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Restricted Data The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States

Wellerstein Alex

ISBN: HB: 9780226020389, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 7 line drawings, 3 tables

The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and beyond, there were efforts to control the spread of nuclear information and the newly discovered...

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Reconstruction Amendments The Essential Documents, Volume 1

Lash Kurt T.

ISBN: HB: 9780226688787, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
632 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 1 halftone

Ratified in the years immediately following the American Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution – together known as the Reconstruction Amendments – abolished slavery, safeguarded a set of basic nation...

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Reconstruction Amendments The Essential Documents, Volume 2

Lash Kurt T.

ISBN: HB: 9780226688954, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
704 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm

Ratified in the years immediately following the American Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution – together known as the Reconstruction Amendments – abolished slavery, safeguarded a set of bas...

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Remembering Emmett Till

Tell Dave

ISBN: PB: 9780226559674, ISBN: HB: 9780226559537, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
322 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 1 line drawing

Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you'll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the Civil Rights movement. Perhaps the most chilling are those devoted to the murder of Emmett Till, a tragedy of hate...

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Rights of the Defenseless Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America

Pearson Susan J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226760605, ISBN: HB: 9780226652016, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
280 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 14 halftones

In 1877, the American Humane Society was formed as the national organization for animal and child protection. Thirty years later, there were 354 anticruelty organizations chartered in the United States, nearly 200 of which were similarly invested in...

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America

Running the Numbers Race, Police, and the History of Urban Gambling

Vaz Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780226690445, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

Every day in the United States, people test their luck in numerous lotteries, from state-run games to massive programs like Powerball and Mega Millions. Yet few are aware that the origins of today's lotteries can be found in an African American gambl...

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Christianity

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Religious Intolerance, America, and the World A History of Forgetting and Remembering

Corrigan John

ISBN: HB: 9780226313931, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

As the news shows us every day, contemporary American culture and politics are rife with people who demonize their enemies by projecting their own failings and flaws onto them. But this is no recent development. Rather, as John Corrigan argues here,...

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Rising Up from Indian Country The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago

Durkin Keating Ann

ISBN: PB: 9780226678580, ISBN: HB: 9780226428963, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 maps, 35 halftones

In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne, hundreds of miles away. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well as...

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America

Remembrance of Things Present The Invention of the Time Capsule

Yablon Nick

ISBN: HB: 9780226574134, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones

Time capsules may seem trivial and useless to historians, but, as Nick Yablon shows in this new book, they offer crucial insights into how people view their own time, place, and culture, and their duties to future generations. Remembrance of Things P...

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Renewal Liberal Protestants and the American City after World War II

Wild Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226605234, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the decades following World War II, a movement of clergy and laity sought to restore liberal Protestantism to the center of American urban life. Chastened by their failure to avert war and the Holocaust, and troubled by missionaries' complicity wi...

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