Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.

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Danielle Allen
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Lincoln and the Abolitionists

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Fred Kaplan
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Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees

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Mary Beth Leatherdale
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Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty

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Jon Kukla
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

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Richard Rothstein
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The Miracle That Is the Monarch

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Sonny Ramaswamy
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Partisan Paintings: George Caleb Bingham and the Election of 1844

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Joan Stack
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Shooting the Eclipse

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Reed Hoffmann
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Henry Ossian Flipper

Henry Ossian Flipper
Damron Russel Armstrong
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Ordinary Extraordinary African American Women: The Elders

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Stephana Colbert, June Davis
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Last Call: The History of Kansas City's Coda Jazz Fund

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Steve Penn
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Angels with Angles

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Mary Esselman, Sister Berta Sailer, Sister Corita Bussanmas, Kim Randolph, Loring Leifer
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Recaptured Africans

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Sharla M. Fett
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny

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Michael Wallis
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Hamlet: From the Page to the Stage

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Ian Wooldridge
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Lincoln: Wrestling with His Angel, 1849-1856

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Sidney Blumenthal
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Peace through Entrepreneurship

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Steven Koltai
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Advice to Young (and Old) Education Reformers

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Frederick M. “Rick” Hess
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Everybody Gets Stinky Feet

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Jim Cosgrove
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Killers of the Flower Moon

Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann
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Homegoing

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Yaa Gyasi
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A New Way: Embracing the Paradox as We Lead and Serve

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Matthew Dowd, Allan Katz
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Kansas City Beer: A History of Brewing in the Heartland

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Pete Dulin
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What Makes a Poem Work?

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Hadara Bar-Nadav, Kathryn Nuernberger, Angela Elam
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