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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson Staff Pick The Warmth of Other Suns is a fascinating epic narrative of the Great Migration by the brilliant and beautiful Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan Publisher Comments The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann Staff Pick Charles C. Mann has pulled off an impressive feat — a scholarly, thorough work of history that's almost compulsively readable. In 1491, he summarizes and examines the last thirty years of research into the pre-Columbian Americas, and comes to some... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Victors and the Vanquished : Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico (00 Edition) by Stuart B. Schwartz Publisher Comments In 1519 Hernán Cortés and a small band of Spanish conquistadors overthrew the mighty Mexican empire of the Aztecs. Using excerpts primarily drawn from Bernal Diaz's 1632 account of the Spanish victory and testimonies —... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Empire of the Summer Moon (10 Edition) by S. C. Gwynne Publisher Comments andlt;Bandgt;andlt;BRandgt;In the tradition of andlt;Iandgt;Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, andlt;/Iandgt;a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America by Tony Horwitz Publisher Comments W hat happened in North America between Columbus's sail in 1492 and the Pilgrims' arrival in 1620? On a visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he doesn't have a clue, nor do most Americans. So he sets off across the continent to rediscover the... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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First Generations : Women in Colonial America (96 Edition) by Carol Berkin Publisher Comments Carol Berkin's multicultural history reconstructs the lives of American women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-women from European, African, and Native backgrounds-and examines their varied roles as wives, mothers, household managers, laborers,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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American Holocaust : the Conquest of the New World (92 Edition) by David E. Stannard Publisher Comments For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an... (read more) List Price $30.75 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown Publisher Comments Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived. Now... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression by Alan Brinkley Publisher Comments The study of two demagogues, whose vast popularity explains much about Depression-era America.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Book of the Hopi by Frank Waters Publisher Comments In this unique collection, some thirty Hopi elders reveal for the first time in written form the Hopi world-view.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Citizen 13660 by Mine Okubo Publisher Comments Mine Okubo was one of 110,000 people of Japanese descent--nearly two-thirds of them American citizens -- who were rounded up into "protective custody" shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, her memoir of life in relocation centers in California and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Since Yesterday : the 1930's in America (40 Edition) by Frederick L. Allen Publisher Comments Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-485) and index.... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sleuthing the Alamo : Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution (05 Edition) by James E. Crisp Publisher Comments In Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E. Crisp draws back the curtain on years of mythmaking to reveal some surprising truths about the Texas Revolution--truths that are often obscured by both racism and political correctness. This engaging first... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Earth Shall Weep : a History of Native America (98 Edition) by James Wilson Publisher Comments Now available in paperback, "The Earth Shall Weep" is a groundbreaking, critically acclaimed history of the Native American peoples which combines traditional historical sources with new research.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Publisher Comments Winner of the Lincoln Prize This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Radical Hope : Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation (06 Edition) by Jonathan Lear Publisher Comments Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story—up to a certain point. “When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground,” he said, “and they could not lift them... (read more) List Price $20.25 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Cherokee Women : Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 (98 Edition) by Theda Perdue Publisher Comments Theda Perdue examines the roles and responsibilities of Cherokee women during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a time of intense cultural change. While building on the research of earlier historians, she develops a uniquely complex view of the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Conquest : Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (05 Edition) by Andrea Smith Publisher Comments A recognized Native American scholar and co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, the largest grassroots, multiracial feminist organization in the country, Andrea Smith (Cherokee) is an emerging leader in progressive political circles. In... (read more) List Price $29.75 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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