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A Brick and a Bible
$28.50Uncovering the social revolution led by Black women in the heartland In this first study of Black radicalism in midwestern cities before the civil rights movement, Melissa Ford connects…
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A History of Hate in Ohio
$24.95While Ohio’s rich history of abolitionism is deservedly known, its equally long history of white supremacist activity—including the Ohio-founded neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer and the many groups currently documented…
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American Warsaw
$18.00A comprehensive and engaging history of a century of Polish immigration and influence in Chicago. Every May, a sea of 250,000 people decked out in red and white head to…
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Barefoot to Chicago
$27.50Uncovering stories of the freedom network in northeastern Illinois Decades before the Civil War, Illinois’s status as a free state beckoned enslaved people, particularly those in Kentucky and Missouri, to…
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Being Somebody and Black Besides
$27.50An immersive multigenerational memoir that recounts the hopes, injustices, and triumphs of a Black family fighting for access to the American dream in the twentieth century. The late Chicagoan George…
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Bosnian St. Louis
$19.95Bosnian St. Louis is a warm and richly illustrated tribute to an unlikely immigrant success story in America’s heartland. In the 1990s, Bosnia and Herzegovina was rocked by brutal…
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Bosnian St. Louis
$19.95Bosnian St. Louis is a warm and richly illustrated tribute to an unlikely immigrant success story in America’s heartland. In the 1990s, Bosnia and Herzegovina was rocked by brutal…
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Break Point
$19.95How two teenage girls in Minnesota jump-started a revolution in high school athletics Peggy Brenden, a senior, played tennis. Toni St. Pierre, a junior, was a cross country runner and…
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Chicago Reflected
$29.95A unique and playful hand-drawn exploration of the Chicago River’s landscape, documented on an eleven-foot-long foldout. In March 2020, architect Ryan Chester began drawing the Chicago River for…
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Chicagoland Dream Houses
$125.00“Chicagoland Dream Houses is an engaging addition to the growing body of scholarship concerning Chicago’s twentieth-century residential landscape characterized by a diverse group of architects and builders.”–Michelangelo Sabatino, coauthor of…
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