U. S. History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 9

Bayard Rustin

2024 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice ReviewsCelebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and FreedomWhile we can all re…

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James L Swanson
The Deerfield Massacre

"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, the…

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Sakina M Hughes
Music, Muscle, and Masterful Arts

Before the heyday of the Chitlin Circuit and the Harlem Renaissance, African American performing artists and creative entrepreneurs---sometimes called Black Bohemians---seized their limited freedoms and g…

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Salem's Centuries

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H Zahra Caldwell
The Fiercest Kind

Artists fighting racism and sexism from the end of the Great Depression through the Civil Rights eraIn 1943, the production of the Columbia Pictures film The Heat's On halted for three days due to an on-s…

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Gregg Jarrett
The Trial of the Century

"Nearly a century ago, famed liberal attorney Clarence Darrow defended schoolteacher John Scopes in a blockbuster legal proceeding that brought the attention of the entire country to the small town o…

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Aaron Goings
Red Harbor

Brings to life Grays Harbor's fiery legacy of class conflictIn the early decades of the twentieth century, Grays Harbor was the Lumber Capital of the World. While thousands of lumber and maritime workers …

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David W Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker
Tales of Ohio's Underground Railroad

Authors David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker separate fact from fiction in the story of Ohio's Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a macabre sort of dance between good and evil in which eac…

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Cassadaga

This book tells the story of the south's oldest spirtualist community, Cassadaga, founded in central Florida over 125 years ago on the principle of continuous life, the idea that spirits of the dead commu…

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Joseph McGill, Herb Frazier
Sleeping with the Ancestors

With a new Afterword and Reading Group Guide exclusive to the paperback edition.In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in former sl…

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Barbara Townsend
Life and Death in Historic Atlantic City, Wyoming

*Life and Death in Historic Atlantic City, Wyoming-*In 1868, thousands made the westward march to a ruthlessly unforgiving locale. These pioneers made the South Pass region the most fascinating spot on th…

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H Zahra Caldwell
The Fiercest Kind

Artists fighting racism and sexism from the end of the Great Depression through the Civil Rights eraIn 1943, the production of the Columbia Pictures film The Heat's On halted for three days due to an on-s…

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Mac Smith
Great Fire of 1947

The Great Fire of 1947 and the End of Bar Harbor's Golden Era tells the riveting story of the desperate evacuation of residents through the heart of an uncontrolled forest fire burning all across Mount De…

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Henry David Thoreau,
The Quotable Thoreau

A comprehensive and authoritative collection of Thoreau quotations on more than 150 subjects, from beauty to wisdom. This title gathers more than 2,000 memorable passages from this iconoclastic American a…

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Nicole Carr
The Price of Exclusion

From award-winning journalist Nicole Carr comes a landmark narrative revealing the untold history of Black medical professionals who have long fought to heal their communities ---while confronting a syste…

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Beryl Satter
Cash on the Block

An incisive history of government and corporate failures to infuse capital into Black urban neighborhoods--as well as the organizers and activists who stood up to predatory financial practices.In the 1960…

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Leslie Stainton
Scarlett

A sixth-generation descendant of the Scarlett family of Georgia, Leslie Stainton grew up hearing about her heroic ancestors and their tragic plunge from wealth to poverty in the wake of the Civil War-and …

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Stephen L Hardin,
Texian Macabre: The Melancholy Tale of a Hanging in Early Houston

Mandred Wood may have caught a glint off the Bowie knife that sank into his belly--but probably not. On the afternoon of November 11, 1837, he had exchanged "harsh epithets" with David James Jon…

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How We Get Free

"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." -Combahee River Collective Statement

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Walter Curry, Anusha Ghosh, Beverly Aiken Muhammad
South Carolina's Matilda Evans

The Life of a TrailblazerMatilda Arabella Evans was born four years after the abolition of slavery and raised on a family farm in eastern Aiken County. She was the first African American woman in South Ca…

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