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Protest on Trial: The Seattle 7 ConspiracyThe founders of the Seattle Liberation Front (SLF) embodied late 1960s counterculture--young, idealistic, activists who were against racism and the Vietnam War, and fond of long hair, rock'n'roll, sex, drugs, and parties. Months after violence erupted during a demonstration, authorities arrested six men and...
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Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues GuitarWinner of the 2016 Living Blues Award for Blues Book of the Year Since the early 1900s, blues and the guitar have traveled side by side. This book tells the story of their pairing from the first reported sightings of blues musicians, to the...
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The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893This exceptional chronicle takes readers on a visual tour of the glittering "white city" that emerged along the swampy south shore of Lake Michigan as a symbol of Chicago's rebirth and pride twenty-two years after the Great Fire. The World's Columbian Exposition, which commemorated...
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Artisan/Practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400-1600This book provides the historical background for a central issue in the history of science: the influence of artisans, craftsmen, and other practitioners on the emergent empirical methodologies that characterized the "new sciences" of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Long offers a coherent...
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Black Men Built the Capitol: Discovering African-American History in and Around Washington, D.C.A story most Americans don't know. *Slaves built the Capitol, White House, and other important Washington structures *The National Mall sits on the site of the city's once-bustling slave market *The grounds that are now Arlington National Cemetery were once a self-sustaining village for...
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Hoe de Mannen van Easy Company een Band of Brothers WerdenEasy Company van het 506de Parachute Infanterie Regiment, 101ste Luchtlandingsdivisie was een samenhangende eenheid die zich eervol onderscheidde tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. In 1992 werden ze voor het eerst bij het publiek ge ntroduceerd in het boek "Band of Brothers" van historicus Stephen Ambrose,...
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Machiavelli and Guicciardini: Politics and History in Sixteenth Century FlorenceIn Felix Gilbert's skilled analysis, the figures of Niccolo Machiavelli, whose writing changed the way people think about politics, and Francesco Guicciardini, whose History of Italy is one of the first classics of modern historical writing, provide important clues to interpreting the Renaissance.Author: Felix...
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Dying for Joe McCarthy's Sins: The Suicide of Wyoming Senator Lester Hunt"Joe McCarthy's Cold War witch-hunts targeted people with same-sex attractions as much, maybe more than those with Communist sympathies." This introduction to Rodger McDaniel's book sets the stage for a story of the most wretched political blackmail in American history. Lester Hunt was the...
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Blood, Guns & ValentinesBLOOD, GUNS & VALENTINESAL CAPONE AND THE GHOSTS OF GANGLAND CHICAGOThe Roaring 20's -- that decade of gangsters, jazz, Prohibition, and flappers - left a bloody mark on Chicago history with speakeasies, violent shootouts, corrupt cops, and a myriad of ghosts those violent days...
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My Army Life and the Fort Phil. Kearney Massacre: The Classic Account of an Infantry Lieutenant's Wife on the Great Plains During the Indian WarsA classic memoir of life on the western frontier The author of this well known and well regarded work begins her story of army life as a young officer's wife on the western frontier with all the naivety and trepidation one might expect. She...
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Draketown TragedyDraketown, Georgia, November 13, 1924: Alice Stewart, the pastor's wife, is shot twice, once in the back, when she tries to stop twenty moonshiners from abducting and horsewhipping her husband, Rev. Robert Stewart, for tearing down their stills. She dies two days later. The...
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Michigan's Crossroads to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in Jackson CountyIn the early to mid-1800s, Jackson County was home to two branches of the Underground Railroad, a secret network that funneled fugitives from slavery in the South to freedom in the North. Many Jacksonians participated in this network, risking their lives to feed, lodge...
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Searching for the MandlsA young American girl in the 1950's loved seeing her name on a small leaf way at the top of the Mandl-Spitzer Family Tree, surrounded by her brother, parents, uncles, aunts, and cousins. But what of the other branches with only a few familiar...
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Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914An essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the social history of the nineteenth century, Schnitzler's Century is the culmination of Peter Gay's thirty-five years of scholarship on bourgeois culture and society. Using Arthur Schnitzler, the sexually emboldened Viennese playwright, as his master...
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Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918Within two weeks the French troops had mutinied, leaving the Western Front practically undefended. In the same month, Lenin arrived in Moscow on the heels of the Russian Revolution and vowed to make peace with Germany. To make matters worse, the Allies had reason...
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Berlin Journal, 1989-1990Shock waves from the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 continue to pulse through German society. As the difficult process of reunification continues, it is worth recalling the revolutionary moment when immense crowds took to the streets of Leipzig and Berlin under...
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Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical EvaluationThis unique volume provides each writers reflection on her work, an evaluation of that writer by two perceptive critics, and detailed biographical and bibliographical data.Included are Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and ten other outstanding writers."Author: Mari EvansPublisher:...
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Choices in Little RockChoices in Little Rock focuses on efforts to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957-efforts that resulted in a crisis that historian Taylor Branch once described as "the most severe test of the Constitution since the Civil War."The resource explores civic...
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The Road to Kohima: The Naga experience in the Second World WarThe battle of Kohima, often referred to as the 'Stalingrad of the East', was the turning point of the Japanese offensive into India in 1944 during what the West calls the Second World War. A recent survey by the National Army Museum voted it...
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Who's Who in the JFK Assassination: An A to Z EncyclopediaComprehensive, accessible and unprecedented, "Who's Who in the JFK Assassination" presents vital information on each of more than 1,400 individuals related in any noteworthy way to the murders of President John F. Kennedy, Dallas Police Officer J. D. Tippit and alleged assassin Lee Harvey...
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