Hardcover
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"An important part of American history told with a clear-eyed and forceful brilliance." - National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson "We Refuse to Forget reminds readers, on damn near every page, that we are collectively experiencing a brilliance we've seldom seen... |
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The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
Malcolm Gaskill - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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A gripping story of a family tragedy brought about by witch-hunting in Puritan New England that combines history, anthropology, sociology, politics, theology and psychology.In Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails, property... |
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The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series
Tyler Kepner - Doubleday Format: eBook
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From the New York Times bestselling author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches comes the ultimate history of the World Series - a vivid portrait of baseball at its finest and most intense, filled with humor, lore, analysis, and fascinating behind-the-scenes stories from 117 years... |
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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
JBradford De Long - Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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From one of the world's leading economists, a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, yet left us unsatisfied Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted... |
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Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
Andrew K. Diemer - Knopf Format: eBook
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The remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia - the free state directly north of the Mason-Dixon Line - helping hundreds of people escape from slavery.Born free... |
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Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
THOMAS E RICKS - Farrar, Straus and Giroux Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent resistance around the world. In Waging a Good War, bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks... |
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The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World
David K. Randall - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Books of 2022. A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America's most loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record.In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with... |
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