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The New Negro: the life of Alain Locke
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Mary Pickford
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Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, his Company and a Century of Progress, 1903-2003
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America's Assembly Line
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Worker's Unite! : The American Labor Movement
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The Urbanization of America: 1860-1915
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The Jazz Revolution: Twenties America & the Meaning of Jazz
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The Twenties: Fords, Flappers & Fanatics
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An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America
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American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century
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Back to Middletown: Three Generations of Sociological Reflections
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Controversy in the Twenties: Fundamentalism, Modernism and Evolution
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Change and Continuity in Twentieth-Century America : The 1920's
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America for the American: The Nativist Movement in the United States
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Inside the Klavern: The Secret History of a Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s
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Chicano! : The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy and the Rise of Jim Crow
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The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader
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Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
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Discontented America: The United States in the 1920s
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The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
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The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
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The Great Air Race: glory, tragedy, and the dawn of American aviation
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The untold, almost unbelievable, story of the daring pilots who risked their lives in an unprecedented air race in 1919--and put American aviation on the map. Years before Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris electrified the nation, a group of daredevil pilots, most of them veterans of the World War I, brought aviation to the masses by competing in the sensational transcontinental air race of 1919. The contest awakened Americans to the practical possibilities of flight, yet despite its significance, it has until now been all but forgotten. In The Great Air Race, journalist and amateur pilot John Lancaster finally reclaims this landmark event and the unheralded aviators who competed to be the fastest man in America. His thrilling chronicle opens with the race's impresario, Brigadier General Billy Mitchell, who believed the nation's future was in the skies. Mitchell's contest--critics called it a stunt--was a risky undertaking, given that the DH-4s and Fokkers the contestants flew were almost comically ill-suited for long-distance travel: engines caught fire in flight; crude flight instruments were of little help in clouds and fog; and the brakeless planes were prone to nosing over on landing. Yet the aviators possessed an almost inhuman disregard for their own safety, braving blizzards and mechanical failure as they landed in remote cornfields or at the edges of cliffs. Among the most talented were Belvin "The Flying Parson" Maynard, whose dog, Trixie, shared the rear cockpit with his mechanic, and John Donaldson, a war hero who twice escaped German imprisonment. Jockeying reporters made much of their rivalries, and the crowds along the race's route exploded, with everyday Americans eager to catch their first glimpse of airplanes and the mythic "birdmen" who flew them. The race was a test of endurance that many pilots didn't finish: some dropped out from sheer exhaustion, while others, betrayed by their engines or their instincts, perished. For all its tragedy, Lancaster argues, the race galvanized the nation to embrace the technology of flight. A thrilling tale of men and their machines, The Great Air Race offers a new origin point for commercial aviation in the United States, even as it greatly expands our pantheon of aviation heroes.
What It Took to Win: A history of the Democratic Party
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The Federal Reserve: a new history
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Draining New Orleans: the 300-year quest to dewater the Crescent City
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