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  • Atlas of Iowa

    by Robert C. Shepard, Patrick Bitterman, J. Clark Archer, Fred M. Shelley ...
    Series series Iowa and the Midwest Experience
    From Iowa Territory’s nail-bitingly close referenda for statehood to the rise and subsequent erasure of German language media, Atlas of Iowa examines the state’s geography, demographics, agriculture, and political/cultural patterns. Drawing upon archival materials and synthesizing little-known secondary sources, the authors of this thematic atlas have pulled together a comprehensive map series ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • The Legacy of Conquest

    The Unbroken Past of the American West

    by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Ph.D. ...
    "Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard WhiteThe "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Down to Earth

    Nature's Role in American History

    by Ted Steinberg ...
    A tour de force of writing and analysis, Down to Earth offers a sweeping history of our nation, one that for the first time places the environment at the very center of our story. Writing with marvelous clarity, historian Ted Steinberg sweeps across the centuries, re-envisioning the story of America as he recounts how the environment has played a key role in virtually every social, economic, and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Why the New Deal Matters

    by Eric Rauchway ...
    Series series Why X Matters Series
    A look at how the New Deal fundamentally changed American life, and why it remains relevant today"The New Deal was America's response to the gravest economic and social crisis of the twentieth century. It now serves as a source of inspiration for how we should respond to the gravest crisis of the twenty-first. There's no more fluent and informative a guide to that history than Eric Rauchway, and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Nowhere to Live

    The Hidden Story of America's Housing Crisis

    by James S. Burling ...
    A century of policy mistakes ruined America’s cities and created an unprecedented housing crisis.For many families, homelessness is no longer someone else’s problem. It is right around the corner, a real threat in their own immediate future. Our housing crisis is the result of a long history of government policies, court cases, and political manipulation. While these disparate causes make up a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Born in the Country

    A History of Rural America

    by David B. Danbom ...
    Series series Revisiting Rural America
    Updated edition: "A balanced economic, social, political, and technological history of rural America . . . A splendid book, rich with detail." — Agricultural History ReviewThrough most of its history, America has been a rural nation, largely made up of farmers. David B. Danbom's Born in the Country was the first—and is still the only—general history of rural America. Ranging from pre-Columbian ... Read more

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  • Say We Are Nations

    Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America since 1887

    by Daniel M. Cobb ...
    Series series H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
    In this wide-ranging and carefully curated anthology, Daniel M. Cobb presents the words of Indigenous people who have shaped Native American rights movements from the late nineteenth century through the present day. Presenting essays, letters, interviews, speeches, government documents, and other testimony, Cobb shows how tribal leaders, intellectuals, and activists deployed a variety of protest ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Lincolnomics

    How President Lincoln Constructed the Great American Economy

    by John F. Wasik ...
    A biography of Abraham Lincoln that examines his untold legacy as the Great Builder of American infrastructure.Abraham Lincoln's view of the right to fulfill one's economic destiny was at the core of his governing philosophy―but he knew no one could climb that ladder without strong federal support. Some of his most enduring policies came to him before the Civil War, visions of a country linked by ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Gilded Age

    Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America

    by Lewis L. Gould, Ruth C. Crocker, Eric Arnesen, W. Bernard Carlson, Ellen M. Litwicki, Ballard C. Campbell, Robert G. Barrows, Glenn Porter, Worth Robert Miller, Roger Daniels, Edmund J. Danziger Jr., Michael Les Benedict, Stacy A. Cordery, Leslie H. Fishel, Joseph A. Fry ...
    The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had transformed American society.Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Crossing the Next Meridian

    Land, Water, and the Future of the West

    by Charles F. Wilkinson ...
    In Crossing the Next Meridian, Charles F. Wilkinson, an expert on federal public lands, Native American issues, and the West's arcane water laws explains some of the core problems facing the American West now and in the years to come. He examines the outmoded ideas that pervade land use and resource allocation and argues that significant reform of Western law is needed to combat desertification ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • A New History of Iowa

    by Jeff Bremer ...
    The state of Iowa is largely unappreciated and often misunderstood. It has a small population and sits in the middle of a huge country. It’s thought of as an uninspiring place full of farms and fields of corn. But Iowa represents America as surely as New York and California, and Iowa’s history is more dynamic, complicated, and influential than commonly imagined.Jeff Bremer’s A New History of Iowa ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A Short History of Wisconsin

    by Erika Janik ...
    Rediscover Wisconsin history from the very beginning. A Short History of Wisconsin recounts the landscapes, people, and traditions that have made the state the multifaceted place it is today. With an approach both comprehensive and accessible, historian Erika Janik covers several centuries of Wisconsin's remarkable past, showing how the state was shaped by the same world wars, waves of new ... Read more

    $8.99 USD