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  • New Deal, New Landscape

    The Civilian Conservation Corps and South Carolina's State Parks

    by Tara Mitchell Mielnik ...
    A history of the New Deal program that led to the creation of South Carolina's first sixteen state parksTara Mitchell Mielnik fills a significant gap in the history of the New Deal South by examining the lives of the men of South Carolina's Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) who from 1933 to 1942 built sixteen state parks, all of which still exist today. Enhanced with revealing interviews with ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Devil Is Here in These Hills

    West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom

    by James Green ...
    "The most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I've ever read." —John Sayles, writer and director of MatewanOn September 1, 1912, the largest, most protracted, and deadliest working-class uprising in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chocolate City

    A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

    by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove ...
    Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America’s expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • The Company Town

    The Industrial Eden's and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy

    by Hardy Green ...
    Company town: The very phrase sounds un-American. Yet company towns are the essence of America. Hershey bars, Corning glassware, Kohler bathroom fixtures, Maytag washers, Spam -- each is the signature product of a company town in which one business, for better or worse, exercises a grip over the population. In The Company Town, Hardy Green, who has covered American business for over a decade, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Nature's New Deal

    The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement

    by Neil M. Maher ...
    The Great Depression coincided with a wave of natural disasters, including the Dust Bowl and devastating floods of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Recovering from these calamities--and preventing their reoccurrence--was a major goal of the New Deal. In Nature's New Deal, Neil M. Maher examines the history of one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's boldest and most successful experiments, the Civilian ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Bloody Lowndes

    Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt

    by Hasan Kwame Jeffries ...
    Bloody Lowndes is the true story of the people of rural Lowndes County, Alabama, who organized a radical experiment in democratic politics in 1966.Winner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the Best Book on local history from the Alabama Historical AssociationEarly in 1966, African Americans in Lowndes County, Alabama, aided by activists from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Traveling Black

    A Story of Race and Resistance

    by Mia Bay ...
    Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the David J. Langum PrizeWinner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Order of the Coif Book AwardWinner of the OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation AwardA New York Times Critics’ Top Book of the Year“This extraordinary book is a powerful addition to the history of travel segregation…Mia Bay shows that Black mobility has always been a struggle.”—Ibram X. Kendi ... Read more

    $22.59 CAD

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  • Empire of Rubber

    Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia

    by Gregg Mitman ...
    An ambitious and shocking exposé of America’s hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadowIn the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world’s rubber. But only one percent of the world’s rubber grew under the U.S. flag, creating a bottleneck that hampered the nation’s explosive economic expansion ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Appalachia

    A History

    by John Alexander Williams ...
    Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past. Along the way, he explores Appalachia’s long-contested boundaries and the numerous, often contradictory images that have shaped perceptions of the region as both the essence of America and a place apart.Williams begins his story in the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Bully Boy

    The Truth About Theodore Roosevelt's Legacy

    by Jim Powell ...
    What Hath TR Wrought?“I don’t think that any harm comes from the concentration of power in one man’s hands.” —Theodore RooseveltThe notion that Theodore Roosevelt was one of America’s greatest presidents is literally carved in stone—right up there on Mount Rushmore. But as historian Jim Powell shows in the refreshingly original Bully Boy, Roosevelt’s toothy grin, outsized personality, colossal ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Greatest American Presidents

    Including a Short Course on All the Presidents and Political Parties

    by Robert Tata ...
    The author is a licensed Professional Engineer who has taken an interest in the United States Presidents and presidential parties. Since he is not a political historian, this book can be thought of as an alternative point of view toward American politics. In this book, a number of United States Presidents are classified as being great and a group of others, honorable mention. All are selected on ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Philadelphia

    A Brief History

    by Roger D. Simon ...
    Understanding Philadelphia’s history requires that we understand that nothing is inevitable; history is not made by abstract forces, but by the decisions of real individuals as they conduct their lives. With its insightful analysis and engaging prose*, Philadelphia* provides an accessible and readable overview of the history of the Quaker City from its founding by William Penn to the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD