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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Once it was one of the most famous events in early American history. Today, it has been nearly forgotten. In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little village in western Massachusetts, there lies what once was the most revered but now totally forgotten relic from the history of early New England-the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre. This impregnable barricade-known to early Americans...
2) The grift: the downward spiral of Black Republicans from the party of Lincoln to the cult of Trump
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks, One Street Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, Black Republicans were revolutionaries. Today, many see them as traitors, selling their souls for power. In 2021, Black conservatives are the greatest grift. Journalist and radio host Clay Cane examines how the Republican party evolved into a safe space for racists and how Black Republicans attempt to gain power by aligning themselves with white supremacy. Black Republicans consistently make viral news, whether it's Senator Tim Scott,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs, pop songs, cartoon characters, snapshots, and cuddly toys are now deemed to be intellectual properties--making copyright a...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked. Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone-Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London-reveals how the idea of "industrial murder" is incomplete: many were killed where they lived in the most brutal of ways. He outlines...
5) Blackbirds singing: inspiring Black women's speeches from the Civil War to the twenty-first century
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
An uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author Janet Dewart Bell. These magnificent speakers explore ethics, morality, courage, authenticity, and leadership, and Bell's substantive introductions provide rich new context for each woman's speech, highlighting Black women speaking truth to power in service of freedom and justice.
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick...
Author
Publisher
Hearst Home Kids
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
History comes alive in this beautifully illustrated book with bite-size facts (along with a touch of humor) that will engage and entertain young curious minds. Jam-packed with important events, inspiring accomplishments by remarkable people, and groundbreaking inventions, this super-fun fact-filled book, the first kids book from History Channel, includes the most interesting historical facts--from early civilization up to the 21st century all around...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents. Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated. American physician...
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times Bestselling Series!
âThese books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . . Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history.â âNew York Times
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Meet Underground Railroad abductor Harriet Tubman in this installment of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series!
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Araminta Ross was an enslaved woman born in Delaware. After years of backbreaking...
âThese books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . . Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history.â âNew York Times
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Meet Underground Railroad abductor Harriet Tubman in this installment of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series!
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Araminta Ross was an enslaved woman born in Delaware. After years of backbreaking...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring for a slice of his country, nothing is more upsetting than the decision of his son, Omar, to work as a digger in the excavation zone. But for Omar, whose upbringing was quiet and lonely, this job offers a chance to finally find connection. Ada Bunting is a bold sixteen-year-old from Barbados who arrives in Panama as a stowaway alongside thousands of other West Indians seeking...
11) Forest Lake
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Like so many of the places that lined the route from St. Paul to Duluth, Forest Lake came of age as a railroad town and was first incorporated as a township in 1874. Situated on a lake by the same name, it soon became known as a resort town where many residents from the Twin Cities could leave their cares behind for some fishing and sunbathing. Because of its secluded nature, it also attracted well-known gangsters of the era. Minnesota native George...
Author
Series
Fall of the Roman Empire volume 2
Publisher
Puttenham Press Ltd
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In this gripping retelling of one of the most momentous chapters in history, Nick Holmes presents a new interpretation of an old story. The fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers and barbarians but also by an environmental disaster. A catastrophic mega drought on the Asian steppes in the fourth century AD forced the migration of entire peoples - Huns, Goths, Vandals and others - west into the Roman Empire. As human-made climate change...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson...
Author
Series
Publisher
black and white illustrations, maps
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Contrary to his brutal legend, Attila was a complex and captivating personality. A great warlord who despised ostentation, admired bravery and valued loyalty. He led his steppe nomads further west than Genghis Khan or Tamerlane. He nearly destroyed the Roman Empire. But his vast ambition undid him. This book is a must read for those interested in Rome, the Huns and military history.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the early 1940s, during World War II, Germany's Nazi regime expanded into neighboring European countries, committing horrific crimes againstJewish people and other groups. Enter: Virginia Hall. Born on a small Maryland farm, this brilliant woman's worldly ambitions led her to a clerical position at the U.S. embassy in Warsaw, Poland. While there, a hunting accident caused Hall to lose her leg. After being fitted with a wooden prosthetic leg, she...
Publisher
Igloo Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Have you ever wondered who started the Olympic games? Or what "Viking" even means? And how ancient is Ancient Egypt? Get ready to satisfy your curiosity with this must-have book filled with incredible facts. It's like taking a journey in a time machine that transports you to bygone eras and distant lands. From the dawn of the Olympic games to the world of the Vikings and the timeless wonders of Ancient Egypt, you'll find yourself immersed in a world...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning that the so-called 'anti-racist' movement is driving us--ironically--toward a new kind of racism. As one of the few black students in his philosophy program at Columbia University years ago, Coleman Hughes wondered why his peers seemed more pessimistic about the state of American race relations than his own grandparents--who lived through segregation. The...
Author
Series
Operation Kinderspion volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
To find his way back home to his family in Germany during WWII, Max Bretzfeld, with a kobold named Berg on one shoulder and a dybbuk named Stein on the other, sets out to do the impossible--become a British spy.
Publisher
Lexington Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The essays in Liberating Sanctuary: 100 Years of Women's Education at the College of St. Catherine examine key figures, decisions, and ideas over the College's 100-year history, linking the story through a central theme: the paradox of institutional goals that seek both to liberate and to constrain women. Since its founding, St. Catherine's (now St. Catherine University) has promoted women's leadership and autonomy, sometimes by design, sometimes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Modern day kids Annie and Nico go on a magical history tour back to explore some of the worst infectious diseases of all time. The plague has caused the loss of millions and shaped the course of history for the modern world. Together, Annie and Nico explore the history of pandemics and learn about history's most notorious pandemics to better understand today's current health crisis.
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