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Beyond the Fence Line: The Eyewitness Account of Ed Hoffman and the Murder of President John F. KennedyForty-five years ago, n November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Deaf witness Ed Hoffman saw the man who fired the fatal shot that killed the Presidentand it was not Lee Harvey Oswald. His eyewitness account destroys the governments version of a...
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Kalamazoo Gals - A Story of Extraordinary Women & Gibson's "Banner" Guitars of WWIIIt's a haunting image. At least it was for author John Thomas. Some seventy women sit in four rows in front of the Gibson Guitar factory in the mid-1940s. Conventional wisdom and company lore had it that Gibson had ceased guitar production during World...
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Jewish Firebugs: Arson and Antisemitism from the Civil War to World War IExplores the history of Jews and arson in America Following the Civil War, prominent fire insurance companies in the United States issued instructions to their agents to deny Jews fire insurance policies because of their alleged proclivity to arson. In the years that followed,...
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In Pursuit of Freedom: Fugitive Slaves and Advertised Escape in the Early RepublicIn Pursuit of Freedom is a pioneering study of advertisements for fugitive slaves published in the early American South. Recovering, reconstructing, and reimagining stories that fugitive slaves compelled enslavers to advertise in print when they fled, the book unearths articulations of agency and expressions...
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Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American WestAmerican Indians remain familiar as icons, yet poorly understood as historical agents. In this ambitious book that ranges across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California (a region known as the Great Basin), Ned Blackhawk places Native peoples squarely at the center of...
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The Thirty Years War: Europe's TragedyA deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map...
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Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart GardnerThe vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner--creator of one of America's most stunning museums--an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella's world, museum, and the art she collected.Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum, with its plain exterior...
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Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How Us Military Engineers Conquered Extreme EnvironmentsA vivid tour of US military efforts to understand, survive, and command harsh environments worldwide--and beyond. Deserts, the Arctic, outer space--these extreme environments are often seen as inhospitable places at the edges of our maps. But from the 1940s through the 1960s, spurred by...
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Pan-American Buffalo and Niagara Falls: A Picturesque SouvenirPan-American Buffalo and Niagara Falls - A Picturesque Souvenir is a reproduction of Charles Cutter's beautiful booklet originally sold at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition held in Buffalo, NY between May 1 and November 1. This publication contains images from three different versions of the...
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Maxims and Reflections: RicordiAuthor: Francesco GuicciardiniPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublished: 01/29/1972Pages: 150Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.40dISBN: 9780812210378
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Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History"This book doesn't just fill gaps in film history; it demands that we confront why those gaps existed in the first place. A fascinating read for lovers of film."--Ava DuVernay The rediscovery of the first film to depict African American affection revises the history...
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Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured RepatriationA moving portrait of a grim period in American immigration history, when approximately one million ethnic Mexicans--mostly women and children who were US citizens--were forced to relocate across the southern border. From 1921 to 1944, approximately one million ethnic Mexicans living in the United...
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Andrew Jackson and the Rise of the Democratic PartyIn Andrew Jackson and the Rise of the Democratic Party, author Mark R. Cheathem provides a unique historical analysis and bold critique of American partisanship from the early republic to the end of Andrew Jackson's administration. Cheathem begins by discussing the American political system...
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The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935, volume two of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s Age of Roosevelt series, describes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first tumultuous years in the White House. Coming into office at the bottom of the Great Depression,...
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Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made ManFrom one of America's most distinguished historians comes this classic analysis of Richard Nixon. By considering some of the president's opinions, Wills comes to the controversial conclusion that Nixon was actually a liberal. Both entertaining and essential, Nixon Agonistes captures a troubled leader and...
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Forget You Saw Her: A standalone prequel to Ask for AndreaShe lost her daughter once. Now she'll go to hell andback to find her.Seventeen years ago, Sabina gave her baby up for adoption. She's wrestled with the decision ever since, clinging to the hope that she gave her daughter, Andrea, a better life. Then...
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Lieutenants and Light: Mapping the US Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New MexicoLieutenants and Light provides an accurate, detailed historical study of the U.S. Army's use of the heliograph as a tactical means of communication and command and control in the desert environment of Arizona and New Mexico in the late nineteenth century. The heliograph network...
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It Is Not Enough to Survive: The Young Patriots StoryFormed in the late 1960s, the Young Patriots Organization was a Chicago-based radical group made up of young white migrants from Appalachia and the South who helped found Black Panther activist Fred Hampton's Rainbow Coalition. The YPO grew from a local street gang into...
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Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the Battle That Changed the War, the Speech That Changed the NationAn epic, revelatory account of the Battle of Gettysburg, where George Meade, Lincoln's unexpected choice to lead the Union army, defeated Robert E. Lee and changed the course of the Civil War, from the award-winning author of James Monroe: A Life By mid-1863, the...
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Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United StatesA radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has infused the US government's anti-communist repression. In the early twentieth century, two panics emerged in the United States. The Black Scare was rooted in white Americans' fear of Black Nationalism and dread at what...
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