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University of Toledo
Barbara L Floyd · Arcadia Publishing
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
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n 1872, Jesup W. Scott donated 160 acres of land to serve as an endowment for the Toledo University of Arts and Trades. Unfortunately, the university failed in its early years but was resurrected in 1884 by Scott's three sons, who gave the remaining assets to the City of Toledo to create... |
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The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars
Daniel Beer · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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A visceral, hundred-year history of the vast Russian penal colony. It was known as 'the vast prison without a roof.' From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than one million prisoners and their families beyond the Ural Mountains... |
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Jackson, 1964 : and other dispatches from fifty years of reporting on race in America
Calvin Trillin · Random House
Pages: 275
Format: Print book : English : First edition
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From bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the present In the early sixties, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement in the South.... |
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War Beneath the Waves: U-Boat Flotilla Flandern
Tomas Termote
Format: Hardcover
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Amid the stalemate of World War I, one area in which the German military could claim almost complete supremacy was beneath the ocean. In the four years of the war, the U-boats of U-Flottille Flanders alone would sink more than 2, 500 Allied ships, sending more than 2. 5 million tons of shipping... |
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Teaching History with Musicals
Kathryn Edney · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
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This volume serves as a guide for teaching history with musicals. In addition to covering key themes and concepts, this book provides an overview of significant issues and related musical theatre and film productions, a tutorial in critique, user guides for resources, a model syllabus,... |
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They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of #blacklivesmatter
Wesley Lowery · Little
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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The first book to go behind the barricades of #blacklivesmatter to tell the story of the young men and women who are calling for a new America. In a closely reported book that draws on his own experience as a young biracial journalist, "Washington Post "reporter Wesley Lowery... |
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Central Ohio Legends & Lore
JAMES A WILLIS · The History Press
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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The legendary tales of Central Ohio reach far beyond the region. Bigfoot-like creatures have been sighted in the state since the 1800s. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was the headquarters for the military's investigations into UFO sightings in the mid-twentieth century. Some of Johnny... |
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So Great a Prince
LAUREN JOHNSON · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid and original portrait of the year the young Henry VIII assumes the throne, revealing a kingdom at a crossroads between two dynamic monarchs and two ages of history. England, 1509. Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch, is dead; his successor, the seventeen-year-old Henry VIII, offers... |
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The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace
David B Woolner · Basic Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisionsThe first hundred days of FDR's presidency are justly famous, often viewed as a period of political action without equal in American... |
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