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Lost Lake ErieSerene one moment and destructive the next, Lake Erie's moods mirror its tumultuous role in history. As the site of Cleveland's Great Lakes Exposition, the lake offered visitors a respite from the Great Depression, and Hotel Victory, once considered the world's largest summer resort,...
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It Watched MeWhat if your inner voice was dictated to you by someone else? How far exactly does the concept of free will come to fruition in our everyday lives? Walker Henderson, a used car salesman, is drained by the monotony of his everyday life until...
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Lost EvansvilleFrom the Wabash and Erie Canal to the Faultless Caster Factory, Evansville has seen much of its history disappear. In the early twentieth century, vestiges of old Evansville like the B'nai Israel temple and Coal Mine Hill gave way to a modern city. Numerous...
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A Defence of Virginia: And Through Her of the South in the Recent and Pending Contests Against the Sectional PartyHistory revisionists have long insisted that the true cause of the War Between the States was the allegedly immoral system of Southern slavery. To the contrary, Dr. Dabney shows from Scripture that slavery, as practiced in the South, was not inherently wicked, as claimed...
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Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster FullerOne of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club * The Week Magazine Book of the WeekFrom Alec...
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Lessing Und Die FolgenDie Geschichte des modernen deutschen Dramas beginnt mit Lessing. Gleichwohl gilt er als Autor, der an einer Schwelle steht: Er bereitet den Klassikern den Weg, bleibt aber hinter ihnen zurück. Lessing ist der "Vorklassiker" der deutschen Literatur, gerühmt und vereinnahmt als Kämpfer für die...
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A Son at the Front"Wharton has done nothing that equals this."―New York Times Book Review (1923)"Extraordinarily poignant...Heartrending, tragic, powerful, this is not to be missed."-Publishers WeeklyEdith Wharton's A Son at the Front (1923) is a stirring rumination of family, art, and the shortcomings of possession. The story, which...
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Baltimore in World War IIThe World War II years were a time of growth and productivity for the Baltimore area, and the city contributed significantly to the Allied war effort. Baltimore launched the first of the famed Liberty ships, the SS Patrick Henry, which was constructed at the...
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This Victorian Life: Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and TechnologyPart memoir, part micro-history, this is an exploration of the present through the lens of the past--now in paperback! We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it's spoken, but can the same...
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The Cowboys: How the West Was WonRelive the Old West with illustrated biographies of Western luminaries like "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Charles Goodnight, Bill Pickett, William and George Calloway, Joseph McCoy, and more The glory days of the Old West cowboy lasted for only a couple of decades, but during this...
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The Ultimate Wild West Collection: Buffalo Bill Cody, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Butch Cas*Includes biographies of each famous Western icon. *Discusses the mysteries and legends of their famous lives and deaths. *Comprehensively covers legendary events like the Shootout at the OK Corral, and the murders of Wild Bill and Jesse James. *Includes a Bibliography on each person...
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Richmal Crompton, Author of Just William: A Literary LifeRichmal Crompton, Author of Just William: A Literary Life celebrates the first two William books, Just William (1922) and More William (1922). As well as a study of her famous character William Brown, this book is an introduction to Richmal Crompton's less well-known fiction...
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AlameinThe Battle of El Alamein in 1942 brought a sense of victory to a Britain grown weary from defeat.And it was a decisive victory. The Eighth Army ended the see-saw desert campaign and drove the German-Italian Panzer Army across Egypt and Libya, and into...
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Billy the Kid: A Captivating Guide to a Notorious Gunfighter of the American Old West and His Feud with Pat GarrettDo you want to know more about the Old West's most legendary outlaw? Then keep reading...Billy the Kid once said that he killed twenty-one men-one for each year that he lived. While it's more likely that he only killed eight or nine, this young...
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The California Gold Rush: A Captivating Guide to One of the Most Significant Events in the History of the United States of America and Its ImpacDid you know that the California Gold Rush was the largest mass migration event in the history of the United States of America?More than 300,000 people settled in the previously sparsely populated California. And they all came in the period between 1849 and 1855....
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The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920For the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history. Andrew C. Isenberg offers a concise analysis of the near-extinction of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than...
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Thomas Lincoln: Abraham's FatherHundreds of books have been written (and are still being written) about Abraham Lincoln. But in the annals of Lincoln history, Thomas Lincoln, Abraham's father, is a largely neglected figure. He rates a few paragraphs in an otherwise large biography and has served as...
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A Gentlemen's Guide to Style and Self-Defense in the Old American WestThe Old West has had a powerful impact on the concept of gentlemanly masculinity among Americans. To behave like a gentleman may mean little or much. To spend large sums of money like a gentleman may be of no great praise, but to conduct...
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Leopoldville: A Tragedy Too Long SecretReviews of Allan Andrade's book, S.S. Leopoldville December 24, 1944 published in 1997 Thanks to the publication of this book and the publicity that it has received on regional and national television programs, Americans can now understand what had been a hidden tragedy. The...
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The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." --Wall Street JournalA magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who led Sioux resistance and triumphed at the Battle of Little...
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