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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson - Crown Publishers
Format: Book
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From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania. On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound... |
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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Patrick Phillips - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America.Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers... |
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Knuckleball
Freedman, Lew
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It took me a day to learn [the knuckleball] and a lifetime to learn how to throw it for a strike.”
This quote, by pitcher and coach Charlie Hough, is the best way to understand baseball’s most baffling and mysterious pitch. Not even the best practitioners of the art of throwing... |
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North Korea Undercover: Inside the World's Most Secret State
John Sweeney - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An authoritative and, at times, frightening investigation into the dark side of North Korean society. North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. Its citizens are told their home is the greatest nation on earth. Big Brother is always watching: It is Orwell's 1984 made reality. Award-winning... |
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Shadow Warfare: The History of America's Undeclared Wars
Larry Hancock - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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Contrary to its contemporary image, deniable covert operations are not something new. Such activities have been ordered by every president and every administration since the Second World War. In many instances covert operations have relied on surrogates, with American personnel involved... |
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Igniting the American Revolution: 1773-1775
Derek W. Beck - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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"For those who like their history rich in vivid details, Derek Beck has served up a delicious brew in this book....This may soon become everyone's favorite." -- Thomas Fleming, author of Liberty! The American RevolutionA sweeping, provocative new look at the pivotal years... |
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The Dangerous Divide: Peril and Promise on the US-Mexico Border
Peter Eichstaedt - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States has steadily ramped up security along the U.S.-Mexico border, transforming America's legendary Southwest into a frontier of fear. Veteran journalist Peter Eichstaedt roams this fabled region from Tucson, Arizona, to El Paso, Texas, meeting... |
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Top Dog: The Story of Marine Hero Lucca
Maria Goodavage - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Soldier Dogs returns with the incredible, true story of K-9 Marine hero Lucca, and the handlers who fought alongside her through two bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Top Dog, Maria Goodavage takes readers into the life of Lucca K458, a decorated... |
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War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony
Nelson A Denis - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island assassins were sent to kill President Harry Truman, gunfights roared in eight... |
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Supreme Commander: MacArthur's Triumph in Japan
Seymour Morris Jr. - Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover
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Seymour Morris Jr. combines political history, military biography, and business management to tell the story of General Douglas MacArthur's tremendous success in rebuilding Japan after World War II in Supreme Commander, a lively, in-depth work of biographical history complementary to The Generals,... |
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Zionism: The Birth and Transformation of an Ideal
Milton Viorst - Thomas Dunne Books/ St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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From serving as the Middle East correspondent for The New Yorker to penning articles for the New York Times, Milton Viorst has dedicated his career to studying the Middle East. Now, in this new book, Viorst examines the evolution of Zionism, from its roots by serving as a cultural refuge... |
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Midnight's Descendants: A History of South Asia since Partition
John Keay - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
Format: Print book
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Dispersed across India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, Midnight's Descendants - the generations born since the 1947 "midnight hour partition" of British India - are the world's fastest growing population. This vast region and its peoples wield an enormous... |
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How the Post Office Created America: A History
Winifred Gallagher - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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The definitive history of the US Postal Service, the least appreciated and analyzed of America's great institutions, and an examination of how this remarkable organization created America. The post office, Winifred Gallagher argues, has been not just a witness to but a foundational influence... |
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Chasing the Scream
Johann Hari
Format: electronic resource
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The New York Times BestsellerWhat if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? Johann Hari's journey into the heart of the war on drugs led him to ask this question—and to write the book that gave rise to his viral TED talk, viewed more than 62 million times, and inspired... |
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A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State
Meredith Tax - Bellevue Literary Pr
Format: Print book
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"This is the book I've been waiting for - only it's richer, deeper, and more intriguing than I could have imagined. A Road Unforeseen is a major contribution to our understanding of feminism and Islam, of women and the world, and gives me fresh hope for change." - Barbara... |
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The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest
David Roberts - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants.For more than 5,000 years the Ancestral Puebloans Native Americans who flourished long before the first contact with Europeans occupied the Four... |
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Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail
Jonathan Chait - Custom House
Format: Print book
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"An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America's best and most accomplished presidents. Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from... |
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Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
Timothy F. Geithner - Crown Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerWashington Post BestsellerLos Angeles Times BestsellerStress Test is the story of Tim Geithner's education in financial crises. As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama's secretary of the Treasury, Timothy... |
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When Globalization Fails: The Rise and Fall of Pax Americana
James MacDonald - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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IS GLOBALIZATION AN UNINTENDED RECIPE FOR WAR? Taking this question as its starting point, James Macdonalds When Globalization Fails offers a rich, original account of war, peace, and trade in the twentieth century - and a cautionary tale for the twenty-first.In the late nineteenth century,... |
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The Italian Americans: A History
Maria Laurino - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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This gorgeous companion book to the PBS series illuminates an important, overlooked part of American history. In this richly researched, beautifully designed and illustrated volume, Maria Laurino strips away stereotypes and nostalgia to tell the complicated, centuries-long story of the true... |
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West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776
Claudio Saunt - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This panoramic account of 1776 chronicles the other revolutions unfolding that year across North America, far beyond the British colonies. In 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, the Continental Congress declared independence, and Washington crossed the Delaware. We are familiar with... |
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The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan
Jack Fairweather - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph—a “good war”—in comparison to the debacle in Iraq. It has since turned into one of the longest and most costly wars in U.S. history. The story of howthis good war went so bad may well... |
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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
Kevin M. Kruse - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the idea of "Christian America" is an invention - and a relatively recent one at that.As Kruse argues, the belief... |
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Einstein at Home
Friedich Herneck - Prometheus
Format: Print book
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These intimate, candid descriptions of the private life of Albert Einstein come from a series of interviews with Herta Waldow, a housekeeper who lived with Einstein and his wife and daughter from 1927 to 1933 at their residence in Berlin. After World War II, science historian Friedrich... |
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari - Harper
Format: Paperback
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From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution - a #1 international bestseller - that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human."One hundred thousand... |
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The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Germanic Ancestry in Europe
James M. Beidler - Family Tree Books
Format: Paperback
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Explore Your German Ancestry!Follow your family tree back to its roots in Bavaria, Baden, Prussia, Hesse, Saxony, Wurttemburg and beyond. This in-depth genealogy guide will walk you step by step through the exciting journey of researching your German heritage, whether your ancestors came... |
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American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution
Walter R. Borneman - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant new look at the American Revolution's first months, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks and months of 1775 were very tenuous,... |
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Daughter of the King: Growing Up in Gangland
Sandra Lansky - Daughter of the King: Growing Up in Gangland
Format: eBook
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Sandi Lansky Lombardo grew up the only daughter of mob boss Meyer Lansky. Raised in upper-class Jewish splendor, first at the Majestic Hotel and then at the Beresford, at finishing schools and fancy stables, Sandi was the wild child of the late 40's, the 50's, and the early 60's. She was the Paris... |
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Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Julia Baird - Random House
Format: Print book
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This page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen - a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience."Victoria... |
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The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj
Anne de Courcy - Harper; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the critically acclaimed biographies Diana Mosley and The Viceroy's Daughters comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining account of the Victorian women who traveled halfway around the world on the hunt for a husband.By the late nineteenth century, Britain's colonial... |
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Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
Will Durant - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Praised as a revelatory book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prizewinning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death. The culmination of Will Durants sixty-plus years spent researching the philosophies, religions,... |
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Cleopatra's Needles: The Lost Obelisks of Egypt
Bob Brier - Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Print book
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In the half-century between 1831 and 1881 three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands. Prior to these journeys, the last large obelisk moved was the Vatican obelisk in 1586 - one of the great engineering achievements of the Renaissance. Roman emperors moved more than a dozen, but left... |
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Once Upon A Revolution: An Egyptian Story
Thanassis Cambanis - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning journalist Thanassis Cambanis tells the wonderfully readable and insightful Booklist, starred review inside story of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Cambanis brings to life the noble dreamers who brought Egypt to the brink of freedom, and the dark powerful forces thatfor the time... |
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In the Land of Giants: A Journey Through the Dark Ages
Max Adams - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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A cultural exploration of the Dark Age landscapes of Britain that poses a significant question: Is the modern world simply the realization of our ancient past? The five centuries between the end of Roman Britain and the death of Alfred the Great have left few voices save a handful of chroniclers,... |
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All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
Matt Bai - Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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An NPR Best Book of the YearIn May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart - a dashing, reform-minded Democrat - seemed a lock for the party's presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. Then, in one tumultuous week, rumors of marital infidelity and a newspaper's... |
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Sgt. Reckless: America's War Horse
Robin Hutton - Regnery History
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller!From the racetrack to the battlefielddauntless, fearless, and exemplar of Semper Fishe was Reckless, pride of the Marines. A Mongolian mare who was bred to be a racehorse, Ah-Chim-Hai, or Flame-of-the-Morning, belonged to a young boy named Kim-Huk-Moon. In order... |
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Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln And The Hampton Roads Peace Conference Of 1865
James B Conroy - Lyons Press, An Imprint of Globe Pequot Press,
Format: Print book
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Our One Common Country explores the most critical meeting of the Civil War. Given short shrift or overlooked by many historians, the Hampton Roads Conference of 1865 was a crucial turning point in the War between the States. In this well written and highly documented book, James B. Conroy... |
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Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana
James H. Madison - Indiana University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Who are the people called Hoosiers? What are their stories? Two centuries ago, on the Indiana frontier, they were settlers who created a way of life they passed to later generations. They came to value individual freedom and distrusted government, even as they demanded that government remove... |
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No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
Anand Gopal - Holt & Company, Henry
Format: Hardcover
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Told through the lives of three Afghans, the stunning tale of how the United States had triumph in sight in Afghanistan--and then brought the Taliban back from the deadIn a breathtaking chronicle, acclaimed journalist Anand Gopal traces in vivid detail the lives of three Afghans caught... |
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Blood runs green : the murder that transfixed gilded age Chicago
Gillian O'Brien - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Chicago's Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and most curious crimes in civilized history. The dead man, Dr. P. H. Cronin, was a respected... |
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Nordic, Central, and Southeastern Europe 2015-2016
Wayne C. Thompson - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 15th Edition edition
Format: Print book
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This is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Nordic, Central and Southeastern Europe, past and present. It is organized by individual chapters for each country and presents a complete and authoritative overview of each region’s geography, people, history,... |
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Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s
Barbara J Keys - Harvard University Press,
Format: Print book
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The American commitment to international human rights emerged in the 1970s not as a logical outgrowth of American idealism but as a surprising response to national trauma, as Barbara Keys shows in this provocative history. Reclaiming American Virtue situates this novel enthusiasm as a reaction... |
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War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918
Michael Kazin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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The untold story of the movement that came close to keeping the United States out of the First World War.This book is about the Americans who tried to stop their nation from fighting in one of history's most destructive wars and then were hounded by the government when they refused to back... |
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The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
John Demos - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Longlisted for the 2014 National Book AwardThe astonishing story of a unique missionary project - and the America it embodied - from award-winning historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the newly established United States looked outward toward the wider world,... |
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Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DC
J.D. Dickey - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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Washington DC gleams with stately columns and neoclassical temples a pulsing hub of political power and prowess But for decades it was one of the worst excuses for a capital city the world had ever seen Before America became a world power in the twentieth century Washington City was an eyesore... |
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Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World
Adrian Goldsworthy - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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A groundbreaking and comprehensive history of the Roman Peace from one of the leading historians of the ancient world Best-selling author Adrian Goldsworthy turns his attention to the Pax Romana, the famous peace and prosperity brought by the Roman Empire at its height in the first and second... |
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The Bloomsbury Cookbook: Recipes for Life, Love and Art
Jans Ondaatje Rolls - Thames & Hudson; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Sheds light on the vivid personalities, ideas, and achievements of the Bloomsbury Group from a unique culinary perspective Throwing aside the stifling patriarchy of late Victorian Britain, the Bloomsbury Group fostered a fresh, creative, and vital way of living that encouraged debate and communications,... |
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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From the number-one New York Times best-selling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania, published to coincide with the one-hundredth anniversary of the disaster.On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English... |
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Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now:
Various - Library of America; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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“The history of Shakespeare in America,” writes James Shapiro in his introduction to this groundbreaking anthology, “is also the history of America itself.” Shakespeare was a central, inescapable part of America’s literary inheritance, and a prism through which... |
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A Day in Indiana History - June: A Daily Historical Fact Collection about Indiana
Paul R. Wonning - Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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Learn about Indiana history a day at a time. Ideal for history lovers or home school history teachers, A Day in Indiana History - Juneches the historical facts about Indiana in an easy to understand format. Indiana's bicentennial approaches us during the year 2016. This event presents... |
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"All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Beacon Press
Format: Print book
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Unpacks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about Native AmericansIn this enlightening book, scholars and activists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker tackle a wide range of myths about Native American culture and history that have misinformed generations. Tracing... |
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Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit
Dane Huckelbridge - William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
Format: Print book
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Popular history with a whiskey-soaked edge: Bourbon is Dane Huckelbridge's artful and imaginative biography of our most well-liked, and at times controversial, spirit, that is also a witty and entertaining chronicle of the United States itself.Few commodities figure as prominently or as intimately... |
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The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink
Maria Shriver - Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Print book
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Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. 1 in 3 Americans today live in poverty or teeter on the brink.... |
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The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men
Eric Lichtblau - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: eBook
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The shocking story of how America became one of the worlds safest postwar havens for Nazis Thousands of Nazis from concentration camp guards to high-level officers in the Third Reich came to the United States after World War II and quietly settled into new lives. They had little trouble... |
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Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word
Matthew Battles - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A profound, eloquent meditation on the history of writing, from Mesopotamia to multimedia.Why does writing exist? What does it mean to those who write? Born from the interplay of natural and cultural history, the seemingly magical act of writing has continually expanded our consciousness.... |
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Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age
Dan Zak - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book
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On a tranquil summer night in July 2012, a trio of elderly peace activists infiltrated the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Nicknamed the ''Fort Knox of Uranium,'' Y-12 was reputedly one of the most secure nuclear weapons facilities in the world, a bastion... |
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A Day in Indiana History - July: A Daily Historical Fact Collection about Indiana
Paul R. Wonning - Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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Learn about Indiana history a day at a time. Ideal for history lovers or home school history teachers, A Day in Indiana History - July teaches the historical facts about Indiana in an easy to understand format. Indiana's bicentennial approaches us during the year 2016. This event presents... |
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Known Military Dead During the American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
Clarence Stewart Peterson - Clearfield
Format: Paperback
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Mr. Peterson has assembled the first complete list of the known military dead during the American Revolution. Known Military Dead consists of an alphabetically arranged listing of upwards of 10,000 names, with rank, date of death, and state of birth or service or place where buried. Also... |
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France: A Modern History from the Revolution to the War with Terror
Jonathan Fenby - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Critically acclaimed historian and political commentator Jonathan Fenby provides an expert and riveting journey through this period as he recounts and analyzes... |
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Congo: The Epic History of a People
David Van Reybrouck - Ecco Press
Format: Hardcover
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Hailed as "a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel" (NRC Handelsblad) ,David van Reybrouck's rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, tells the extraordinary story of one of the world's most devastated countries:... |
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National Geographic The Greeks: An Illustrated History
Diane Harris Cline - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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On the culture that brought us democracy, the Olympics, Socrates, and Alexander the Great, this lavishly illustrated reference about ancient Greece presents the amazing history through gripping stories; the rise and fall of the phenomenal empire; the powerful legacy left by ancient Greece... |
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God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America
Louis S. Warren - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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In 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they collapsed into trances. In an attempt to suppress this new faith, the US Army killed over two hundred Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek. Louis Warren's God's Red Son offers a startling... |
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The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941
Roger Moorhouse - Basic Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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History remembers the Soviets and the Nazis as bitter enemies and ideological rivals, the two mammoth and opposing totalitarian regimes of World War II whose conflict would be the defining and deciding clash of the war. Yet for nearly a third of the conflicts entire timespan, Hitler and Stalin... |
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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Blake J. Harris - It Books
Format: Hardcover
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Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Warsa mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized... |
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A History of Ancient Egypt Volume 2
John Romer - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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Drawing on a lifetime of research, John Romer chronicles the history of Ancient Egypt from the building of the Great Pyramid through the rise and fall of the Middle Kingdom: a peak of Pharaonic culture and the period when writing first flourished. Through extensive research over many decades... |
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"Keep the Damned Women Out": The Struggle for Coeducation
Nancy Weiss Malkiel - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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As the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, very conservative, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to go coed, seemingly all at once, in a remarkably brief span of time. Coeducation met with fierce... |
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Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery, and Arsenic
Kate Colquhoun - The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the summer of young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arse-nic poisoning of her much older husband Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick The xCMaybrick MysteryxD had all the makings of a sensation a pretty flirtatious young girl resentful gossiping servants... |
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The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan
James Scott - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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“Beautifully researched and masterfully told” (Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of Escape from the Deep), this is the riveting story of the heroic and tragic US submarine force that helped win World War II in the Pacific.Focusing on the unique stories of three... |
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The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948
Laila Parsons - Hill and Wang
Format: Print book
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The definitive biography of the military leader who stood at the center of Arab politics for four decadesRevered by some as the Arab Garibaldi, maligned by others as an intriguer and opportunist, Fawzi al-Qawuqji manned the ramparts of Arab history for four decades. As a young officer in the Ottoman... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots
David Fisher - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leadersThe American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against... |
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Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Daniel P Bolger - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A high-ranking general's gripping insider account of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how it all went wrong.Over a thirty-five-year career, Daniel Bolger rose through the army infantry to become a three-star general, commanding in both theaters of the U.S. campaigns in Iraq... |
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One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
Asne Seierstad - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put the country back togetherOn July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded... |
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Eric Foner - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of Americas history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning... |
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Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide
Eric Bogosian - Little, Brown and Company; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian GenocideIn 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch an accountant, a life insurance salesman, a newspaper... |
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The Republic of Conscience
Gary Hart - Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Format: Print book
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Former Senator Gary Hart's The Republic of Conscience is a meditation on the growing gap between the founding principles of the United States Constitution and our current political landscape. Going back as early as 400 BC, the idea of a true republic has been threatened by narrow,... |
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The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
Samuel Schalkowsky - Indiana University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.,
Format: Print book
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As a force that had to serve two masters, both the Jewish population of the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania and its German occupiers, the Kovno Jewish ghetto police walked a fine line between helping Jews survive and meeting Nazi orders. In 1942 and 1943 some of its members secretly composed... |
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Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior
Arthur Herman - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nations great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim - from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill. Douglas MacArthur was arguably... |
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American Heritage History of World War II
Bruce Catton - New Word City, Inc.; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The American Heritage History of World War II was first published in 1966. At the time, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist C.L. Sulzberger received widespread praise for his authoritative account of the six-year war that involved more than fifty-six nations, resulted in the death... |
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Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect
Reese Erlich - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Based on first-hand reporting from Syria and Washington, journalist Reese Erlich unravels the complex dynamics underlying the Syrian civil war. Through vivid, on-the-ground accounts and interviews with both rebel leaders and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Erlich gives the reader a better... |
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China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
Richard Bernstein - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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At the beginning of 1945, relations between America and the Chinese Communists couldn't have been closer. Chinese leaders talked of America helping to lift China out of poverty; Mao Zedong himself held friendly meetings with U.S. emissaries. By year's end, Chinese Communist soldiers... |
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Dante: The Story of His Life
Marco Santagata - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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Marco Santagata's Dante: The Story of His Life illuminates one of the world's supreme poets from many angles -- writer, philosopher, father, courtier, political partisan. Santagata brings together a vast body of Italian scholarship on Dante's medieval world, untangles a complex... |
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E Baptist - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman PrizeA groundbreaking history demonstrating that Americas economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved peopleAmericans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution... |
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MacArthur at War: World War II in the Pacific
Walter R Borneman - Little
Format: Print book
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The definitive account of General Douglas MacArthur's rise during World War II, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals.World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR will go deeper into this transformative period... |
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The King is Dead: The Last Will and Testament of Henry VIII
Suzannah Lipscomb - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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An insightful and elegant examination of Henry VIII's last will and testament that evokes the glittering world of the Tudor king in all its glory, pomp, and paranoia. On 28 January 1547, the sickly and obese King Henry VIII died at Whitehall. Just hours before his passing, his last... |
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Cities of Empire: The British Colonies and the Creation of the Urban World
Tristram Hunt - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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An original history of the most enduring colonial creation, the city, explored through ten portraits of powerful urban centers the British Empire left in its wakeAt its peak, the British Empire was an urban civilization of epic proportions, leaving behind a network of cities which now stand... |
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A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War
Williamson Murray - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced... |
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The War Before Independence: 1775-1776
Derek W Beck - Sourcebooks
Format: Print book
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The United States was creeping ever closer to independence. The shot heard round the world still echoed in the ears of Parliament as impassioned revolutionaries took up arms for and against King and country. In this captivating blend of careful research and rich narrative, Derek W. Beck... |
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Our Family Dreams: The Fletchers Adventures in Nineteenth Century America
Daniel Blake Smith - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the early years after the Revolution, Americans were on the move, seeking to establish a new way of life. And, more than the church or the school or the courthouse, it was the family that nurtured the American Dream.In this novel-like narrative, Daniel Blake Smith vividly brings to life... |
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A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition
Alyson Martin - New Press
Format: Paperback
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In November 2012, voters in Colorado and Washington passed landmark measures to legalize the production and sale of cannabis for social use--a first not only in the United States but also the world. Medical cannabis is now legal in twenty states and Washington, D.C., and more than one million... |
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Ohio County, Indiana
William J Dichtl - Arcadia
Format: Book
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Ohio County, the smallest county in Indiana, was carved out of Dearborn County in 1844. Colonel Abel Pepper, who oversaw the removal of the Native Americans in the 1830s, was influential in the establishment of the new county. As a citizen of Rising Sun, he and his wife donated land and money... |
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The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
Clay Risen - Bloomsbury Press; 1 edition
Format: eBook
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. It gave the government sweeping powers to strike down segregation, to enforce fair hiring practices, and to rectify bias in law enforcement and in the courts. The Act so dramatically... |
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The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era
Akhil Reed Amar - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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A leading legal scholar addresses the most important constitutional controversies of the past two decades and illuminates the Constitution's spirit and ongoing relevanceAmerica's Constitution, Chief Justice John Marshall famously observed in McCulloch v. Maryland, aspires "to... |
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Troubled refuge : struggling for freedom in the Civil War
Chandra Manning - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army's escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States. Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage... |
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When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
Ronald C. Rosbottom - Little, Brown and Company; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Subsequently, an eerie sense of normalcy settled over the City of Light.... |
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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
David Brion Davis - Vintage; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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With this volume, Davis presents the age of emancipation as a model for reform and as probably the greatest landmark of willed moral progress in human history. Bringing to a close his staggeringly ambitious, prizewinning trilogy on slavery in Western culture Davis offers original and penetrating... |
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The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
Arkady Ostrovsky - Viking
Format: Print book
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WINNER OF THE 2016 ORWELL PRIZE FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR "Fast-paced and excellently written ... much needed, dispassionate and eminently readable." - New York Times "Filled with sparkling prose and deep analysis." -The Wall Street Journal... |
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First SEALs: The Untold Story of the Forging of America’s Most Elite Unit
Patrick K. O'Donnell - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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Beginning in the summer of 1942, an extraordinary group of men - among them a dentist, a Hollywood movie star, an archaeologist, California surfers, and even former enemies of the Allies - united to form an exceptional unit that would forge the capabilities of the Navy's Sea, Air, and Land... |
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Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868
Cokie Roberts - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this engrossing and informative companion to her New York Times bestsellers Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by offering a riveting look at Washington, D.C. and the experiences, influence, and contributions of its women... |
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50 Great American Places: Essential Historic Sites Across the U.S.
Brent D. Glass - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A one-of-a-kind guide to fifty of the most important cultural and historic sites in the United States guaranteed to fascinate, educate, and entertain - selected and described by the former director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.From Massachusetts to Florida... |
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Blockbuster!: Fergus Hume & the Mystery of a Hansom Cab
Lucy Sussex - Text Publishing
Format: Print book
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"Absorbing, at times fascinating." - Sydney Morning Herald"Told with wit and lightly worn scholarship. . . . Sussex has written a fine, thoroughly engaging and multifaceted history." - The Australian"Sussex skillfully assembles the know information... |
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An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America
Nick Bunker - Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Written from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution shows how a lethal blend of politics, personalities, and economics led to a war that few people welcomed but nobody could prevent. In this powerful but fair-minded... |
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Indiana: An Interpretation_Indiana Bicentennial Edition
John Bartlow Martin - Indiana Univ Press
Format: Print book
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Indiana: An Interpretation is arguably the best single book about Indiana. Originally published in 1947, John Bartlow Martin's work sparked controversy in Indiana for challenging Hoosiers' assumptions about their history and how they saw themselves and their state. Although the book... |
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1381: The Year of the Peasants' Revolt
Juliet Barker - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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Written with the fluency readers have come to expect from Juliet Barker, 1381: The Year of the Peasants’ Revolt provides an account of the first great popular uprising in England and its background, and paints on a broad canvas a picture of English life in medieval times. Skeptical... |
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Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii
Susanna Moore - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic history of Americas tropical paradiseThe history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals -- from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their... |
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Dissent: The History of an American Idea
Ralph Young - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dissent The History of an American Ideaexamines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States. It focuses on those who, from colonial days to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time from the Puritan Anne Hutchinson and Native American chief Powhatan... |
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The Women Who Flew for Hitler: A True Story of Soaring Ambition and Searing Rivalry
CLARE MULLEY - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Biographers' Club Prize-winner Clare Mulley's The Women Who Flew for Hitler -- a dual biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women pilots.Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous, and strikingly attractive women who fought convention to make... |
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Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War
Matthew Carr - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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To know what war is, one should follow our tracks, General William T. Sherman once wrote to his wife, describing the devastation left by his armies in Georgia. Shermans Ghosts is an investigation of the tracks left by the wars fought by the American military in the 150 years since Shermans... |
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The Prime of Life: A History of Modern Adulthood
Steven Mintz - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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Adulthood today is undergoing profound transformations. Men and women wait until their thirties to marry, have children, and establish full-time careers, occupying a prolonged period in which they are no longer adolescents but still lack the traditional emblems of adult identity. People... |
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The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
Rick Perlstein - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Nixonland a dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s. In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second termuntil televised... |
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The Third War
Jay Solomon - Random House
Format: Print book
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For readers of Steve Coll's Ghost Wars and Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower comes a riveting, deeply reported exploration of the decades-long power struggle between Iran and the United States that led to a historic - and potentially disastrous - nuclear deal. For more... |
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Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
Biz Stone - Grand Central Pub
Format: Hardcover
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Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses the power of creativity and how to harness it, through stories from his remarkable life and career.THINGS A LITTLE BIRD TOLD MEFrom GQ's "Nerd of the Year" to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone... |
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Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
Lawrence Wright - Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA gripping day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace treaty in the modern Middle... |
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