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Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Now in its second edition, The Civil Rights Movement: The Black Freedom Struggle in America recounts the extraordinary story of how tens of thousands of seemingly ordinary African Americans overcame segregation, exercised their right to vote, and improved their economic standing, and how millions more black people, along with those of different races, continue to fight for racial justice in the wake of continuing police killings of unarmed black...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"We have been here before. In this timely and revealing book ... author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. With clarity and purpose, Meacham explores contentious periods and how presidents and citizens came together to defeat the forces of anger, intolerance, and extremism. Our current climate of partisan fury is not...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning historian and New York Times best-selling author Keisha N. Blain situates Fannie Lou Hamer as a key political thinker alongside leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks and demonstrates how her ideas remain salient for a new generation of activists committed to dismantling systems of oppression in the United States and across the globe. Despite her limited material resources and the myriad challenges she endured...
Publisher
Smithsonian Books in association with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Presents a comprehensive study of the Underground Railroad and explores the hiding places and way stations, the various escape routes, and those who assisted in helping the slaves including Native American Indians and Quakers.
Author
Publisher
Marine Corps University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A Game of Hare & Hounds: An Operational-level Command Study of the Guilford Courthouse Campaign, 18 January-15 March 1781 provides a systematic analysis of this key battle in the American Revolution. This guide is intended for the instructor/facilitator, the individual who guides the execution of an applied history training event"--
8) The Forts
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Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Discusses the power wielded by the Comanches in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the southern Great Plains, the Southwest, and northern Mexico, covering their military ability, political dominance, and commercial and cultural influence as they resisted European colonization until their defeat in 1875.
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