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A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be ToldWinner of the Best Book Award from the Wild West History Association True West Magazine Editors' and Readers' Choice award for Best Author and Historical Non-Fiction Book of the Year Wyatt Earp is one of the most legendary figures of the nineteenth-century American West,...
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Trail of Hope: The Anders Army, an Odyssey Across Three Continents"Davies draws from years of ... research to recount the ... story of this unit, the Polish II Corps or 'Anders Army,' and their exceptional journey from the Gulag of Siberia through Iran, the Middle East, and North Africa to the battlefields of Italy...
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Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965Over twenty years after its initial publication, Annelise Orleck's Common Sense and a Little Fire continues to resonate with its harrowing story of activism, labor, and women's history. Orleck traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting...
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Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of RevolutionAfter emerging victorious from their revolution against the British Empire, many North Americans associated commercial freedom with independence and republicanism. Optimistic about the liberation movements sweeping Latin America, they were particularly eager to disrupt the Portuguese Empire. Anticipating the establishment of a Brazilian republic...
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Abandoned Tracks: The Underground Railroad in Washington County, PennsylvaniaIn Abandoned Tracks, W. Thomas Mainwaring bridges the gap between scholarly and popular perceptions of the Underground Railroad. Historians have long recognized that many aspects of the Underground Railroad have been mythologized by emotion, memory, time, and wishful thinking. Mainwaring's book is a rich,...
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Das KZ-Außenlager GenshagenRichard von Weizs cker behauptet bis in die Gegenwart, von Auschwitz erst im Fr hjahr 1945 geh rt zu haben. Diese Aussage impliziert eine in der ffentlichkeit immer noch verbreitete Vorstellung, dass das System der Konzentrationslager fernab von der Alltagswelt der Deutschen funktionierte. Die...
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Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters to the First Man from All MankindIn the years between the historic first moon landing by Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969, and his death at age 82 on August 25, 2012, Neil Armstrong received hundreds of thousands of cards and letters from all over the world, congratulating him, praising...
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Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and SurvivalIn 1810, John Jacob Astor sent out two advance parties to settle the wild, unclaimed western coast of North America. More than half of his men died violent deaths. The others survived starvation, madness, and greed to shape the destiny of a continent.At a...
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Die Kreisleiter der NSDAP im Gau Weser-EmsDie Kreisleiter der NSDAP waren nach den Gauleitern die wichtigsten Repr sentanten des NS-Regimes auf regionaler Ebene. Trotzdem wurde den Vertretern dieser Gruppe, die im Stab des "Stellvertreters des F hrers" sogar als "die entscheidenden Schl sselstellen der Partei" galten, bisher in der Forschung...
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The American Western in Canadian LiteratureThe Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the...
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Hurricanes of Color: Iconic Rock Photography from the Beatles to Woodstock and BeyondIn 1964, fifteen-year-old Mike Frankel found himself among professional photojournalists covering a Beatles concert during the band's first tour in the United States. A few years later, he was a regular photographer at the Fillmore East, a storied venue in classic rock. And in...
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Sir John Moore: The Making of a Controversial HeroSir John Moore is perhaps the second most famous British soldier of the Napoleonic Wars after the Duke of Wellington, yet his remarkable career has been neglected in comparison to his celebrated contemporary. His death in battle at Corunna overshadows the wide range of...
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Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in AmericaWithin a few years of the introduction of photography into the United States in 1839, slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic portraits of their slaves. Ex-slaves-turned-abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass had come to see how sitting for a portrait could help them project humanity...
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The Equus Men: Rhodesia's Mounted Infantry: The Grey's Scouts 1896-1980This entirely new work by accomplished military historian Alexandre Binda, former paymaster to the Grey's Scouts, tables the remarkable story of Rhodesia's mounted infantry.Working closely with the last commanding officer, squadron commanders, and a whole host of regimental personalities, all of whom have given...
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The Tragic Era: The Revolution After LincolnNever have American public men in responsible positions, directing the destiny of the Nation, been so brutal, hypocritical and corrupt than in the period between 1865 and 1877. This is the detailed story of that tragic era.Author: Claude G. BowersPublisher: Simon PublicationsPublished: 12/01/2001Pages: 608Binding...
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A Black Corps d'Elite: An Egyptian Sudanese Conscript Battalion with the French Army in Mexico, 1863-1867, and Its Survivors in Subsequent AfFor several years, the armies of Napoleon III deployed some 450 Muslim Sudanese slave soldiers in Veracruz, the port of Mexico City. As in the other case of Western hemisphere military slavery (the West India Regiments, a British unit in existence 1795-1815), the Sudanese...
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Communists on Campus: Race, Politics, and the Public University in Sixties North CarolinaNorth Carolina's 1963 speaker ban law declared the state's public college and university campuses off-limits to "known members of the Communist Party" or to anyone who cited the Fifth Amendment in refusing to answer questions posed by any state or federal body. Oddly enough,...
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The War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History, 1964-1980Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty has long been portrayed as the most potent symbol of all that is wrong with big government. Conservatives deride the War on Poverty for corruption and the creation of "poverty pimps," and even liberals carefully distance themselves from it....
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Doubly Erased: LGBTQ Literature in AppalachiaAllison E. Carey is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Marshall University.Author: Allison E. CareyPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 01/02/2024Pages: 278Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781438493565
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New Orleans After the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great SocietyIn the 1960s and 1970s, New Orleans experienced one of the greatest transformations in its history. Its people replaced Jim Crow, fought a War on Poverty, and emerged with glittering skyscrapers, professional football, and a building so large it had to be called the...
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