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Buffalo Soldiers: The Colored Regulars in the United States Army
T. G. Steward · Dover Pubns Pages: 344 Format: Book
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Formed in 1866, the African-American army units known as Buffalo Soldiers acquired near-mythical status for their fortitude and courage. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898, the Buffalo Soldiers were among the first units to depart for Cuba. Dr. T. G. Steward, who served... |
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Loyalty in Time of Trial: The African American Experience During World War I
Nina Mjagkij · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Format: Book
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In one of the few book-length treatments of the subject, Nina Mjagkij conveys the full range of the African American experience during the "Great War." Prior to World War I, most African Americans did not challenge the racial status quo. But nearly 370,000 black soldiers served... |
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs · Oxford Univ Press Pages: 320 Format: Print book
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'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.'Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published pseudonymously in 1861, Incidents in the Life... |
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Somme: Into the Breach
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Pages: 607 Format: Print book
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The notion of battles as the irreducible building blocks of war demands a single verdict of each campaign -- victory, defeat, stalemate. But this kind of accounting leaves no room to record the nuances and twists of actual conflict. In Somme: Into the Breach, the noted military historian... |
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The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times
Christopher de Bellaigue · Liveright Publishing Corporation Pages: 560 Format: Print book
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A revelatory and game-changing narrative that rewrites everything we thought we knew about the modern history of the Islamic world. With majestic prose, Christopher de Bellaigue presents an absorbing account of the political and social reformations that transformed the lands of Islam in the nineteenth... |
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
STEPHEN GREENBLATT · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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Stephen Greenblatt -- Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Swerve and Will in the World -- investigates the life of one of humankind's greatest stories.Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam... |
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Joe Gould's teeth
Jill Lepore · Alfred A. Knopf Pages: 235 Format: Print book
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"A "New Yorker" staff writer and Harvard historian chronicles the discovery of Joe Gould's long-lost manuscript, "The Oral History of Our Time," and of the violence, betrayals, and madness that led to its concealment,"--NoveList.From New Yorker staff writer... |
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1: 1884-1933
Blanche W Cook · Penguin Books Pages: 587 Format: Paperback
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Eleanor Roosevelt was born into the privileges and prejudices of American aristocracy and into a family ravaged by alcoholism. She overcame debilitating roots: in her public life, fighting against racism and injustice and advancing the rights of women; and in her private life, forming lasting... |
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Ella Baker: Community Organizer of the Civil Rights Movement
J Todd Moye · ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD Publishers Pages: 185 Format: Paperback
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Ella Josephine Baker (1903-1986) was among the most influential strategists of the most important social movement in modern US history, the Civil Rights Movement, yet most Americans have never heard of her. Behind the scenes, she organized on behalf of the major civil rights organizations... |
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Gettysburg Rebels: Five Native Sons Who Returned to Fight as Confederate Soldiers
TOM MCMILLAN · Regnery History Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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Gettysburg Rebels is the gripping true story of five young men who grew up in Gettysburg, moved south to Virginia in the 1850s, joined the Confederate army - and returned "home" as foreign invaders for the great battle in July 1863. Drawing on rarely-seen documents and family... |
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Biohistory: Decline and Fall of the West
Jim Penman · Cambridge Scholars Publishing Pages: 283 Format: Paperback
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Western civilisation is on a path to destruction. In coming decades, economies will shrink, democracy will retreat and nations crumble. The long-term result will be grinding poverty, superstition and disease. This isn't scaremongering it is science. In Biohistory: The Decline and Fall... |
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Who Was Who in the Civil War
John Stewart Bowman · Crescent Books ; Avenel Pages: 224 Format: Print book
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A large-format military-history reference furnishes more than five hundred illustrated profiles of Civil War personalities, covering not only political and military leaders, but also war correspondents, inventors, diplomats, nurses, and others. |
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The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria
Janine di Giovanni · Liveright Publishing Corp Pages: 224 Format: Book
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Once in a decade comes an account of war that promises to be a classic. Doing for Syria what Imperial Life in the Emerald City did for the war in Iraq, The Morning They Came for Us bears witness to one of the most brutal, internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawing from years of experience... |
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