Histories of United States Cities I (nonfiction)

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Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties 4.37 avg rating — 491 ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating — 44,181 ratings
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Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven
Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven 4.09 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Detroit: An American Autopsy
Detroit: An American Autopsy 3.94 avg rating — 15,742 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,288 ratings
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Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape
Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape
by: Brad Tyer
3.83 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis 3.84 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie 4.09 avg rating — 13,649 ratings
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The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square 4.01 avg rating — 1,580 ratings
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West 3.81 avg rating — 4,238 ratings
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Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles
Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles 4.04 avg rating — 447 ratings
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Ballpark: Baseball in the American City
Ballpark: Baseball in the American City 4.31 avg rating — 852 ratings
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Once In A Great City: A Detroit Story
Once In A Great City: A Detroit Story 3.79 avg rating — 1,864 ratings
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Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics 4.21 avg rating — 1,082 ratings
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The Story of a Border City During the Civil War
The Story of a Border City During the Civil War it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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A Prayer for the City
A Prayer for the City 4.22 avg rating — 1,274 ratings
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The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution
The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution 4.39 avg rating — 330 ratings
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Skid Row Kid: A Shoeshine Boy’s Memories of Love, Sex, Sin, Crime, and Life on Seattle’s First Avenue During the World War II Era
Skid Row Kid: A Shoeshine Boy’s Memories of Love, Sex, Sin, Crime, and Life on Seattle’s First Avenue During the World War II Era really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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They All Sang on the Corner: A Second Look at New York City's Rhythm and Blues Vocal Groups
They All Sang on the Corner: A Second Look at New York City's Rhythm and Blues Vocal Groups really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago
Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago 3.62 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Of Time and Knoxville: Fragment of an Autobiography
Of Time and Knoxville: Fragment of an Autobiography 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Portland: People, Politics, and Power, 1851-2001
Portland: People, Politics, and Power, 1851-2001 3.81 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The St. Louis Irish: An Unmatched Celtic Community (Volume 1)
The St. Louis Irish: An Unmatched Celtic Community (Volume 1) 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The American Skyscraper: Cultural Histories
The American Skyscraper: Cultural Histories 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge
The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge 3.95 avg rating — 1,506 ratings
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Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle
Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle 3.83 avg rating — 652 ratings
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The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice 4.19 avg rating — 1,307 ratings
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Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City 4.07 avg rating — 1,071 ratings
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You Were Never in Chicago
You Were Never in Chicago 3.69 avg rating — 492 ratings
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Around Washington Square: An Illustrated History of Greenwich Village
Around Washington Square: An Illustrated History of Greenwich Village 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Austin in the Jazz Age
Austin in the Jazz Age 2.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Created the Middle Class
Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Created the Middle Class 4.10 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town 4.12 avg rating — 57,733 ratings
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There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America 4.30 avg rating — 15,925 ratings
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Northwest Denver
Northwest Denver 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
36.
South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration
South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration 3.96 avg rating — 141 ratings
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The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues
The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues 4.12 avg rating — 515 ratings
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The King of Skid Row: John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis
The King of Skid Row: John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis 4.24 avg rating — 113 ratings
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An American Summer
An American Summer 4.32 avg rating — 4,881 ratings
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Thirsty City: Politics, Greed, and the Making of Atlanta's Water Crisis
Thirsty City: Politics, Greed, and the Making of Atlanta's Water Crisis 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver
The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver 4.13 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History
The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History 3.63 avg rating — 2,361 ratings
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History of Saint Louis City and County, from the earliest periods to the present day: including biographical sketches of representative men
History of Saint Louis City and County, from the earliest periods to the present day: including biographical sketches of representative men 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Down And Out: The Life and Death of Minneapolis’s Skid Row
Down And Out: The Life and Death of Minneapolis’s Skid Row 4.33 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul 3.63 avg rating — 13,092 ratings
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Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago
Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago 3.82 avg rating — 1,281 ratings
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No Such Thing: A San Francisco Gold Rush Romance (Gold Rush Romances #2)
No Such Thing: A San Francisco Gold Rush Romance (Gold Rush Romances #2) 4.27 avg rating — 88 ratings
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97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement 3.78 avg rating — 3,170 ratings
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Tweed's New York: Another Look
Tweed's New York: Another Look liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
48.
Population: 485
Population: 485 3.93 avg rating — 5,837 ratings
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Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City
Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City 3.27 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Boise's Watergate: University Place & All The Governor's Men
Boise's Watergate: University Place & All The Governor's Men liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force--The NYPD
Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force--The NYPD 3.47 avg rating — 129 ratings
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The Boys of Boise: Furor, Vice and Folly in an American City (Columbia Northwest Classics)
The Boys of Boise: Furor, Vice and Folly in an American City (Columbia Northwest Classics) 3.27 avg rating — 59 ratings
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New Orleans City Guide, 1938
New Orleans City Guide, 1938 4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings
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City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York 4.33 avg rating — 964 ratings
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Boise
Boise 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War
Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War 3.63 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Turmoil and Transition in Boston
Turmoil and Transition in Boston 3.88 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Boise, Idaho 1882-1910: Prosperity in Isolation
Boise, Idaho 1882-1910: Prosperity in Isolation 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign
The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign 4.24 avg rating — 348 ratings
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The Mob and the City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York
The Mob and the City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York 3.70 avg rating — 449 ratings
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Boise State of Mind: The Emergence of College Football's Grittiest Underdog
Boise State of Mind: The Emergence of College Football's Grittiest Underdog 3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Henry Grady's New South: Atlanta, a Brave and Beautiful City
Henry Grady's New South: Atlanta, a Brave and Beautiful City 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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New Amsterdam: The History of the Dutch Settlement Before It Became New York City
New Amsterdam: The History of the Dutch Settlement Before It Became New York City 3.86 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Historic Boise : An Introduction to the Architecture of Boise, Idaho, 1863-1938
Historic Boise : An Introduction to the Architecture of Boise, Idaho, 1863-1938 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
by: Jed Horne
3.89 avg rating — 622 ratings
68.
Tom's Town: Kansas City and the Pendergast Legend (Volume 1)
Tom's Town: Kansas City and the Pendergast Legend (Volume 1) 3.68 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Chinatown
Chinatown 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City
Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City 4.46 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum 3.96 avg rating — 1,576 ratings
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Life in Old Boise
Life in Old Boise 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi 3.63 avg rating — 1,413 ratings
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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast 4.17 avg rating — 3,064 ratings
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The Boiseans: At Home
The Boiseans: At Home liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Basin of Gold: Life in Boise Basin, 1862-1890
Basin of Gold: Life in Boise Basin, 1862-1890 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s
City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s 4.11 avg rating — 1,110 ratings
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The Five Points: The History of New York City’s Most Notorious Neighborhood
The Five Points: The History of New York City’s Most Notorious Neighborhood 3.66 avg rating — 98 ratings
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South Boise Scrapbook A Neighborhood History
South Boise Scrapbook A Neighborhood History 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Tragedy and the Triumph of Phenix City, Alabama
The Tragedy and the Triumph of Phenix City, Alabama 4.19 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles 4.14 avg rating — 2,026 ratings
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Quintessential Boise - An Architectural Journey
Quintessential Boise - An Architectural Journey 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Confederate City: Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1865
Confederate City: Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1865 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
84.
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell 3.95 avg rating — 5,151 ratings
84.
Boise an Illustrated History
Boise an Illustrated History 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Main Street Amusements: Movies and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City, 1896-1930
Main Street Amusements: Movies and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City, 1896-1930 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 4.09 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Vardis Fisher's Boise
Vardis Fisher's Boise 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad
The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad 3.51 avg rating — 480 ratings
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Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect 3.74 avg rating — 294 ratings
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Ghosts of Pocatello: Haunted History from the Gate City
Ghosts of Pocatello: Haunted History from the Gate City 3.46 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 704 ratings
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Freedom's Ballot: African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration
Freedom's Ballot: African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Haunted Idaho: The Haunted Locations of Boise, Nampa, Meridian, Idaho Falls and Pocatello
Haunted Idaho: The Haunted Locations of Boise, Nampa, Meridian, Idaho Falls and Pocatello 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Atlanta Rising: The Invention of an International City 1946-1996
Atlanta Rising: The Invention of an International City 1946-1996 4.10 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903
Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903 3.86 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Pocatello
Pocatello 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Oldest City: St. Augustine, Saga of Survival
Oldest City: St. Augustine, Saga of Survival 3.61 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Race Riot: Chicago In the Red Summer of 1919
Race Riot: Chicago In the Red Summer of 1919 3.86 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Pocatello Portrait: The Early Years, 1878-1928
Pocatello Portrait: The Early Years, 1878-1928 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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