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The Wild West in EnglandArmy scout, frontiersman, and hero of the American West, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody was also a shrewd self-promoter, showman, and entrepreneur. In 1888 he published The Story of the Wild West, a collection of biographies of four well-known American frontier figures: Daniel Boone,...
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There Is Only One Road and It Goes Everywhere: Journeys to the Land of Heart's DesiresKathleen Phelan (nee Newton) was utterly unique; a female vagabond who embraced the freedom of the tramp lifestyle and philosophy. Like the infamous women explorers of the Victorian era, she traveled before as a single woman adventuring to every place on the planet funding...
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Spirits of the Border: The History and Mystery of Tombstone, AZ.Tombstone, Arizona is one of the most famous of the mining boomtowns. It was also one of the most violent. Within the confines of this old west town are a number of ghosts that still walk the night. Cowboys still look for the Earps...
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The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our WorldIn the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a privileged socialite whose reputation rests on the museum's success,...
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Before The Dolphins Guild: A Story of Heroic Efforts to Save Two Navy Submarine Crews Trapped Under the Sea in 1915 and 1916In the early days of submarining, before the Great War, two U.S. submarine disasters riveted the nation as the stories unfolded in local and national newspapers. In Hawaii, the USS F-4 left Honolulu on a routine training run in March 1915 - and disappeared...
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Night Crossings: Maritime Encounters With Rogue Waves At Night While Crossing California's Notorious Humboldt BarAt night, a harbor entrance becomes a dark and unpredictable corridor. One of the most dangerous harbor crossings in North America is the entrance to Humboldt Bay, on the California North Coast. For years, mariners have traded tales of shipwrecks and narrow escapes on...
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Arc Road: The Horrific Murders of Three Police Officers in Gwinnett County Georgia That Changed Law Enforcement ForeverThe Gwinnett County, Georgia, Police Department was formed by tough, honorable men who were brought in to clean up the county after the sheriff made moonshining his personal business. With a low budget--officers had to buy their own uniforms, guns, even bullets--the police had...
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The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties'A history that makes perfect sense when the sky is falling down.' - The Sunday Times Beneath the psychedelic utopianism of the sixties lay a dark seam of apocalyptic thinking that seemed to rupture into violence and despair by 1969. Literary and cultural historian...
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Hope's Kids: A Voting Rights SummerSpring 1965. In the wake of Selma, a bill is finally wending through Congress to end the rigged literacy tests and other devices in place since Reconstruction to keep southern blacks out of voting and government. At the same time, Dr. King's non-violent "wild...
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Freedom Flight: A True Account of the Cold War's Greatest EscapeThe never-before-told story of history's most spectacular escape - now heading to the big screen, a film based upon the memoirs of the architect of the escape. Freedom Flight by Frank Iszak gives the firsthand description of the ruthless world of tyranny behind the...
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Decision for Disaster: Betrayal at the Bay of PigsGrayston Lynch presents an exceptional portrayal of actual events that led to the betrayal of extraordinary, patriotic, and courageous men. Lynch's unmasking of "Kennedy's Camelot" reveals heart-wrenching facts that continue to stir emotions among Brigade 2506 veterans.Author: Grayston LynchPublisher: Potomac BooksPublished: 01/01/2000Pages: 208Binding Type:...
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The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier: The Correspondence of Alice Kirk GriersonThe modern woman who tries to juggle private and public roles with equilibrium will discover a spiritual ancestor in Alice Kirk Grierson. The colonel's lady spent most of her life at army outposts on the nineteenth-century western frontier, where she faced the problems of...
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated AmericaWidely heralded as a "masterful" (Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation" (William...
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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National ThemesWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for DramaAngels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes includes Part One, Millennium Approaches and Part Two, Perestroika "Glorious. A monumental, subversive, altogether remarkable masterwork...Details of specific catastrophes may have changed since this Reagan-era AIDS epic won the...
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Ecos de Nueva España. Los Siglos Perdidos En La Historia de México / Echoes of T He New Spain: The Lost Centuries in Mexican HistoryCasi 300 años de historia se asoman en este original y divertido libro ilustrado que recupera los viajes, lugares, oficios, costumbres y personajes que configuraron el asombroso universo novohispano. Nueva España era un territorio gigantesco, comprendía de lo que ahora es el sur de...
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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We LiveThe term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing...
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The Secret History of Wonder WomanWithin the origin of one of the world's most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story--and a crucial history of feminism in the twentieth-century. "Everything you might want in a page-turner ... skeletons in the closet, a believe-it-or-not weirdness in its biographical details, and...
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The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa MovementsThe shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, North Carolina in the summer of 2017 linger in the mind, but so do those of the passionate protestors who risked their lives to do the right thing. In this stirring graphic non-fiction book by the...
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Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Life from Small-Town America to the Symbionese Liberation ArmyThe mystery of how an ordinary Minnesota girl came to be, briefly, one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United States Behind every act of domestic terrorism there is someone's child, an average American whose life took a radical turn for reasons...
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Everybody: A Book about FreedomThe body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst...
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