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A Brief History of Minneapolis traces the evolution of a city built on water, industry, imagination, and reinvention. From the thunder of St. Anthony Falls to the rise of the world’s flour capital, from immigrant neighborhoods to artistic revolutions, from labor struggles to moments that reshaped national dialogue, Minneapolis emerges as a place defined by its people and their capacity to build, create, and confront change.

Explore a land where towering red cliffs, vast deserts, and alpine mountains come together to create one of the most unforgettable landscapes in North America. Exploring Utah - A Journey Through History & Must-See Destinations takes you beyond the surface of this remarkable state, combining rich historical insight with practical travel guidance. From the ancient cultures that first called this land home to the iconic national parks that draw visitors from around the world, this audiobook offers a deeper understanding of Utah’s past and present.

The definitive and “captivating” (Marty Baron, author of Collision of Power) story of San Francisco’s meteoric transformation into a global capital of technology, and how the same creative and political forces that gave rise to its boom nearly engineered its collapse. At the dawn of the...

Brooke at the Bar is a candid, lively, and sometimes humorous autobiography by Brooke Wunnicke, the first woman to be a trial and appellate attorney in Wyoming and who went on to become a legal legend in Colorado. In conversational writing, Brooke provides insights from a lawyer, mentor, and educator. Brooke shares vignettes of her early life—California in the Great Depression, college at Stanford, law school in Colorado during World War II, and the 1946 opening of her Cheyenne law office, a precedent for women in law.

America’s founding generation drank a staggering amount of alcohol by today’s standards. It influenced their politics, built and sustained their relationships, and drove the economy. Booze was not a small part of colonial society, nor covertly consumed in private spaces—it was integral to...

A sweeping cultural history of two iconic landmarks that reflect the spirit, character, and values of the US—the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty—and the role they play in shaping American culture, US history, and international relations In Empire and Liberty, historian Dr...

“An engrossing intellectual history . . . [A] nuanced unraveling of sometimes dauntingly tangled ideas [with] always crisp prose.” —Wall Street Journal “Provocative . . . essential reading for today’s polarized times.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr. “This is a brilliant conceit...

AUDIOBOOK READ BY THE AUTHOR “In writing a book about Minneapolis, Justin Ellis has really written a book about America's favorite lie—that good intentions lead to justice. Ellis is a rigorous historian and a visceral storyteller, and he has produced something essential: a reckoning with a...

Bloomsbury presents Just Plain Filthy by Anthony Aycock, read by John Chancer. With the threat to intellectual freedom increasing around the country, this book takes a look at the first ever school book ban case to be decided by the high courts, and offers insights into how we can use history to...

Professor Greg Jackson, podcast host of History That Doesn’t Suck, proves that while today’s political climate may be dark, these aren’t as unprecedented times as we may think. Our nation’s past is full of massive upheaval, disagreement, and departures from the moral high ground. The...

The chilling true story of a brutal string of deaths on the post-Revolutionary frontier that reveal the violence at the heart of the young United States “In Cold Blood for the 1790s . . . Part true crime, part western, part ghost story, Kingdom of Devils plumbs the dark underbelly of the...

Brooklyn is a mythic place and the Gowanus Canal, pestilent and fertile, is its Nile. “Yous stay outta that f*cking water,” Uncle Honey used to warn us. We never listened. Mid-century Gowanus: Decades before the Whole Foods went up and the lofts were refurbished, a raucous, unruly, proudly...