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All in a Day's Ride, Life Along Horse Creek in the Wyoming Range, an Enduring LegacyJust as he did in his two earlier narrative histories, Hard and Noble Lives and The State of Equality in the Equality State, Paul Jensen again brings history and its characters to life, this time along Horse Creek, near Daniel, Wyoming. From the mountain...
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Wear Some Armor in Your Hair: Urban Renewal and the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Lincoln ParkPolice brutality, gentrification, and grassroots activism in 1960s Chicago In August of 1968, approximately 7,000 people protested the Vietnam War against the backdrop of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. This highly televised event began peacefully but quickly turned into what was later termed...
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Seeing the Elephant: Voices from the Oregon Trail"The target audience for this book is middle and high school students. However, its information will appeals to a far broader audience. . . . .A useful introduction to trail travel and associated incidents."--Journal of the West "[A] little gem of a book."--Overland Journal...
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Sing for the Lonesome MessengerMaggie Maise, a wandering, bewildered reporter with an elusive past, takes a job at Ore Town's newspaper, The Messenger. What begins as a newspaper job quickly becomes an odyssey into the memories of a vanishing generation raised during the Great Depression and subjected to...
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The Canary Islanders in Texas: The Story of the Founding of San AntonioThe influential story of early Spanish immigrants to Texas from the Canary IslandsAuthor: Armando Curbelo FuentesPublisher: Maverick BooksPublished: 05/30/2018Pages: 388Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60dISBN: 9781595348456About the AuthorArmando Curbelo Fuentes is a lawyer and professor at the Universidad de Las Palmas...
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The Amusement Park at Sloan's Lake: The Lost History of Denver's Manhattan BeachSloan's Lake had a long history of entertaining Denver residents with boating, fishing, swimming, and a steamboat canal built in the 1870s. In 1890, Adam Graff and his partners opened a new park on the shore of Sloan's Lake that would eventually become Manhattan...
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Eisenhower for Our TimeEisenhower for Our Time provides an introduction to the Eisenhower presidency, extracting lessons for today's world. Steven Wagner proposes that the need to maintain balance defines Eisenhower's presidency. Wagner examines a series of defining moments that were among Eisenhower's greatest challenges, some of which...
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Trans-Mongolian ExpressIn the harrowing aftermath of Chernobyl's meltdown in 1986, the fate of Eastern Europe hangs by a thread.From Beijing, American radiation scientist Lara, once a thorn in the Russian mob's side, is drawn back into the shadows of the Soviet Union on the Trans-Mongolian...
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The Number on Your Forearm Is Blue Like Your Eyes: A MemoirOn November 3, 1944, a toddler named Eva, one month shy of her second birthday, was branded prisoner A-26959 in Auschwitz. She fainted in her mother's arms but survived the tattooing and countless other shocks. Eva Hecht was born on December 19, 1942, in...
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The Last InvestigationAuthor: Gaeton FonziPublisher: Skyhorse PublishingPublished: 09/03/2013Pages: 496Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.48lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.37w x 1.53dISBN: 9781626360785About the AuthorDick Russell is an investigative journalist and bestselling author who has written for such varied publications as Time, Sports Illustrated, and the Village Voice. His books include...
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Sudden Deaths in St. Louis: Coroner Bias in the Gilded AgeA social history of death investigations in the urban Midwest The scene of myriad grisly deaths, late nineteenth-century St. Louis was a hotbed for homicide, suicide, alcoholism, abortion, and workplace accidents. The role of the city's Gilded Age coroners has not been fully examined,...
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Pioneer Jewish Families in New MexicoPioneer Jewish Families in New Mexico challenges the simplistic myth of the "tri-cultural" composition of New Mexico history, focusing on the contributions of German and Eastern European Jews to late 19th and early 20th- century New Mexico. Based on oral history interviews with descendants...
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Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie MargolinSupreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin (1909‒1996) molded modern American labor policy while creating a space for female lawyers in the nation's high courts. In this comprehensive biography, Marlene Trestman reveals the forces that shaped Margolin's remarkable journey--beginning in a New Orleans Jewish orphanage--and illuminates...
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A Ministry of Risk: Writings on Peace and NonviolenceExperience the powerful legacy of Philip Berrigan's nonviolent resistance to war and empire From the battlefields of World War II to the front lines of peace activism, Philip Berrigan evolved from soldier to scholar, priest to political prisoner. Confronting the fundamental nature of America's...
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Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever WarGrowing up during the Second World War, H. Bruce Franklin believed what he was told: that America's victory would lead to a new era of world peace. Like most Americans, he was soon led to believe in a world-wide Communist conspiracy that menaced the...
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Barry & 'The Boys': The Cia, the Mob, and America's Secret History" Barry & ' the boys' " is the story of Barry Seal, the biggest drug smuggler in American history, who died in a hail of bullets with George Bush's private phone number in his wallet. The Wall Street Journal called Barry Seal "the...
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The Right Thing to DoJerry LeVias, Warren McVea and Leon Burton are major figures in college football history, but their accomplishments aren't widely celebrated these days, even at their alma maters. The story of college football integration in the 1960s was ignored by sportswriters of the era, and...
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Fire MusicAntal Varga, a Budapest violinist, is 78 years old when a young American stranger places a yellowed music sheet into his hands. With shock he recognizes his own teenage handwriting, for he himself wrote this piece in 1945, when his city was under siege....
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Dorothy, an Amoral and Dangerous Woman: The Murder of E. Howard Hunt's Wife - Watergate's Darkest SecretContains new facts concerning Nixon, Watergate, and the death of Dorothy Hunt, wife of E. Howard Hunt Dorothy Hunt, "An Amoral and Dangerous Woman" tells the life story of ex-CIA agent Dorothy Hunt, who married Watergate mastermind and confessed contributor to the assassination of...
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The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust MemoirAuthor: George Lucius SaltonPublisher: University of Wisconsin PressPublished: 09/04/2002Pages: 240Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.44h x 6.22w x 0.77dISBN: 9780299179700Review Citation(s): Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2003 pg. 95 - Strongly RecommendedAbout the AuthorGeorge Lucius Salton emigrated to the United States after liberation. He...
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