Kansas City Houses, 1885-1938

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Michael C. Kathrens
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Benjamin Rush: The Overlooked Founding Father

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Stephen Fried
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Antisemitism: Then and Now

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F. K. Clementi
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From Kennedy to Kavanaugh: The Future of the Supreme Court

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Frank Colucci
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Black Flags, Blue Waters

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Eric Jay Dolin
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Dinosaurs Revealed: Getting to Know Tyrannosaurus Rex

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David Burnham
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Mexican American Baseball in Kansas City

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Dr. Gene T. Chavez
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Dance Speaks: The Wizard of Oz

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Septime Webre, Devon Carney
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Babies Made Us Modern

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Janet Golden
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Operation Husky: 'Bitter Victory' in Sicily

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Gregory S. Hospodor
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If It Looks Like a Man: Gender Identity, Female Soldiers, and 'Lady Bushwhackers' in the Civil War

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Aaron Barnhart, Diane Eickhoff
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Invisible Wounds of War: Writing Through Injury

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Brian Turner, Rita Brock, George Dent
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Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing up Bernstein

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Jamie Bernstein, David Charles Abell
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Neighborhoods First

Chuck Marohn Making a Great City
Chuck Marohn
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Justice on Fire: The Kansas City Firefighters Case

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J. Patrick O'Connor
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Kursk 1943: The Soviets Strike Back

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Jonathan M. House
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Mommy, Please Don't Go to Work!

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Rhiannon Ally, Mike Marusarz
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Brother Outsider: Bayard Rustin and the ’63 March on Washington

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Clarence Lang, Walter Naegle
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Home Truth

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Jessica Lenahan, Nicole Portnov
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Not a Crime to Be Poor

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Peter Edelman
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The Art of Science

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Tyler Thrasher
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Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters

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Anne Boyd Rioux
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Legacy: Spirit of the Black Panthers

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Jermaine Thomas, Lyle Gibson, Jacquey Valentine
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No Place Like Home

C.J. Janovy
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