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Social History

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Paradox of Plenty
The Age of Edison
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Voices from Chernobyl
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
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The Accidental Slaveowner

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The Elements of a Home

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Abortion Without Apology

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Order Without Power

Queer
They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
Stonewall
The World the Plague Made
Outlaws of America
Sex and Punishment
The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing Identities
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The Delusions Of Crowds

A Black Women's History of the United States
Straight
Jane Against the World
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
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Wide-Open Town

A Queer History of the United States
A Queer History of the United States for Young People
A People's History of American Empire
American Passage: The History of Ellis Island
Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine
What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Gay New York
Anthropologies of Revolution: Forging Time, People, and Worlds
Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter
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Let the Record Show

The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
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Marriage, a History

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Public Vows

Working for the clampdown: The Clash, the dawn of neoliberalism and the political promise of punk
Black History for Beginners
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
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

Stonewall
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
In the Kingdom of the Sick
The Intimate Bond
The Light Ages
Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding
Where Truth Lies: Digital Culture and Documentary Media after 9/11
Historical Sex Work: New Contributions from History and Archaeology
Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex
The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation
Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South
Booth
How To Survive A Plague
The Fifties: An Underground History
Deaf Heritage: A Narrative History of Deaf America
Stony the Road
The Nazis, Capitalism and the Working Class
There Plant Eyes
How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England
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American Heretics

Direct Action: An Ethnography
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
The Democracy Project
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
About Face The Odyssey of an American Warrior
Women Against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century
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The politics of vaccination

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A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics

White Trash
American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation
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American Prophets

She's a Knockout!: A History of Women in Fighting Sports
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
The Culture of Make Believe
Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and After Roe V. Wade
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Piracy

Perilous Times: An Inside Look at Abortion Before-And After- Roe V. Wade
Blood Libel: The Ritual Murder Accusation at the Limit of Jewish History
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London
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Bending Toward Justice

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A History of Pagan Europe

They Were Her Property
Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography
In Search of Stonewall: The Riots at 50 The Gay & Lesbian Review at 25 Best Essays, 1994-2018
When Can We Go Back to America?
The Story of Jane
All Together Different: Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism
Fight Like Hell
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
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Mountains Beyond Mountains

The Girls of Atomic City
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Manhood in America

Guyland the perilous world where boys become men
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Oregon Trail Stories: True Accounts Of Life In A Covered Wagon
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