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Into the Mouth of the Cat: The Story of Lance Sijan, Hero of VietnamOn the night of November 9, 1967, Sijan was ejected from his crippled fighter-bomber over the steep mountains of Laos. Although critically injured and virtually without supplies, he evaded capture in savage terrain for six weeks. Finally caught and placed in a holding camp,...
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What Lies Beneath: California Pioneer Cemeteries and GraveyardsUnearth the Mysteries of Those Who Lie Beneath the Oldest Graveyards in the Golden State In each of California's 58 counties there are hundreds (and hundreds) of cemeteries, burial sites, and abandoned graveyards, some tucked away behind storefronts or under paved streets. "Burying grounds"...
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After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American CultureAn entrepreneur, a writer who wanted to depict an ideal society, a dramatist who tried to reconcile high aesthetic standards and populism, and a Connecticut Yankee who ran into the contradictions of conservatism and liberalism--each of the four men depicted in this book had...
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Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events That Shaped the Modern SouthIn this riveting political and social history of the American South during the second half of the twentieth century, acclaimed journalist Curtis Wilkie tells the story of a region and a man -- himself -- intimately transformed by racial and political upheavals. In 1969,...
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Spiked Boots: Sketches of the North CountryIn the days of log drives on the rivers of New England, whenever a riverman was killed on the drive, his comrades hung his spiked boots on a tree to mark the spot. As a youth, Robert Pike spotted such a pair of boots,...
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The Invisible Empire in West: Toward a New Historical Appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920sThis timely anthology describes how and why the Ku Klux Klan became one of the most influential social movements in modern American history. For decades historians have argued that the spectacular growth of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s was fueled by a...
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The History of the Negro ChurchThis is the illustrated version, which includes images of some of the people mentioned in the book. A non-illustrated paperback version is available via ISBN 9781680921922.The importance of the church in the life of the Negro justifies the publication of this brief account of...
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A Glimpse of Hell: The World War II Years: The True Memories of James "Jim" E. BrooksAuthor: Olive L. SullivanPublisher: 1st Book LibraryPublished: 11/20/2000Pages: 264Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.22h x 6.08w x 0.68dISBN: 9781588202048This title is not returnable
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Prisoners of War in BedfordshirePrisoners of War in Bedfordshire is a blend of local military and social history, placed in a national context. Stephen Risby seeks to answer important questions such as why were prisoners of war brought to Bedfordshire during the darkest days of the Second World...
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The Persistence of Liberty: An American PhilosophyThis appealing book treats the genesis of contemporary American taste, tolerance and energy. The Persistence of Liberty illuminates the idealistic perspective that so many Americans share. In collected essays, it is part cultural history and part odyssey, traveling across recurring themes of the latter...
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Explosion in Villa Rica,Villa Rica, Georgia, December 5, 1957: This small Southern town was taken unaware and unprepared when a sudden, violent blast of a gas explosion ripped through the downtown business district killing twelve and injuring thirty-four. When the Associated Press picked up the news, the...
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The Indian War of 1864: Being a Fragment of the Early History of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and WyomingThe Indian War of 1864 chronicles one of the bloodiest conflicts between the European settlers and military forces of the United States, and the Native American tribes. A shocking account of the bloodshed and damage wrought as white settlers moved relentlessly westward during the...
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Camp David Presidents: Their Families and the WorldCamp David Presidents - Their Families and the World describes in non-sensational prose why Camp David is shrouded in secrecy, and why you can't go there. From its early beginnings as a CCC camp renamed Shangri-La by FDR to its current status as a...
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The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968The unknown story of the election that set the tone for today's fractured politics A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2023: Politics "The book is a delightful demolition of the many political myths that continue to muddy our understanding of that election year....
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The Port Chicago Mutiny: The Story of the Largest Mass Mutiny Trial in U.S. Naval HistoryDuring World War II, Port Chicago was a segregated naval munitions base on the outer shores of San Francisco Bay. Black seamen were required to load ammunition onto ships bound for the South Pacific under the watch of their white officers--an incredibly dangerous and...
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They Flew: A History of the ImpossibleAn award-winning historian's examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance "Historically rich and superbly written."--David J. Davis, Wall Street Journal Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era--tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft--even as...
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Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern WorldHow can one European capital be responsible for most of the West's intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission...
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Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882As renowned historian Roger Daniels shows in this brilliant new work, America's inconsistent, often illogical, and always cumbersome immigration policy has profoundly affected our recent past. The federal government's efforts to pick and choose among the multitude of immigrants seeking to enter the United...
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Max Gunn's Pay Book.Meticulously researched, authentically told, poetically renderedGraham Lindsay brings us the story of Max Gunn, a thoughtful and idealistic youth, who leaves New Zealand in 1940 to fight fascism in Europe. His experiences there over the next five years will shadow him for the rest...
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The Dust of Death: The Sixties Counterculture and How It Changed America ForeverIn 1968, at the climax of the sixties, Os Guinness visited the United States for the first time. There he was struck by an impression he'd already felt in England and elsewhere: beneath all the idealism and struggle for freedom was a growing disillusionment...
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