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Walk through Fire: The Train Disaster that Changed America

Yasmine Ali - Citadel
Format: Hardcover

The first book to examine the rarely-acknowledged Waverly Train Disaster of 1978 - the catastrophic accident that changed America forever and led to the formation of FEMA. Coinciding with the 45th anniversary of the event, WALK THROUGH FIRE is a tribute to the first responders, as well...
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Virginia 1619: Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America

Paul Musselwhite - University of North Carolina Press; Illustrated edition
Format: Paperback

Virginia 1619 provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo-Americans have been simultaneously experimenting with representative government and struggling with the corrosive...
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Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy

Nathaniel Philbrick - Viking
Format: Hardcover

When George Washington became president in 1789, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative political experiment. Washington undertook a tour of the ex-colonies to talk to ordinary citizens about his new government, and to imbue in them...
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Madam C.J. Walker: The Making of an American Icon

Erica L. Ball - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Madam C. J. Walker - reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire - has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first...
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The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever

Kent Garrett - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of the Harvard class of '63, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the cusp between integration and affirmative action.In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited an unprecedented eighteen "Negro" boys as an early form of affirmative action....
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When Reagan Sent In the Marines: The Invasion of Lebanon

Patrick J. Sloyan - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

"In this formidable narrative, the prize-winning and super honest reporter, Patrick Sloyan, adds the depth of a scholar's context to produce a gripping reminder of why we should never forget history. He makes readers feel like they were eye witnesses." -- Ralph NaderFrom a Pulitzer...
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You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

Alexis Coe - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"Alexis Coe energetically dusts off an old-boys genre to present a life in full, without sentiment or whitewashing. It's a public service, and it's also a lot of fun." --Irin Carmon, New York Times bestselling co-author of Notorious RBGAlexis Coe takes a closer look...
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Leaders Who Changed History

Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff - DK
Format: Hardcover

Explore the lives of more than 85 of the world's most transformational and influential leaders in politics, business, religion, humanitarianism, and the military with this innovative and boldly graphic book.Comprehensive in its scope and depth, and fully illustrated, Leaders Who Changed...
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Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath

Paul Ham - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombings had little impact on the eventual outcome of the Pacific War More than people were killed...
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Women Warriors: An Unexpected History

Pamela D. Toler - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

Who says women don't go to war From Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, these are the stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor.The woman warrior is always cast as an anomaly--Joan of Arc, not GI Jane. But women, it turns...
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