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Allegheny City: A History of Pittsburgh’s North Side
Dan Rooney · University of Pittsburgh Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Allegheny City, known today as Pittsburghs North Side, was the third-largest city in Pennsylvania when it was controversially annexed by the City of Pittsburgh in 1907. Founded in 1787 as a reserve land tract for Revolutionary War veterans in compensation for their service, it quickly evolved... |
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The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris
Tilar J. Mazzeo · Harper
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover
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Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Hôtel on Place Vendôme is the captivating history of Paris's world-famous Hôtel Ritz - a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and resistance - from Tilar J. Mazzeo,... |
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Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
Daniel J Sharfstein · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 613
Format: Hardcover
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The epic clash of two American legends -- their brutal war and a battle of ideas that defined America after Reconstruction.Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most... |
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The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences
David Cannadine · Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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From one of our most acclaimed historians, a wise and provocative call to re-examine the way we look at the past not merely as the story of incessant conflict between groups but also of human solidarity throughout the ages. Investigating the six most salient categories of human identity,... |
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Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
Suzy Hansen · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Suzy Hansen left her country and moved to Istanbul and discovered AmericaIn the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York... |
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England
Ian Mortimer · Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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The author of The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England takes you through the world of Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth IFrom the author of The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England, this popular history explores daily life in Queen Elizabeth's England, taking us inside... |
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Karen Abbott · Harper
Pages: 513
Format: Hardcover
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Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzle history" (USA Today) , tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating... |
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Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves
Peipei Qiu · University of Washington Press
Format: Hardcover
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Accountability and redress for Imperial Japan's wartime "comfort women" have provoked international debate in the past two decades. Yet there has been a dearth of first-hand accounts available in English from the women abducted and enslaved by the Japanese military in Mainland... |
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A Field Guide to Pennsylvania State History
George G Sheldon · PRC
Pages: 256
Format: Book
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Oversize Hardback with Dust Jacket. This extensive, encylopedic guide is beautifully illustrated with past and present day photographs, showing the people and places that make up the fascinating history of the "keystone state". Its concise informative entries cover well-known... |
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Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
ANNE APPLEBAUM · Doubleday
Pages: 461
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes - the consequences of which still resonate todayIn 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization - in effect... |
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Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom
Lucia Jang · W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Pages: 280
Format: Print book
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An extraordinary memoir by a North Korean woman who defied the government to keep her family alive.Born in the 1970s, Lucia Jang grew up in a common, rural North Korean household -- her parents worked hard, she bowed to a photo of Kim Il-Sung every night, and the family scraped by on rationed... |
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The Burning Shore: How Hitler's U-Boats Brought World War II to America
Edward Offley · Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
Pages: 312
Format: Print book
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On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell out of line and began... |
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