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Criminology

Murder at the Fort A Double Homicide Cold Case and Cover Up!

Marmion Bob

ISBN: PB: 9781925520118, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
324 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm, 50 black&white illus. and maps

Early one cold, wintry morning in late May 1942, the bullet-ridden body of Driver Roy Willis was found on the side of the road. He had been shot a number of times with a military revolver. Despite extensive enquiries by some of the Victoria Police's...

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Evangelical Gotham Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860

Roberts Kyle B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226388144, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones, 7 maps, 8 tables

At first glance, evangelical and Gotham seem like an odd pair. What does a movement of pious converts and reformers have to do with a city notoriously full of temptation and sin? More than you might think, says Kyle B. Roberts, who argues that religi...

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Education

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Building a New Educational State Foundations, Schools, and the American South

Malczewski Joan

ISBN: HB: 9780226394626, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Building a New Educational State" examines the dynamic process of black education reform during the Jim Crow era in North Carolina and Mississippi. Through extensive archival research, Joan Malczewski explores the initiatives of foundations and refo...

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America

New Math A Political History

Phillips Christopher J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226421490, ISBN: HB: 9780226184968, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 line drawings

An era of sweeping cultural change in America, the postwar years saw the rise of beatniks and hippies, the birth of feminism, and the release of the first video game. It was also the era of new math. Introduced to US schools in the late 1950s and 196...

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Old-Time Saloon Not Wet – Not Dry, Just History

Ade George

ISBN: PB: 9780226412306, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm, 4 halftones, 8 line drawings

Fancy a tipple? Then pull up a stool, raise a glass, and dip into this delightful paean to the grand old saloon days of yore. Written by Chicago-based journalist, playwright, and all-round wit George Ade in the waning years of Prohibition, "The Old-T...

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Women Studies

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Big Bosses A Working Girl's Memoir of Jazz Age America

McDowell Altemus Althea

ISBN: PB: 9780226423623, ISBN: HB: 9780226423593, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 29 halftones

Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working woman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, "Big Bosses", she vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent (but thinly disguised) empl...

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Photography

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North of Dixie Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South

Speltz Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781606065051, Getty Publications, October 2016
160 pp., 25x15 cm, 100 black&white illus.

The history of the civil rights movement is commonly illustrated with well-known photographs from Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma-leaving the visual story of the movement outside the South remaining to be told. In North of Dixie, historian Mark Spe...

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Capital Culture J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience

Harris Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226434469, ISBN: HB: 9780226067704, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones

American art museums flourished in the late twentieth century, and the impresario leading much of this growth was J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 1969 to 1992. Along with S. Dillon Ripley, who served a...

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Christianity

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Peaceful Conquest Woodrow Wilson, Religion, and the New World Order

Burnidge Cara Lea

ISBN: HB: 9780226232317, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

A century after his presidency, Woodrow Wilson remains one of the most compelling and complicated figures ever to occupy the Oval Office. A political outsider, Wilson brought to the presidency a distinctive, strongly held worldview, built on powerful...

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Political Science

Insurgent Democracy The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics

Lansing Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226434773, ISBN: HB: 9780226283500, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

In 1915, western farmers mounted one of the most significant challenges to party politics America has seen: the Nonpartisan League, which sought to empower citizens and restrain corporate influence. Before its collapse in the 1920s, the League counte...

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