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Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
Joy-Ann Reid - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times Bestseller"Medgar Evers deserves a place alongside Malcolm X and Dr. King in our historical memory. Evers, with Myrlie as his partner in activism and in life, was doing civil rights work in the single most hostile and dangerous environment in America." - from... |
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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
David Gibbins - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time.. The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's... |
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Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration
Harold Holzer - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln's grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War.. In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States,... |
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The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
Michael Wolraich - Union Square & Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting story of how the murder of femme fatale Vivian Gordon in 1931 brought about the downfall of the mayor of New York City and led to the end of Tammany Hall's dominance. Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning... |
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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon... |
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Sheridan's Secret Mission: How the South Won the War After the Civil War
Robert Cwiklik - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply researched, narrative history recounting the little-known late-Reconstruction era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union Army hero dispatched to the South ten years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black citizens, who were under siege by violent paramilitary... |
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