HISTORY / Social History
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HISTORY / Social History
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HISTORY / Social History
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Incoming Resources
- The Trip to Echo Spring, on Writers and Drinking, Olivia Laing
- In these times, living in Britain through Napoleon's wars, 1793-1815, Jenny Uglow
- Enabling acts, the hidden story of how the Americans with Disabilities Act gave the largest US minority its rights, Lennard J. Davis
- The Love of Strangers, what six Muslim students learned in Jane Austen's London, Nile Green
- The lost art of dress, the women who once made America stylish, Linda Przybyszewski
- Silencer, Marcus Wicker
- Avedon, something personal, Norma Stevens & Steven M.L. Aronson
- Three women, Lisa Taddeo
- Caste, the origins of our discontents, Isabel Wilkerson
- Ten tomatoes that changed the world, a history, William Alexander
- The silenced majority, stories of uprisings, occupations, resistance, and hope, Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
- The problem of slavery in the age of emancipation, David Brion Davis
- Acid test, LSD, Ecstasy, and the power to heal, Tom Shroder
- The residence, inside the private world of the White House, Kate Andersen Brower
- Dancing with the devil in the City of God, Rio de Janeiro on the brink, Juliana Barbassa
- A torch kept lit, great lives of the twentieth century, William F. Buckley, Jr. ; edited by James Rosen
- Divided we stand, the battle over women's rights and family values that polarized American politics, Marjorie J. Spruill
- The new Negro, the life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart
- Asking for a friend, three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed, Jessica Weisberg
- Act natural, a cultural history of misadventures in parenting, Jennifer Traig
- Fizz, how soda shook up the world, Tristan Donovan
- Pepper, a history of the world's most influential spice, Marjorie Shaffer
- One summer, America, 1927, Bill Bryson
- Cubed, a secret history of the workplace, Nikil Saval
- The making of Asian America, a history, Erika Lee
- When we fight, we win, twenty-first-century social movements and the activists that are transforming our world, Greg Jobin-Leeds and AgitArte ; foreword by Rinku Sen ; afterword by Antonia Darder
- The soul of America, the battle for our better angels, Jon Meacham
- The big ones, how natural disasters have shaped us (and what we can do about them), Dr. Lucy Jones
- Behind the throne, a domestic history of the British royal household, Adrian Tinniswood
- The Shanghai free taxi, journeys with the hustlers and rebels of the new China, Frank Langfitt
- The woman reader, Belinda Jack
- Ashamed to die, silence, denial, and the AIDS epidemic in the South, Andrew J. Skerritt
- A dreadful deceit, the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America, Jacqueline Jones
- The problem of slavery in the age of emancipation, by David Brion Davis
- The caped crusade, Batman and the rise of nerd culture, Glen Weldon
- How to survive a plague, the inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS, David France
- Improv nation, how we made a great American art, Sam Wasson
- The gifted generation, when government was good, David Goldfield
- The years, Annie Ernaux ; translated by Alison L. Strayer
- Good and mad, the revolutionary power of women's anger, Rebecca Traister
- The husband hunters, American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy, Anne de Courcy
- Camelot's end, Kennedy vs. Carter and the fight that broke the Democratic Party, Jon Ward
- The great democracy, how to fix our politics, unrig the economy, and unite America, Ganesh Sitaraman
- Milk, a local and global history, Deborah Valenze
- Show them you're good, a portrait of boys in the City of Angels the year before college, Jeff Hobbs
- America on fire, the untold history of police violence and Black rebellion since the 1960s, Elizabeth Hinton
- Evolution gone wrong, the curious reasons why our bodies work (or don't), Alex Bezzerides ; with illustrations by Peter Davidson
- Heiresses, the lives of the million dollar babies, Laura Thompson
- The women of Rothschild, the untold story of the world's most famous dynasty, Natalie Livingstone
- The five, the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper, Hallie Rubenhold
Outgoing Resources
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