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Behold the Land: The Black Arts Movement in the South
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Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
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4.52 avg rating — 3,008 ratings
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But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups
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4.02 avg rating — 523 ratings
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Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism
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4.08 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement
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4.34 avg rating — 569 ratings
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The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession
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3.60 avg rating — 4,331 ratings
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The Downtown Pop Underground: New York City and the Literary Punks, Renegade Artists, DIY Filmmakers, Mad Playwrights, and Rock 'n' Roll Glitter Queens Who Revolutionized Culture
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3.95 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Pre-Raphaelite Girl Gang: Fifty Makers, Shakers and Heartbreakers from the Victorian Era
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3.87 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution
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4.08 avg rating — 1,223 ratings
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Dirty Pictures: How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intellectuals, and Art School Rebels Revolutionized Art and Invented Comix
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3.99 avg rating — 104 ratings
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How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement
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3.97 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs
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4.09 avg rating — 66 ratings
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They All Sang on the Corner: A Second Look at New York City's Rhythm and Blues Vocal Groups
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Dance Theatre of Harlem: A History, a Movement, a Celebration
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4.50 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011
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4.01 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
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3.51 avg rating — 546 ratings
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In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
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3.79 avg rating — 1,698 ratings
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The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s
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4.04 avg rating — 639 ratings
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Art That Changed the World: Transformative Art Movements and the Paintings That Inspired Them
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4.30 avg rating — 376 ratings
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Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
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4.05 avg rating — 1,099 ratings
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The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland: A History
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars
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4.16 avg rating — 1,661 ratings
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Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
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4.27 avg rating — 570 ratings
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Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice
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3.62 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Inside the Rainbow: Russian Children's Literature 1920-1935: Beautiful Books, Terrible Times
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4.38 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
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3.46 avg rating — 1,969 ratings
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Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
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4.56 avg rating — 693 ratings
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Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
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3.56 avg rating — 998 ratings
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Republic of Taste: Art, Politics, and Everyday Life in Early America
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3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
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3.99 avg rating — 616 ratings
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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism
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3.85 avg rating — 14,525 ratings
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Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
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4.38 avg rating — 660 ratings
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Out of the Inkwell: Max Fleischer and the Animation Revolution
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3.90 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession
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3.63 avg rating — 339 ratings
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The Bloomsbury Group
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3.86 avg rating — 197 ratings
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The Minicomix Revolution 1969–1989
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Wit's End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table
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3.94 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution 1963 - 1975
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4.21 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture
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3.66 avg rating — 533 ratings
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The Vicious Circle: Mystery and Crime Stories by Members of the Algonquin Round Table
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3.20 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor
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4.38 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Gays on Broadway
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3.43 avg rating — 127 ratings
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The Masters Of Bebop: A Listener's Guide
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4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide
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4.01 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Freedom in the Air: Song Movements of the Sixties
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3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Bon Mots, Wisecracks, and Gags: The Wit of Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, and the Algonquin Round Table
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3.33 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Everybody Says Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement in Songs and Pictures
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4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s England
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3.63 avg rating — 251 ratings
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The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture
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4.04 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism
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3.64 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Appalachian Dance: Creativity and Continuity in Six Communities
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Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana 1718-1868
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3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote
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3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
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A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
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4.01 avg rating — 1,254 ratings
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Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee
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3.99 avg rating — 413 ratings
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music After Fukushima
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4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
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3.97 avg rating — 692 ratings
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The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement
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3.67 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.96 avg rating — 112,709 ratings
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Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement
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3.76 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community
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4.24 avg rating — 146 ratings
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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3.54 avg rating — 13,330 ratings
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Disturbing the Peace: The Story of Father Roy Bourgeois and the Movement to Close the School of Americas
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4.47 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
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3.94 avg rating — 20,501 ratings
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Lives of Museum Junkies: The Story of America's Hands-On Education Movement
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3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
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4.07 avg rating — 985 ratings
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Grave Landscapes: The Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemetery Movement
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4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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We Set the Night on Fire: Igniting the Gay Revolution
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4.05 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Chicano Movement For Beginners
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4.37 avg rating — 141 ratings
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The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
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3.67 avg rating — 3,830 ratings
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To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
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4.29 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream
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3.61 avg rating — 1,842 ratings
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Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement: Reframing History in Comics (World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series)
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Trailblazing Women Printmakers: Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios and the Folly Cove Designers
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4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Fire and the Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement
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4.17 avg rating — 229 ratings
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The Quilts of Gee's Bend
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4.16 avg rating — 307 ratings
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Dynamic Design: Jay Hambidge, Mary Crovatt Hambidge, and the Founding of the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences
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The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women
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4.06 avg rating — 1,746 ratings
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A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
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4.32 avg rating — 410 ratings
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Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
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4.06 avg rating — 4,319 ratings
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Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957
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4.65 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College
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A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain , Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
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3.52 avg rating — 388 ratings
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EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest
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4.42 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Private Lives of the Impressionists
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3.98 avg rating — 2,866 ratings
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Eleanor Smith's Hull-House Songs: The Music of Protest and Hope in Jane Addams's Chicago
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In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali
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3.66 avg rating — 290 ratings
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American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation
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4.18 avg rating — 236 ratings
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Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
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3.88 avg rating — 2,901 ratings
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The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
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3.67 avg rating — 4,555 ratings
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Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
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3.42 avg rating — 1,512 ratings
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The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna
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3.70 avg rating — 731 ratings
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
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4.26 avg rating — 2,368 ratings
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The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
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4.41 avg rating — 3,143 ratings
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Music Legends: A Rewind on the Minnesota Music Scene
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3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
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4.04 avg rating — 1,041 ratings
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Over Under Sideways Down: Stories from inside the British music scene
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3.48 avg rating — 29 ratings
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More Than Words: Illustrated Letters From The Smithsonian's Archive of American Art
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4.19 avg rating — 69 ratings
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With Love: Artists' Letters and Illustrated Notes
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3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America
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3.68 avg rating — 129 ratings
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