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People's history
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Just what the doctor ordered: the history of American medicine
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Accept no substitutes!: the history of American advertising
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Don't whistle in school: the history of America's public schools
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What's cooking?: the history of American food
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Headin' for better times: the arts of the great depression
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Good women of a well-blessed land: women's lives in colonial America
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The fight for peace: a history of antiwar movements in America
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Journalists at risk: reporting America's wars
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The race for space: the United States and the Soviet Union compete for the new frontier
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Twenty-First Century Books
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c2008
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English
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Provides a history of comic books in America during the twentieth century, showing how it has influenced and been influenced by American culture. Includes an epilogue about comics in the early twenty-first century.
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Rest in peace: a history of American cemeteries
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Sweat and blood: a history of U.S. labor unions
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Can you imagine a world without teenagers? Before the early 1900s, the word teenager was not even part of the American vocabulary. The concept of adolescence-those transitional years between childhood and adulthood-simply did not exist. Instead, families needed young people to contribute to the family's earnings as soon as possible. Everybody worked; it was a part of life, for there was no life without it," wrote Edna Matthews Clifton of her teen...
