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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Warmth of Other Suns	Robin Miles,Isabel Wilkerson	In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citize…	OL15380640W
Housework and housewives in American advertising	Jessamyn Neuhaus	"This book traces the surprisingly persistent depiction of housework as women's work in advertising from the late 1800s to today. Asserting that advertising is our most significant public discourse …	OL15947452W
The most controversial decision	Wilson D. Miscamble	"This book explores the American use of atomic bombs, and the role these weapons played in the defeat of the Japanese Empire in World War II. It focuses on President Harry S. Truman's decision making…	OL16987178W
Imbeciles	Adam Cohen	From the Introduction... Faced with this choice, the Supreme Court did not merely side with the strong: it enthusiastically urged them on by insisting it would be “better for all the world” if soc…	OL17606326W
Negroland	Margo Jefferson	Born in upper-crust black Chicago—her father was for years head of pediatrics at Provident, at the time the nation’s oldest black hospital; her mother was a socialite—Margo Jefferson has spent most o…	OL17617055W
Buzz	Hallie Lieberman	"A riveting history that tells the story of sex toys from ancient phalluses to 21st century vibrating rabbits. [Lieberman] focuses on the period from the 1950s through the present, when sex toys evol…	OL19722016W
The gifted generation	David R. Goldfield	A history of the post-World War II decades traces the efforts of an activist federal government to guide the U.S. toward a realization of the American Dream, exploring the era's unprecedented economi…	OL19726216W
Bring the war home	Kathleen Belew	The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out--with military precision--an escalating campaign…	OL19734713W
Rocket men	Robert Kurson	Shares the inside story of the dangerous Apollo 8 mission, focusing on the lives of astronaut heroes Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders, while illuminating the political factors that prompted …	OL19736254W
The life of the automobile	Steven Parissien	"The car has shaped the modern era more profoundly than any other human invention. Its manufacture introduced mass-production to the world, bringing with it tarmac, suburbs, and car culture. In this …	OL19978055W
Milestones of space	National Air and Space Museum	"A beautifully illustrated history of the exploration of space through the most iconic objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Throughout the whole of human history, across all of…	OL19986429W
Boom, bust, exodus	Chad Broughton	"In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 34,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Gal…	OL20006365W
Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation	Robert J. Norrell	"It is difficult to think of two twentieth century books by one author that have had as much influence on American culture when they were published as Alex Haley's monumental bestsellers, The Autobio…	OL20010717W
Prisoners of hope	Randall Bennett Woods	"An eminent historian charts the origins and impact of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society "-- "In Prisoners of Hope, prize-winning historian Randall B. Woods presents the first comprehensive history of …	OL20027677W
The perfect pass	S. C. Gwynne	"New York Times bestselling, award-winning historian S.C. Gwynne tells the incredible story of how Hal Mumme and Mike Leach--two unknown coaches who revolutionized American football in the 1980s, 199…	OL20033330W
Black Power 50	Komozi Woodard,Sylviane A. Diouf,Khalil Gibran Muhammad	"Black Power burst onto the world scene in 1966 with ideas, politics, and fashion that opened the eyes of millions of people across the globe. In the United States, the movement spread like wildfire:…	OL20034873W
Un-American	Richard Cahan	In 1942 more than 109,000 Japanese Americans, including 70,000 U.S. citizens, were picked up and sent to incarceration centers, most for the duration of the war. It was the shame of America-- and it …	OL20042716W
Ike and McCarthy	David A. Nichols	"Describes how President Eisenhower used surrogates to orchestrate a secret campaign against the powerful Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy best known for his anti-Communist witch hunt, that ultimat…	OL20052238W
Risking everything	Michael Edmonds	"Risking Everything : A Freedom Summer Reader documents the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, when SNCC and CORE workers and volunteers arrived in the Deep South to register voters and teach n…	OL23180607W
The wobblies in their heyday	Eric Thomas Chester	"During World War I, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) rose to prominence as an effective, militant union and then was destroyed by a devastating campaign of repression launched by the federa…	OL23186038W