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Social History

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The Social Instinct
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The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is

Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Drives Google's Dominance and Controls Our Culture
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Please Select Your Gender

Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
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Intimate Matters

Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library
For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
Breasts, Bottles, and Babies: A History of Infant Feeding
Portable Magic
Vagina Obscura
Library: An Unquiet History
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The Library

A Brief History of the Book: From Tablet to Tablet
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Not Free, Not for All

History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past
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Burning the Books

The Book on the Bookshelf
Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity
The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
The Computer Boys Take over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise
Abigail and John Adams: The Americanization of Sensibility
The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City
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A Fever in the Heartland

Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
The True History of Tea
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Pox

Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States Since 1880
Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World
The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives
Calories & Corsets
In The Devil's Garden
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
Shareware Heroes
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Monster, She Wrote

Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Homocons: The Rise of the Gay Right
Boston Marriages
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How Sex Changed

The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
The World Turned Upside Down
The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
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The Pornography Wars

Antisemitism
Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable
Anatomies
History teaches us to resist
Work of the Dead
Refuge
Wedded Wife: A Social History of Marriage
Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
The Birth of the Pill
Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
The He-Man Effect
The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World
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The Two Revolutions

A People’s History of Computing in the United States
The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
The Cockroach Papers: A Compendium of History and Lore
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The Chemical Age

We Believe the Children: The Story of a Moral Panic
Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
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Numbers and the Making of Us

El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
Timekeepers
Isaac's Storm
Silk: A World History
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Tobacco

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Dirt

Like a Mother
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
Medieval Warfare: A Reader
The Evil Eye: The History, Mystery, and Magic of the Quiet Curse
Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
Active measures the secret history of disinformation and political warfare
Into the Dark: What darkness is and why it matters
Supernatural America: A Cultural History
Freak Show
Mill Town Reckoning with What Remains
Ramp Hollow
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History
Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
Pirates: A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
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