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Charles Goodnight: Cowman and PlainsmanAn exciting story of a Texas Ranger, adventurer, and immigration officer who became a symbol of his age while gambling with death in the wild frontier regions of Texas, Arizona, and Old and New Mexico. Charles Goodnight knew the West of Jim Bridger, Kit...
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The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation"This is the kind of book that haunts your dreams. Essential reading for anyone who has known what it is like to live within a totalitarian state--or is worried they're about to find out."--Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth The hidden history of a...
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Black Elk SpeaksMore than one million copies sold2017 One Book One Nebraska selection"An American classic."--Western Historical QuarterlyBlack Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much...
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Mississippi Heroes: White Champions of Racial Justice, 1954-1974Between 1954-1974 hundreds of courageous Black individuals in Mississippi defied intimidation, police arrests, violence, and death to gain justice and equality in the courts, in education, job opportunities, and the right to vote. A very small minority of White Mississippians supported their efforts by...
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The WashashoreMartha's Vineyard, 1929. Prohibition is in full swing, and Emily, a Midwest transplant, has never met her wealthy Aunt Isabel. That is until, after her mother's death, the courts declare Isabel her guardian. Their first meeting is a disaster. Emily's clumsy curtsy earns her...
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The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent 1945 to the PresentFrom the ashes of World War II to the conflict over Iraq, William Hitchcock examines the miraculous transformation of Europe from a deeply fractured land to a continent striving for stability, tolerance, democracy, and prosperity. Exploring the role of Cold War politics in Europe...
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Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America ModernFlapper is a dazzling look at the women who heralded a radical change in American culture and launched the first truly modern decade. The New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More...
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at SeaIn 1834, Richard Henry Dana Jr. left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working class. Dana's account of his passage around Cape Horn to California, and back, is a remarkable portrait of the...
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Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND KIRKUS REVIEWS From the acclaimed author of Citizens of London comes the definitive account of the debate over American intervention in World...
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The December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the WorldNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was largely focused on the war in Europe, but when planes dropped out of a clear blue sky and bombed the American naval base and aerial targets in Hawaii, everything changed...
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Dog SoldiersIn Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog...
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our TimesA stunning, collectible edition of Howard Zinn's landmark memoir that chronicles his lifelong commitment to social justice and steadfast belief that ordinary people can change history A Beacon Classics edition, featuring spot gloss cover and retro, classic palette Is change possible? Where will it...
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Joseph Smith: Rough Stone RollingFounder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard...
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Israel: A Concise History of a Nation RebornWinner of the Jewish Book of the Year AwardThe first comprehensive yet accessible history of the state of Israel from its inception to present day, from Daniel Gordis, "one of the most respected Israel analysts" (The Forward) living and writing in Jerusalem.Israel is a...
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The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia ChinnAward-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796-1833), the enslaved mixed-race wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, owner of Blue Spring Farm, veteran of the War of 1812, and US vice president under Martin...
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The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive ItExamining everything from popular novels to politics, an investigation of persistent fascination with Nazis--and where it might take us. We live in an age where Hitler and the Nazis dominate our cultural imagination, shaping values once defined by religion. Historian Alec Ryrie explores why...
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Legacy of Violence: A History of the British EmpireFrom a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe Sprawling across a quarter of...
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JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth president. "An utterly incandescent...
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Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern WorldHow can one European capital be responsible for most of the West's intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission...
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They Flew: A History of the ImpossibleAn award-winning historian's examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance "Historically rich and superbly written."--David J. Davis, Wall Street Journal Shortlisted for the International Society for Science and Religion Book Prize Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded...
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