American History
American History
Man Called Brown Condor
The Forgotten History of an African American Fighter Pilot
How did a black child, growing up in segregationist Mississippi during the early 1900s, become the commander of the Imperial Ethiopian Air Corps during the brutal Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935?
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Beyond Policing
Description What would happen if policing disappeared? Would we be safe? This book imagines a world without police. It’s evident that policing is a problem. But what is the best way forward? In Beyond Policing, distinguished scholar and writer Philip V. McHarris reimagines...
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Loving You, Thinking of You, Don't Forget to Pray: Letters to My Son in Prison
From a mother, role model, and civil rights veteran, an inspiring gift of love to a child in his darkest hour. Jacqueline Jackson promised her son, Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., that she would write him every day during his...
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The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Since its original publication twenty years ago Rian Malan’s classic work of narrative nonfiction My Traitor’s Heart has earned its author comparisons to masters of literary nonfiction like Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuscinski.The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Malan’s remarkable chronicle of South Africa’s...
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Killing the Messenger
A Story of Radical Faith, Racism's Backlash, and the Assassination of a Journalist When a nineteen-year-old member of a Black Muslim cult assassinated Oakland newspaper editor Chauncey Bailey in 2007—the most shocking killing of a journalist in the United States...
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The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
A startling and gripping reexamination of the Jim Crow era, as seen through the eyes of some of the most important American writers"Walker has opened up a fresh way of thinking about the intellectual history of the South during the...
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From the Sidelines to the Headlines: The Legacy of Women's Sports at Trinity University
In spring 2014 Peggy Kokernot Kaplan, a former Trinity University athlete and cofounder of the women’s track team, emailed her alma mater’s athletic department asking the school to post statistics from the team’s 1975 season. It’s no surprise that they...
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The Popes against the Protestants: The Vatican and Evangelical Christianity in Fascist Italy
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The Popes against the Protestants: The Vatican and Evangelical Christianity in Fascist Italy
An account of the alliance between the Catholic Church and the Italian Fascist regime in their campaign against ProtestantsBased on previously undisclosed archival materials, this book tells the fascinating, untold, and troubling story of an anti-Protestant campaign in Italy that...
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Jezebel's War With America: The Plot to Destroy Our Country and What We Can Do to Turn the Tide
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Jezebel's War With America: The Plot to Destroy Our Country and What We Can Do to Turn the Tide
Jezebel died 3,000 years ago. But her spirit lives today. Jezebel was the most wicked woman in the Bible, a powerful seductress who killed the prophets, led Israel into idolatry and immorality, and emasculated men. She was seductive and determined...
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Hope for Ukraine
A Harrowing, Intimate Look into the Most Devastating War in Eight DecadesPart narrative, part wartime dispatch, Hope for Ukraine transports you into the gritty reality of war-torn Ukraine--and the front lines of faith, survival, and miraculous intervention. From scrambling to escape the...
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The Bay Psalm Book: The First Book Printed in British North America, 1640
The founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony came to the New World seeking religious freedom, and their first publication was a hymnal: The Bay Psalm Book, printed just twenty years after the Pilgrims' arrival. This book, with which the Pilgrims literally sang...
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Mind Seeing Mind: Mahamudra and the Geluk Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
A definitive study of one of the most important practices in Tibetan Buddhism, with translations of a number of its key texts.Mahamudra, the “great seal,” refers to the ultimate nature of mind and reality, to a meditative practice for realizing...
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Living Treasure: Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in Honor of Janet Gyatso
Senior scholars and former students celebrate the life and work of Janet Gyatso, professor of Buddhist studies at Harvard Divinity School. Inspired by her contributions to life writing, Tibetan medicine, gender studies, and more, these offerings make a rich feast...
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Early Buddhist Oral Tradition: Textual Formation and Transmission
A fascinating investigation into the formation and transmission of the early Buddhist oral tradition.For hundreds of years after his death, the Buddha’s teachings were transmitted orally, from person to person. In this volume, acclaimed scholar-monk Bhikkhu Analayo examines the impact...
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Daughters of the Buddha: Teachings by Ancient Indian Women
A testimony to the invaluable contributions made by the women who were direct disciples of the Buddha—and a source of inspiration to Buddhist women today.It’s a common perception that the earliest textual records don’t contain many, if any, teachings by...
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Woodstock: History of an American Town
Few small towns in America have as colorful a history as that of Woodstock in Ulster County, New York. Set in a countryside of exceptional natural beauty, Woodstock from the first embodied the most enduring characteristics of the Catskills and...
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Tutankhamun, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife
An innovative account of the life of Tutankhamun, the rediscovery of his existence, and the enduring impact of the finding of his tomb, by leading Egyptologist Aidan DodsonThe spectacular discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 has given him an afterlife...
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Tesla: The Life and Times of an Electric Messiah (Volume 7)
Despite being incredibly popular during his time, Nikola Tesla today remains largely overlooked among lists of the greatest inventors and scientists of the modern era. Thomas Edison gets all the glory for discovering the light bulb, but it was his...
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Taliban: The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond
This #1 New York Times best seller remains the most informative and objective account of the Taliban available This modern classic brings the shadowy world of the Taliban and its impact on Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Central Asia into sharp focus. Ahmed...
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Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past
The story of the diverse communities of Eastern Europe’s borderlands in the centuries prior to World War II Focusing on the former province of Galicia, this book tells the story of Europe’s eastern borderlands, stretching from the Baltic to the...
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The Sixties: Freedom, Change and Revolution
An illustrated timeline of a transformative decade. In the 1960s, social systems worldwide saw fundamental social and political change. In the U.S., civil rights movements fought against segregation; in Western Europe, students rejected stagnant post-World War II ideologies; and in...
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Paris in Photographs, 1890s (Calla Editions)
Internationally renowned as the home of cutting-edge fashion, art treasures, gourmet dining, and architectural marvels, Paris ranks among the world's top tourist destinations. Visitors from everywhere are drawn to the City of Lights, and this original compilation of fifty images...
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The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History
From the longest-running, most influential book review in America, here is its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years.Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has brought the world of...
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The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence (Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor)
Discover the depth and extent of the American Revolution's influence on the rest of the world with this essential work by a noted naval historian. Alfred Thayer Mahan discusses all of the conflict's major sea battles, including those between England...
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The History and Art of Personal Combat (Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor)
More men have gone to their deaths in personal combat with the sword than with all other weapons put together, according to the author of this comprehensive history of classical and historical swordsmanship. Arthur Wise examines the sword's many uses...
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Golden Prospects: Daguerreotypes of the California Gold Rush
A fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the California gold rush through the lens of the daguerreotype cameraThe California gold rush was the first major event in American history to be documented in depth by photography. This fascinating volume offers...
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Going Up the Country: When the Hippies, Dreamers, Freaks, and Radicals Moved to Vermont
How the counterculture movement changed Vermont―and AmericaGoing Up the Country is part oral history, part nostalgia-tinged narrative, and part clear-eyed analysis of the multifaceted phenomena collectively referred to as the counterculture movement in Vermont. This is the story of how young...
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Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
A magnificent work of original research that unravels history through textiles and cloth—how we make it, use it, and what it means to us.A New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceHow is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest?Why is a...
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Drawing D-Day: An Artist's Journey Through War
Drawing D-Day: An Artist's Journey Through War offers an extraordinary, one-of-a-kind testimony in words and images by a soldier and artist who participated in one of the most famous military operations of World War II. On June 6, 1944, Ugo Giannini...
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Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
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Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II.In this...
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