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The Curse of King Tut's TombFollows the discovery and excavation of the tomb of King Tutankhamen, also known as King Tut, and the myth of the curse that afflicted those involved in the tomb's exploration. Written in graphic-novel format.Author: Michael BurganPublisher: Capstone PressPublished: 01/01/2005Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 9.00h...
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United States Maze CrazeFind your way through the USA Take a scenic tour of America without ever leaving home This fun and educational journey takes you through 50 full-page mazes, each created in the shape of a state and indicating some of the region's highlights. The California...
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If You Were a Kid in the Wild West (If You Were a Kid)Find out how people lived, worked, and traveled in the Wild West, and much more.During the 1800s, many settlers moved westward across North America to seek their fortunes as farmers, ranchers, and miners. In the Wild West, there were few towns and few people...
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Georgia (a True Book: My United States)Find out what it's like to live in Georgia!A True Book: My United States series allows readers to experience what makes each of the fifty state distinctive and exceptional. Readers will get to know each states' history, geography, wildlife and future outlook. This series...
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Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth AmendmentFinal Freedom looks at the struggle among legal thinkers, politicians, and ordinary Americans in the North and the border states to find a way to abolish slavery that would overcome the inadequacies of the Emancipation Proclamation. Michael Vorenberg tells the dramatic story of the...
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A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes, and RemembrancesFilled with classic recipes and inspirational stories, A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove will make you think twice about the food on your plate. Here is the first book to recount how American women have gathered, cooked, and prepared food for lovers, strangers,...
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The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the CeltsFifty generations ago the cultural empire of the Celts stretched from the Black Sea to Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland. In six hundred years, the Celts had produced some of the finest artistic and scientific masterpieces of the ancient world. In 58 BC,...
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The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. Revised & Enlarged EditionExamines Black pre-Civil War culture and the slave family, detailing sexual attitudes, courtship practices and wedding ceremonies, childrearing, familial roles, language, and discipline.Author: John W. BlassingamePublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 11/01/1979Pages: 432Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.10dISBN: 9780195025637
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The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan EraEven in this most partisan and dysfunctional of eras, we can all agree on one thing: Washington is broken. Politicians take increasingly inflexible and extreme positions, leading to gridlock, partisan warfare, and the sense that our seats of government are nothing but cesspools of...
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Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in HistoryEric Hobsbawm's works have had a nearly incalculable effect across generations of readers and students, influencing more than the practice of history but also the perception of it. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, of second-generation British parents, Hobsbawm was orphaned at age fourteen in 1931....
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Emancipation and the End of SlaveryEmbracing an argument-based model for teaching history, the Debating American History series encourages students to participate in a contested, evidence-based discourse about the human past. Each book poses a question that historians debate--How democratic was the U.S. Constitution? or Why did civil war erupt...
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Sources for World in the Making: Volume 1: To 1500Edited by the authors of World in the Making and designed specifically to complement the text, this two-volume sourcebook includes more than 100 sources that give voice to both notable figures and everyday individuals. Every chapter includes an introduction and approximately six sources representing...
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Sources for of the People: Volume I: To 1877Edited by Maxwell Johnson, this two-volume companion sourcebook includes approximately eighty primary sources, both textual and visual. Chapter introductions, document headnotes, and study questions provide learning support. Expertly edited for clarity and pedagogical utility, the sources range from letters, political tracts, memoirs, and fiction,...
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Before the Industrial RevolutionDuring the seven hundred years before the Industrial Revolution, the stage was set for Europe's transformation from a backward agrarian society to a powerful industrialized society. An economic historian of international reputation, Carlo M. Cipolla explores the process that made this transformation possible. In...
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Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life under an Air WarDuring the Vietnam War the United States government waged a massive, secret air war in neighboring Laos. Two million tons of bombs were dropped on one million people. Fred Branfman, an educational advisor living in Laos at the time, interviewed over 1,000 Laotian survivors....
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Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex SlavesDuring the Asia-Pacific War, the Japanese military forced hundreds of thousands of women across Asia into "comfort stations" where they were repeatedly raped and tortured. Japanese imperial forces claimed they recruited women to join these stations in order to prevent the mass rape of...
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The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita was a young Kongolese woman who in 1704 claimed to be possessed by St. Anthony, argued that Jesus was a Kongolese, criticized Italian Capuchin missionaries for not supporting black saints, and attempted to stop the devastating cycle of civil wars...
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The First Americans: Elementary Grades Student Study Guide, a History of Us: Student Study Guide Pairs with a History of Us: Book OneDeveloped to complement the Fifth Grade teaching guides, these student study guides were created as reproducible support for extension and self-directed study of the books. Every chapter is covered by a lesson, which includes activities to reinforce the following areas: access, vocabulary, map skills,...
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Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public LibraryDespite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers....
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Ancient Jomon of JapanDespite an incredibly rich prehistory covering nearly ten thousand years, modern coverage of complex hunter-gatherer societies has tended to overlook the Jomon of Japan. This text presents an overview of the archaeology of the Jomon Period between 10,000 and 300 BC within the context...
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