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Heading West: Life with the Pioneers, 21 Activities Volume 31Heading West traces the vivid saga of Native American and pioneer men, women, and children from the colonial beginnings of the westward expansion to the last of the homesteaders in late 20th century Alaska. In many respects, life in the backwoods and on the...
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Having People, Having Heart: Charity, Sustainable Development, and Problems of Dependence in Central UgandaBelieving that charity inadvertently legitimates social inequality and fosters dependence, many international development organizations have increasingly sought to replace material aid with efforts to build self-reliance and local institutions. But in some cultures--like those in rural Uganda, where Having People, Having Heart takes place--people...
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Haunted AtchisonThe Most Haunted City in Kansas Atchison is a town where the migration West started and proudly calls itself the "most haunted city in Kansas." Many former residents are still present longing to be heard and seen. Hannah Jo Cusack leaves pennies for the...
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Hangar 4: A Combat Aviator's MemoirThe Best of the Best . . . Risk taker. Son. Badass. Husband. Combat aviator. Father. From Officer Candidates School to squadron Commanding Officer, Isaac G. Lee, Lieutenant Colonel USMC (Ret.), reached the finish line at HANGAR 4 on MCAS Miramar at the conclusion...
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Guerrilla WarfareGuerrilla Warfare (Spanish: La Guerra de Guerrillas) is a military handbook written by Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara following the Cuban Revolution. It became a reference for thousands of guerrilla fighters in various countries around the world. The book draws upon Guevara's personal experience as...
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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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Grenadiers de la Waffen-SS: Tome 2, 1939-1945Text in FrenchLa matière proposée dans le tome 2 de Grenadier, concernant principalement les camouflages, est exceptionnelle, comme on peut le constater avec des précisions tout à fait inédites. Cette « montée en puissance nous laisse une matière restant à traiter.**********The material offered in...
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Gounod's Opera Of Romeo And Juliet: Containing The French Text, With An English Translation And The Music Of All The Principal Airs...This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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Giants on Ancient Earth: An In-Depth Study of the NephilimWritten records of the ancient world excavated from the Near East to the western shores of ancient South America are filled with obscure references to a race of giants. Most biblical scholars are unaware of or choose to ignore the over 80 references to...
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Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous LandThe true--and unsolved--story of unabashedly greedy men, their exploitation of Muscogee land, and the hunt for the ghost of a boy who may never have existed For readers of David Grann's award-winning Killers of the Flower Moon In the early 1900s, at the dawn...
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Genes of the PastIn the mid-1960s, a well-preserved hominin fossil is discovered in the Moroccan desert. Examination of the fossil, known as Fat Man, shows it to be around 550,000 years old. Decades later, DNA and protein analyses of the Fat Man skull in the OMICS National...
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Garden City: The First 150 YearsPositioned at the heart of Nassau County, Garden City sits like a crown jewel among the communities on Long Island. And it has a history to match. The brainchild of textile mogul Alexander Turney Stewart, who bought the last of the treeless Hempstead Plains...
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From Rights to Lives: The Evolution of the Black Freedom StruggleBroadly speaking, the traditionally conceptualized mid-twentieth-century Civil Rights Movement and the newer #BlackLivesMatter Movement possess some similar qualities. They both represent dynamic, complex moments of possibility and progress. They also share mass-based movement activities, policy/legislative advocacy, grassroots organizing, and targeted media campaigns. Innovation, growth,...
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Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for ProfitAn award-winning historian tells a gripping, morally complicated story of murder, greed, race, and the true origins of prison for profit. In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended in the North, a village in New York State invented a new form of...
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Frances Benjamin Johnston: The Hampton AlbumA portrait of one of the earliest African American and Native American colleges, from an album found in a bookstore by Lincoln KirsteinFrances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952), credited as the first female photojournalist in the United States, was commissioned in 1899 to photograph the Hampton...
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Forgotten Facts about Life in the American ColoniesSometimes the life in colonial America can seem picturesque: no technology, close ties to the nearby community, and local, homemade food to nourish the whole family. However, when you look a bit closer, it's fascinating to see the funny and strange things colonists did...
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Food in the Air and Space: The Surprising History of Food and Drink in the SkiesThis book explores the history of food in flight from hydrogen balloons to the space station: what was served, how and why; the problems with heating, cooling, and serving technology; logistics; overcoming cultural barriers; and the effect of altitude on our senses of taste...
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Five Suns: A Fire History of MexicoA climate defined by wet and dry seasons, a mostly mountainous terrain, a biota prone to disturbances, a human geography characterized by a diversity of peoples all of whom rely on burning in one form or another: Mexico has ideal circumstances for fire, and...
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First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American MemoryFirst Martyr of Liberty explores how Crispus Attucks's death in the 1770 Boston Massacre led to his achieving mythic significance in African Americans' struggle to incorporate their experiences and heroes into the mainstream of the American historical narrative. While the other victims of the...
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Fire Fighters of Houston, 1838-1915This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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