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1877: America's Year of Living ViolentlyAuthor: Michael A. BellesilesPublisher: New PressPublished: 08/10/2010Pages: 386Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.52lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.24dISBN: 9781595584410Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 05/31/2010Booklist 08/01/2010 pg. 18Choice 12/01/2010Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 69About the AuthorMichael Bellesiles teaches history at Central Connecticut State University. He is...
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Social Murder and Other Shortcomings of Conservative EconomicsCorporate power is one of the strongest forces shaping our world. More than half of the top 100 economic entities today are private corporations. With their immense size comes commensurate influence, to the point where corporations are able to wreak social and environmental destruction...
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The Fast Ride: Spectacular Bid and the Undoing of a Sure ThingIn an era of spectacular thoroughbreds, Spectacular Bid was perhaps the most exalted racehorse of them all. In 1979 he won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes--and transcended his sport on a run of twelve consecutive stakes victories. But he lost his quest...
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The Boy Governor: Stevens T. Mason and the Birth of Michigan PoliticsIn 1831, Stevens T. Mason was named Secretary of the Michigan Territory at the tender age of 19, two years before he could even vote. The youngest presidential appointee in American history, Mason quickly stamped his persona on Michigan life in large letters. After...
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Kansas City's Montgall Avenue: Black Leaders and the Street They Called HomeA few blocks southeast of the famed intersection of 18th and Vine in Kansas City, Missouri, just a stone's throw from Charlie Parker's old stomping grounds and the current home of the vaunted American Jazz Museum and Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, sits Montgall Avenue....
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Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DCWashington, DC, gleams with stately columns and neoclassical temples, a pulsing hub of political power and prowess. But for decades it was one of the worst excuses for a capital city the world had ever seen. Before America became a world power in the...
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White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in VancouverEssays and photographs that document the anti-Asian riots of 1907 in the context of contemporary anti-Asian sentiment.White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver explores the conditions leading up to and the impact of a demonstration and parade in Vancouver, Canada, organized by the...
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The Cadottes: A Fur Trade Family on Lake SuperiorAuthor: Robert SilbernagelPublisher: Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublished: 04/18/2023Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90dISBN: 9781976600234About the AuthorRobert Silbernagel studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin and spent his newspaper career in Colorado. He writes a bimonthly column for the Grand Junction...
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Built in Detroit: A Story of the UAW, a Company, and a GangsterKen Morris's journey began one cold Pittsburgh morning in 1935. In the middle of the Great Depression, he was going to see the country as a door-to-door salesman. Detroit was to be his first and last stop. Life was hard and few people during...
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Transcending Darkness: A Girl's Journey Out of the Holocaust"Please, Mama, I don't want to live like this," pleaded twelve-year-old Estelle Glaser's older sister as they watched the bodies of friends dangle from the gibbet in the center of the appelplatz of the Madjanek concentration camp. "I cannot take the indignities and brutalities....
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Bold They Rise: The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986After the Apollo program put twelve men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set about developing the Space Shuttle, arguably the most complex piece of machinery ever created. The world's first reusable...
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The Gilded Age: 1876-1912: Overture to the American CenturyThe Gilded Age is in the air! This beautifully designed, fully illustrated, insightful book by noted historian Alan Axelrod provides a vivid view of American life and thought during that era. The Gilded Age--the name coined by Mark Twain to refer to the period...
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Old Spanish Trail North Branch: Stories of the Exploration of the American SouthwestThe ancient trail from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Crescent Junction near Green River, Utah was a good route for travel for the early settlers. It was first used by woolly mammals who migrated up and down the Rio Grande and then by many...
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Triggernometry: A Gallery of GunfightersIn this now classic volume, Eugene Cunningham collects--in his "gallery" --biographies of nearly a score of master gunfighters, including such notables as John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, Dallas Stoudenmire, Sam Bass, Wild Bill Hickok, Butch Cassidy, and Tom Horn. Himself a Westerner familiar...
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Sunshine in the Dark: Florida in the MoviesFlorida has been the location and subject of hundreds of feature films, from Cocoanuts (1929) to Monster (2004). Portraying the state and its people from the silent era to the present, these films have explored the multitude of Florida images and cliches that have...
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Girls in Service: The Official Handbook of the Bund Deutscher MädelTrude Mohr, the National Speaker of the Bund Deutscher Mädel, together with other prominent BDM leaders wrote this inspirational training manual originally titled "Mädel im Dienst." Being a BDM girl was never more exciting than with this new program of resources. Eye opening activities...
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The Kassel Raid, 27 September 1944: The Largest Loss by USAAF Group on Any Mission in WWIIOn Thursday, 28 September 1944, a force of 283 Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers from the USAAF's 2nd Combat Bombardment Wing, took off from their bases in Britain and headed out across the North Sea escorted by 198 P-51 Mustang fighters. The bombers' target was...
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The Horse at Gettysburg: Prepared for the Day of BattleHorses are one of the many unsung heroes of the American Civil War. These majestic animals were impressed into service, trained, prepared for battle, and turned into expendable implements of war.There is more to this story, however. When an army's means and survival is...
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The Tragedy of American Science: From Truman to TrumpThe tragedy of American science is that its direction is determined by private profit rather than by the desire to improve the human condition. As a result, Conner argues, Big Science has been irredeemably corrupted by Big Money. This corruption threatens the air we...
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Colonial Mixed Blood: A Story of the Burghers of Sri LankaCOLONIAL MIXED BLOOD The navies built by the Arabs and King Solomon plied the oceans long ago. The Portuguese, Dutch, and British followed suit, and eventually the oceans were mastered. The colonial age came into being and brought with it increased movements of people...
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