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Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America

Matthew Fox-Amato · Oxford University Press
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

Within a few years of the introduction of photography into the United States in 1839, slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic portraits of their slaves. Ex-slaves-turned-abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass had come to see how sitting for a portrait could help them...
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The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017

Ian Kershaw · Viking
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover

The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and BackAfter the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the twentieth century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being 'to Hell and back,' the years from...
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Honorable Exit: How a Few Brave Americans Risked All to Save Our Vietnamese Allies at the End of the War

Thurston Clarke · Doubleday
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking revisionist history of the last days of the Vietnam War that reveals the acts of American heroism that saved more than one hundred thousand South Vietnamese from communist revengeIn 1973 U.S. participation in the Vietnam War ended in a cease-fire and a withdrawal that included...
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The Politics of Love: A Spiritual Response to Hate

MARIANNE WILLIAMSON · HarperOne
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

In this stirring call to arms, the activist, spiritual leader, and New York Times bestselling author of the classic Return to Love confronts the cancerous politics of fear and divisiveness threatening the United States today, urging all spiritually aware Americans to return to - and act out of - our deepest...
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Revolutionary: George Washington at War

Robert L. O'Connell · Random House
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From an acclaimed military historian, a bold reappraisal of young George Washington, an ambitious if reckless soldier destined to become the legendary general who took on the British and, through his leadership, came to define the American character How did George Washington become an American...
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The Road to Charleston: Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution

John Buchanan · University of Virginia Press
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover

In The Road to Guilford Courthouse, one of the most acclaimed military histories of the Revolutionary War ever written, John Buchanan explored the first half of the critical Southern Campaign and introduced readers to its brilliant architect, Major General Nathanael Greene. In this long-awaited...
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The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes

Orin Starn · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A narrative history of the unlikely Maoist rebellion that terrorized Peru even after the fall of global Communism.On May 17, 1980, on the eve of Peru's presidential election, five masked men stormed a small town in the Andean heartland. They set election ballots ablaze and vanished...
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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers · Yale University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers...
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers' Edition: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong

James W. Loewen
Format: Hardcover

Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexity Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important - and successful - history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million...
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The First Soldier: Hitler as Military Leader

Stephen Fritz · Yale University Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

A leading expert reexamines history to offer a stunningly original portrait of Hitler as a competent military commander and strategist After Germany's humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their country's brilliant military leadership...
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