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Question of Sanity: The True Story of Female Serial Killers in 19th Century New YorkThe women who serve as the subjects for this book, all share compelling stories. Most of the women in Keene's book are from North Central New York living along the Erie Canal in small, isolated rural communities.Some of the women chronicled in the book...
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Ardent Spirit: Based on the True Story of Magdelaine La FramboiseMagdelaine Marcotte La Framboise was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1984. Two centuries after her birth, she was recognized for her achievements in business. She is a role model, an inspiration and a woman who earned a rightful place in...
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The Epidemic: How Typhoid Devastated an American Town and How the Residents Fought BackThe dramatic account of a typhoid epidemic in Ithaca, New York, in 1903, and its dark underside--with lessons for today! The Epidemic tells the story of how a vain and reckless businessman became responsible for a typhoid epidemic in 1903 that devastated Cornell University...
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Enchanted Ground: The Spirit Room of Jonathan KoonsIn Enchanted Ground, Sharon Hatfield brings to life the true story of a nineteenth-century farmer-turned-medium, Jonathan Koons, one of thousands of mediums throughout the antebellum United States. In the hills outside Athens, Ohio, Koons built a house where it was said the dead spoke...
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Wall Street and the Russian Revolution: 1905-1925Wall Street and the Russian Revolution will give readers critical insight into what might be called the "Secret History of the 20th century." The Russian Revolution, like the war in which it was born, represents the real beginning of the modern world. The book...
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Defcon-2: Standing on the Brink of Nuclear War During the Cuban Missile CrisisThe closest we've ever come to the end of the worldDEFCON-2 is the best single volume on the Cuban Missile Crisis published and is an important contribution to the history of the Cold War. Beyond the military and political facts of the crisis, Polmar...
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In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global PowerIn a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America's rise as a world power--from the 1890s through the Cold War--and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and...
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One Day in August: Ian Fleming, Enigma, and the Deadly Raid on Dieppe"A fast-paced and convincing book ... that clears up decades of misinformation about the ignoble raid." Toronto Star"A fine book ... well-written and well-researched." Washington TimesIn less than six hours in August 1942, nearly 1,000 British, Canadian and American commandos died in the French...
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Battle Maps of the American RevolutionFrom the American Battlefield Trust, an unparalleled collection of their popular battle maps of the Revolutionary War. "Wow! I just love those maps that you guys send to me." It is a phrase that the staff of the American Battlefield Trust hears on a...
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Republic of Shame: How Ireland Punished 'fallen Women' and Their ChildrenUntil alarmingly recently, the Catholic Church, acting with the Irish state, operated a network of institutions for the concealment, punishment and exploitation of "fallen women." In the Magdalene laundries, girls and women were incarcerated and condemned to servitude. In the mother-and-baby homes, women who...
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Seven Sisters and a Brother: Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s (a Pivotal Event in the History oThe Story Behind an Unsung Event in the Civil Rights Movement"Over eight days, eight students sparked change that defined their lives, changed an institution and fueled a movement that continues today." ─Alberto Ibargüen, President and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight...
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We Fought the RoadWe Fought the Road is the story of the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway during World War II. More than one third of the 10,607 builders were black; thought to be incapable of performing on a war front by many of their white commanding...
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Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom, Revised and ExpandedUnlike other American astronauts, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom never had the chance to publish his memoirs. Killed along with his crew in a launch pad fire on January 27, 1967, Grissom also lost his chance to walk on the moon and return to describe...
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Diary of an Early American Boy, 1805For his fifteenth birthday in 1805, Noah Blake received a little leather-bound diary. This reprint of his actual journal offers modern readers a charming glimpse of a vanished era through the eyes of a nineteenth-century farm boy. Eric Sloane--a distinguished historian, author, and artist--has...
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Biddle, Jackson, and a Nation in Turmoil: The Infamous Bank WarThe first half of the 19th century was an era of upheaval. The United States nearly lost the War of 1812. Partisanship became endemic during violent clashes regarding States' Rights and the abolition of slavery. The battle between Andrew Jackson and Nicholas Biddle over...
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John Chisum: Frontier Cattle KingJohn Chisum was a legendary figure of the Old West cattle frontier. At thirteen he migrated with his family from Tennessee to the Republic of Texas. During the 1850s Chisum recognized opportunity in the fledgling range cattle industry, and within a few years his...
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The Arizona Rangers"The Arizona Rangers" is the first documented history of the Rangers ever published, and fills a sizeable void in the annals of Arizona Territory. Bill O'Neal's enthusiasm for his subject and his respect for those remarkable men who wore the five-pointed star are apparent...
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on...
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Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest DestinyNative America, Discovered and Conquered takes a fresh look at American history through the lens of the Doctrine of Discovery-the legal basis that Europeans and Americans used to lay claim to the land of the indigenous peoples they "discovered." Robert J. Miller illustrates how...
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City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los AngelesA vivid history of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform Los Angeles When Walter O'Malley moved his Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 with plans to construct a new ballpark, he ignited a bitter half-decade dispute over the...
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