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All our relations
A beautiful and daring vision of political, spiritual, and ecological transformation.
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Chasing chance
An enthralling study of a founding American dynasty –the Peirces and the Princes--in an interwoven story of family heritage that extends from the earliest settlements to the mid-twentieth century.From Pilgrims to Robber Barons, martyred witches to Confederate officers, artists to statesmen, found...
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Daring to struggle, daring to win
Helen Shiller recounts her independent path of resistance: from the student anti-war movement of the 1960s to a Black Panther Party alliance to Mayor Harold Washington’s 26th vote to lonely voice against Mayor Richard M. Daley on a myriad of issues.
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How the suburbs were segregated
Focusing on Baltimore’s wealthiest, whitest neighborhoods, Paige Glotzer offers a new understanding of the deeper roots of suburban segregation. She argues that the mid-twentieth-century policies that favored exclusionary housing were the culmination of a long-term effort by developers to use rac...
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Liberty and coercion
How the conflict between federal and state power has shaped American historyAmerican governance is burdened by a paradox. On the one hand, Americans don't want "big government" meddling in their lives; on the other hand, they have repeatedly enlisted governmental help to impose their views regard...
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Mothers of conservatism
Mothers of Conservatism tells the story of 1950s Southern Californian housewives who shaped the grassroots right in the two decades following World War II. Michelle Nickerson describes how red-hunting homemakers mobilized activist networks, institutions, and political consciousness in local educa...
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Objects tell stories
A completely new illustrated souvenir volume which showcases the American experience through photographs and maps, books and newspapers, letters and records, paintings and sculpture, toys and furniture, from the everyday to the extraordinary.The vast holdings of the New-York Historical reflect an...
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Planting the seeds of research
‘Planting the Seeds of Research’ explores why by the beginnings of the twentieth century the United States dominated agricultural production worldwide.
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Recovering the sacred
Only the power to define what is sacred and access it will enable Native American communities to remember who they are.
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Reforming the city
Ariane Liazos examines the urban reform movement that swept through the country in the early twentieth century and its unintended consequences. Reforming the City offers powerful insights into the relationships between scholarship and reform and between the structures of city government and urban...
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Seeing with their hearts
At the turn of the last century, as industrialists and workers made Chicago the hardworking City of Big Shoulders celebrated by Carl Sandburg, Chicago women articulated an alternative City of Homes in which the welfare of residents would be the municipal government's principal purpose. Seeing Wit...
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The letters of joe hill
The legend of Joe Hill, brought to life through his letters, songs, and writings.
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