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John Brown in New York: The Man, His Family, and the Adirondack LandscapeAn intimate narrative of John Brown and his family in the Adirondack Mountains.With passion and sound scholarship, Sandra Weber introduces a fresh and intimate portrayal of John Brown in his time and favorite place, the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York. This intertwining story...
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No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate CrisisAuthor: Thomas ZeitzoffPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 02/16/2026Pages: 288Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 9.49h x 6.45w x 0.95dISBN: 9780197796849About the AuthorThomas Zeitzoff is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University. His research focuses on political violence, social media, and political psychology. His...
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Turning Point: How Reagan Liberated Grenada and Won the Cold WarTHE UNTOLD STORY OF REAGAN, THATCHER, THE INVASION OF GRENADA AND THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE COLD WARHow Reagan reignited the foreign policy principles that made America a "shining city upon a hill."On October 25th,1983 President Ronald Reagan launched one of the...
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A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation"Delightful and discerning . . . In this evocative study a remarkable woman, creator of the 'first lady' role, comes vividly to life."--The New York Times When the roar of the Revolution had finally died down, a new generation of politicians was summoned to...
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Black Power, White Heat: From Solidarity Politics to Radical ChicA rich history of cross-racial coalitions and alliances of the Sixties' freedom movement, acclaimed historian Alice Echols's Black Power, White Heat reshapes our understanding of the entire era. One of the most divisive issues in recent progressive politics has been what role, if any,...
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The Adriatic Affair: A Maritime Hit-And-Run Off the Coast of NantucketThe American sailing vessel Adriatic collided with the French steamship Le Lyonnais on November 2, 1856, off the coast of Nantucket in what can best be described as a maritime hit-and-run. Adriatic's captain, Jonathan Durham, rendered no aid and left the passenger steamship to...
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Bright One: Bright One Series: Book OneWhen desperate choices mean the difference between life and death.Inspired by true events, Bright One tells the story of Jetti Finkelthal, Lisajoy Sachs' great-grandmother. In Czernowitz, Romania, this young Jewish mother is forced to face impossible choices as the world begins to collapse around...
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Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth about Alger HissA revelatory political history that uncovers the innocence of alleged Communist spy Alger Hiss and points a finger at who was really behind one of the most sensational and divisive accusations of the twentieth century.When Alger Hiss was accused by Whittaker Chambers in 1948...
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Woodrow Wilson: The Light WithdrawnAn "assiduously researched" (The Wall Street Journal), "powerful...dispassionate new biography" (The Christian Science Monitor) of Woodrow Wilson, focused on his role in the long national struggle for racial equality and women's voting rights. More than a century after his death, Woodrow Wilson's influence on...
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Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of TranscendentalismA group biography of five women who played path-breaking roles in the transcendentalist movement In November 1839, a group of young women in Boston formed a conversation society "to answer the great questions" of special importance to women: "What are we born to do?...
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: The Rebel Girl, Democracy, and RevolutionElizabeth Gurley Flynn was involved in almost every major campaign of the U.S. Left in the first two thirds of the twentieth century. An outstanding orator, writer, and tactician, Flynn is one of the most important figures in the history of the American labor...
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Axis of Empire: A History of Iranus RelationsA chronicle of intrigue and influence in the Iran-US entanglement Ironic plot twists and colorful characters abound in Afshin Matin-Asgari's accessible history of relations between the United States and Iran. The missionaries and educators who descended on Iran in the early nineteenth century made...
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Cold War on Five Continents: A Global History of Empire and EspionageA provocative analysis of the deadly Cold War conflicts that devastated countries and communities far from Moscow and Washington Transforming battlegrounds in Africa, Asia, and Latin America into veritable hellscapes, the surrogate wars of the Cold War era left behind a legacy of collective...
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Guns, Furs, and Gold: An American West History of Indigenous Peoples and ExplorersGuns, Furs, and Gold offers a riveting narrative of the American West by exploring the interactions of the Arikaras, Crows, Cheyennes, and Arapahos with each other and with Euro-American traders, explorers, and settlers from 1804, when Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on their...
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Traitor: The Life and Assassination of John Dunn Hunter, American RadicalThe story of John Dunn Hunter's remarkable life, tragic betrayal, and disgraceful murder.John Dunn Hunter was many things: a frontier hero, a writer, a celebrity at home and abroad, and, ultimately, the victim of a deadly conspiracy. Born to white parents in 1800, he...
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The War at Home: Minnesota During the Great War, 1914-1920Exploring Minnesota's history from the beginning of the European war in 1914 through the 1920 U.S. election provides a unique vantage point from which to assess the war's impact on American society.Americans went to war in 1917 not only against Germany but also against...
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Out Where the West Begins, Volume 2, Volume 2: Creating and Civilizing the American WestIn 1790, it was not a given that the young United States, bruised and healing from its struggle for independence and populated by fewer than 4 million inhabitants, would even survive, much less flourish. But the great adventure that came next--the exploration and settlement...
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Protesting with Rosa Parks: From Stagecoaches to Driving While BlackProtesting with Rosa Parks details the history of the intersections between Black activism and travel over a span of one hundred and ninety years. John K. Bollard recounts the experiences of more than ninety-five civil rights leaders and private citizens who protested against segregation...
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Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the HolocaustPink Triangle Legacies traces the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a widespread, recognizable symbol of queer activism, pride, and community. W. Jake Newsome provides an overview of the Nazis' targeted violence against LGBTQ+...
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Driven: A Life in Public Service and Journalism from LBJ to CNNDriven brings a seasoned perspective to today's conversations about government, media, and the future of truth in the form of a deeply personal and long-awaited autobiography by Tom Johnson, an award-winning journalist who helped shape the twenty-four-hour news media as we know it. Johnson's...
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