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Cultural Amnesia : America's Future and the Crisis of Memory
Stephen Bertman
Hardcover - $149.95
Sixty percent of adult Americans don't know the name of the president who ordered the dropping of the first atomic bomb, 42% of college seniors can't place the Civil War in the right half-century, and 24% think Columbus discovered America in the 1500 ...
Outhouses
Holly Bollinger
Hardcover - $33.95
A light-hearted look at outhouse necessity and nostalgia with picturesque photos of privies from across the country, this book answers real-life questions about these once common buildings and the role they played.
Topics covered include: what y ...
Skate Crazy
Lou Brooks
Paperback - $27.95
By 1942, there were more than 3,000 roller rinks in America, and more than 10 million people skating. That era is captured in this glorious graphic portrait of the country's Golden Age of roller skating (1939-1959), which also illuminates America's r ...
American Prom
Richard G. Calo
Paperback - $27.95
At last! A book that takes prom seriously as a deeply meaningful event for teenagers. Written for teens and their parents and counselors, it does not focus on hairdos and dresses or on how-to lists and planning calendars. Instead, it focuses on the m ...
Tom Dodge Talks about Texas : Radio Vignettes and Other Observations 1989-1999
Tom Dodge
Paperback - $28.95
"The lyrical writing of Tom Dodge provides Texas and its people a spokesman of the highest order. Reading him ranks right up there with sipping a cool one on a warm summer evening. It gets no better. . . ".
Carlton Stowers
Two-time Edgar Awar ...
Sturgis Stories : Celebrating the People of the World's Largest Motorcycle Rally
Thomas G. Endres
Paperback - $38.95
Tolerable Entertainment : Herman Melville and Professionalism in Antebellum New York
John Evelev
Hardcover - $72.95
In Tolerable Entertainment, Herman Melville's life and literary work serve as windows on the tumultuous world of antebellum New York City. Charting Melville's writings from Typee (1846) to Pierre (1852) as responses to his experience of living in the ...
Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America
T. Gregory Garvey
Hardcover - $76.95
In this study, T. Gregory Garvey illustrates how activists and reformers claimed the instruments of mass media to create a freestanding culture of reform that enabled voices disfranchised by church or state to speak as equals in public debates over t ...
New York's Awful Steamboat Horror
D. Northrop H. D. Northrop
Hardcover - $62.95
Story of the "General Slocum," the New York excursion steamer which burned on June 15, 1904 with fatalities rivalling those of the "Titanic" and "Lusitania." She started up the East River from her pier at Third St. Manhattan in glorious weather with ...