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Don't look back

Satchel Paige in the shadows of baseball
1994
A biography of Satchel Paige, without the myths surrounding him, showing the real man in the context of his times.

Free at last

a documentary history of slavery, freedom, and the Civil War
1992
History of slavery, freedom, and the Civil War through the use of letters, personal testimony, and official transcripts.

Floating west

the Erie and other American canals
1992
A history of American canals and the people who built them during the nineteenth century.

Thousand pieces of gold

a biographical novel
1988
The story of a Chinese-American pioneer woman who overcame poverty, foot -binding, and slavery to build a life of relative freedom in the American Northwest.

American image

photographing one hundred fifty years in the life of a nation
1989
Captures the development of our nation through one hundred and fifty years of photography by anonymous amateurs and many masters.

Ancient Roman feasts and recipes adapted for modern cooking =

De epulis et arte coquinaria Romanorum antiquorum explicationem atque accomodationem hodiernam
1977

Strong-minded women

and other lost voices from nineteenth-century England
1982

The civilisation of the crowd

popular culture in England, 1750-1900
1985

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