How Things Worked

Authors: David B. Danbom, John David Smith, Jonathan Rees, Ronald H. Bayor, Tim Lehman

The How Things Worked book series by multiple authors includes books Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century, Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America, Other People's Money, and several more. See the complete How Things Worked series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles.

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Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century

Sean Patrick Adams

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Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America

Johann N. Neem

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Other People's Money

Sharon Ann Murphy

From $26.56

Crash! How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked

Phillip G Payne, Phillip G. Payne

From $26.40

The New Deal's Forest Army: How the Civilian Conservation Corps Worked

Benjamin F Alexander

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Before the Refrigerator: How We Used to Get Ice

Jonathan Rees

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Soldiering for Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops

John David Smith, Bob Luke

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Up the Trail: How Texas Cowboys Herded Longhorns and Became an American Icon

Tim Lehman

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Encountering Ellis Island: How European Immigrants Entered America

Ronald H. Bayor

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Sod Busting: How Families Made Farms on the Nineteenth-Century Plains

David B. Danbom

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How Things Worked

Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century

Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America

Other People's Money

Crash! How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked

The New Deal's Forest Army: How the Civilian Conservation Corps Worked

Before the Refrigerator: How We Used to Get Ice

Soldiering for Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops

Up the Trail: How Texas Cowboys Herded Longhorns and Became an American Icon

Encountering Ellis Island: How European Immigrants Entered America

Sod Busting: How Families Made Farms on the Nineteenth-Century Plains

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