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The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration

By Karen M. Inouye

The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration reexamines the history of imprisonment of U. S. and Canadian citizens of Japanese descent during World War II.

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Make It Rain: State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America

By Kristine C. Harper

Weather control. Juxtaposing those two words is enough to raise eyebrows in a world where even the best weather models still fail to nail every forecast, and when the effects of climate change on sea level height, seasonal averages of weather phenomena, and biological behavior are being watched with interest by all, regardless of political or scientific persuasion.

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The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq

By Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt

A new history of Middle East oil and the deep roots of American violence in Iraq. Iraq has been the site of some of the United States' longest and most sustained military campaigns since the Vietnam War.

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The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq

By Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt

A new history of Middle East oil and the deep roots of American violence in Iraq. Iraq has been the site of some of the United States' longest and most sustained military campaigns since the Vietnam War.

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Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women's Suffrage Movement

By Allison K. Lange

Lange's examination of the fights that led to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals the power of images to change history.

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The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II

By Stephen Vider

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Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time Capsule

By Nick Yablon

Time capsules offer unexpected insights into how people view their own time, place, and culture, as well as their duties to future generations. Remembrance of Things Present traces the birth of this device to the Gilded Age, when growing urban volatility prompted doubts about how the period would be remembered--or if it would be remembered at all.

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Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away

By Ann Hagedorn

"The little-known story of a spy on the atom-bomb project in World War II who had top security clearance. American born, Soviet trained, he was never even suspected until after his information was in Soviet hands and he was safe in the USSR"--