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Solar Flares: Science Fiction in the 1970s
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Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as...
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Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis
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Like most of the nation during the 1930s, St. Louis, Missouri, was caught in the stifling grip of...
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment
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In recent years, America’s criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly...
Politics social issues race
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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
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Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Radical Politics In a Global Era
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In 1964 Malcolm X was invited to debate at the Oxford Union Society at Oxford University. The topic...
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The Letters of John F. Kennedy
Martin W. Sandler and John F. Kennedy
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy led the United States for barely a thousand days, and yet he is regarded as...
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The Times Great Women's Lives: A Celebration in Obituaries
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This selection of Times obituaries from 1872 to 2014 revisits the lives of 125 women who have all,...
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Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon
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In the first full biography of actor Sidney Poitier, Aram Goudsouzian analyzes the life and career...
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Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation
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Studs Terkel was an American icon who had no use for America's cult of celebrity. He was a leftist...
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The Butler: A Witness to History
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When acclaimed Washington Postwriter Wil Haygood had an early hunch that Obama would win the 2008...