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Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes ArchiveIn 1940, the historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine organization, code named Oyneg Shabes, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw to study and document all facets of Jewish life in wartime Poland and to compile an archive that would preserve this history for posterity. As the Final...
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Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public HousingBlueprint for Disaster traces public housing's history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley's Plan for Transformation. In the process, D. Bradford Hunt chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority's own transformation from the city's most progressive government agency to...
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Moments for Nothing: Samuel Beckett and the End TimesSamuel Beckett's work has entranced generations of readers with its portrayal of the end times. Beckett's characters are preoccupied with death, and the specters of cataclysm and extinction overshadow their barren, bleak worlds. Yet somehow, they endure, experiencing surreal and often comic repetitions that...
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The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights EraOn February 1, 1960, four African American college students entered the Woolworth department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and sat down at the lunch counter. This lunch counter, like most in the American South, refused to serve black customers. The four students remained in...
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Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans Into AmericansA gripping narrative about a dramatic episode in the history of the American West--and a major contribution to our understanding of the origins of Mexican American identity In Revolution in Texas Benjamin Johnson tells the little-known story of one of the most intense and...
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Loring's DivisionA thorough history of Loring's Division could cover hundreds of pages. The battles alone could have been covered in greater detail. The purpose here is to give a good overview of the actions of Loring and his unit commanders, in order to appreciate the...
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The Historic Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald SchoolThe remarkable story of The Historic Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School: Our Story, This Place brings to life the ongoing history of one of the few remaining Rosenwald school buildings in North Carolina. More than 5,000 of these rural schools were built through a...
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Un Long Tourment: Louis-Ferdinand Celine Entre Deux Guerres (1914-1945)On croyait tout connaitre de Louis-Ferdinand Celine un peu plus de cinquante ans apres sa disparition, en 1961. L'enquete ici realisee demontre le contraire. Elle prend pour hypothese le role matriciel de la Grande Guerre dans l'emergence d'une personnalite et d'une oeuvre qui n'ont...
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The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890sCycling has experienced a renaissance in the United States, as cities around the country promote the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation. In the process, debates about the nature of bicycles-where they belong, how they should be ridden, how cities should or should...
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Yours AlwaysYOURS ALWAYS provides a unique and intimate window into the lives of a Southern man, forced to rebuild his life after the Civil War, and a Northern woman with pedigree who fall in love. The story is principally told through their nearly 1500 letters,...
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The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom"A stunning and ambitious origins story."--Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times-bestselling author The remarkable history of how college presidents shaped the struggle for racial equalitySome of America's most pressing civil rights issues--desegregation, equal educational and employment opportunities, housing discrimination,...
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Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American CultureConventional wisdom holds that television was a co-conspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden to McCarthyism. But Thomas Doherty argues that, through the influence of television, America actually became a more open and...
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The Unlikely Reformer: Carter Glass and Financial RegulationRecently described as "the single most important lawmaker in the history of American finance," Carter Glass nonetheless remains a much misunderstood and overlooked figure in that history. Glass is most widely remembered as the sponsor (with Henry Steagall) of the Glass-Steagall provisions of the...
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The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of CrisisThe Last Great Senate tells the story of the final four years of the progressive Senate of the 1960s and 1970s which compiled a record of accomplishment unmatched in our country's history. It is a narrative history of the statesman who, working with an...
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Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New AmericanHow did Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans become known as "Hispanics" and "Latinos" in the United States? How did several distinct cultures and nationalities become portrayed as one? Cristina Mora answers both these questions and details the scope of this phenomenon in Making Hispanics....
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Ella Baker: Community Organizer of the Civil Rights MovementElla Josephine Baker (1903-1986) was among the most influential strategists of the most important social movement in modern US history, the Civil Rights Movement, yet most Americans have never heard of her. Behind the scenes, she organized on behalf of the major civil rights...
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Bomb: A LifeBombs are as old as hatred itself. But it was the twentieth century--one hundred years of incredible scientific progress and terrible war--that brought forth the Big One, the Bomb, humanity's most powerful and destructive invention. In The Bomb: A Life, Gerard DeGroot tells the...
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Passchendaele: The Lost Victory of World War IThe definitive account of Passchendaele, the months-long battle that epitomizes the immense tragedy of the First World War Passchendaele. The name of a small, seemingly insignificant Flemish village echoes across the twentieth century as the ultimate expression of meaningless, industrialized slaughter. In the summer...
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Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray ButlerTo those who loved him, like Teddy Roosevelt, he was "Nicholas Miraculous," the fabled educator who had a hand in everything; to those who did not, like Upton Sinclair, he was "the intellectual leader of the American plutocracy," a champion of "false and cruel...
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Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and CavellThis radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy--a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and extended by Stanley Cavell--to transform literary studies. In engaging and lucid prose, Toril Moi demonstrates this philosophy's unique ability to lay bare...
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