Anchorage, AK: The Alaska Methodist University Press, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - A well-documented account of the New Deal's Matanuska Valley resettlement and colonization project (the only one in Alaska) In 1935, in the midst of the great Depression, 202 poor families were moved from their homes in Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin to start life anew on 40 and 80 acre homesteads financed by the federal government. Illustrated with photographs. Includes several appendices, index. vii, 191 pp. Map endpapers.

New York: Rinehart and Company. (1949). Hardcover first edition - A volume in the RIVERS OF AMERICA series edited by Hervey Allen and Carl Carmer. Illustrated with drawings by Edward Shenton. This copy has a page bound in stating that this book is one of a Special Limited Valley Edition - this page is INSCRIBED by the author and dated 10-14-49. Bibliography, index. 592 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (c 1956) dj. Hardcover - An inside picture of labor unions today from 1933 to 1956 with an emphasis on the period after the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947. Includes chapters on collective bargaining, racketeering, communists in unions and more. References, suggested reading, index. xii, 465 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. Hardcover first edition - A history of the town of Sandwich on Cape Cod, Massachusetts focusing on the glass-making businesses which flourished there. Illustrated with photographs and drawings by Robert Hallack. Selected bibliography. Index. vii, 318 pp.

New York: Vintage Books, (2000). A book on how the law perpetuates myths of race, gender, and class by a former head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Berry examines "a century's worth of appellate cases, ranging from a nineteenth-century Alabama case in which a white woman was denied her divorce petition because an affair between a white man (her husband) and a black woman (his lover) was 'of no consequence,' to such recent, high-profile cases as the William Kennedy Smith and O.J. Simpson trials." Notes, index. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-375707468.

1908. First edition - Includes a foreword by John Winslow, a brief history of King Philip's War and of Michael Pierce of Scituate by Edwin C. Pierce, a poem by Hezekiah Butterworth and a list of the slain members of the Plymouth Colony Company. Glossy frontispiece. 41 pp.

New York: Prentice-Hall, (1970). First edition - Looks at racism in practice from 1769-1942 as it affected Native Americans (the Mission system), Chinese, Japanese, Mexican Americans and African Americans,with a chapter on post-World War II racism. Includes a list of documents, suggestions for further reading, index. xii, 155 pp. ISBN: 0-130289930.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - A detailed account of the famous Civil War battle at sea between the Union's "Monitor" and the Confederacy's Virginia, the redesigned and rebuilt U.S.S. Merrimack. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Documentation, sources, index. x, 201 pp. ISBN: 0-385-098685.

New York: Pantheon, (1987). Essays which look at the effective disenfranchisement of some of the country's poorest citizens under Ronald Reagan. Contributors include Vine DeLoria Jr, William Jules Wilson, Charles V. Hamilton and others. Updated edition with a new preface. Footnotes at the end of each essay, index, notes on contributors. xvii, 236 pp. ISBN: 0-394725131.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2010). Gripping account by this National Book Award winning author of the worst wild fire in the history of the United States. ÑA wind-swept wildfire that began on August 20, 1910, and consumed three million acres of forest in Idaho, Montana and Washington in just 36 hours. But paradoxically, this forest fire was the event that cemented the heroism of the young Forest Service (only 5 years old at the time) in the public mind and galvanized Teddy Roosevelt's campaign for public lands. Winner of the 2010 Washington State Book Award for history. Map, photographs, notes on sources, index. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-618-968415.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1971). A new critical approach focusing on why was American slavery different from other forms, and why have the results been so long lasting. Index. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-226-204758.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - The history of Fort Union in New Mexico from its founding in 1851 until it was largely abandoned in 1891. It was the supply post and focal point for dealing with the Spanish and Indian population of New Mexico, and a major target of the Confederate Army in the Civil War, although it remained in Union hands. Foreword by W. S Wallace. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Appendix, bibliography and index.xvi, 436 pp.

New York: Dutton, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "reveals for the first time in any detail the facts about burgeoning European direct investment in the United States." Foreword by Commander Edward Whitehead. Index. xvii, 242 pp. ISBN: 0-525133054.

New York: Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt, (2007). Hardcover first edition - A controversial and interesting look at America's psychological response to the 9/11 attacks. She offers a fascinating explanation of why 9/11 led to such a perverse retreat from our own values - "The answer... lies in a historical anomaly unique to the American experience: the nation that in recent memory has been least vulnerable to domestic attack was forged in traumatizing assaults by nonwhite 'barbarians' on town and village. That humiliation lies concealed under a myth of cowboy bluster and feminine frailty." Notes, index. xii, 351 pp. ISBN: 978-0805086928.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which "clarifies the economic, political, social and environmental issues and gives the reader a realistic picture of this unifyiing source of life in the West." Fradkin explored most of the 1700 miles of the Colorado River by foot, boat and by car from its headwaters in the Wind River range of Wyoming, through the Grand Canyon to the Mexican desert which was once its outlet to the sea. Illustrated with maps and 45 black and white photographs by the author. SIGNED on the front free endpaper. Bibliography, index. xviii, 360 pp. ISBN: 0-394415795.

New York: Cameron Associates, 1957. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a former corporate attorney and economics professor who chose to defend those accused of un-American activities in the era of McCarthy. Foreword by Dr Alexander Meiklejohn. 255 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of four judges - all complex men, ethical and thoughtful -two liberal, two conservative - which reveals how unconscious biases are so pervasive in the US "justice" system, resulting in a broad and arbitrary disparity in the sentences given to those convicted of crime.. Notes, index. xvii, 244, vi. ISBN: 0-394-485939.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, (1986). "Set against the background of the antebellum slave trade, Drums and Shadows traces the persistence of African heritage in the culture of blacks living on the Georgia coast in the 1930s. In the later years of the depression, members of the Georgia Writers' Project visited and interviewed blacks, many of whose grandparents, smuggled into slavery as late as 1858, had passed on the customs and beliefs of their African past." A facsimile reprint of the 1940 first edition, with photographs by Muriel Bell and Malcolm Bell Jr. and an introduction by Charles Joyner. Photographs. Glossary, list of informants. bibliography, index. xliv, 274 pp. ISBN: 0-82030851X.

Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, (1991.) dj. Hardcover - "On August 21, 1863, William Quantrill led 400 Confederate irregulars to a rise on the outskirts of Lawrence, Kansas. . . . The attack began at dawn. When it was over, more than 150 townsmen were dead and most of the settlement burned to the ground." Illustrated with 3 maps and 24 black and white photographs and illustrations. Notes, bibliography, index. 207 pp. ISBN: 0-87338-4423.

Boston: Little Brown, 1895. Hardcover - First Little Brown edition, originally published in New York by Lovell, Coryell, in 1984. A social history of seventeenth century Virginians, with chapters on dress, news, trade and travel, amusements, man and maid-servants, church, education, laws and punishments, sickness and death, and other subjects. Illustrated with many drawings, some full page, by Harry Edwards. Notes, bibliography. 316 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The fortune of the Warren family, derived from a Maine papermill, enabled five siblings to grow up in the elite society of Boston's Beacon Hill in the early 1900s. In telling the stories of those children who became notable for eccentricity and philanthropy, Green focuses on [two brothers] - Ned Warren, a homosexual and mover in the international movement of aestheticism, who was determined to lead a 'grand but blighted life'" and his elder brother, Sam, a staid businessman. The Warren fortune funded the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, with its classical antiquities collection, Dennison House in Harvard Yard, the restoration of Shakertown and more. Photographs, endnotes, bibliography and index. xii, 270 pp. ISBN: 0-684191091.