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New Titles - History
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
David Treuer · Riverhead Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian... |
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster - and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters.Early in the morning... |
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The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines
Kara Dixon Vuic · Harvard University Press
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the intrepid young women who volunteered to help and entertain American servicemen fighting overseas, from World War I through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.The emotional toll of war can be as debilitating to soldiers as hunger, disease, and injury. Beginning in World War I, in an effort... |
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Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy
Francis Gary Powers Jr. · Prometheus Books
Pages: 314
Format: eBook
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Based on newly available information, the son of famed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers presents the facts and dispels misinformation about the Cold War espionage program that turned his father into a Cold War icon..One of the most talked-about events of the Cold War was the downing of the American... |
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Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
Kevin M. Kruse · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Two award-winning historians explore the origins of a divided America.If you were asked when America became polarized, your answer would likely depend on your age: you might say during Barack Obama's presidency, or with the post-9/11 war on terror, or the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s,... |
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