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The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Mad, Bad And Sad
The Life & Times of Butch Dykes: Portraits of Artists, Leaders, and Dreamers Who Changed the World
The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights
Taco USA
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
A Queer History of the United States for Young People
Protect, Serve, and Deport: The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement
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The Accidental Slaveowner

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The Elements of a Home

The Half Has Never Been Told
Women's Work
Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite
The Making of Biblical Womanhood
They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii Lost and Found
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Women & Power: A Manifesto
The World the Plague Made
Strange Medicine
Women and Genocide: Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators
The Prison of Democracy: Race, Leavenworth, and the Culture of Law
Sex and Punishment
The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing Identities
Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News
Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
A Black Women's History of the United States
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
Slavery by Another Name
Virgin : The Untouched History
Mass Deception: Moral Panic and the U.S. War on Iraq
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
You Have Died of Dysentery: The creation of The Oregon Trail - the iconic educational game of the 1980s
Historicizing Fear
Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure
A Queer History of the United States
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy
One Summer: America, 1927
A People's History of American Empire
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Unspeakable

Between XX and XY
American Passage: The History of Ellis Island
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Close to Shore

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Constantine's Sword
Invisible
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One of Windsor

Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine
Resistance: The LGBT Fight Against Fascism in WWII
Libraries in the Ancient World
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
Gay New York
Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter
Charity and Sylvia
Supreme Inequality
Everest 1922: The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World's Highest Mountain
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Marriage, a History

Under the Black Flag
The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession
Spare Parts
Stealing Lincoln's Body
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Oregon Trail Journal of Medorem Crawford

Columbine
Parkland
The Oregon Trail: An American Saga
Black History for Beginners
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The Indestructible Jews

Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells: The Daring Life of a Crusading Journalist
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media
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Contraception

Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
The Souls of Black Folk
John Brown
Stonewall
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Has the Gay Movement Failed?

Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul
Ten popes who shook the world
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
"All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
Not a Nation of Immigrants
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
For Her Own Good
Regulating Desire: From the Virtuous Maiden to the Purity Princess
Odd girls and twilight lovers
Woman: The American History of an Idea
The Light Ages
Where Truth Lies: Digital Culture and Documentary Media after 9/11
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