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History, Am.: 20th C.



link to catalog page WELLS, Life Flows On in Endless Song

Life Flows On in Endless Song

Folk Songs and American History

Author: Robert V. Wells
Pub Date: August

An engaging survey of what folk songs tell us about the American past   learn more...

link to catalog page HATFIELD, Never Seen the Moon

Never Seen the Moon

The Trials of Edith Maxwell

Author: Sharon Hatfield
Pub Date: 2009

The stranger-than-fiction case of Appalachia's "slipper slayer"   learn more...

link to catalog page ORENIC, On the Ground

On the Ground

Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry

Author: Liesl Miller Orenic
Pub Date: July 2009

The challenges and successes of unionization at four U.S. airlines, with a focus on baggage handlers   learn more...

link to catalog page EVANS, Open Wound

Open Wound

The Long View of Race in America

Author: William McKee Evans
Pub Date: April 2009

A timely reframing of race in America   learn more...

link to catalog page ANDERSON, Perspectives on Milwaukee's Past Author: Edited by Margo Anderson and Victor Greene
Pub Date: 2009

A stimulating variety of approaches to the history of a distinctive Midwestern city   learn more...

link to catalog page WHITE, Pre-Gay L.A.

Pre-Gay L.A.

A Social History of the Movement for Homosexual Rights

Author: C. Todd White
Pub Date: May 2009

A rich and definitive history of the gay rights movement's West Coast origins   learn more...

link to catalog page KIDITSCHEK, Race Struggles Author: Edited by Theodore Koditschek, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, and Helen A. Neville
Pub Date: September 2009

Examining the material conditions of race and its relation to class and gender   learn more...

link to catalog page SLOTTEN, Radio's Hidden Voice

Radio's Hidden Voice

The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States

Author: Hugh Richard Slotten
Pub Date: July 2009

A detailed study of American public radio's early history   learn more...

link to catalog page STORCH, Red Chicago

Red Chicago

American Communism at Its Grassroots, 1928-35

Author: Randi Storch
Pub Date: January 2009

Realities of the street-level American Communist experience during the worst years of the Depression   learn more...

link to catalog page BURTON, Remembering Brown at Fifty

Remembering Brown at Fifty

The University of Illinois Commemorates Brown v. Board of Education

Author: Edited by Orville Vernon Burton and David O’Brien
Pub Date: December 2009

Original interpretations of Brown v. Board of Education's impact, fifty years later   learn more...

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