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In the San JuanRev. J. J. Gibbons experienced the San Juan Mountains of Colorado as few men ever did. At the end of the nineteenth century, when avalanches ran, mines exploded, and plagues hit hard - everyone backed off except for Gibbons. It was his job to...
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In the Name of the Salish and Kootenai Nation: The 1855 Hell Gate Treaty and the Origin of the Flathead Indian ReservationOn July 16, 1855, eighteen leaders of the Flathead, Kootenai, and Upper Pend d'Oreilles Indians signed an agreement with the United States government, ceding their title to almost all the land in western Montana and establishing the Flathead Indian Reservation. Born of confusion and...
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Old Trading Posts of the Four CornersAfter traveling extensively throughout the Four Corners region of Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, Richard Berkholz has produced a comprehensive study of early-day trading posts located on or near the Navajo, Hopi, and Ute Mountain Ute Reservations. The posts covered in his new...
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Ogallala: A Century on the TrailFounded in the late 1800s as the hub of the burgeoning plains cattle trade, Ogallala serves as a microcosm of western history. The town typified western outposts of the age with cowboys--the knights-errant of the plains--ranchers, lawmen, Indians, dance hall girls, cardsharps, drifters, and...
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La gran Depresión: Una Fascinante Guía de la Depresión Económica Mundial Que Comenzó en los Estados Unidos, Incluyendo El Colapso De WallSab a que la tasa de desempleo entre 1933 y 1934 fue una de cada cuatro personas?El colapso del mercado de valores de 1929 no provoc la Gran Depresi n en s misma, pero fue un poderoso punto de partida simb lico para el...
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The Great Depression: A Captivating Guide to the Worldwide Economic Depression that Began in the United States, Including the Wall Street CrDid you know that the unemployment rate between 1933 and 1934 was one in four people? The stock market crash of 1929 didn't cause the Great Depression by itself, but it is a powerful symbolic starting point to the greatest economic disaster of the...
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El mito de los 6 millones: El Fraude de los judíos asesinados por HitlerSeg n el Honorable Winston Churchill, la primera victima de la guerra es la verdad. Dif cil resulta discutir la justeza de esta afirmaci n del viejo le n brit nico. A partir de la guerra franco-prusiana de 1870, y en el curso de...
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Jefferson Davis: The Essential WritingsJefferson Davis is one of the most complex and controversial figures in American political history (and the man whom Oscar Wilde wanted to meet more than anyone when he made his tour of the United States). Elected president of the Confederacy and later accused...
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Kawanishi H6k 'Mavis' and H8k 'Emily' UnitsAn illustrated account of the little-known operations of the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force's flying boat units during World War 2. Respectively codenamed the 'Mavis' and 'Emily' by the Allies, Japan's H6K and H8K flying boats outstripped their RAF and US Navy counterparts. The...
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A Robin's Egg Renaissance: Chicago Modernism & the Great WarThe history of modernism in Chicago, as told by the writers who were there. London, Paris, and New York all have their chroniclers, and now Chicago gets her due. A city of enormous contemporary literary vitality, it also was the home of a profoundly...
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Iowa CityTruly a frontier town when it was founded in 1839, Iowa City was created to become the new capital of Iowa Territory. Author Tom Schulein has been researching and speaking widely on Iowa City history for over a decade. With the arrival of the...
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Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War IIIn the second half of the 1990s, Stuart Eizenstat was perhaps the most controversial U.S. foreign policy official in Europe. His mission had nothing to do with Russia, the Middle East, Yugoslavia, or any of the other hotspots of the day. Rather, Eizenstat's mission...
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Hurricane Agnes in Virginia"The greatest natural disaster of all time"That's how observers at the time viewed Agnes. When the storm arrived in Virginia in June of 1972 it largely spared coastal areas. With modest wind speeds, Agnes no longer registered as a hurricane as it crossed the...
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Hidden History of PinehurstExplore forgotten pieces of Pinehurst's past. Pinehurst is called the "cradle of American golf," yet its origin story has nothing to do with tees, greens, or driving irons. Read about founder James Walker Tufts, who intended to use his fortune to build a health...
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Hidden History of Amelia IslandAuthor Jeff Suwak guides readers on a tour of the often overlooked and all-but-forgotten components of Amelia Island history . Beneath the sands and cobblestones of Amelia Island lies a richness of history disproportionate to the location's relatively small size. The bones of this...
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American Traitor: General James Wilkinson's Betrayal of the Republic and Escape from JusticeAmerican Traitor examines the career of the notorious Gen. James Wilkinson, whose corruption and espionage exposed the United States to grave dangers during the early years of the republic. Wilkinson is largely forgotten today, which is unfortunate because his sordid story is a cautionary...
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Nebraska Ballrooms and Dance HallsBallrooms were at the center of social life in the Midwest for over a century, with some dance halls dating back to the late 1800s. Throughout Nebraska, these iconic structures hosted a number of community events and musical performances, bringing together friends, families, and...
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Within These Walls of Sorrow: A Novel of World War II PolandZosia Lewandowska knows the brutal realities of war all too well. Within weeks of Germany's invasion of her Polish homeland, she lost the man she loves. As ghetto walls rise and the occupiers tighten their grip on the city of Krakow, Zosia joins pharmacist...
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural RevolutionAn indelible exploration of the invisible scar that runs through the heart of Chinese society and the souls of its citizens. "It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966...
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Holocaust Refugees in Oswego: From Nazi Europe to Lake OntarioAmerica's Only Shelter Established for Holocaust Refugees During the height of the second World War, at the order of President Roosevelt, Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York housed 982 refugees, rescued from the horrors of the Holocaust. The community of Oswego answered the call...
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