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The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island
Mac Griswold · Picador; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon Sylvester Manor, a stately mansion guarded by hulking boxwoods. When Griswold went inside, she encountered a house full of revelations, including a letter from Thomas Jefferson and—most... |
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The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
Clay Risen · St Martins Pr
Pages: 308 Format: Hardcover
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. This one law so dramatically altered American society that, looking back, it seems preordained--as Everett Dirksen, the GOP leader in the Senate and a key supporter of the bill,... |
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Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea
Tim McGrath · NAL; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Five ships against hundreds - the fledgling American Navy versus the greatest naval force the world had ever seen ... America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution - or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England's King George sent hundreds... |
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The Eternal City: A History of Rome
Ferdinand Addis · Pegasus Books
Pages: 648 Format: Hardcover
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The magnificent and definitive history of the Eternal City, narrated by a master historian. Why does Rome continue to exert a hold on our imagination? How did the "Caput mundi" come to play such a critical role in the development of Western civilization?
Ferdinand... |
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
Michael Wallis · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 320 Format: Print book
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Cutting through 160 years of mythmaking, best-selling historian Michael Wallis presents the ultimate cautionary tale of America's westward expansion. "WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!" In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement... |
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Ten Women Who Changed Science and the World: Marie Curie, Rita Levi-Montalicini, Chien-Shiung Wu, Virginia Apgar, and More
Catherine Whitlock · Diversion Books
Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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From two-time Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie to physicist Chien-Shiung Wu and obstetrical anesthesiologist Virginia Apgar, M.D., this book celebrates the lives and hard-earned accomplishments of ten women from around the world who forever changed astronomy, physics, chemistry, medicine,... |
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MacArthur at War: World War II in the Pacific
Walter R Borneman · Little
Pages: 594 Format: Print book
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The definitive account of General Douglas MacArthur's rise during World War II, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals. World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR will go deeper into this transformative period... |
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Egyptomania: Our Three Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the Pharaohs
Bob Brier · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The world has always been fascinated with ancient Egypt. When the Romans conquered Egypt, it was really Egypt that conquered the Romans. Cleopatra captivated both Caesar and Marc Antony and soon Roman ladies were worshipping Isis and wearing vials of Nile water around their necks. What... |
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The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
William B. Helmreich · Princeton University Press; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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As a kid growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father they called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line and ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood there. Decades later, Helmreich teaches university courses about New York,... |
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