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The Illustrated Feminist: 100 Years of Suffrage, Strength, and Sisterhood in AmericaA beautifully illustrated history celebrating the achievements of American women from 1920 to present day The year 2020 will mark the 100th anniversary of women's right to vote in America, and what better way to commemorate the 19th Amendment than with a gorgeously illustrated...
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The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish"A tribute to a time when style -- and maybe even life -- felt more straightforward, and however arbitrary, there were definitive answers." -- Sadie Stein, Paris Review As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to...
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Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of AmericaAll school children know the story of the fatal duel between Hamilton and Burr - but do they really? In this remarkable retelling, Thomas Fleming takes the reader into the post-revolutionary world of 1804, a chaotic and fragile time in the young country as...
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Pioneering the Vote: The Untold Story of Suffragists in Utah and the WestIn 1895, Utah's leading suffragist, Emmeline B. Wells, welcomed her friends Susan B. Anthony and Reverend Anna Howard Shaw to a gathering of more than 8,000 people from around the nation at the Rocky Mountain Suffrage Convention. They were there to celebrate the suffrage...
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1913: In Search of the World Before the Great WarToday, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced...
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Bolivar: The Liberator of Latin AmericaA monumental biography that "captures the passion and frenzy in this extraordinary life" (Kirkus Reviews) and is at once "masterful" and "ideal for general readers" (Booklist, starred review) Sim n Bol var freed no fewer than what were to become six countries--a vast domain...
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBINATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Lost City of Z.In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were...
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Markievicz: A Most Outrageous Rebel (Second Edition)Countess Constance Markievicz--one of the most remarkable women in Irish history--was a revolutionary, a socialist, and a feminist, as well as an artist and writer. A natural leader, Markievicz took an active part in the 1916 Rising and was one of the few leaders...
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Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism--From Goldwater to Trump and BeyondFrom the author of Why Americans Hate Politics, the New York Times bestselling and "notably fair-minded" (The New York Times Book Review), story of the GOP's fracturing--from the 1964 Goldwater takeover to the Trump spectacle. Why the Right Went Wrong offers an "up to...
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The Brilliant Disaster: Jfk, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of PigsA "balanced, engrossing account" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of the Bay of Pigs crisis drawing on long-hidden CIA documents and delivering the vivid truth of five pivotal days in April 1961. At the heart of the Bay of Pigs crisis stood President John F....
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Breakdown: How the Secret of the Atomic Bomb was Stolen during World War IIThe enormous effort-called the Manhattan Project-that produced the world's first atomic bomb was supposed to be the best kept secret of World War II. And the Project's Los Alamos, New Mexico site where the bomb was perfected was supposed to have the tightest security...
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John F. Kennedy's Hidden Diary, Europe 1937: The Travel Journals of JFK and Kirk Lemoyne BillingsPresenting the 1937 diaries of John F. Kennedy's tour of Europe, this volume offers insights into his early experiences on a continent under the shadow of Nazism. In 1937, while still a student, John F. Kennedy undertook a grand tour of Europe with his...
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Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was MadeFrom one of the world's leading experts on the history of energy, a rigorous examination of the transitions that structure our modern world--and the environmental reckoning that will mark its success or failure. What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively...
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Imprisoned in Paradise: Japanese Internee Road Workers at the World War II Kooskia Internment CampExposes the US' little-known WWII rendition of Japanese Latin Americans, including men kidnapped from their homes in Peru, Panama and Mexico and interned at the Kooskia Camp.Author: Priscilla WegarsPublisher: University of Idaho PressPublished: 01/01/2010Pages: 323Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 8.95h x 6.38w x 0.89dISBN: 9780893015503
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The Settlers' War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s"Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press"During the decades from 1820 to 1870, the American frontier expanded two thousand miles across the trans-Mississippi West. In Texas the frontier line expanded only about two hundred miles. The supposedly irresistible European force met...
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Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903On the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold-out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago's Iroquois Theatre. In the short span of twenty minutes, more than six hundred people were asphyxiated, burned, or trampled to death in a panicked mob's failed...
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Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott KingDesert Rose details Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a profound devotion to the ideals of social equality and the values of education, as well as her later role as her husband's most trusted confidant and advisor....
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The Donnellys: Powder Keg, 1840-1880: 1840-1880A violent family living in violent times. In the 1840s, the Donnelly family immigrates from Ireland to the British province of Canada. Almost immediately problems develop as the patriarch of the family is sent to the Kingston Penitentiary for manslaughter, leaving his wife to...
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Pacific Blitzkrieg: World War II in the Central PacificWinner of the Crader Family Book Prize, 2016. Winner of the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award, 2014 Selected by General Raymond Odierno, 38th Army Chief of Staff, for the U.S. Army Chief of Staff's Professional Reading List, February 2014.Pacific Blitzkrieg closely examines the...
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TitanicHere is a survivor's vivid account of the greatest maritime disaster in history. The information contained in Gracie's account is available from no other source. He provides details of those final moments, including names of passengers pulled from the ocean and of those men...
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