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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider

By Charles Person, Richard Rooker

A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward -- written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers. At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U. S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D. C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans.

Published: Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Published by: St Martin's Press

Available in: Hardcover (9781250274199)

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The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America

By Allan M Brandt

Once so acceptable that even Emily Post approved, cigarette smoking is an integral part of American history and culture, as demonstrated in this highly readable, exhaustively researched book. Brandt explores the impact and meaning of cigarettes, from cultural, scientific, political, and legal standpoints.

Published: Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Published by: Basic Books

Available in: Paperback (9780465070480)

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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

By Margaret O'Mara

The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest days of the commercial Internet.

Published: Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Published by: Penguin Press

Available in: Hardcover (9780399562181)

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The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority

By Ellen D Wu

The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century.

Published: Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Published by: Princeton University Press

Available in: Paperback (9780691168029)

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The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History

By Samuel W Franklin

"Samuel Weil Franklin shows that in postwar America, the newfangled term "creativity" was the product of campaigns to harness the power of the individual to the demands of capitalist production and global hegemony. Franklin reveals that the champions of creativity were psychologists, educators, and management consultants who benefited from postwar technological progress yet worried that the resulting society might promote conformity and stifle ingenuity. Against increasingly reified institutions and systems, the "creative individual" took on a wealth of romantic, generative, and democratic associations. Creativity was the motive force behind the postwar individual, the literal spark-and cannon fodder-of progress"--

Published: Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Published by: University of Chicago Press

Available in: Hardcover (9780226657851)

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Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them

By Dan Bouk

The census isn't simply data; it's a ritual of American democracy. And behind every neat grid of numbers is a messy, human story--you just have to know how to read it.

Published: Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Published by: MCD

Available in: Hardcover (9780374602543)

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Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust (Anniversary)

By Ira Katznelson

In this major intellectual history, Ira Katznelson examines the works of Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl, Richard Hofstadter, Karl Polanyi, and others. In light of their epoch's calamities, these intellectuals insisted that the tradition of Enlightenment thought required a new realism, a good deal of renovation, and much recommitment.

Published: Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Published by: Columbia University Press

Available in: Paperback (9780231197892)

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The Disappearing Christ: Secularism in the Silent Era

By Phil Maciak

Phillip Maciak examines filmic depictions of Jesus to argue that cinema developed as a model technology of secularism, training viewers for belief in a secular age. Cinematic depictions of an appearing and disappearing Christ became a powerful vehicle for Americans to navigate a rapidly modernizing society.

Published: Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Published by: Columbia University Press

Available in: Paperback (9780231187091)

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Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality

By Angus Deaton

From the Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism , candid reflections on the economist's craft When economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the early 1980s, he was awed by America's strengths and shocked by the extraordinary gaps he witnessed between people.

Published: Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Published by: Princeton University Press

Available in: Hardcover (9780691247625)

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Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America

By Helen Anne Curry

Plant breeders have long sought technologies to extend human control over nature. Early in the twentieth century, this led some to experiment with startlingly strange tools like x-ray machines, chromosome-altering chemicals, and radioactive elements. Contemporary reports celebrated these mutation-inducing methods as ways of generating variation in plants on demand.

Published: Saturday, June 5, 2021

Published by: University of Chicago Press

Available in: Paperback (9780226790862)

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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider

The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority

The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History

Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them

Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust (Anniversary)

The Disappearing Christ: Secularism in the Silent Era

Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality

Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America

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