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Andrea Maria McComb Sanchez
Of Corn and Catholicism

Andrea McComb Sanchez examines the development of the patron saint feast days among Eastern Pueblo Indians of New Mexico from the seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century.

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Nutter
Walnut Street YMCA and YWCA

The Walnut Street YMCA and YWCA opened in September 1940 to much excitement and anticipation within the African American community in Wilmington, Delaware. Jeanne D. Nutter, PhD, an oral historian, has co…

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Latinas/OS in New Jersey

"Since the 1890s, New Jersey has attracted hundreds of thousands of Caribbean and Latin American migrants. The state's rich economic history, high-income suburbs, and strong public sector have all contrib…

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Daniel Bullen
Daniel Shays's Honorable Rebellion

On January 25, 1787, in Springfield, Massachusetts, militia Major General William Shepard ordered his cannon to fire grapeshot at a peaceful demonstration of 1,200 farmers approaching the federal arsenal.…

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Nancy K Williams
Colorado Outlaws & Lawmen

Taming a Tumultuous Territory Hollywood westerns of the twentieth century brought a history of raucous frontier justice to life, but 1800s Colorado was anything but fiction. Bandits held up the Denver an…

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Robert Sorrell
Historic Theaters of the Tennessee Tri-Cities

The Stories Behind Iconic Venues Theaters in the Tri-Cities featured everything from early minstrel shows of the nineteenth century to the modern multiplex movie houses of the twenty-first century. It's a…

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Our Nation at Risk

The nation's top political scientists, historians, and legal scholars propose solutions for democracy's future In recent years, the sight of gun-wielding citizens patrolling ballot boxes and voting sites…

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Latinas/OS in New Jersey

"Since the 1890s, New Jersey has attracted hundreds of thousands of Caribbean and Latin American migrants. The state's rich economic history, high-income suburbs, and strong public sector have all contrib…

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Stephanie Erickson
Islands of Southern Lake Winnipesaukee

The islands of southern Lake Winnipesaukee have a rich and diverse history. The first summer home on Sleepers Island was Hale's castle, a replica of a medieval castle constructed by the same stone masons…

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Don Romesburg
Contested Curriculum

Contested Curriculum recounts the fight for LGBTQ-inclusive K-12 history education in the United States. Historian Don Romesburg makes a powerful case for why teaching about LGBTQ lives in schools can hel…

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Don Romesburg
Contested Curriculum

Contested Curriculum recounts the fight for LGBTQ-inclusive K-12 history education in the United States. Historian Don Romesburg makes a powerful case for why teaching about LGBTQ lives in schools can hel…

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Carol Bradley
Twisting in Air

Twisting in Air brings to life the era when an extraordinary group of horses learned to fall on cue to make Western movies seem more realistic, chronicling how one of them, Cocaine, overcame a debilitatin…

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Ron de Beaulieu
Minnesota's Most Notorious Mobster

"Ninety percent of [what] was written about me is bullshit" Isadore Blumenfeld, aka Kid Cann, came to Minnesota as a toddler when his family emigrated from Romania. In Prohibition-era Minneapolis, a city …

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Tony Wade
Growing Up in Vacaville

Exquisite food coupled with the wonder and whimsy of the world-famous Nut Tree restaurant. Beating the heat at The Blue Lagoon Waterslide Park or getting lost in the giant maze, The Wooz. Trips to the bur…

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Taylor Baldwin Kiland
Murder of the Jujube Candy Heiress

One candy heiress, two bullets and three suspects. The small Southern California island of Coronado rarely makes news for violent crime. But in the spring of 1975, World War II widow and retired libraria…

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David Brown Morris
Ten Thousand Central Parks

A visionary look at Central Park's creation as an urban success story inspiring bold climate action Climate change is the existential crisis of our time. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, an…

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James K Nelsen
Milwaukee Through History

"Milwaukee Through History encourages middle and high schoolers to study the history of their own community and find the links among the individual, the local, and the national communities. The book is di…

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Scott L Mingus, David Schultz
The Second Day at Gettysburg

On July 2, 1863, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet struck the Union left flank with a blow that collapsed Sickles' advanced position in the Peach Orchard and rolled northward, tearing open a gap in the center of …

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Marion Ransell Dobbins
The Lost Black Communities of Merrifield, the Pines and Williamstown

After the Civil War, Black landownership in Fairfax County increased by leaps and bounds. By the 1870s, retired Union officers were purchasing land that they sold to African Americans like Joshua Ball, Jo…

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Brian Vandemark
Kent State

On 4 May 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protestors wearing bell-bottom jeans and long hair hurled taunts an…

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