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Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever WarGrowing up during the Second World War, H. Bruce Franklin believed what he was told: that America's victory would lead to a new era of world peace. Like most Americans, he was soon led to believe in a world-wide Communist conspiracy that menaced the...
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Then Fight For It!: The Largest Peaceful Redistribution of Wealth in the History of Mankind and the Creation of the North Slope BoroughHoonah is an ancient Tlingit village nestled within a harbor on the south shore of Icy Strait. The Hoonah Tlingit have always enjoyed a well earned reputation of both vigor and rigor in domination that fierce country through the centuries. A prime example of...
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Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente (Revised)In a brilliantly conceived book, Jeremi Suri puts the tumultuous 1960s into a truly international perspective in the first study to examine the connections between great power diplomacy and global social protest. Profoundly disturbed by increasing social and political discontent, Cold War powers united...
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History of Pleasants County, West VirginiaPleasants County, West Virginia (formerly Virginia) is situated in the northwestern part of the state. It was formed in 1851 from Tyler, Ritchie, and Wood counties, which, along with Washington County, Ohio, also border it. Mr. Pemberton's history of Pleasants County covers the high...
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Israel's Armor: The Israel Lobby and the First Generation of the Palestine ConflictThe United States and Israel have long had a 'special relationship'. The US became the first country in the world to recognize the state of Israel in 1948, and has been an important ally and benefactor ever since. A critical component of the special...
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Before Dred Scott: Slavery and Legal Culture in the American Confluence, 1787-1857Before Dred Scott draws on the freedom suits filed in the St Louis Circuit Court to construct a groundbreaking history of slavery and legal culture within the American Confluence, a vast region where the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers converge. Formally divided between slave...
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The Far ShoreEdward Ellsberg's The Far Shore describes in detail the massive preparations for D-Day, the launch of the greatest armada in history, focusing on Hitler's Atlantic Wall defenses along the Normandy beaches and the ingenious creation of the Mulberry artificial floating harbor which would prove...
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Das Evangelium Des Reichtums: Und Andere Zeit Und Streitfragen (1905)Das Buch ""Das Evangelium des Reichtums: Und Andere Zeit und Streitfragen"" von Andrew Carnegie wurde im Jahr 1905 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine Sammlung von Essays und Reden des amerikanischen Industriellen und Philanthropen Andrew Carnegie, die er im Laufe seines Lebens verfasst hat....
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The Tesla FBI FilesOne of the more controversial topics involving Nikola Tesla is what became of many of his technical and scientific papers after he died in 1943. Just before his death at the height of World War II, he claimed that he had perfected his so-called...
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A Century of Wayne County, Kentucky, 1800-1900.By: Augusta Phillips Johnson, Pub. 1939, Reprinted 2019, 308 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-739-4. Wayne County was created in 1800 from Pulaski and Cumberland Counties. It sits in the southern portion of the state along the Walker Line boarding Tennessee. Of special note: it sits...
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Fayette County, Alabama Cemetery RecordsBy: Herbet & Jeanie Newell, Pub. 1959, reprinted 2022, 232 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-050-3.Fayette county was created in 1824 from Tuscaloosa County. This book is listed by graveyards. It lists the deceased names and date of birth and death. A map is...
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The National Holocaust Museum and the Hollandsche Schouwburg: Observe, Reflect, ACTThe National Holocaust Museum tells the story of the Nazi persecution and murder of the Jews of the Netherlands. Before the Second World War, Jews and non-Jews lived side by side. They had the same rights. But during the war, the Nazis and their...
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Reagan: His Life and LegendFrom best-selling biographer Max Boot comes this revelatory portrait, a decade in the making, of Ronald Reagan, the actor-turned-politician whose telegenic leadership ushered in a transformative conservative era in American politics. Despite his fame as a Hollywood star and television host, Reagan remained an...
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A Peddler's Tale: Religious Exile and Community in Early Modern SwitzerlandIn 1685, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes made Catholicism the only recognized religion in France and criminalized the practice of Calvinism, throwing the minority Protestant population into crisis. A Peddler's Tale personifies these events in the story of Jean Giraud, a Protestant...
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American Coal: Russell Lee PortraitsMore than 100 powerful images by noted photographer Russell Lee that document the working conditions and lives of coal mining communities in the postwar United States; publication coincides with an exhibition at the National Archives in Washington, DC. In 1946 the Truman administration made...
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John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole PeopleA magisterial journey through the epic life and transformative times of John Quincy Adams In this masterful biography, historian Randall B. Woods peels back the many layers of John Quincy's long life, exposing a rich and complicated family saga and a political legacy that...
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Watergate, 1973-1974Watergate, 1973-1974 explores America's most dramatic constitutional crisis of the twentieth century: the investigation of the Watergate burglary. The scandal brought the nation's political system to the brink of disaster: the US president had defied established norms of democracy, and his enemies and allies...
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Miserable Little Conglomeration: A Social History of the Port Hudson CampaignWhile Vicksburg and Gettysburg tend to receive the most attention among Civil War battles, it is Port Hudson that holds the record for the longest-running siege in American history. During the summer of 1863, US soldiers fought in the infamous heat and damp of...
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A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845-1872Since the early twentieth century, historians have traditionally defined manifest destiny as the belief that the United States was destined to expand from coast to coast. This generation of historians has posed manifest destiny as a unifying ideology of the nineteenth century, one that...
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Invisible Activists: Women of the Louisiana NAACP and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1915-1945Behind the historical accounts of the great men of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People lies the almost forgotten story of the black women who not only participated in the organization but actually helped it thrive in the early twentieth-century South....
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