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Revolutionary Cooking: Over 200 Recipes Inspired by Colonial Meals
Virginia T. Elverson · Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Ranging from the simple to the sumptuous, here are over 200 recipes for modern Americans inspired by dishes and beverages the authors discovered in cookbooks, family journals, and notebooks of 150 to 250 years ago. Did you know that breakfast in the eighteenth century was typically a mug of beer... |
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Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Nick Turse · Picador; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civiliansThe American Empire ProjectWinner of the Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial DistinctionAmericans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre... |
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Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
Priyamvada Natarajan · Yale Univ Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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This book provides a tour of the "greatest hits" of cosmological discoveries - the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled... |
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Veterans in the United States: Statistics and Resources
Shana Hertz Hattis · Bernan Press
Pages: 230
Format: Print book
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Veterans in the United States: Statistics and Resources presents the most pertinent and compelling statistics in one easy-to-follow, useful, and informative volume. Data related to veterans is scattered between federal departments. This volume's mission is to present the most pertinent... |
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Atlanta 1864: Sherman marches South
James Donnell · Osprey Publishing
Pages: 96
Format: Print book
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Union Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman's telegraph--"Atlanta is ours, and fairly won"--had a huge impact on the course of the Civil War. The culmination of a four-month campaign in the Western Theater, it propelled Abraham Lincoln to reelection. Atlanta marked the beginning... |
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Baltimore County, Maryland, Deed Records, Vol. 1: 1659-1737
John Davis · Heritage Books
Pages: 474
Format: Paperback
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The deed records abstracted here include lands that lie within present-day Baltimore City, Cecil and Harford Counties, and parts of Carroll, Anne Arundel, Howard and Kent Counties. Entries are more or less chronological, variations being due to the fact that transactions were often recorded... |
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The Untold Civil War: Exploring the Human Side of War
James Robertson · National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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Was Gettysburg a tactical success, or was the outcome determined by a far more mundane factor: access to fresh water? How did the need to spread information about the dead and wounded give rise to the U.S. Postal Service? Did President Lincoln really age so dramatically during the course... |
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The Land Records of Prince George's County, Maryland, 1702-1709
Elise Greenup Jourdan · Willow Bend Books
Pages: 78
Format: Book
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Deeds showing name of the seller, his wife, children, siblings. Many persons from Calvert, Charles, Anne Arundel, Baltimore and St. Mary's Counties mentioned. Letters of Attorney and deeds from England and Scotland, Oaths of allegiance for the representat
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A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves
Walter Alvarez · W W Norton
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Famed geologist Walter Alvarez expands our view of human history by revealing the cosmic, geologic, and evolutionary forces that have shaped us. Big History, the field that studies the entire known past of our universe to give context to human existence, has so far been the domain of historians.... |
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50 Great American Places: Essential Historic Sites Across the U.S.
Brent D. Glass · Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A one-of-a-kind guide to fifty of the most important cultural and historic sites in the United States guaranteed to fascinate, educate, and entertain - selected and described by the former director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.From Massachusetts to Florida... |
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Escape to Miami: An Oral History of the Cuban Rafter Crisis
Elizabeth Campisi · Oxford University Press
Pages: 232
Format: Book
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While the Naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba is well-known for its infamous prison camp, few people are aware of its prior use as an immigrant detention center for Haitian and Cuban refugees. Beginning in August 1994, the United States government declared that thousands of Cubans who had launched... |
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