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South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration

Marcia Chatelain · Duke University Press Books
Format: Hardcover

In South Side Girls Marcia Chatelain recasts Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of black girls. Focusing on the years between 1910 and 1940, when Chicago's black population quintupled, Chatelain describes how Chicago's black social scientists, urban reformers, journalists...
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London: A Literary Anthology

the British Library · British Library
Format: Hardcover

“There’s nowhere like London really you know,” says Ginger in Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies. From the innumerable books written about London or set in the city, it would seem countless other writers agree. This anthology features a broad collection of poems and scenes...
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For Whom the Dogs Spy: Haiti: From the Duvalier Dictatorships to the Earthquake, Four Presidents, and Beyond

Raymond A. Joseph · Arcade Publishing
Format: Hardcover

When the 2010 earthquake struck Haiti, Raymond Joseph, the former Haitian ambassador to the United States, found himself rushing back to his beloved country. The earthquake ignited a passion in Joseph, inspiring him to run for president against great competition, including two well-known...
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The 25 Most Influential Aircraft of All Time

Walter Boyne · Lyons Press
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover

The 25 Most Influential Aircraft of All Time conveys the fascinating progression of flying technology from flimsy wood-and-fabric biplanes to thunderous supersonic wonders. Aviation's most historically relevant and arguably most influential aircraft - planes like the elliptical-winged...
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Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943

Nigel Hamilton · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

In the next installment of the "splendid memoir Roosevelt didn't get to write" (New York Times) , Nigel Hamilton tells the astonishing story of FDR's year-long, defining battle with Churchill, as the war raged in Africa and Italy. Nigel Hamilton's Mantle of Command, long-listed...
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The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right

Michael J. Graetz · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 468
Format: Print book

A fresh and revelatory look at the Warren Burger Supreme Court finds that it was not a "moderate" or transitional court, as often portrayed, but a conservative one that still defines the constitutional landscape we live in today.When Richard Nixon campaigned for the presidency...
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License to Wed: What Legal Marriage Means to Same-Sex Couples

Kimberly D Richman · New York University Press
Pages: 250
Format: Print book

A critical reader of the history of marriage understands that it is an institution that has always been in flux. It is also a decidedly complicated one, existing simultaneously in the realms of religion, law, and emotion. And yet recent years have seen dramatic and heavily waged battles...
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The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: An Untold Story of the American Revolution

Robert P Watson · Da Capo Press
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover

Moored off the coast of Brooklyn, the derelict HMS Jersey was a living hell for thousands of Americans either captured by the British or accused of disloyalty. Crammed below deck without light or fresh air, the disease-ridden prisoners were scarcely given food and water. More Americans...
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Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners

Therese Oneill · Little
Pages: 307
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHave you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there's arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of your underwear is crotchless. (Why? Shush, dear. A lady doesn't...
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Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon

Catherine Hewitt · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Catherine Hewitt's richly told biography of Suzanne Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a provincial linen maid who became famous as a model for the Impressionists and later as a painter in her own right.In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful...
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War in the Peaceable Kingdom: The Kittanning Raid of 1756

Brady J Crytzer · Westholme Publishing
Pages: 226
Format: Print book

On the morning of September 8, 1756, a band of about three hundred volunteers of a newly created Pennsylvania militia led by Lt. Col. John Armstrong crept slowly through the western Pennsylvania brush. The night before they had reviewed a plan to quietly surround and attack the Lenape,...
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The Face of Britain: A History of the Nation Through Its Portraits

Simon Schama · Oxford University Press
Pages: 632
Format: Print book

Author of a number of celebrated works, including the bestselling The Story of the Jews and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama's latest book fuses history and art to create a tour de force of narrative sweep and illuminating insight. Using images from works-paintings,...
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Medieval Chivalry

Richard W Kaeuper · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 447
Format: Print book

Emerging in the medieval period, chivalry embodied ideals that elite warriors cherished and practices that formed their profession. In this major new overview, Richard Kaeuper examines how chivalry made sense of violence and war, making it tolerable for elite fighters rather than non-knightly...
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Our Year of War: Two Brothers, Vietnam, and a Nation Divided

DANIEL BOLGER · Da Capo Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The gritty and engaging story of two brothers--Chuck and Tom Hagel--who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's life. One supported the war, the other detested it, but they fought it together.1968. America was divided. Flag-draped caskets came home by the thousands....
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An Evil Day in Georgia: The Killing of Coleman Osborn and the Death Penalty in the Progressive-Era South

Robert Neil Smith · Univ Tennessee Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

On the night of August 5, 1927, someone shot and killed Coleman Osborn, a store owner inChatsworth, Georgia, in his place of business. Police and neighbors found only circumstantialtraces of the murderer tire tracks, boot prints, shell casings, and five dollars in cash nearOsborns body....
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