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Lincoln and Churchill: Statesmen at War
LEWIS E LEHRMAN - Stackpole Books
Format: Hardcover
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Lewis E. Lehrman, renowned historian and National Humanities Medal winner, gives new perspective on great statesmen and their leadership in wars of national survivalAbraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, as commanders in chief, led their nations to victory in wars of national survival - Lincoln... |
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The Season: A Social History of the Debutante
Kristen Richardson - ?W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition
Format: Hardcover
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A Smithsonian Best History Book of 2019 In this enthralling history of the debutante ritual, Kristen Richardson sheds new light on contemporary ideas... |
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Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 18701967
Joan Marie Johnson - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy. This cadre of activists included... |
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The Mound Builder Myth: Fake History and the Hunt for a "Lost White Race"
Jason Colavito
Format: Paperback(First Edition)
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Say you found that a few dozen people, operating at the highest levels of society, conspired to create a false ancient history of the American continent to promote a religious, white-supremacist agenda in the service of supposedly patriotic ideals. Would you call it fake news? In nineteenth-century... |
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West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express
JIM DEFELICE - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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"A GROUNDBREAKING WORK," hails True West: The #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of American Sniper brings the Pony Express to life in this rich and rollicking new history"One can hear horse hooves pounding across the prairie and sense the fear and courage and excitement."... |
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Barack Before Obama: Life Before the Presidency
David Katz - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A personal, intimate, photographic celebration of President Barack Obama in the years prior to his presidency, from friend and former aide David KatzFrom 2004 to 2008, David Katz worked alongside then senate-hopeful Barack Obama as a personal aide, an unofficial documentarian, and a friend.... |
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Heroes Beneath the Waves: True Submarine Stories of the Twentieth Century
Mary Nida Smith - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Paperback
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The unbelievable stories of the heroic men who sailed under the sea. In Heroes Beneath the Waves, many brave men who rode submarines to great depths and across the oceans into unknown territory share their experiences, fears, and thoughts. They allow us to travel back in time through their... |
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Bob Ballard: An Explorer's Life
Robert D. Ballard - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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The legendary explorer of Titanic and Lusitania looks back on his life behind his famous exploits and unveils a major new discovery on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Titanic find.Best known for finding the wreck of the Titanic, celebrated adventurer Robert Ballard has a lifetime... |
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The S.S. Officer's Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi
Daniel Lee - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Based on documents discovered concealed within a simple chair for seventy years, this gripping investigation into the life of an S.S. officer encapsulates the tragic experience of a generation of Europeans in WWII.One night at a dinner party in Florence, historian Daniel Lee was told about... |
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