Martin Luther King Jr

By Peter J. Ling

This new biography of the most celebrated African American in history provides a thorough re-examination of both the man and the Civil Rights Movement, showing...

Published July 11th 2002 by Routledge.

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Within Her Power

Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia

By Linda Sturtz

This is an engaging and comprehensive study of property-owning women in the colony of Tidewater, VA during the 17th & 18th centuries. It examines the...

Published May 31st 2002 by Routledge.

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Factories of Death

Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-45 and the American Cover-Up

By Sheldon H. Harris

Factories of Death details the activities of the Japanese army scientists that conducted numerous horrifying experiments upon live human beings. It investigates who from the...

Published March 22nd 2002 by Routledge.

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Contested Terrain

African American Women Migrate from the South to Cincinnati, 1900-1950

By Beverly A. Bunch-Lyons

This in-depth study focuses on black women migrants to the North and in doing so examines the interaction of race, class, regionalism, and gender during...

Published March 22nd 2002 by Routledge.

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The Medicine Line

Life and Death on a North American Borderland

By Beth LaDow

The Medicine Line: Life and Death on the North American Borderland, is a complex and oftentimes dramatic mix of narrative storytelling and history in...

Published February 22nd 2002 by Routledge.

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A Country in the Mind

Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto, History, and the American Land

By John L. Thomas

In this beautifully written account, John Thomas details an intimate portrait of the intellectual friendship between two commanding figures of western letters and the early...

Published February 22nd 2002 by Routledge.

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Creole Gentlemen

The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776

By Trevor Burnard

Examining the lives of 460 of the wealthiest men who lived in colonial Maryland, Burnard traces the development of this elite from a hard-living, profit-driven...

Published January 2nd 2002 by Routledge.

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An American Health Dilemma

Race, Medicine, and Health Care in the United States 1900-2000

By W. Michael Byrd, Linda A. Clayton

Published December 21st 2001 by Routledge.

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Radio Reader

Essays in the Cultural History of Radio

Edited by Michele Hilmes, Jason Loviglio

While cultural historians and media scholars have been looking at television for decades, they have only recently turned their eyes (and ears) to radio....

Published October 19th 2001 by Routledge.

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Imagine Nation

The American Counterculture of the 1960's and 70's

Edited by Peter Braunstein, Michael William Doyle

Amidst the recent flourishing of Sixties scholarship, Imagine Nation is the first collection to focus solely on the counterculture. Its fourteen provocative essays seek to...

Published October 19th 2001 by Routledge.

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