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When the White Pine Was King: A History of Lumberjacks, Log Drives, and Sawdust Cities in Wisconsin"From the ring of the ax in the woods, to the scream of the saw blade in the mill, to the founding of many of Wisconsin's communities, Jerry Apps does an outstanding job bringing Wisconsin's logging and lumbering heritage to life."--Kerry P. Bloedorn, director,...
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The VoyageurThe Voyageur is the authoritative account of a unique and colorful group of men whose exploits, songs, and customs comprise an enduring legacy. French Canadians who guided and paddled the canoes of explorers and fur traders, the voyageurs were experts at traversing the treacherous...
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Mad at the World: A Life of John SteinbeckThe first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate to appear in a quarter century, Mad at the World illuminates what has made the work of John Steinbeck an enduring part of the literary canon: his capacity for empathy. Pulitzer Prize finalist William Souder explores...
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Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community Volume 1The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holden rediscovers the women and children, free and enslaved, who lived in Southampton County before, during, and after the revolt. Mapping the...
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Bait: The Battle of Kham DucThe strategic potential of the three-day attack of two NVA regiments on Kham Duc, a remote and isolated Army Special Forces camp, on the eve of the first Paris peace talks in May 1968, was so significant that former President Lyndon Johnson included it...
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Nehru, Tibet and ChinaOn 1 October 1949, the People's Republic of China came into being and changed forever the course of Asian history. Power moved from the hands of the nationalist Kuomintang government to the Communist Party of China headed by Mao Tse Tung. All of a...
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They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian GenocideA definitive history of the 20th century's first major genocide on its 100th anniversary Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the...
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The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon TrailPulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner tells about a thousand-mile migration marked by hardship and sudden death--but unique in American history for its purpose, discipline, and solidarity. Other Bison Books by Wallace Stegner include Mormon Country, Recapitulation, Second Growth, and Women on the Wall.Author: Wallace...
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Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862"This volume brings together an invaluable collection of vivid eyewitness accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 and its aftermath. Of greatest interest is the fact that all the narratives assembled here come from Dakota mixed-bloods and full-bloods. Speaking from a variety of...
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Schwinn: The Best Present EverFor many children of the sixties, the gift of a Schwinn was a ticket to freedom, a chance to feel the wind on their face and the steady rotation of rubber at their feet. The Schwinn took many through their childhood adventures, with memories...
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Colorado's Historic SchoolsConstruction of a school building reflected the importance of universal education and a community's desire to establish permanence in the ever-expanding Western frontier. Since 1859 when Colorado's first one-room schoolhouse was established in Denver City, over six hundred school buildings have been built across...
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Mother Chicago: Truant Dreams and Specters Over the Gilded Age"I want you to go out and buy Mother Chicago. It is one of the most revelatory, provocative, frightening books I've ever read about Chicago." --Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune Chicago history as told by the relics of her forgotten people and places. The observed...
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The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril," wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history of World War II. His fear was shared by many. The North Atlantic was arguably the true front of the war for...
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A People's History of CataloniaAuthor: Eaude Michael EaudePublisher: Pluto Press (UK)Published: 09/20/2022Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.70w x 1.00dISBN: 9780745342139
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Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939Between 1933 and 1939, representations of the Nazis and the full meaning of Nazism came slowly to Hollywood, growing more ominous and distinct only as the decade wore on. Recapturing what ordinary Americans saw on the screen during the emerging Nazi threat, Thomas Doherty...
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Cowgirls: Women of the American WestAmerican lore has slighted the cowgirl, although at least one can still be found in nearly every ranching community. Like her male counterpart, she rides and ropes, understands land and stock, and confronts the elements. The writer and photographer Teresa Jordan traveled sixty thousand...
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A Night She'd Remember: My Grandmother's Experience on the TitanicThis is the true story about the author's grandmother's experience aboard the RMS Titanic that hit an iceberg and sank in 1912. It tells the story of Bertha Mulvihill Noon's family, her star-crossed voyage, and her miraculous escape into Lifeboat 15. The Epilogue cites...
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On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear SiteOn the Home Front is the only comprehensive history of the Hanford Nuclear Site, America's most productive and wasteful plutonium manufacturing facility. Located in southeastern Washington State, the Hanford Site produced the plutonium used in the atomic bombs that ended World War II. This...
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Murder in Coweta CountyThis work is a detailed and chillingly realistic reconstruction of the brutal murder of tenant farmer Wilson Turner, which took place in rural Georgia in 1948, and the brilliant investigation that eventually brought the murderer--a powerful county lord--to justice with a conviction that set...
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Searching for Irvin McDowell: The Civil War's Forgotten GeneralIrvin McDowell was a prominent figure during the early months of the Civil War. The West Point graduate was a dutiful, dependable, and diligent military officer. With so much at stake in 1861, he was called upon to lead the Union's most prominent Eastern...
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