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History, Am.: 20th C.



link to catalog page CARROLL, Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football Author: John M. Carroll
Pub Date: Cloth: 1999; Paper: 2004

To understand the forces that helped create the modern superstar athlete, begin with Red Grange   learn more...

link to catalog page HEWITT, Southern Discomfort

Southern Discomfort

Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s

Author: Nancy A. Hewitt
Pub Date: Cloth: 2001; Paper: 2004

A historical examination of multiracial women’s activism in the cigar factories of Tampa Florida   learn more...

link to catalog page SHOCKLEY,

"We, Too, Are Americans"

African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-54

Author: Megan Taylor Shockley
Pub Date: November 2004

The story of how African American women used their wartime contributions on the home front to push for increased rights to equal employment,welfare benefits, worker equity and desegration of volunteer associations during WWII. The crucible for the civil rights movement.   learn more...

link to catalog page SICHERMAN, Alice Hamilton

Alice Hamilton

A Life in Letters

Author: Barbara Sicherman
Pub Date: 2003

Biography of a pioneer in industrial toxicology in the US, covering her lifes work from the early 1920’s to the Vietnam War.   learn more...

link to catalog page MAUSS, All Abraham's Children

All Abraham's Children

Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage

Author: Armand L. Mauss
Pub Date: April 2003

Example of Mormon beliefs and behavior towards minorities   learn more...

link to catalog page TARBELL, All in the Day's Work

All in the Day's Work

An Autobiography

Author: Ida M. Tarbell
Pub Date: 2003

As one of the original 13 muckrackers and the only women, and the first woman on McClure’s staff, Ida Tarbell continues to be viewed as one of America’s most important women and journalists.   learn more...

link to catalog page CRAY, American Datelines

American Datelines

Major News Stories from Colonial Times to the Present

Author: Edited by Ed Cray, Jonathan Kotler, and Miles Beller
Pub Date: 2003

A vivid eyewitness account of the events--war, politics, the arts, sports, and human interest--that have most influenced American political and popular culture during the last three centuries   learn more...

link to catalog page SINCLAIR, The Brass Check

The Brass Check

A Study of American Journalism

Author: Upton Sinclair
Pub Date: 2003

Upton Sinclair wrote 92 books---but is called a two-book author. The first was The Jungle----The Brass Check is the second.   learn more...

link to catalog page MOORE, Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power Author: Leonard N. Moore
Pub Date: August 2003

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link to catalog page EDWARDS, Gender and the Social Gospel Author: Edited by Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards and Carolyn De Swarte Gifford
Pub Date: 2003

The first book devoted to the study of gender in the social gospel movement in North America   learn more...

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