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They Called Us Darkies: Based on the True Story of Betty JacksonIn a 1950's Missouri town lived Betty Jackson, a normal American young woman. Except for one fact... She and her family were black. A normal day consisted of overcoming unimaginable bouts with, not only poverty, discrimination, and segregation, but constant warfare in the form...
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The Kentucky Derby: How the Run for the Roses Became America's Premier Sporting EventEach year on the first Saturday in May, the world turns its attention to the twin spires of Churchill Downs for the high-stakes excitement of the "greatest two minutes in sports," the Kentucky Derby. No American sporting event can claim the history, tradition, or...
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The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling ImmigrantsThe unknown history of deportation and of the fear that shapes immigrants' lives Constant headlines about deportations, detention camps, and border walls drive urgent debates about immigration and what it means to be an American in the twenty-first century. The Deportation Machine traces the...
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A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil WarHow the Civil War changed the face of war The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples....
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Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive EraThe pivotal and troubling role of progressive-era economics in the shaping of modern American liberalism In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory welfare state,...
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Joseph Smith's Polygamy: Toward a Better UnderstandingIn the last several years a wealth of information has been published on Joseph Smith's practice of polygamy. For some who were already well aware of this aspect of early Mormon history, the availability of new research and discovered documents has been a wellspring...
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The Diary of Elisabeth Koren 1853-1855Else Elisabeth Hysing, an upper-class Norwegian woman, married Ulrik Vilhelm Koren on August 18, 1853 and, almost immediately afterward, the couple made the perilous Atlantic Crossing to America, where her husband had been called to serve as the first Lutheran pastor west of the...
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The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom"A stunning and ambitious origins story."--Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times-bestselling author The remarkable history of how college presidents shaped the struggle for racial equalitySome of America's most pressing civil rights issues--desegregation, equal educational and employment opportunities, housing discrimination,...
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Fitzgerald and the War Between the Sexes: EssaysWritten by the preeminent Fitzgerald biographer and literary critic Scott Donaldson, this book presents a fresh, insightful exploration of the war between the sexes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's fictional and autobiographical writings.The volume opens with a close reading of Tender Is the Night, in...
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Loom and Spindle: Or, Life Among the Early Mill Girls; With a Sketch of "The Lowell Offering" and Some of Its ContributorsAuthor Harriet Robinson (1825-1911), born Harriet Jane Hanson in Boston, offers a first person account of her life as a factory girl in Lowell, Massachusetts in this 1898 work. Robinson moved with her widowed mother and three siblings to Lowell as the cotton industry...
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The Killing of Karen SilkwoodKaren Silkwood, an employee of the Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant, was killed in a car crash on her way to deliver important documents to a newspaper reporter in 1974. Silkwood was a union activist concerned about health and safety issues at the plant, and...
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Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend"An excellent book based on exhaustive research and written with fresh insight. It is a spellbinding accomplishment and brings both the man and his era to life. . . . It is an extraordinary achievement." -Arizona Daily Star "Carter presents this astounding tale in...
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Second Treatise of GovernmentAbout Second Treatise of GovernmentEdited by A. John Simmons, "one of our most distinguished theorists of political obligation" (Jeremy Waldron), the Norton Library edition of Locke's Second Treatise of Government features the complete text of the sixth (1764) edition, which incorporated all of Locke's...
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Hamlet's ChildrenA riveting new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Kluger.When grave family misfortune leaves thirteen-year-old Terry Sayre without parents or relatives to care for him in the summer of 1939, his only option to elude foster care by strangers is to accept asylum abroad...
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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American MemoryWinner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti awardWinner of the Frederick Douglass Prize No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had...
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Accounting for Slavery: Masters and ManagementA Five Books Best Economics Book of the YearA Politico Great Weekend Read "Absolutely compelling."--Diane Coyle "The evolution of modern management is usually associated with good old-fashioned intelligence and ingenuity... But capitalism is not just about the free market; it was also built on...
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Reap the WhirlwindA City Waits its Turn to Burn; A Lancaster Gunner awaits his turn to die.General 'Bomber' Harris said in his 28 July 1942 radio speech... "...We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end... we are bombing Germany city by city...
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Inside the World's Fair of 1904: Exploring the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Volume 2Author: Elana V. FoxPublisher: 1st Book LibraryPublished: 04/23/2003Pages: 236Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.06w x 0.56dISBN: 9781403358363This title is not returnable
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Inside the World's Fair of 1904: Exploring the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Vol IWith historical references and over 540 pictures, this is a comprehensive view of the World's Fair of 1904. The reader will see inside each building and concession from a perspective never experienced except by those who actually attended the fair.Author: Elana V. FoxPublisher: 1st...
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The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control ClassicThis is a reprint of the bestselling 1922 classic on birth-control and women's rights with new chapters by George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, and articles culled from the "New York Times."Author: Margaret SangerPublisher: Inkling BooksPublished: 04/01/2001Pages: 280Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.28h x 7.54w x...
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