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Between Slavery and Freedom: Free People of Color in America From Settlement to the Civil War

Julie Winch · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Between Slavery and Freedom explores the complex world of those people of African birth or descent who occupied the ldquoborderlandsrdquo between slavery and freedom in the years from the founding of the first European colonies in what is today the United States to the start of the Civil...
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Sitcom : a history in 24 episodes from I love Lucy to Community

Saul Austerlitz · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 406
Format: eBook

"Obsessively watched and critically ignored, sitcoms were a distraction, a gentle lullaby of a kinder, gentler America--until suddenly the artificial boundary between the world and television entertainment collapsed. In this book we track the growth of the sitcom, following the path...
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The Handy Civil War Answer Book

Samuel Willard Crompton · Visible Ink Press
Pages: 410
Format: Paperback

Battles, Blood, Honor, and HeroismThe nation's highest-casualty, bloodiest war is still discussed, studied, and acted out. It continues to affect the political boundaries of today. From the economic, political, and social forces behind the conflict, through the first shots fired at Fort...
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Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld

BEATE KLARSFELD · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

In this dual autobiography, the Klarsfelds tell the dramatic story of fifty years devoted to bringing Nazis to justice. They were born on opposite sides of the Second World War: Beate grew up in the ruins of a defeated Weimar Germany, while Serge, a Jewish boy in France, was hiding in a cupboard...
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Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions

Caitlin Fitz · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions. In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism...
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

Norman Ohler · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A fast-paced narrative that discovers a surprising perspective on World War II: Nazi Germany's all-consuming reliance on drugs The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated...
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

Jesmyn Ward · Scribner
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time.In light of recent...
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The art of rivalry : four friendships, betrayals, and breakthroughs in modern art

Sebastian Smee · Random House
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists - Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon - whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart...
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Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History

William J. Bernstein · Grove Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

William J. Bernstein’s A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World, an Economist and Financial Times Best Book of the Year, placed him firmly among the top flight of historians like Jared Diamond and Bill Bryson, capable of distilling major trends and reams of information into...
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American epic : when music gave america her voice.

Elijah Wald · Touchstone
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The companion book to the groundbreaking PBS and BBC documentary series celebrating the pioneers and artists of American roots music - blues, gospel, folk, Cajun, Appalachian, Hawaiian, Native American - without which there would be no jazz, rock, country R&B, or hip hop today.Jack...
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No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands

Judith Matloff · Basic Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

A veteran war correspondent journeys to remote mountain communities across the globe - from Albania and Chechnya to Nepal and Colombia - to investigate why so many conflicts occur at great heightsMountainous regions are home to only ten percent of the world's population yet host a strikingly...
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The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland

Dan Barry · Harper
Pages: 340
Format: Print book

With this Dickensian tale from America's heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice...
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ANONYMOUS. · Scribner
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

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The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story

Dean King · Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

For more than a century, the enduring feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys has been American shorthand for passionate, unyielding, and even violent confrontation. Yet despite numerous articles, books, television shows, and feature films, nobody has ever told the in-depth true story...
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