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Why We Swim
Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family
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Hearing Happiness

Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices
The Best Land Under Heaven
Wall Disease: The Psychological Toll of Living Up Against a Border
The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain
Medical Apartheid
A Question of Choice
The Abortion Caravan: When Women Took to the Streets, Shut Down Government, and Battled for the Right to Choose
Taking America Back for God
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
April 1865
Get Well Soon
Harvard's Secret Court
A History Of The Wife
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry
Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America
Voices of a people's history of the United States
Irregular Unions: Clandestine Marriage in Early Modern English Literature
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
A New History of Early Christianity
Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome
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A Most Imperfect Union

Video Games Have Always Been Queer
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
Inequality: A Genetic History
Trans Britain
Fizz: How Soda Shook Up the World
Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health
Life on the Screen
Island on Fire
Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump
The Pig
Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present
The Pleasure's All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex
The Great American Shopping Experience: The History of American Retail from Main Street to the Mall
Immigration: An American History
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New Women in the Old West

The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism
The Water Defenders
Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike
White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
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Passions Between Women

No One Helped: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy
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The Prodigal Tongue

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The Creation of Inequality

The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era
The Big Myth
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men, Revised Edition
Different daughters
The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress
Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern
Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination
Ftm: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society
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Glimmerings

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No Votes for Women

Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities
Language, Capitalism, Colonialism: Toward a Critical History
Plagues and Peoples
System Error
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
Recoding Gender
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
Broad Band
The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
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Climate Cover-Up

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American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
Lurking: How a Person Became a User
Quarantine Life from Cholera to COVID-19: What Pandemics Teach Us About Parenting, Work, Life, and Communities from the 1700s to Today
The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
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Insurrections of the Mind

The Second Amendment
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America's Most Exclusive Shoreline
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The Housekeeper's Tale

Humankind: A Hopeful History
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
A Train in Winter
Buried
Adrift: America in 100 Charts
Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America
O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
One Person, One Vote
American Exceptionalism: A New History of an Old Idea
Smashing Statues
Sandy Hook
Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement
Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
Mythology of the White Proletariat
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
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