American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations
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America in the 1950s was a place of sensational commercial possibility coupled with dark nuclear...
Why the Grateful Dead Matter
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In Why the Grateful Dead Matter, veteran writer and lifelong Deadhead Michael Benson argues that the...
The Age of American Unreason In A Culture Of Lies
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The searing cultural history of the last half-century, The Age of American Unreason In A Culture of...
Salsiology: Afro-Cuban Music and the Evolution of Salsa in New York City
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Boggs presents a readable, even exciting, history of Salsa, showing how Afro-Cuban music was...
Muskets and Minuets (Muskets Trilogy #1)
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Love. Politics. War. Amidst mounting tensions between the British crown and the American...
Young Adult Historical Fiction
Ellen Harmon White: American Prophet
Terrie Dopp Aamodt, Gary Land and Ronald L. Numbers
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In America, as in Britain, the Victorian era enjoyed a long life, stretching from the 1830s to the...
Martin Scorsese: Interviews
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Martin Scorsese (b. 1942) has long been considered one of America's greatest cinematic storytellers....
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
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A defining American story of millions of immigrants, hundreds of languages, and one great city ...
History social issues
Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
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Americans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a sacred union. But...
History social sciences
Katharine's Remarkable Road Trip
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In the fall of 1907, Katharine decides to drive from Newport, Rhode Island, to her home in Jackson,...
Historical Fiction Civil War Nurses Biographical Fiction Women In History