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American History

9/12

9/12

The Epic Battle of the Ground Zero Responders

A Grizzly in the Mail and Other Adventures in American History

Harry and Arthur

Harry and Arthur

Truman, Vandenberg, and the Partnership That Created the Free World

The Kennedys in the World

A Powerful Mind

Imperial Zions

Imperial Zions

Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific

Bike Lanes Are White Lanes

Agriculture in the Midwest, 1815–1900

War on the Silver Screen

Living the California Dream

Murder, Inc.

The Spanish Craze

Amiable Scoundrel

Before Chappaquiddick

The St. Louis Commune of 1877

Publisher for the Masses, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius

Sunflower Justice

When Sunflowers Bloomed Red

Idaho Politics and Government

Following the Drum

Haig’s Coup

Haig's Coup

How Richard Nixon's Closest Aide Forced Him from Office

Power and Complacency

Touched with Fire

Touched with Fire

Morris B. Abram and the Battle against Racial and Religious Discrimination

Dressing for the Culture Wars

City of Vice

City of Vice

Transience and San Francisco's Urban History, 1848–1917

Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove

Becoming Ronald Reagan

Confederate Exodus

Confederate Exodus

Social and Environmental Forces in the Migration of U.S. Southerners to Brazil

A Professional Foreigner

Clash

Clash

Presidents and the Press in Times of Crisis

Catholic Borderlands

JFK Assassination Logic

The Man in the Arena

Citizen Justice

Citizen Justice

The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas—Public Advocate and Conservation Champion

Cast Out of Eden

Cast Out of Eden

The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness

Sight Unseen

Sight Unseen

How Frémont's First Expedition Changed the American Landscape

Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist in the Arena

Without Warning

Risking Immeasurable Harm

Bootleggers and Borders

Fit for the Presidency?

The Lewis and Clark Expedition Day by Day

The Limits of Liberty

Asphalt

Harvesting History

At the Base of the Giant’s Throat

Skywalks

Skywalks

Robert Gordon’s Untold Story of Hallmark’s Kansas City Disaster

Washington Merry-Go-Round

Black Mayors, White Majorities

Excavating Nauvoo

American Detective

Quest for the Presidency

Opposing Jim Crow

Opposing Jim Crow

African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937

A Glorious Liberty

Murdering the President

The Socialist Party of America

Grasslands Grown

Grasslands Grown

Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies

Remembering America

The Winning Ticket

Hawaiian by Birth

Hawaiian by Birth

Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific

The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902

A Second Reckoning

The Third Degree

The Third Degree

The Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice

Buffalo Soldiers in Alaska

Buffalo Soldiers in California

The Alphabet Bomber

America’s Forgotten Terrorists

Memory Wars

Memory Wars

Settlers and Natives Remember Washington’s Sullivan Expedition of 1779

George H. W. Bush

Patriotic Murder

The Presidential Fringe

Vice Capades

Vice Capades

Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present

On Distant Service

Looking at the Stars

In Food We Trust

Scars of War

Scars of War

The Politics of Paternity and Responsibility for the Amerasians of Vietnam

Murrow’s Cold War

Dodge County, Incorporated

The Great Plains, Second Edition

George McGovern and the Democratic Insurgents

Back to America

The NYPD’s First Fifty Years

A Different Manifest Destiny

The Aimless Life

Orchestrating the Instruments of Power

Power-Lined

Power-Lined

Electricity, Landscape, and the American Mind

Echo of Its Time

Echo of Its Time

The History of the Federal District Court of Nebraska, 1867-1933

Look

Look

How a Highly Influential Magazine Helped Define Mid-Twentieth-Century America

Loving and Leaving Washington

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American West

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Anthropology

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Art and Photography

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Fiction

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Food and Drink

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Gender Studies

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Memoir

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Military History

Hostages of Empire

Soldiers of the Nation

Between Flesh and Steel

On the Other Shore

Gardens of Hell

The Soldier from Independence

Truman and the Bomb

Speed

Speed

The Life of a Test Pilot and Birth of an American Icon

Lavi

Lavi

The United States, Israel, and a Controversial Fighter Jet

Nez Perce Summer, 1877

The Path to Salvation

Clean Bombs and Dirty Wars

How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan

Rails of War

Rails of War

Supplying the Americans and Their Allies in China-Burma-India

From Stray Dog to World War I Hero

Delivered Under Fire

A Scientific Way of War

Oracle of Lost Causes

Spring 1865

Indian Soldiers in World War I

Operation Rising Sun

The Search for the Japanese Fleet

In the Highest Degree Tragic

Project Eagle

Project Eagle

The American Christians of North Korea in World War II

Prairie Forge

Prairie Forge

The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II

Winning Wars amongst the People

Unlikely Heroes

Inside the Hot Zone

Eyewitness to Chaos

Changing the Rules of Engagement

Remembering World War I in America

War by Numbers

Civil War Washington

Wolford’s Cavalry

Wolford's Cavalry

The Colonel, the War in the West, and the Emancipation Question in Kentucky

The Gas and Flame Men

The Turtle and the Dreamboat

Playing War

Playing War

Wargaming and U.S. Navy Preparations for World War II

Hero of the Crossing

The Sharpshooters

The Sharpshooters

A History of the Ninth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War

Unsung Hero of Gettysburg

Emergency War Plan

Operation Kinetic

Lincoln and California

Time in the Wilderness

An Incipient Mutiny

Treacherous Passage

Treacherous Passage

Germany's Secret Plot against the United States in Mexico during World War I

After the Bounty

The Age of Lincoln and the Art of American Power, 1848-1876

European Air Power

Small but Important Riots

In Command

In Command

Theodore Roosevelt and the American Military

Advocating Overlord

All Souls Day

All Souls Day

The World War II Battle and the Search for a Lost U.S. Battalion

Nazis at the Watercooler

A Religious History of the American GI in World War II

The Better Angels

New Principles of War

Spy Ships

Spy Ships

One Hundred Years of Intelligence Collection by Ships and Submarines

I Held Lincoln

Manassas

Toward a More Perfect Union

A Lincoln Dialogue

Tarnished

Tarnished

Toxic Leadership in the U.S. Military

The Role and Limitations of Technology in U.S. Counterinsurgency Warfare

Ancient Furies

Ancient Furies

A Young Girl's Struggles in the Crossfire of World War II

Cartography

Fall of the Double Eagle

Enemies among Us

Enemies among Us

The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during the Second World War

Burning Japan

Union General

African American Officers in Liberia

Twelve Days

Twelve Days

How the Union Nearly Lost Washington in the First Days of the Civil War

The War Criminal’s Son

The Challenge to NATO

Valor, Guts, and Luck

Busy in the Cause

Busy in the Cause

Iowa, the Free-State Struggle in the West, and the Prelude to the Civil War

Such Splendid Prisons

Connected Soldiers

Glenn Miller Declassified

Outsourcing Security

The Prometheus Bomb

My Hitch in Hell

Friendly Enemies

All Roads Lead to Rome

Bourbon and Bullets

The War Against the Vets

An Army in Crisis

The Southern Exodus to Mexico

The Woman Who Fought an Empire

Warrior Diplomat

Of Love and War

Fruits of Victory

The Hunt for Jimmie Browne

Policing Sex and Marriage in the American Military

Out of Uniform

Out of Uniform

Your Guide to a Successful Military-to-Civilian Career Transition

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Native American Studies

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Nebraska and Nebraska Authors

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Poetry

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Spaceflight

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Sports

Havin’ a Ball

The Soccer Diaries

Alou

Jump Shooting to a Higher Degree

Playing with the Big Boys

The Great Eight

In Pursuit of Pennants

Joe Cronin

Tony Lazzeri

The Wax Pack

The Wax Pack

On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife

Kayaking Alone

Kayaking Alone

Nine Hundred Miles from Idaho's Mountains to the Pacific Ocean

Oscar Charleston

Present at the Creation

Pastime Lost

Pastime Lost

The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball

Game On

Game On

How Sports Media Grew Up, Sold Out, and Got Personal with Billions of Fans

No Place I Would Rather Be

National Pastimes

Making My Pitch

Greatness in the Shadows

The Wizard of College Baseball

Last Seasons in Havana

The Continental League

Charlie Murphy

The Dawn Patrol Diaries

Black Cowboys of Rodeo

Winning in Both Leagues

Wheels on Ice

Called Out but Safe

We Average Unbeautiful Watchers

Numbers Don’t Lie

Dream Like a Champion

Electric October

Electric October

Seven World Series Games, Six Lives, Five Minutes of Fame That Lasted Forever

When the Crowd Didn’t Roar

When Big Data Was Small

Le Football

Women’s American Football

The California Golden Seals

Race and Resistance in Boston

The Greatest Upset Never Seen

Waterman

Waterman

The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku

Little Poison

Little Poison

Paul Runyan, Sam Snead, and a Long-Shot Upset at the 1938 PGA Championship

Scoreless

Scoreless

Omaha Central, Creighton Prep, and Nebraska's Greatest High School Football Game

James T. Farrell and Baseball

The Black Prince of Baseball

Bodies Built for Game

The Hidden Language of Baseball

Leo Durocher

Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl

Road to Nowhere

Road to Nowhere

The Early 1990s Collapse and Rebuild of New York City Baseball

Baseball Rebels

Baseball Rebels

The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America

Mr. Wrigley’s Ball Club

New Kids in the World Cup

The Integration of the Pacific Coast League

The Battle for Paradise

Dodgerland

Dodgerland

Decadent Los Angeles and the 1977–78 Dodgers

A Game of Brawl

A Game of Brawl

The Orioles, the Beaneaters, and the Battle for the 1897 Pennant

The Hole Truth

The Hole Truth

Determining the Greatest Players in Golf Using Sabermetrics

Arnie, Seve, and a Fleck of Golf History

Issei Baseball

Mashi

Mashi

The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer

One Nation Under Baseball

Home Team

Home Team

The Turbulent History of the San Francisco Giants

Jazz Age Giant

Jazz Age Giant

Charles A. Stoneham and New York City Baseball in the Roaring Twenties

Tris Speaker

Before Jackie Robinson

Sports and Aging

Summer Baseball Nation

Lion of the League

Baseball

Collision of Wills

The Fast Ride

Women on the Move

Kyrie Irving

Kyrie Irving

Uncle Drew, Little Mountain, and Enigmatic NBA Superstar

No Friday Night Lights

Baseball Beyond Our Borders

Playing with Tigers

Unrivaled

Unrivaled

UConn, Tennessee, and the Twelve Years that Transcended Women's Basketball

The Sisterhood

Tailgate to Heaven

Big Cat

Big Cat

The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize

Wilderness of Hope

Hairs vs. Squares

Hairs vs. Squares

The Mustache Gang, the Big Red Machine, and the Tumultuous Summer of '72

Hell with the Lid Off

The Wee Ice Mon Cometh

A Giant among Giants

Tales from the Deadball Era

Empire of Infields

From Rails to Trails

Different Strokes

On the Sidelines

The Two-Wheeled World of George B. Thayer

Nebraska’s Bucks and Bulls

The Pride of Minnesota

Almost Yankees

Almost Yankees

The Summer of '81 and the Greatest Baseball Team You’ve Never Heard Of

Red Barber

Red Barber

The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend

We Want Fish Sticks

Perfect Eloquence

Something in the Air

Iron Mac

Iron Mac

The Legend of Roughhouse Cyclist Reggie McNamara

American Colossus

Schoolboy

Schoolboy

The Untold Journey of a Yankees Hero

The Chalmers Race

The Chalmers Race

Ty Cobb, Napoleon Lajoie, and the Controversial 1910 Batting Title That Became a National Obsession

Saint Woody

Saint Woody

The History and Fanaticism of Ohio State Football

Rozelle

The Black Bruins

The Black Bruins

The Remarkable Lives of UCLA's Jackie Robinson, Woody Strode, Tom Bradley, Kenny Washington, and Ray Bartlett

Phog

Phog

The Most Influential Man in Basketball

Behind the Yoi

Behind the Yoi

The Life of Myron Cope, Legendary Pittsburgh Steelers Broadcaster

The Roger Kahn Reader

Blue-Eyed Soul Brother

Jackie and Campy

Jackie and Campy

The Untold Story of Their Rocky Relationship and the Breaking of Baseball's Color Line

Lefty and Tim

Lefty and Tim

How Steve Carlton and Tim McCarver Became Baseball’s Best Battery

Macho Row

Macho Row

The 1993 Phillies and Baseball's Unwritten Code

Olympic Collision

The United States Tennis Association

Leave While the Party’s Good

1962

1962

Baseball and America in the Time of JFK

The Fenway Effect

Shake and Bake

Conspiracy of Silence

From Jack Johnson to LeBron James

Stolen Dreams

Stolen Dreams

The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball's Civil War

The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner

Clubbie

Clubbie

A Minor League Baseball Memoir

Buzzie and the Bull

The Best Team Over There

From the Dugouts to the Trenches

Baseball’s Endangered Species

Nebraska Volleyball

Red Letters

Red Letters

Two Fervent Liverpool FC Supporters Correspond through the Epic Season That Wouldn't End

The Grand Old Man of Baseball

They Played the Game

Citizen Akoy

Citizen Akoy

Basketball and the Making of a South Sudanese American

Mover and Shaker

Stumbling around the Bases

The Dancing Bear

Intercepted

Intercepted

The Rise and Fall of NFL Cornerback Darryl Henley

The Cap

The Cap

How Larry Fleisher and David Stern Built the Modern NBA

The Game before the Money

Playing Through

The Black Migrant Athlete

The James Naismith Reader

Bouton

Bouton

The Life of a Baseball Original

Under Jackie’s Shadow

Reclaiming 42

Reclaiming 42

Public Memory and the Reframing of Jackie Robinson's Radical Legacy

The Golden Game

Here’s the Pitch

Here's the Pitch

The Amazing, True, New, and Improved Story of Baseball and Advertising

SABR 50 at 50

SABR 50 at 50

The Society for American Baseball Research's Fifty Most Essential Contributions to the Game

Tom Yawkey

Alexander Cartwright

Hearts of Lions

Basketball beyond Paper

The Art of Football

Fight for Old DC

Fight for Old DC

George Preston Marshall, the Integration of the Washington Redskins, and the Rise of a New NFL

The Rebounders

Cobra

Cobra

A Life of Baseball and Brotherhood

Infractions

Infractions

Rule Violations, Unethical Conduct, and Enforcement in the NCAA

Double-Edged Sword

Double-Edged Sword

The Many Lives of Hemingway's Friend, the American Matador Sidney Franklin

Bleeding Green

Frozen in Time

The Immortal Bobby

Walk of Ages

Walk of Ages

Edward Payson Weston's Extraordinary 1909 Trek Across America

Bring In the Right-Hander!

George Allen

A Game of Their Own

Throwing Hard Easy

Lucky Me

Invisible Men

The Chosen Game

Perfectly Awful

Perfectly Awful

The Philadelphia 76ers' Horrendous and Hilarious 1972-1973 Season

Sugar

Sugar

Micheal Ray Richardson, Eighties Excess, and the NBA

The Great Baseball Revolt

Striking Distance

American Jews and America’s Game

Common Enemies

Common Enemies

Georgetown Basketball, Miami Football, and the Racial Transformation of College Sports

Moments of Impact

The Umpire Is Out

Sporting Realities

Daybreak at Chavez Ravine

Two Sides of Glory

The Naked Mountaineer

Jewish Sports Legends

The Pitcher and the Dictator

The Presidents and the Pastime

Cheated

Cheated

The UNC Scandal, the Education of Athletes, and the Future of Big-Time College Sports

Forever Red

The Baron and the Bear

Lefty O’Doul

The Masters

The Masters

A Hole-by-Hole History of America's Golf Classic

Comeback Pitchers

Spirals

Spirals

A Family's Education in Football

Beautifully Grotesque Fish of the American West

Life in the G

Life in the G

Minor League Basketball and the Relentless Pursuit of the NBA

Wartime Basketball

When Basketball Was Jewish

The Colonel and Hug

Mike Donlin

Mike Donlin

A Rough and Rowdy Life from New York Baseball Idol to Stage and Screen

Urban Shocker

The Age of Ruth and Landis

Baseball’s Power Shift

When Baseball Went White

Three Seconds in Munich

One Season in Rocket City

Forty Years a Giant

The Eighth Wonder of the World

Boston Ball

Boston Ball

Rick Pitino, Jim Calhoun, Gary Williams, and the Forgotten Cradle of Basketball Coaches

Loserville

Loserville

How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta—and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports

Defying Expectations

Rainbow Cattle Co.

Crack of the Bat

Pitching to the Pennant

Sports Journalism

Escape from Castro’s Cuba

The Speed Game

Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez

Nebrasketball

The Called Shot

The Called Shot

Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932

Smoky Joe Wood

Gil Hodges

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Other Great Books

Assembling Moral Mobilities

Empire and Catastrophe

Empire and Catastrophe

Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954

The Moroccan Soul

The Moroccan Soul

French Education, Colonial Ethnology, and Muslim Resistance, 1912-1956

Troubling the Water

A Different Trek

The Chief Rabbi’s Funeral

Murder in Manchuria

Murder in Manchuria

The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China

Monumental Controversies

Blaming China

Blaming China

It Might Feel Good but It Won't Fix America’s Economy

Cold War Paradise

Cold War Paradise

Settlement, Culture, and Identity-Making among U.S. Americans in Costa Rica, 1945–1980

Empire of Terror

Assignment: Pentagon

The Sovereign Colony

In Search of Monster Fish

America Ascendant

Innovating in a Secret World

Producing Early Modern London

Selling the Congo

Selling the Congo

A History of European Pro-Empire Propaganda and the Making of Belgian Imperialism

Chasing the Ghost Bear

Words Like Daggers

Gifted Greek

Empire between the Lines

Antisemitism and the Constitution of Sociology

From Near and Far

North American Wildland Plants

The Five-Ton Life

Unsettling Agribusiness

The Black Christ of Esquipulas

On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger

Megaquake

Megaquake

How Japan and the World Should Respond

Sacred Seeds

Sacred Seeds

New World Plants in Early Modern English Literature

Call Me Commander

Call Me Commander

A Former Intelligence Officer and the Journalists Who Uncovered His Scheme to Fleece America

Thinking Big Data in Geography

Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture

Descendants of Cyrus

Pseudo-Memoirs

Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

Violence in Capitalism

The Melancholy Void

The Other Exchange

The Other Exchange

Women, Servants, and the Urban Underclass in Early Modern English Literature

Age in Love

Contra Instrumentalism

A World Made for Money

Free Listening

Molyvos

Molyvos

A Greek Village's Heroic Response to the Global Refugee Crisis

Death Is All around Us

Narrative Truthiness

Author Under Sail

Anti-Judaism, Antisemitism, and Delegitimizing Israel

Culture on Two Wheels

Forbidden Memory

The Business of Leisure

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Informal Metropolis

Reading Unruly

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