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A History of New York in 101 Objects
Sam Roberts · Simon & Schuster
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The vibrant story of Americas great metropolis, told through 101 distinctive objects that span the history of New York, all reproduced in luscious, full color. A wooden water barrel and an elevator brake. A Checker taxicab and a conductors baton. An oyster and a mastodon tusk. Inspired... |
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Who Discovered America?: The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas
Gavin Menzies · William Morrow; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas—offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America?The iconoclastic... |
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Monty's Men : The British Army and the Liberation of Europe
John Buckley · Yale University Press
Format: Print book |
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Historian John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britains fighting forces during World War Two, challenging the common belief that the British Army was no match for the forces of Hitlers Germany. Following Britains military commanders and troops across the battlefields of Europe,... |
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Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of the underground railroad
Eric Foner · W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Pages: 301
Format: Print book |
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The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning... |
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Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga
Jane C. Beck · University of Illinois Press
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover |
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A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--"a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved"--began among the Yoruba in West Africa and continued with her own century... |
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Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms
Nicholas Johnson · Prometheus Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Paperback |
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Chronicling the underappreciated black tradition of bearing arms for self-defense, this book presents an array of examples reaching back to the pre—Civil War era that demonstrate a willingness of African American men and women to use firearms when necessary to defend their families... |
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Worth Dying For: A Navy Seal's Call to a Nation
Rorke Denver · Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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In a fast-paced and action-packed narrative, Navy SEAL commander Rorke Denver tackles the questions that have emerged about America's past decade at war - from what makes a hero to why we fight and what it does to us.Heroes are not always the guys who jump on grenades. Sometimes, they are the snipers... |
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American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why
Mark Stein · Palgrave MacMillan
Pages: 275
Format: Hardcover |
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In American Panic , New York Times bestselling author Mark Stein traces the history and consequences of American political panics through the years. Virtually every American, on one level or another, falls victim to the hype, intensity, and propaganda that accompanies political panic, regardless... |
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Such Troops as These: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson
Bevin Alexander · Berkley Hardcover
Format: Hardcover |
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Acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander offers a fresh and cogent analysis of Stonewall Jackson's military genius and reveals how the Civil War might have ended differently if Jackson's strategies had been adopted. The Civil War of 1861-65 pitted the industrial North against the agricultural... |
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American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms
Chris Kyle · William Morrow; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Chris Kyle—fallen hero and 1 bestselling author of American Sniper—reveals how ten legendary guns forever changed U.S. history.At the time of his tragic death in February 2013, former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the top sniper in U.S. military history, was finishing one of the most exciting... |
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FDR and the Jews
Richard Breitman · Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Nearly seventy-five years after World War II, a contentious debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hitler's Europe. Defenders claim that FDR saved millions of potential victims by defeating Nazi Germany. Others revile him as morally indifferent... |
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And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK
Henry Louis Gates Jr. · Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 321
Format: Print book |
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The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS series, And Still I Rise - a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos.Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise: From Black Power to the White... |
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