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Discover the best books on history, including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
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Interactive Notebook: The Civil WarNotebook Features: - 64 pages, about 8 inches x 11 inches- Ages 10-14, grades 5-8- Covers the road to war, secession of the states, and the victory of the North- Helps students record, store, and organize information for review/test prep- Correlated to state standardsHands-On...
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Informal Metropolis: Life on the Edge of Mexico City, 1940-1976In the 1940s, as Mexican families trekked north to the United States in search of a better life, tens of millions also left their towns and villages for Mexico's major cities. In Mexico City migrant families excluded from new housing programs began to settle...
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Influential Women in the MilitaryShowcases women who have contributed to the US military. This book introduces the reader to four such women, describes the trajectory of their careers, and details their unique contributions to their field. Additional features include a table of contents, a fast-facts section, sidebars, an...
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Inferno: The Firebombing of Japan, March 9-August 15, 1945Did the bombing of Japan's cities--culminating in the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki--hasten the end of World War II? Edwin Hoyt, World War II scholar and author, argues against the U.S. justification of the bombing. In Inferno, Hoyt shows how the United States...
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In Defense Of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. ChestertonEssayist G.K. Chesterton was a master. However, reading his essays is more than just an exercise in studying literature at its best; it is also a chance to come across universal truths that still ring true today.Chesterton's essays are only problematic in that there...
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Humans: The Story of Our Past: The Challenge to Our FutureThis volume puts the survival of the human species into historical perspective. It surveys the evolution of Homo sapiens from our first appearance in Africa to the contemporary crisis of global warming. The author's comparative strategy minimizes Eurocentric biases in favor of a balanced...
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Howard University College of Dentistry at 140 Years: Mission, Legacy, and PromiseFounded in 1881, Howard University College of Dentistry (HUCD) was one of the first United States dental schools to admit women equally as men. Now, HUCD celebrates one-hundred-and-forty years of educating minority dentists, dental specialists, and dental hygienists who practice in fifty states in...
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House and Home PapersThis volume of essays and short stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe was written under the pseudonym Christopher Crowfield. As with many women of her time, Stowe took on a male pseudonym in order to make her work more acceptable to male dominated literary outlets,...
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Hopelessly Alien: The Italian Immigration Experience in Chicago HeightsHopelessly Alien is an in-depth study of Italian immigration to Chicago Heights, Illinois, between 1910 and 1950. Drawing upon oral histories, interviews, historical documents, and census materials, Louis Corsino examines the critical concept of hope, which most immigration studies have cast in privatized, psychological...
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Hope in Times of Horror: Memoirs of the Liberian Uncivil WarThis is a story about my experience from my early childhood until the moment that I left the soil of Liberia. The story is my perspective of living a secure life, enjoying interacting with my family and friends to experiencing an unsecure life and...
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Honeyvoiced: A Translation of Pindar's Songs for AthletesThis new translation of Pindar's songs for victorious athletes marries philological rigour with poetic sensibility in order to represent the beauty of his language for a modern audience as closely as possible. Pindar's poetry is synonymous with difficulty for scholars and students of classical...
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Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American CommonsA tale of 2 NYC affordable housing co-ops' struggle over privatization, public goods, and the future of American housing The American Dream of homeownership is becoming an American Delusion. As renters seek an escape from record-breaking rent hikes, first-time buyers find that skyrocketing interest...
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Hitler's War: Germany's Key Strategic Decisions 1940-1945Drawing on the latest source material, especially research only recently available from Russian archives, a noted expert gets into the minds of the Nazi generals who plotted World War II strategy, revisiting their crucial decisions--and the resulting consequences. Could the Germans really have won...
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History of Bedford, Somerset, and Fulton Counties, Pennsylvania: with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of some of its Pioneers and Prominent MeBy: Waterman, Watkins and Company, Pub. 1884, reprinted 2020, 924 pages, New Index, ISBN #0-89308-734-3.Bedford County was created in 1771 from Cumberland County and is the parent county to: Huntington, Somerset, Blair, Cambria and Fulton. Somserset County as created in 1795 and Fulton was...
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Historia del Israel B?blicoEn Historia de Israel Bíblico Samuel Pagán comparte su profundo conocimiento del campo, y ofrece un excelente análisis y presentación de la historia del pueblo de Israel en el período Bíblico. Pagán logra comunicar su contenido de forma clara al público lector. Esta magnífica...
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Herding Immunity: The Startling History of Life Before and After VaccinesA look at the long history of vaccines, yesterday, today and still to come.In Herding Immunity, Stacy Mintzer Herlihy explores the compelling history of vaccines and the equally long history of vaccination opposition. By connecting the contemporary anti-vax movement with its historical roots, Herlihy...
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Hell Know: It Doesn't Last Forever!Having practiced medicine for more than 55 years, Dr. Johnstone has witnessed more than one of his patients take their last breath. But sometimes, in his mind, questions popped up. Is the persons soul in the presence of its maker? Or is the soul...
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Haunted BirminghamFrom the eerie vestiges of the Sloss Furnaces to the unexplained (and un-booked) performances in the Alabama Theatre and rather otherworldly room service at the Tutwiler Hotel, Birmingham is truly one of the South's supernatural hotbeds. Renowned author and ghost expert Alan Brown delivers...
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Guns Up!: A Firsthand Account of the Vietnam WarTHIS GUT-WRENCHING FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IS A CLASSIC IN THE ANNALS OF VIETNAM LITERATURE."Guns up " was the battle cry that sent machine gunners racing forward with their M60s to mow down the enemy, hoping that this wasn't the day they would...
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Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black ArtIn Grime, Glitter, and Glass, Nikki A. Greene examines how contemporary Black visual artists use sonic elements to refigure the formal and philosophical developments of Black art and culture. Focusing on the multimedia art of Ren?e Stout, Radcliffe Bailey, and Mar?a Magdalena Campos-Pons, Greene...
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