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Author
Publisher
Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone I ever heard, and everything I ever read, told me that all the slaves were black, and all the whites subjected to forced labor were indentured servants, or convict laborers, or impressed sailors. Everyone was wrong. Nobody told me about white slavery in colonial America. If I had trusted the experts, the authorities, I would have missed this story altogether"--p. [vi].
"Picking up where he left off in [...] Without indentures : index to...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Exploring the revolution in journalism sparked by the turbulence of the 1960s, this documentary tells the story of maverick editor Harold T.P. Hayes, who made Esquire magazine a galvanizing force in American culture. A leading architect of the 'New Journalism', Hayes granted unprecedented journalistic freedom to the most talented artists and writers of the time including Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, Nora Ephron, Peter Bogdanovich, Gore Vidal, Diane Arbus,...
Author
Publisher
DiscoverRoo, an imprint of Pop!
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever wondered what life was like for individuals and families in the Industrial Revolution? Learn about what their days consisted of, what they ate and wore, and more! A Day in the Life section, prompts for thinking deeper, sidebars, more facts, index, and glossary are also included. QR codes throughout the book will take readers to fun activities, informational links, videos, and more! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A liberty-defending survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution in China makes a passionate case that history is eerily repeating itself as the Woke Revolution spreads across America. Xi Van Fleet lived through the horrors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl. Forced to the countryside with other young Chinese for re-education after high school, she later escaped communism and found freedom and new a life in America. But more than 30 years...
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In the early years of the nineteenth century American society as well as the societies of the European nations were agrarian people made their livings as farmers. Inventors would soon step forward, developing engines and ways to power them that would provide the framework for an industrialized society. By the dawn of the twentieth century, most cities in America and Europe had developed into industrial centers where cars and ships were manufactured,...
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Social Revolution and Civil Rights movements were a defining era that shaped America--and the world. Readers will turn back the clock to history's turning points during that era and will take a closer look at the major challenges and hurdles the United States faced. Readers will review how this period influenced the American culture from the fashion to the policies to the entertainment. The series includes educational sidebars and backmatter...
Author
Publisher
Joy Revolution
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From debut author Elle Gonzalez Rose comes a fresh, fun contemporary rom-com about an aspiring artist who agrees to fake date one of his family's longtime enemies in the hopes of gathering intel strong enough to take down their rivals and keep the family cabin they gambled in a risky bet. Devin Bez is prepared for a relaxing winter break after his rough, first semester of art school. Sure, his family's old Florida lake cabin is falling apart, and...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"On February 6, 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan's Brooklyn apartment. Naming itself "The Sisterhood," the group would meet over the next two years to discuss the future of Black literary feminism, how to promote and publicize their work, and the everyday pressures and challenges of being a Black woman writer. This network of individuals, which would also come to include Audre...
Author
Publisher
Pop!, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Have you ever wondered what life was like for individuals and families living through the Revolutionary War? Learn about what their days consisted of, what they ate and wore, and more! A Day in the Life section, prompts for thinking deeper, sidebars, more facts, index, and glossary are also included. QR codes throughout the book will take readers to fun activities, informational links, videos, and more! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning journalist, TV political analyst, and creator of TheGrio documentary, Afro-Latinx Revolution: Puerto Rico, recounts her experiences as an African American and Puerto Rican woman, reflecting on her improbable journey from Syracuse to Harvard, hedge fund boardrooms to newsrooms, and beyond in pursuit of America's infinite opportunities. Part inspiring memoir, part cultural analysis, with remarkable self-determination, Natasha S. Alford...
Author
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"American colonists were sick of following the rules of a government across the ocean. So, they fought back in the Revolutionary War. Learn about the war that changed history with easy-to-understand content tied to the curriculum of upper-elementary and middle school students written at a 2nd to 3rd grade reading level. Dyslexia-friendly font and design make learning accessible and a recap at the end promotes checking for understanding that aids comprehension....
Author
Publisher
Westholme Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"William and Benjamin Frank joined the Second Rhode Island Regiment in the spring of 1777, following the tradition of military service established by their father, a veteran of the French and Indian War. The brothers became part of a cohort of free Black soldiers serving in an integrated Continental Army. The Second Rhode Island saw action along the Delaware River in the defense of Fort Mercer and the battle of Red Bank, before falling back with the...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling author of Into the Raging Sea comes a moving and eye-opening look at the story of manufacturing in America, whether it can ever successfully return to our shores, and why doing so is vital to our well-being as a nation, told through the experience of one young couple in Maine as they attempt to rebuild a lost industry, ethically. Ben and Whitney Waxman are two tireless idealists trying to do the impossible: make an American-made,...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"As millions of Irish immigrants and their descendants created community in the United States over the centuries, they neither remained Irish nor simply became American. Instead, they created a culture and defined an identity that was unique to their circumstances, a new people that they would continually reinvent: Irish Americans. Historian Timothy J. Meagher traces the Irish American experience from the first Irishman to step ashore at Roanoke in...
37) The American liberty pole: popular politics and the struggle for democracy in the early Republic
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This book is explores the deployment of liberty poles in the United States from the Revolution through the Civil War"--
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Combining authoritative, exciting text and bold images, The World War I Book explores the historical background of the war, its causes, all of the key events across the major theatres of conflict, and its aftermath. Using the original, graphic-led approach of the series, entries profile more than 90 of the key events during and surrounding the conflict – from the growing tensions between Europe’s major powers to the assassination of Archduke Franz...
Publisher
Schlager
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This sourcebook covers Hispanic American history from the 1100s to the present day. The set traces the history of Hispanic America through 150 critical primary documents: speeches, letters, court cases, interviews, government reports, and visual images.--
Author
Publisher
Basics Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Overlapping with and overshadowed by the First World War, the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War was one of the most ambitious military ventures of the twentieth century. Launched in the summer of 1918, it drew in 180,000 troops from sixteen different countries in theaters ranging from the Caspian Sea to the Arctic and from Poland to the Pacific. Though little remembered today, it stoked global political conflict worldwide for decades to...