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On the Penitentiary System in the United States
$28.50On the Penitentiary System in the United States is a “graceful and thoughtful study of importance to the history of correctional theory and practice, and its republican by Southern Illinois…
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On the Trail to the California Gold Rush
$19.95Lured by “the astonishing accounts of the vast deposits of gold in California,” Alonzo Delano (1806–74) of Ottawa, Illinois, bid farewell to his wife and children and joined the rush…
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Other Clay
$17.95Other Clay is a survivor’s account of World War II infantry combat, told by a front-line officer whose 116th Infantry Regiment landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day and fought its way…
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Patience & Fortitude
$19.99In his national bestseller, A Gentle Madness, Nicholas Basbanes explored the sweet obsession people feel to possess books. Now, Basbanes continues his adventures among the “gently mad” on an irresistible…
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Portals to Hell
$24.95The holding of prisoners of war has always been both a political and a military enterprise, yet the military prisons of the Civil War, which held more than four hundred…
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Powhatan Lords of Life and Death
$55.00A richly textured portrait of the famous Native leader Powhatan and his realm emerges in this revisionist study. For decades the English colonists at and around Jamestown lived in the…
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Princes of Wales
$4.00As heir apparent to the British throne, the holder of the title Prince of Wales fulfills a pivotal role in the royal family and has always been at the center…
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Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860
$11.95In the summer of 1860 the author of these recollections, Mary Ann Stucki, then six years old, walked beside her parents’ handcart from Florence (Omaha), Nebraska, to Salt Lake City,…
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Reconciling Modernity
$24.95Reconciling Modernity challenges the academic consensus of a simplistic Church-State reconciliation in postrevolutionary Mexico and reveals instead a cultural power struggle between entrenched elite factions, each intending to define Mexico’s…
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Remember This!
$32.00Situating Dakota language and oral tradition within the framework of decolonization, Remember This! Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives makes a radical departure from other works in Indigenous history…
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Remember This!
$55.00Situating Dakota language and oral tradition within the framework of decolonization, Remember This! Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives makes a radical departure from other works in Indigenous history…
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Resurrection, A War Journey
$30.00“[Gajdusek] provides an in-depth, multi-layered, and personal memoir of his combat experience and its aftermath. Resurrection takes many turns and twists in time and space and is filled with surprising…