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Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File
John Edgar Wideman · Scribner
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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An award-winning writer traces the life of the father of iconic Civil Rights martyr Emmett Till - a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett's murder. An evocative and personal exploration of individual and collective memory in America by one of the most formidable Black... |
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Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word
Matthew Battles · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A profound, eloquent meditation on the history of writing, from Mesopotamia to multimedia.Why does writing exist? What does it mean to those who write? Born from the interplay of natural and cultural history, the seemingly magical act of writing has continually expanded our consciousness.... |
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E. Baptist · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution - the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy.As historian Edward Baptist reveals in The Half... |
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ANONYMOUS. · Scribner
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer
Skip Hollandsworth · Henry Holt and Co., 2016.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin... |
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Last crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson · Crown Publishers
Pages: 430
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times BestsellerFrom the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the LusitaniaOn May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York,... |
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World War II
Spencer Tucker · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 2471
Format: Hardcover
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With more than 1,700 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of World War II, the events and developments of the era, and myriad related subjects as well as a documents volume, this is the most comprehensive reference work available on the war.* Provides a clear understanding of the causes... |
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Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge
Antony Beevor · Viking
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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The prizewinning historian and bestselling author of D-Day and Stalingrad reconstructs the Battle of the Bulge in this riveting new account On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes in Belgium, believing he could... |
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American Civil War
Spencer C. Tucker · ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover
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This two-volume encyclopedia offers a unique insight into the Civil War from a state and local perspective, showing how the American experience of the conflict varied significantly based on location. |
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Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Adam Cohen · Penguin Press
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens the law of the land New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen tells the story in Imbeciles of one of the darkest moments... |
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
Ronald C White · Random House
Pages: 826
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America's greatest generals - and most misunderstood presidents In his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the "Trinity of Great American... |
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