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The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old ManWhen a veteran Washington journalist moved to Kansas, he met a new neighbor who was more than a century old. Little did he know that he was beginning a long friendship -- and a profound lesson in the meaning of life. Charlie White was...
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Understanding and Teaching Contemporary Us History Since ReaganUnderstanding and Teaching Contemporary US History since Reagan is designed for teachers looking for new perspectives on teaching the recent past, the period of US history often given the least attention in classrooms. Less of a traditional textbook than a pedagogical Swiss Army knife,...
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Fed with Tears - Poisoned with MilkThis volume aims to make a unique and significant contribution to the proliferating literature on German-Israeli relatedness in the post-Holocaust era. It is both a record and a testimony to a novel and vitally important approach to this work, demonstrating the possibility of dealing...
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Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground RailroadBorn free in 1821 to two parents who had been enslaved, William Still was drawn to antislavery work from a young age. Hired as a clerk at the Anti-Slavery office in Philadelphia after teaching himself to read and write, he began directly assisting enslaved...
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A Good Place to Do Business: The Politics of Downtown Renewal Since 1945The "Pittsburgh Renaissance," an urban renewal effort launched in the late 1940s, transformed the smoky rust belt city's downtown. Working-class residents and people of color saw their neighborhoods cleared and replaced with upscale, white residents and with large corporations housed in massive skyscrapers. Pittsburgh's...
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Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American CityOnce a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of...
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Civil Rights MovementThis book gives readers a comprehensive introduction to the topic of the Civil Rights Movement-arguably the most important political movement of the 20th century-and provides a road map for future study and historical inquiry. Civil Rights Movement provides a comprehensive reference guide to this...
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Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color LineVirginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 recodified the state's long-standing racial hierarchy as a more rigid Black-white binary. Then, Virginia officials asserted that no Virginia Indians could be other than legally Black, given centuries of love and marriage across color lines. How indigenous peoples...
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Brown V. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the ConstitutionBefore 1954, both law and custom mandated strict racial segregation throughout much of the nation. That began to change with Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark decision that overturned the pernicious "separate but equal" doctrine. In declaring that legally mandated school segregation was...
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The Light in Their Consciences: Early Quakers in Britain, 1646-1666Hailed upon its publication as "history at its finest" by H. Larry Ingle and called "the essential foundation to explore early Quaker history" by Sixteenth Century Journal, Rosemary Moore's The Light in Their Consciences is the most comprehensive, readable history of the first decades...
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Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860In this groundbreaking study, historian Michael J. Alarid examines New Mexico's transition from Spanish to Mexican to US control during the nineteenth century and illuminates how emerging class differences played a crucial role in the regime change. After Mexico won independence from Spain in...
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Regionalists on the Left: Radical Voices from the American West"Nothing is more anathema to a serious radical than regionalism," Berkeley English professor Henry Nash Smith asserted in 1980. Although regionalism in the American West has often been characterized as an inherently conservative, backward-looking force, regionalist impulses have in fact taken various forms throughout...
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Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism: Volume 9In the half century after World War II, California's Santa Clara Valley transformed from a rolling landscape of fields and orchards into the nation's most consequential high-tech industrial corridor. How Santa Clara Valley became Silicon Valley and came to embody both the triumphs and...
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Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in AfricaIn Seeding Empire, Aaron Eddens rewrites an enduring story about the past--and future--of global agriculture. Eddens connects today's efforts to cultivate a "Green Revolution in Africa" to a history of American projects that introduced capitalist agriculture across the Global South. Expansive in scope, this...
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Born to Serve: A History of Texas Southern UniversityOttis Lock Award, Best Book on East Texas, East Texas Historical Association2019 Summerlee Book Prize, Center for History and Culture of Southeast TexasTexas Southern University is often said to have been "conceived in sin." Located in Houston, the school was established in 1947 as...
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The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke, Volume 1: November 20, 1872, to July 28, 1876John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries as aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook. Volume 1 begins during the 1872 Apache campaigns and dealings with Cochise. Bourke's ethnographic notes on the Apaches continues with further observations on the Hopis in 1874. The...
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Fighting from Above: A Combat History of the US Air Force Volume 1The story of the United States Air Force (USAF) stretches back to aerial operations prior to the First World War--well before the USAF became a separate service--and looks forward to a new era of airpower in space. Fighting from Above presents a concise account...
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Defender of Canada: Sir George Prevost and the War of 1812 Volume 40When war broke out between Great Britain and the United States in 1812, Sir George Prevost, captain general and governor in chief of British North America, was responsible for defending a group of North American colonies that stretched as far as the distance from...
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Resilient America: Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing GovernmentRichard E. Neustadt Award To look at the partisan polarization that paralyzes Washington today is to see what first took shape with the presidential election of 1968. This book explains why. Urban riots and the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr....
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Hardhats, Hippies, and HawksIn the popular imagination, opposition to the Vietnam War was driven largely by college students and elite intellectuals, while supposedly reactionary blue-collar workers largely supported the war effort. In Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks, Penny Lewis challenges this collective memory of class polarization. Through close...
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