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Howard L. Bingham's Black Panthers 1968The infamous Black Panther party made history as the radical African-American organization established to promote civil rights and self-defense from the mid-1960s to the 1970s. In 1968, LIFE magazine sent writer Gilbert Moore and photographer Howard L. Bingham to document and tell the story...
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Consuming Cultures: Globalization and Local LivesThe hurtling speed of the global market knows no cultural boundaries. Languages, customs, rituals, and myths are swept aside with the global market's promise of security and prosperity. Is this promise false? Is the survival of pockets of local culture true resistance, or does...
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1877: America's Year of Living Violently1877 was the year many Americans wanted to forget. In the messy aftermath of the Civil War, economic depression, white supremacy, labor unrest, and a factionalized political system produced a period of unprecedented violence and upheaval in American life. This solid, deeply informed history...
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The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the People's HistorianA "well-chosen anthology of the radical historian's prodigious output," from A People's History of the United States and lesser known sources (Kirkus Reviews). When Howard Zinn died in early 2010, millions of Americans mourned the loss of one of the nation's foremost intellectual and...
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Kgb: The History Of The Eastern Most Infamous Intelligence Agencies (The History And Legacy Of The Soviet Union Notorious SThe Kgb Is One Of The Most Famous Abbreviations Of The 20th Century, And It Has Become Synonymous With The Shadowy And Often Violent Actions Of The Soviet Union's Secret Police And Internal Security Agencies. In Fact, It Is Often Used To Refer To...
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Titanic: The History and Legacy of the World's Most Famous Ship (The Original News Reporting of the Sinking of the Titanic)The original facts and details of the Titanic disaster from the newspapers of the world bring forward the story in a vivid and striking way! Join the news stories in action as the first reports told of the RMS Titanic being towed to Halifax...
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Forgotten Tales of Carson Valley and nearby settlementsThis fascinating collection of 33 true tales whisks the reader back in time to the days when Carson Valley, Nevada was newly-settled. From stories of daring stage robberies, to unsolved murders and legends of buried treasure, these "forgotten tales" provide a fascinating window on...
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Gerrymanders: How Redistricting Has Protected Slavery, White Supremacy, and Partisan Minorities in VirginiaMany are aware that gerrymandering exists and suspect it plays a role in our elections, but its history goes far deeper, and its impacts are far greater, than most realize. In his latest book, Brent Tarter focuses on Virginia's long history of gerrymandering to...
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An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887In 1887 a twenty-one-year-old newspaperman named George Nellis (1865-1948) rode a bicycle from Herkimer, New York, to San Francisco in seventy-two days, surpassing the transcontinental bicycle record by several weeks. He averaged fifty miles a day pedalling a fifty-two-inch, high-wheeled Columbia Expert "ordinary" bicycle...
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Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 - Updated EditionThe first collection of letters in English by one of the great writers of the twentieth century This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo...
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Chappaquiddick SpeaksThere have been 13 books written about Ted Kennedy and the Chappaquiddick incident of 1969. These support some eight theories as to what may have occurred that night, including the possibility that Kennedy told the truth. There seems little point publishing yet another unless...
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The Finest Building in America: The New York Crystal Palace, 1853-1858When first opened to the public in 1853, New York's Crystal Palace created a sensation. Those who had seen London's Crystal Palace, the structure it was openly intended to emulate, argued that America's copy far surpassed it. Built in what is today Bryant Park,...
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How Melanchthon Helped Luther Discover the Gospel: The Doctrine of Justification in the ReformationThis book is not claiming Melanchthon rediscovered the gospel. That honor belongs to his friend and mentor, Martin Luther. Nevertheless, Dr. Lowell C. Green argues that Melanchthon helped Luther in the task. Dr. Green knew that in choosing the title, How Melanchthon Helped Luther...
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My War and Welcome To ItMy War and Welcome To It, is the story of a young man growing up in the carefree 60s, being drafted into the US Army and going off to Vietnam to join the 2nd Battalion, (MECH) 2nd Infantry Regiment, in the famed 1st Infantry...
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The Reckoning: The Triumph of Order on the Texas Outlaw FrontierIsolated by geology and passed over by development, the vast, waterless tablelands of the Edwards Plateau of Texas became the stage for one of the great nineteenth-century dramas of Western justice. In 1873, opportunistic Anglo-Celtic cattlemen and homesteaders, protected by little other than personal...
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The Coup: 1953, the Cia, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian RelationsIn August 1953, the CIA orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran's democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. Over the next twenty-six years, the United States backed the unpopular, authoritarian shah and his secret police; in exchange, it reaped...
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Architects of Power: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American CenturyThe United States is not a preternaturally inward-looking nation, and isolation is not the natural disposition of Americans. The real question is not whether Americans are prone to isolation or engagement, but how their engagement with the world has evolved, how events have made...
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Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910From author Julie Hedgepeth Williams, winner of the 2021 Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History In 1910, Orville and Wilbur Wright opened the first US civilian flight school in Montgomery, Alabama. The Wright Brothers hoped to find a climate warmer and more...
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Hunter: The Yukon Gold Rush Letters of Robert Hunter Fitzhugh Jr., 1897-1900Hunter Fitzhugh left St. Louis in 1897 dreaming of fortune and adventure, bound for the Yukon Territory, where it was rumored that nuggets of gold simply littered the ground, waiting to make a man rich. Hunter soon discovered the reality of the land about...
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Black Sunday: The Great Dust Storm of April 14, 1935One giant, black dust storm in April of 1935 became the signature event of a devastating period in the history of the South Plains of the United States. The author, who grew up in Pampa in the Texas Panhandle, gathered a collection of reminiscences,...
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