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The Power of Plagues
Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City
The Cruelest Miles
The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives
Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire: 20 years after 9/11
Cranioklepty
Bonhoeffer on Resistance: The Word Against the Wheel
Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770
They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters
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Femina

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Monster, She Wrote

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The Past Didn't Go Anywhere

Driving While Black
The World Turned Upside Down
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The Underground History of American Education

Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
The Crayon Man: the True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons
Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom
The Leaf Detective
Dinosaur Lady
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks
The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney
Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Samuel Morse, That's Who!: The Story of the Telegraph and Morse Code
Fearless Mary: The True Adventures of Mary Fields, American Stagecoach Driver
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable
Too Hot to Handle
Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies
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Open Me Carefully

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
Saints Behaving Badly
The Writing of the Gods
Game Show Confidential
All the Lies They Did Not Tell
The three escapes of Hannah Arendt
The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime
Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
Bad Samaritans
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The End of Obscenity

Vice Patrol
El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
The He-Man Effect
The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World
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Thinking like an Economist

The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
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The Chemical Age

We Believe the Children: The Story of a Moral Panic
The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
A People’s History of Computing in the United States
Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet
Blood in the Machine
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Country of My Skull

Elizabeth I: The Golden Reign of Gloriana
Silk: A World History
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Tobacco

How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
Supernatural America: A Cultural History
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Final Seance

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Houdini's "Girl Detective"

The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
The Trial of Jeanne d'Arc
The Evil Eye: The History, Mystery, and Magic of the Quiet Curse
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Code 1244

The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge
Work:  A History of How we spend our Time
The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas
High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest
Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and Chaucer’s Fecopoetics
The Case for Cancel Culture: How This Democratic Tool Works to Liberate Us All
The Divorce Colony
Love Stories
Overground Railroad
Twelve Years a Slave
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
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Equality within Our Lifetimes

The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America: A Historical Review and Personal Reminiscences
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
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The Last of the Climbing Boys

Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World
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Nakba and Survival

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The Burning Tigris

The Big Burn

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