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      Stealing God’s Thunder: Benjamin Franklin’s Lightning Rod and the Invention of America

      Philip Dray

      A Pulitzer Prize finalist uses the story of Ben Franklin’s science and his curiousity as a metaphor for America’s struggle for democracy, and recounts how Franklin unlocked one of the…

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      A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age

      Philip Dray

      A book on a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism and eventually inspiring a powerful novella by Stephen…

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      At Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America

      Philip Dray

      A history of lynching in America describes its common use, especially in the southern United States, and discusses the crusade by a handful of black and white citizens to eliminate…

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      The Fair Chase: The Epic Story of Hunting in America

      Philip Dray

      An award-winning historian tells the story of hunting in America, showing how this sport has shaped our national identity.

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      There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America

      Philip Dray

      Award-winning historian Dray shows the vital accomplishments of organized labor and illuminates its central role in social, political, economic, and cultural evolution.

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      Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells: The Daring Life of a Crusading Journalist

      Philip Dray

      Philip Dray and Stephen Alcorn re-create the tensions that threatened to upend the nation a century ago while paying tribute to a courageous American hero.

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      Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells: The Daring Life of a Crusading Journalist

      Philip Dray

      Philip Dray and Stephen Alcorn re-create the tensions that threatened to upend the nation a century ago while paying tribute to a courageous American hero.

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