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Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy [With 8 CD's]To mark John F. Kennedy's centennial, celebrate the life and legacy of the 35th President of the United States. In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy recorded seven historic interviews about her life with John F. Kennedy. Now, for the first time, they can be read in...
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The Essential Science Fiction Television ReaderOnce confined solely to literature and film, science fiction has emerged to become a firmly established, and wildly popular, television genre over the last half century. The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader provides insight into and analyses of the most important programs in the...
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The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960The presidential campaign that pitted Richard M. Nixon against John F. Kennedy was the most significant political campaign since World War II. With Eisenhower's tenure at an end, American society broke with the culture of the war years. This social shift was reflected in...
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A Book of Cookery: Containing Above Three Hundred Receipts Made at Hearth, Suitable for an Elegant Entertainment or Common Fare for PrepaAn 18th Century cookery book modeled after and taken from those of the timeperiod. This book is a compilation and compendium of cookery recipes (receipts), etiquette, terms, utensil and equipment definitions, descriptions of how to take tea, carve, what to eat during Lent, how...
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By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese AmericansOn February 19, 1942, following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and Japanese Army successes in the Pacific, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a fateful order. In the name of security, Executive Order 9066 allowed for the summary removal of Japanese aliens and American...
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Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As Elizabeth Varon shows, "disunion" connoted the dissolution of the republic--the failure of the founders' effort to establish a stable and...
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The Garde Nationale 1789-1815: France's Forgotten Armed ForcesIn mid-July 1789, after the storming of the Bastille, the municipality of Paris organized a Garde Nationale, heir to the militias of the Ancien Régime. Something of a myth, the story of its origins is closely linked to the emblematic figure of the Marquis...
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Ultimate Allied Fighters of the Second World WarDuring the five years of the Second World War, the power of engines and speed of aircraft increased as much as it did during twenty years of peacetime. Conventional aircraft and engines reached the limits marked in the original design and surpassed them, very...
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When Mortals Play God: Eugenics and One Family's Story of Tragedy, Loss, and PerseveranceAmerican history is full of examples of discrimination in all forms, but never before has the wreckage from America's infatuation with eugenics and its state-sanctioned policy of hate toward the mentally ill been put in such personal terms. In this extraordinary debut book, Pulitzer...
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The Shogun's Soldiers: Volume 2 - The Daily Life of Samurai and Soldiers in EDO Period Japan, 1603-1721Tokugawa Ieyasu's decisive victory at Sekigahara in 1600 concluded the civil wars, confirmed his position of military supremacy as shôgun (generalissimo) of Japan, and inaugurated the Edo period (1600-1868), so named because Ieyasu after the battle established his capital in Edo (modern-day Tokyo). By...
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The Gospel of Freedom: Black Evangelicals and the Underground RailroadPicking up where other scholarship has left off, this book seeks to fill the historical gaps and promote the lost voices of the Underground Railroad, unveiling these invisible tracksfor the first time.Author: Alicestyne TurleyPublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 08/16/2022Pages: 306Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.16h...
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The Shogun's Soldiers: Volume 1 - The Daily Life of Samurai and Soldiers in EDO Period Japan, 1603-1721Tokugawa Ieyasu's decisive victory at Sekigahara in 1600 concluded the civil wars, confirmed his position of military supremacy as shogun (generalissimo) of Japan, and inaugurated the Edo period (1600-1868), so named because Ieyasu after the battle established his capital in Edo (modern-day Tokyo). By...
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The Naphtha Revolution: The Untold Story of an Invention That Changed the WorldA beautifully illustrated coffee-table book that launches the reader into the moneyed world of late 19th-century America, when men once known as Robber Barons amassed great fortunes and bought glamorous boats for themselves and their friends and family. In these early days, boats were...
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Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don't Know about the OceanA vivid portrait of how Naval oversight shaped American oceanography, revealing what difference it makes who pays for science. What difference does it make who pays for science? Some might say none. If scientists seek to discover fundamental truths about the world, and they...
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A History of Global Health: Interventions Into the Lives of Other PeoplesA sweeping history explores why people living in resource-poor areas lack access to basic health care after billions of dollars have been invested in international-health assistance.Over the past century, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in programs aimed at improving health on...
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Evangelicals and Presidential Politics: From Jimmy Carter to Donald TrumpUsing as their starting point a 1976 Newsweek cover story on the emerging politicization of evangelical Christians, contributors to Evangelicals and Presidential Politics engage the scholarly literature on evangelicalism from a variety of angles to offer new answers to persisting questions about the movement....
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Charles M. Russell, 15: Photographing the LegendAlmost as familiar as the images of the American West he painted and sculpted is the figure of Charles M. Russell himself. Standing or mounted, in boots and wide-brimmed hat, sash knotted at his waist, gaze steady under a hank of unruly hair: he...
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American Isolationists: Pro-Japan Anti-Interventionists and the FBI on the Eve of the Pacific War, 1939-1941With war on the horizon in the late 1930s, many Americans, still angry over the outcome of the Great War, determined not to get involved in another global conflict. Called isolationists or anti-interventionists, many of them, especially the America First Committee, focused their attention...
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Herbert Corey's Great War: A Memoir of World War I by the American Reporter Who Saw It AllIn 1914, the Associated Newspapers sent correspondent Herbert Corey to Europe on the day Great Britain declared war on Germany. During the Great War that followed, Corey reported from France, Britain, and Germany, visiting the German lines on both the western and eastern fronts....
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The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed AmericaBetween 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the first time the histories of these black and white migrants, James Gregory traces their paths and experiences in a comprehensive new study that demonstrates how this regional diaspora...
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