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Russell Potter, "Finding Franklin: The Untold S...
In 1845, two British naval ships left England with 129 men in search of the Northwest Passage...
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Julia Nicholls, "Revolutionary Thought after th...
NIcholls offers the first comprehensive account of French revolutionary thought in the years between the crushing of France's last nineteenth-century revolution and the re-emergence of socialism as a meaningful electoral force,..
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Oleg Benesch and Ran Zwigenberg, "Japan's Castl...
Benesch and Zwigenberg use the fate of castles after the Meiji coup of 1868 as a case study to explore aspects of Japan’s modern history including historical memory, cultural heritage, and state-civil society and national-regional relations...
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Timothy Lehman, "Up the Trail: How Texas Cowboy...
In 1866, a sixteen year old cowboy—the name was literal in his case—named J.M. Daugherty bought 1,000 cattle, hired five cowboys, and headed north for Missouri...
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David Biggs, "Footprints of War: Militarized La...
By now we all know that Vietnam is a country, not a war. But how have decades, and even centuries, of war impacted the land of this southeast Asian nation?
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Perla Guerrero, "Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/o...
Nuevo South explores the history of an ever diversifying U.S. South...
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Kathleen M. McIntyre, "Protestantism and State ...
McIntyre explores the impact of Protestantism on Catholic indigenous communities in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in the period directly following the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920...
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Nicholas Buccola, "The Fire Is Upon Us: James B...
Buccola uses the iconic debate between Baldwin and Buckley which took place at the Cambridge Union in February 1965 as an entry point into their own lives and their place within the post black freedom struggle...
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W. Caleb McDaniel, "Sweet Taste of Liberty: A T...
Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848..
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Jamie L. Pietruska, "Looking Forward: Predictio...
Pietruska assesses how different varieties of forecasting created an often-contradictory “culture of prediction” during the rise of modern bureaucracies...
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Dan Jones, "Crusaders: The Epic History of the ...
Jones shows how the Crusades was a different event depending upon one’s perspective, be that of a Norman ruler, a Byzantine princess, or a Muslim chronicler....
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Jeremy Black, "Maps of War: Mapping Conflict th...
Black covers the history of the mapping of land wars, and shows the way in which maps provide a guide to the history of war...
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Elisabeth Köll, "Railroads and the Transformati...
Köll looks at the development of railroads in China from the late 19th century to the post-Mao reform period...
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David J. Silverman, "This Land Is Their Land" (...
Silverman reveals the complex history surrounding the 1621 feast that every November many Americans associate with silver-buckled Pilgrim costumes, Squanto and Massasoit, and miraculous feats of friendship...
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Christina Jiménez, "Making an Urban Public: Pop...
"Making an Urban Public" is a social history of the city of Morelia, located in Western Mexico in the state of Michoacán...
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Marc Dollinger, "Black Power, Jewish Politics: ...
Dollinger challenges widely held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance in American politics...
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Andreas Bernard, "Theory of the Hashtag" (Polit...
Bernard examines the hashtag’s role in changing how we define and discuss keywords...
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Andrea Pitzer, "One Long Night: A Global Histor...
While concentration camps may not seem to have much to do with travel and exploration, travel and forced detention are joined in strange and important ways...
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Greta de Jong, "You Can’t Eat Freedom: Southern...
Greta de Jong discusses rural organizing, social justice movements, and the connected histories of the Civil Rights Movement and the War on Poverty in the US South...
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Jared Hardesty, "Black Lives, Native Lands, Whi...
Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous peoples as slaves...
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Amy Carney, "Marriage and Fatherhood in the Naz...
From 1931 to 1945, leaders of the SS sought to transform their organization into a racially-elite family community that would serve as the Third Reich’s new aristocracy...
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Ann Elias, "Coral Empire: Underwater Oceans, Co...
With the threats of sea water warming and ocean acidification, coral reefs have become both a fire alarm and a barometer for the dangers of human induced climate change...
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Michael Mandelbaum, "The Rise and Fall of Peace...
In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history...
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Andrew Hobbs, "A Fleet Street In Every Town: Th...
The dominance of the London press in the British national media has long overshadowed the presence of local newspapers in Great Britain...
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
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