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  • Inventing the Boston Game

    Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth

    by Dr. Kevin Tallec Marston, Dr. Mike Cronin ...
    Series series Public History in Historical Perspective
    Honorable Mention, 2025 North American Society for Sport History Book AwardOn Boston Common stands a monument dedicated to the Oneida Football Club. It honors the site where, in the 1860s, sixteen boys played what was then called the “Boston game”—an early version of football in the United States. The boys were largely the sons of upper-class Boston Brahmins, and they lived through the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Slavery and Public History

    The Tough Stuff of American Memory

    by Ira Berlin, David W. Blight, Gary B. Nash ...
    "A fascinating collection of essays" by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery ( Booklist Online).In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America's history of slavery is depicted in books, films, television programs, historical sites, and museums. In the first attempt to examine the historiography of ... Read more

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  • Teaching White Supremacy

    America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity

    by Donald Yacovone ...
    **A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s inception and Revolutionary years to its 19th century flashpoint of civil war; to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and today’s Black Lives Matter.“The most profoundly original cultural history in recent memory.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University“Stunning, timely . . . an achievement ... Read more

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  • How Baseball Happened

    Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed

    by Thomas W. Gilbert ...
    The untold story of baseball's nineteenth-century origins: "a delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat" (Paul Dickson, The Wall Street Journal).You may have heard that Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers played the first baseball game in 1846. ... Read more

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  • The Manly Art

    Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America

    by Elliott J. Gorn ...
    "It didn't occur to me until fairly late in the work that I was writing a book about the beginnings of a national celebrity culture. By 1860, a few boxers had become heroes to working-class men, and big fights drew considerable newspaper coverage, most of it quite negative since the whole enterprise was illegal. But a generation later, toward the end of the century, the great John L. Sullivan of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Ku Klux Kulture

    America and the Klan in the 1920s

    by Felix Harcourt ...
    A study of the Ku Klux Klan's efforts to interact with American culture in the 1920s.In popular understanding, the Ku Klux Klan is a hateful white supremacist organization. In Ku Klux Kulture, Felix Harcourt argues that in the 1920s the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire had an even wider significance as a cultural movement.Ku Klux Kulture reveals the extent to which the KKK participated in and ... Read more

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  • The Big Scrum

    How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football

    by John J. Miller ...
    "The story . . . has as much vigor and passion as Roosevelt himself. It's a fascinating and thoroughly American tale." — Candice Millard, New York Times–bestselling authorJohn J. Miller delivers the intriguing, never-before-told story of how Theodore Roosevelt saved American Football—a game that would become the nation's most popular sport. Miller's sweeping, novelistic retelling captures the ... Read more

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  • Mystic Chords of Memory

    The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture

    by Michael Kammen ...
    Mystic Chords of Memory"Illustrated with hundreds of well-chosen anecdotes and minute observations . . . Kammen is a demon researcher who seems to have mined his nuggets from the entire corpus of American cultural history . . . insightful and sardonic."—Washington Post Book WorldIn this ground-breaking, panoramic work of American cultural history, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Machine ... Read more

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  • A Hard Road to Glory, Volume 1 (1619-1918)

    A History of the African-American Athlete

    by Arthur Ashe Jr. ...
    With a Foreword by Jeanne Moutoussamy-AsheAvailable once again for a new generation of readers, the first volume in Arthur Ashe’s epic trilogy that chronicles the remarkable legacy of Black athletes in the United States—a major addition to our understanding of American history and the fulfillment of this legendary sports star and global activist’s lifelong dream.When tennis great Arthur Ashe first ... Read more

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  • The American Revelation

    Ten Ideals That Shaped Our Country from the Puritans to the Cold War

    by Neil Baldwin ...
    Neil Baldwin, one of the most exciting intellectual historians, has written extensively about the great thinkers and innovators who have shaped our unique American identity. In THE AMERICAN REVELATION, he turns his energies to the unfolding story of how the American spirit developed over 400 years.This inspiring examination of the ideals that have grown to inform our national identity and of the ... Read more

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  • In Pursuit of Privilege

    A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis

    by Clifton Hood ...
    A history that extends from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of Privilege recounts upper-class New Yorkers' struggle to create a distinct world guarded against outsiders, even as economic growth and democratic opportunity enabled aspirants to gain entrance. Despite their efforts, New York City's upper class has been drawn into the larger story of the city both through class conflict and ... Read more

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  • William Wells Brown

    An African American Life

    by Ezra Greenspan ...
    **A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 'Biography'A groundbreaking biography of the most pioneering and accomplished African-American writer of the nineteenth century.**Born into slavery in Kentucky, raised on the Western frontier on the farm adjacent to Daniel Boone’s, “rented” out in adolescence to a succession of steamboat captains on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, the young man ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD