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  • Kansas City’s Public Library: Empowering the Community for 150 Years

    by Jason Roe, Matt Reeves ...
    From the humble beginnings of a single bookcase in 1873, the Kansas City Public Library grew into a bedrock cultural institution with an ambitious mission of bolstering the people’s welfare, inspiring lifelong learning, and empowering citizens through knowledge. Across one and a half centuries, Kansas Citians ranging from Walt Disney to entrepreneur Ewing Kauffman, civil rights activist Alvin ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Wide-Open Town

    Kansas City in the Pendergast Era

    Edited by Diane Mutti Burke, Jason Roe, John Herron ...
    Winner: Missouri Conference on History Book Award***Errata: Click here to read the missing page (110) from the book.***Kansas City is often seen as a mild-mannered metropolis in the heart of flyover country. But a closer look tells a different story, one with roots in the city— complicated and colorful past. The decades betw... ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • How the Post Office Created America

    A History

    by Winifred Gallagher ...
    “’The history of its Post Office is nothing less than the story of America,’ Ms. Gallagher’s opening sentence declares, and in this lively book she makes the case well.”—Wall Street JournalA masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation’s political, social, economic, and physical ... Read more

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  • What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia

    by Elizabeth Catte ...
    An antidote to bigotry and a "perfect primer for readers seeking factual, realistic portrayals of the rural and working-class experience" ( Los Angeles Times).In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America's "forgotten tribe" of white working-class voters. Journalists flocked to the region to extract sympathetic profiles of families devastated by poverty, abandoned by establishment ... Read more

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  • This Land is Your Land

    A Road Trip Through U.S. History

    by Beverly Gage ...
    Pulitzer Prize–winning author of G-Man and acclaimed historian Beverly Gage takes the ultimate road trip into the American past.Ride along with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn—and fight—about our history. From the birth of the nation in ... Read more

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  • The Injustice of Place

    Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

    by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson ...
    A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America.“This book forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light.” (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America and Evicted)Three of the nation’s top scholars – known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America – turn their ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Young and Restless

    The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions

    by Mattie Kahn ...
    **NPR's Books We Love 2023Glamour's "The 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023, So Far"*Vogue's "*Best Books of 2023 (So Far)"*Town & Country's "*The Best Books of 2023"A "heartening inspiration"(The New York Times), the untold story of the people who have helped spark America’s most transformative social movements throughout history: teenage girls**Nine months before Rosa Parks kicked off the bus ... Read more

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  • Rooted

    The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership

    by Brea Baker ...
    Why is less than 1% of rural land in the U.S. owned by Black people? An acclaimed writer and activist explores the impact of land theft and violent displacement on racial wealth gaps, arguing that justice stems from the literal roots of the earth.“With heartfelt prose and unyielding honesty, Baker explores the depths of her roots and invites readers to reflect on our own.”—Donovan X. Ramsey, ... Read more

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  • The Lies of the Land

    Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn't

    by Steven Conn ...
    A "piercing, unsentimental" history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis ( The New Yorker).It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic decline? Or is it on the cusp of a glorious revival? Is it the key to understanding America today? Steven Conn argues that we're missing the real question: Is rural America even a thing? No, says Conn, who ... Read more

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  • The Idealist

    Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet

    by Justin Peters ...
    This smart, “riveting” (Los Angeles Times) history of the Internet free culture movement and its larger effects on society—and the life and shocking suicide of Aaron Swartz, a founding developer of Reddit and Creative Commons—written by Slate correspondent Justin Peters “captures Swartz flawlessly” (The New York Times Book Review).Aaron Swartz was a zealous young advocate for the free exchange of ... Read more

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  • A People's Art History of the United States

    250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements

    by Nicolas Lampert ...
    Series series New Press People's History
    Most people outside of the art world view art as something that is foreign to their experiences and everyday lives. A People's Art History of the United States places art history squarely in the rough-and-tumble of politics, social struggles, and the fight for justice from the colonial era through the present day.Author and radical artist Nicolas Lampert combines historical sweep with detailed ... Read more

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  • Long Road to Hard Truth

    The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture

    by Robert Leon Wilkins ...
    In Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Robert L. Wilkins tells the story of how his curiosity about why there wasn't a national museum dedicated to African American history and culture became an obsession-eventually leading him to quit his job as an attorney when his wife was seven months pregnant with their second ... Read more

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