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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan Publisher Comments Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. But when he was thirty-two... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 (Vintage) by Bernard Bailyn Publisher Comments Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Bernard Bailyn gives us a compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Wilson by A. Scott Berg Publisher Comments From Pulitzer Prizewinning, #1 New York Timesbestselling author A. Scott Berg comes the definitive and revelatory biography of one of the great American figures of modern times. One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance by Carla Kaplan Publisher Comments New York City in the Jazz Age was host to a pulsating artistic and social revolution. Uptown, an unprecedented explosion in black music, literature, dance, and art sparked the Harlem Renaissance. While the history of this African-American awakening has... (read more) Your price: $28.99 New - Hardcover
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The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published by David Skinner Publisher Comments Created by the most respected American publisher of dictionaries and supervised by editor Philip Gove, Webster's Third broke with tradition, adding thousands of new words and eliminating "artificial notions of correctness," basing proper... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor Publisher Comments Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as “freedom’s swift-winged angels.” In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans for... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Profiles in Courage: Deluxe Modern Classic by John F. Kennedy Publisher Comments Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage has served as a clarion call to every American. A collection of eight inspiring, unsung, and heroic acts by American patriots at different junctures... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Decline and Fall of the American Republic (98 Edition) by Bruce Ackerman About the Author Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. Yale... (read more) List Price $19.25 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Parkland by Vincent Bugliosi Publisher Comments Parkland (originally titled Four Days in November) is the exciting and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Releasing this fall, the movie—starring Paul Giamatti, Zac Efron, Jacki Weaver, and... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate States of America (Civil War America) by David T. Gleeson Publisher Comments Why did many Irish Americans, who did not have a direct connection to slavery, choose to fight for the Confederacy? This perplexing question is at the heart of David T. Gleeson's sweeping analysis of the Irish in the Confederate States of America. Taking... (read more) Your price: $36.25 New - Hardcover
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The Devil's Right Hand: The Tragic Story of the Colt Family Curse by M. William Phelps Publisher Comments From the best-selling true crime writer, author of The Devils Rooming House, and star of the new Investigation Discovery television series Dark Minds comes the horrific legacy of death and destruction in the gun-making Colt family during the nineteenth... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Battleground 1948: Truman, Stevenson, Douglas, and the Most Surprising Election in Illinois History by Robert E. Hartley Publisher Comments The election year of 1948 remains to this day one of the most astonishing in U.S. political history. During this first general election after World War II, Americans looked to their governments for change. As the battle for the nation’s highest... (read more) Your price: $40.50 New - Hardcover
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Never Again!: The Government Conspiracy in the JFK Assassination by Harold Weisberg Publisher Comments Originally published in 1995, and in the same classic investigative style of Whitewash and Case Open, Harold Weisberg turns his sharp investigative eye towards the events surrounding the autopsy of John F. Kennedy. Inside Never Again! you’ll find:... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials by Marilynne K Roach Publisher Comments Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the twenty who were executed and the five who... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hear No Evil: Politics, Science, and the Forensic Evidence in the Kennedy Assassination by Donald Byron Thomas Publisher Comments Did a shot from the “grassy knoll” kill President Kennedy? If so, was Oswald part of a conspiracy or an innocent patsy? Why have scientific experts who examined the evidence failed to put such questions to rest? In 2001, scientist Dr. Donald... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Frame-Up: The Assassination of Martin Luther King by Harold Weisberg Publisher Comments Back in print with its original title, Harold Weisberg’s detailed and devastating analysis of the Martin Luther King assassination is as timely as ever. Originally published in 1970, this book examines the circumstances of the murder, accused... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail by Eric Jay Dolin Publisher Comments Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities by Craig Steven Wilder Publisher Comments A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested history of involvement in slavery-setting off a controversy that soon leapt outside of the academic circuit and made headlines across the country. The... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Accessories After the Fact: The Warren Commission, the Authorities & the Report on the JFK Assassination by Sylvia Meagher Publisher Comments Originally published in 1967, Meagher’s masterful dissection of the Warren Report, based on the Warren Commission’s own evidence, has stood the test of time. In some cases, declassifications of government records have corroborated the author... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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A Documentary History of the United States (Updated & Expanded) by Richard D. Heffner Publisher Comments Here, in a single volume, are the documents, speeches, and letters that have forged American history, accompanied by interpretations of their significance by noted historian and broadcaster Richard D. Heffner with online journalist Alexander Heffner... (read more) Your price: $9.99 New - Mass Market
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