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Great American NegroesGreat American Negroes is a comprehensive guide to the lives and achievements of notable African Americans throughout history. Written by Ben Richardson, the book provides a detailed account of the contributions made by influential figures such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Martin Luther...
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John Lewis: A Life"A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, "the conscience of the Congress," drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents. Born into poverty...
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Transforming Darkness Into Light: A Holocaust Survivor's Lessons in Fighting HateIn 1941, when Philip Lazowski was 11 years old, his mother and two younger siblings were murdered by the Nazis, along with most of the Jews from his village in Poland. His mother's last words to him exhorted Phillip to "be somebody" because "the...
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Grievous Entanglement: Consumption, Connection, and Slavery in the Atlantic WorldHow abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedom Grievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their personal connection to, and complicity with, slavery in the late eighteenth...
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Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKennaAn intellectual biography of one of the most celebrated and yet least understood figures of the late twentieth century, Terence McKenna. A stand-up philosopher who made a unique contribution to science, humanism, and the hidden arts, Terence McKenna (1946-2000) was the twentieth century's psychedelic...
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Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade HistoryWinner, 2025 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, Organization of American Historians Winner, 2024 Arline Custer Memorial Book Award, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference Winner, 2025 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award, Library History Round Table of The American Library Association Honorable Mention, 2025 Lawrence W. Levine...
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Saving Our Survivors: How American Jews Learned about the HolocaustHow did American Jews come to learn about the Holocaust in the immediate aftermath of the war? What kinds of images and representations of Holocaust survivors first circulated in America, when most Jewish survivors were still stuck in European displaced persons camps? Drawing on...
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Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual BiographyThe life and ideas of one of the twentieth century's leading political thinkers Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) was among the most influential and wide-ranging political writers in modern America. As both a journalist and political theorist, he shaped ideas about liberalism and democracy, the nature...
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Imagining Early American JewsPopular representations of history tend to meet the moral demands of the present. Before the social crises of the postwar era began to influence Jews' thinking and at a time when global antisemitism posed the most obvious threat to their continuity and survival, Jews...
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Shelby American: The Renegades Who Built the Cars, Won the Races, and Lived the LegendShelby American didn't last long, but it was a flame that burned incandescently before being extinguished by corporate politics. In less than a decade, it created a legacy that will be revered as long as cars still roar around racetracks. Now, on the sixtieth...
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Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early AmericaIn eighteenth-century America, genealogy was more than a simple record of family ties--it was a powerful force that shaped society. Lineage delves into an era where individuals, families, and institutions meticulously documented their connections. Whether driven by personal passion or mandated by churches, local...
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Essential Soldiers: Women Activists and Black Power Movement LeadershipA new perspective on women's Black Power leadership legacies Academics and popular commentors have expressed common sentiments about the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s-that it was male dominated and overrun with autocratic leaders. Yet women's strategizing, management, and sustained work were...
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Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka HugginsThe first biography of Ericka Huggins, a queer Black woman who brought spiritual self-care practices to the Black Panther Party. In this groundbreaking biography, Mary Frances Phillips immerses readers in the life and legacy of Ericka Huggins, a revered Black Panther Party member, as...
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The Mother of All Religions: The Genesis of Blavatsky's Theosophy: Ancient Theology, Orientalism, and BuddhismThe Story of Helena Blavatsky's Invention of Primeval ReligionHelena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), the "grandmother of the New Age," not only inspired artists such as Kandinsky, Klee, Mondriaan, Scriabin, Mahler, Sibelius, T. S. Eliot and Kahlil Gibran but also founders of spiritual movements such as...
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Power to the People: The World of the Black PanthersThis pictorial history tells the story of the revolutionary Black Panther Party in the words of its co-founder, Bobby Seale.Coming toward the end of America's epic Civil Rights Movement, the Black Panther Party was one of the most creative and influential responses to racism...
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Covert Regime Change: America's Secret Cold WarO'Rourke's book offers a onestop shop for understanding foreign-imposed regime change. Covert Regime Change is an impressive book and required reading for anyone interested in understanding hidden power in world politics.― Political Science Quarterly States seldom resort to war to overthrow their adversaries. They...
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The NightingaleAuthor: Kristin HannahPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 10/01/2025Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.60dISBN: 9781420528794Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.2Point Value: 22Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 184786 / Nightingale
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33 Place BrugmannAuthor: Alice AustenPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 10/15/2025Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.80lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.40w x 1.20dISBN: 9781420527841
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The Lion Women of TehranFrom the nationally bestselling author of the "powerful, heartbreaking" (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran. In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely...
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The Greatest of All Time: A History of an American ObsessionAmericans love to talk about 'greatness.' In this book, Zev Eleff explores the phenomenon of 'greatness' culture and what Americans really mean when they talk about greatness. Greatness discourse provides a uniquely American language for participants to discuss their 'ideal' aspirational values and make...
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