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The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification
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Lead Kindly Light: Pre-War Music and Photographs from the American South
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American Childhood: A Photographic History
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Folk Photography: The American Real-Photo Postcard, 1905-1930
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Through the Lens of Allen E. Cole: A Photographic History of African Americans in Cleveland, Ohio
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Bound for Glory: America in Color 1939-43
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Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
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More American Splendor
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African-American Gardens: Yards In Rural South
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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Far From the Shamrock Shore: The Story of Irish-American Immigration Through Song
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Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon
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Yessir, I've Been Here a Long Time: The Faces and Words of Americans Who Have Lived a Century
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Drop on Down in Florida: Field Recordings of African American Traditional Music 1977-1980
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848
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American Music Is
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
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Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
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Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
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Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age
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Skippy and Percy Crosby: The Life and Work of a Great American Cartoonist
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The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-45
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter: Coyote Builds North America
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Sacred Steel: Inside an African American Steel Guitar Tradition (Music in American Life
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Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
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All That Is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
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Jeb: America's Next Bush
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Bylines: Writings from the American South, 1963-1997
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Jack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culture HC
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Old Glory: An American Voyage
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In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
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William Faulkner: American Writer: A Biography
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Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy
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Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia
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The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
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A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
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The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
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The Ungentlemanly Art: A History of American Political Cartoons,
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The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts (Brown Thrasher Books)
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American Folk Masters
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Gahan Wilson's America
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Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books
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Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor
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Mark Trail - Fight to Save America's Waters(Comic Book)
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Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
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Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
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Apples of North America: A Celebration of Exceptional Varieties
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Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors
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American Terroir: Savoring the Flavors of Our Woods, Waters, and Fields
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Season of the Gar: Adventures in Pursuit of America's Most Misunderstood Fish
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America's Alligator: A Popular History of Our Most Celebrated Reptile
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The Pecan: A History of America's Native Nut
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Fire and Ashes: On the Front Lines of American Wildfire
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Garden Insects of North America: The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs
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An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World
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How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920
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My Dad's Funnier than Your Dad: Growing Up with Tim Conway in the Funniest House in America
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Radical America Komiks
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Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
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Who's to Say What's Obscene?: Politics, Culture, and Comedy in America Today
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Kilroy Was Here: The Best American Humor from World War II
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The American Bystander
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Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, from Amos 'n' Andy and Edward R. Murrow to Wolfman Jack and Howard Stern
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The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground: A Library of America Special Publication
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The Best of Sexology: Kinky and Kooky Excerpts from America's First Sex Magazine
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American Cornball: A Laffopedic Guide to the Formerly Funny
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The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy
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Tijuana Bibles: Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies, 1930'S-1950's
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Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America
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Society Is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy at the Dawn of the American Comic Strip
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American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
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Passing Gas: And Other Towns Along the American Highway
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WAKING UP SCREAMING FROM THE AMERICAN DREAM: NPR's Roving Correspondent Reports from the Bumpy Road to Success
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Nowhere in America: The Big Rock Candy Mountain and Other Comic Utopias
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Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition
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John Henry and His People: The Historical Origin and Lore of America's Great Folk Ballad
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A Communion of the Spirits: African-American Quilters, Preservers, and Their Stories
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Vietnam Zippos: American Soldiers' Engravings and Stories (1965-1973)
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In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America
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Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist: Alien Contact Tales Since the 1950s
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Hobo & Tramp Art Carving: An Authentic American Folk Tradition
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American Writings
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The Dirty Songbook: American Bawdy Songs
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American Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Legends, and Sightings in America
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Our Stories Remember: American Indian History, Culture and Values through Storytelling
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Holding On: Dreamers, Visionaries, Eccentrics, and Other American Heroes
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Manly Traditions: The Folk Roots of American Masculinities
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Why We Left: Untold Stories and Songs of America's First Immigrants
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Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive Folklore of Childhood
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Singing in the African American Tradition - Volume 2: Building a Vocal Community
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Indians and Wannabes: Native American Powwow Dancing in the Northeast and Beyond
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Grasping Things: Folk Material Culture and Mass Society in America
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Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture
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Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong
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Folk Nation: Folklore in the Creation of American Tradition
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Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South
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Moonshining as a Fine Art: The Foxfire Americana Library
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