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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to MedicineElizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of ordinary womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of...
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The Business of Tomorrow: The Visionary Life of Harry Guggenheim: From Aviation and Rocketry to the Creation of an Art DynastyA veteran Forbes journalist brings to life the brilliant and complex Harry Guggenheim in the first-ever biography on this groundbreaking American figure. At the turn of the last century, the Guggenheim family ran the most powerful mining conglomerate on earth. Decades later came the...
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Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth CenturyA sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe that examines its unprecedented destruction--and abiding promise A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise. Konrad Jarausch describes how...
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The Inconvenient Journalist: A MemoirIn The Inconvenient Journalist, Dusko Doder, writing with his spouse and journalistic partner Louise Branson, describes how one February night crystalized the values and personal risks that shaped his life. The frigid Moscow night in question was in 1984, and Washington Post correspondent Doder...
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Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican-American Working ClassRadicals in the Barrio uncovers a long and rich history of political radicalism within the Mexican and Chicano working class in the United States. Chacón clearly and sympathetically documents the ways that migratory workers carried with them radical political ideologies, new organizational models, and...
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The Creole Rebellion: The Most Successful Slave Revolt in American HistoryThe Creole Rebellion tells the suspenseful story of a successful mutiny on board the slave ship Creole. En route for a New Orleans slave-auction block in November 1841, nineteen captives mutinied, killing one man and injuring several others. After taking control of the vessel,...
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The Lost Southern Chefs: A History of Commercial Dining in the Nineteenth-Century SouthIn recent years, food writers and historians have begun to retell the story of southern food. Heirloom ingredients and traditional recipes have been rediscovered, the foundational role that African Americans played in the evolution of southern cuisine is coming to be recognized, and writers...
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America's Original Sin: White Supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln AssassinationFinally, a compelling narrative history of the Lincoln assassination that refuses to ignore John Wilkes Booth's motivation: his growing, obsessive commitment to white supremacy.On April 14, 1865, after nearly a year of conspiring, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln as the president watched a...
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Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes: A Cautionary Tale of Race and BrutalityThe never-before-told true story of Jane Elliott and the "Blue-Eyes, Brown-Eyes Experiment" she made world-famous, using eye color to simulate racism. The day after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in 1968, Jane Elliott, a schoolteacher in rural Iowa, introduced to her all-white third-grade class...
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Gospel According to the Klan: The Kkk's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930To many Americans, modern marches by the Ku Klux Klan may seem like a throwback to the past or posturing by bigoted hatemongers. To Kelly Baker, they are a reminder of how deeply the Klan is rooted in American mainstream Protestant culture. Most studies...
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Seven Sisters and a Brother: Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s (a Pivotal Event in the History oThe Story Behind an Unsung Event in the Civil Rights Movement"Over eight days, eight students sparked change that defined their lives, changed an institution and fueled a movement that continues today." ─Alberto Ibargüen, President and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight...
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Sanctuary Denied: Refugees from the Third Reich and Newfoundland Immigration Policy 1906-1949Author: Gerhard P. BasslerPublisher: ISER BooksPublished: 01/01/1992Pages: 312Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.80dISBN: 9780919666757About the AuthorBassler, Gerhard P.: - Gerhard P. Bassler is Professor of History at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of...
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Literary Alchemist: The Writing Life of Evan S. ConnellWinner, 2022 Society of Midland Authors award for Biography/MemoirEvan S. Connell (1924-2013) emerged from the American Midwest determined to become a writer. He eventually made his mark with attention-getting fiction and deep explorations into history. His linked novels Mrs. Bridge (1959) and Mr. Bridge...
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No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working ClassUntil the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant part of American society in favor of the moneyed "upscale" consumer for more than four decades. Christopher R. Martin now reveals why and how...
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Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern MemoryHow did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilant respite from labor and the whip, as is generally assumed, or is the story far more complex and troubling? In this provocative, revisionist,...
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The House on Henry Street: The Enduring Life of a Lower East Side SettlementChronicles the sweeping history of the storied Henry Street Settlement and its enduring vision of a more just society On a cold March day in 1893, 26-year-old nurse Lillian Wald rushed through the poverty-stricken streets of New York's Lower East Side to a squalid...
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Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979Finally Got the News uncovers the hidden legacy of the radical Left of the 1970s, a decade when vibrant social movements challenged racism, imperialism, patriarchy, and capitalism. It combines written contributions from movement participants with original printed materials--from pamphlets to posters, flyers to newspapers--to...
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Wheels Stop: The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986-2011Humanity's first reusable spacecraft and the most complex machine ever built, NASA's Space Shuttle debuted with great promise and as a dependable source of wonder and national pride. But with the Challenger catastrophe in 1986, the whole Space Shuttle program came into question, as...
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Beautiful Bodies: The Adventures of Malvina HoffmanThis is not a story about art. Although Malvina Hoffman was known as America's Rodin, her story is one of adventure, intrigue, and life among the greatest artists and powerbrokers during the early to mid-twentieth century. Every action Malvina undertook broke glass ceilings. She...
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Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American FrontierIt began with an eclipse. In 1806, the Shawnee leader Tenskwatawa ("The Open Door") declared himself to be in direct contact with the Master of Life, and therefore, the supreme religious authority for all Native Americans. Those who disbelieved him, he warned, "would see...
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