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Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
Michael Hiltzik - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America's railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries.... |
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The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilization
Michael Brooks - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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In this captivating, sweeping history, Michael Brooks makes clear that mathematics was one of the foundational innovations that catapulted humanity from a nomadic existence to civilization, and that it has been instrumental in every subsequent great leap of humankind: from charting the movements... |
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Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War
Linda Hervieux - Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book
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The injustices of 1940s Jim Crow America are brought to life in this extraordinary blend of military and social history - a story that pays tribute to the valor of an all-black battalion whose crucial contributions at D-Day have gone unrecognized to this day.In the early hours of June 6, 1944,... |
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Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy
Donald L. Miller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing story of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war.Vicksburg, Mississippi,... |
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Medgar and Myrlie
Joy-Ann Reid - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover
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Myrlie Louise Beasley met Medgar Evers on her first day of college. They fell in love at first sight, married just one year later, and Myrlie left school to focus on their growing family.
Medgar became the field secretary for the Mississippi branch of the NAACP, charged with beating... |
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Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II
Lena S. Andrews - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking new history of the role of American servicewomen in WWII, illuminating their forgotten yet essential contributions to the Allies' victory.Valiant Women is the story of the 350,000 American women who served in uniform during World War II. These incredible women served... |
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