Subject: History
The United States of Ohio: one American state and its impact on the other forty-nine
Electoral significance has always distinguished the small northern state sandwiched between Lake Erie and the Ohio River. Only twice since the beginning of the twentieth […]
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Conspiracies of conspiracies: how delusions have overrun America
It’s tempting to think that we live in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories, with seemingly each churn of the news cycle bringing fresh […]
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The American flag: an encyclopedia of the Stars and Stripes in U.S. history, culture, and law
This title is a comprehensive resource for understanding all aspects of the American flag and its relationship to the American people. The encyclopedia provides a […]
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Shoot for the moon: the space race and the extraordinary voyage of Apollo 11
When the alarm went off forty thousand feet above the moon’s surface, both astronauts looked down at me computer to see 1202 flashing on the […]
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Rebels and underdogs: the story of Ohio rock and roll
From Cleveland to Cincinnati and everywhere in between, Ohio rocks. Rebels and Underdogs: The Story of Ohio Rock and Roll takes readers behind the scenes […]
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Mr. President, how long must we wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the fight for the right to vote
An eye-opening, inspiring, and timely account of the complex relationship between leading suffragist Alice Paul and President Woodrow Wilson in the fight for women’s equality. […]
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Girl in black and white: the story of Mary Mildred Williams and the abolition movement
The riveting, little-known story of Mary Mildred Williams–a slave girl who looked “white”–whose photograph transformed the abolitionist movement. When a decades-long court battle resulted in […]
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Small town, big music: the outsized influence of Kent, Ohio, on the history of rock and roll
Relying on oral histories, hundreds of rare photographs, and original music reviews, this book explores the countercultural fringes of Kent, Ohio, over four decades. Firsthand […]
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Frontier rebels: the fight for independence in the American West, 1765-1776
The untold story of the “Black Boys,” a rebellion on the American frontier in 1765 that sparked the American Revolution. In Frontier Rebels, historian Patrick […]
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The war before the war: fugitive slaves and the struggle for America’s soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
Explains how fugitive slaves escaping from the South to the northern states awakened northerners to the true nature of slavery and how the Compromise of […]
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