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The gold rush seems like a romantic time, full of everyday people following a dream to California and striking it rich. The reality was that most people lived in poor conditions, ate bad food, and found just about nothing. In this book, readers find out what life was like for the forty-niners and immigrants that headed to California to seek their fortune as well as the causes and effects of the gold rush. The main content and fun fact boxes support...
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The first popular history of the former American slaves who founded, ruled, and lost Africa's first republic
In 1820, a group of about eighty African Americans reversed the course of history and sailed back to Africa, to a place they would name after liberty itself. They went under the banner of the American Colonization Society, a white philanthropic organization with a dual agenda: to rid America of its blacks, and to convert Africans to Christianity....
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Many accounts of the Civil War battles, armies, and key figures have been written over the years, but none have looked at the bloodiest war in our nation's history through the eyes of the cavalry. The horse soldiers in the Civil War are often referred to as the last of the cavaliers, men who valued their honor as much as their cause. In this sweeping saga George Walsh brings to life anew the gallant horse soldiers of the North and South, showing in...
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It's an honor to bring light to the dark.
The whaling village of Warbler is famous for its lucky ship figureheads-and infamous for people disappearing into the nightly fog. In this murky locale, the lamplighter position is synonymous with safety and protection, and it's a position Temperance assumes when her father is found hanging from one of the lampposts. Though Tempe proves competent, the town is still hesitant to let a woman handle this responsibility.
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By ones, twos, and threes, in the years before the Civil War thousands of enslaved people slipped through the night on their way to freedom, riding the Underground Railroad. Hidden and hunted, the escape of southern slaves to the North remains a compelling event in American history. Within the pages of this book are documented, in prose and elegantly articulate photographs, examples of "stations" on the Railroad, along with images of the routes, lives,...
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Who decided not to split infinitives? With whom should we take issue if in fact, we wish to boldly write what no grammarian hath writ before? In Founding Grammars, Rosemarie Ostler delves into the roots of our grammar obsession to answer these questions and many more. Standard grammar and accurate spelling are widely considered hallmarks of a good education, but their exact definitions are much more contentious - capable of inciting a full-blown grammar...
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The fascinating story of how New England Federalists threatened to dissolve the Union by making a separate peace with England during the War of 1812.
Many people would be surprised to learn that the struggle between Thomas Jefferson's Republican Party and Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Party defined--and jeopardized--the political life of the early American republic. Richard Buel Jr.'s America on the Brink looks at why the Federalists, who worked...
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Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today, including what is now the city of Amman. Muslim refugee resettlement reinvigorated...
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Do you know the story of the "Wild" West? How much of it is good storytelling and showmanship? The history stories you think you know may not be what they seem. Find out how and why myths took the place of fact over time, and the fascinating history the myths may hide. Explore primary sources and learn the ins and outs of unraveling myths to find the facts.
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In one of the most stunning expositions of mathematical publishing, Oliver Byrne combines Euclid's geometric theories with vibrant colour proofs, turning what was already a cornerstone academic text into a pedagogical work of art.
First published in 1847, Oliver Byrne's Elements of Euclid is an innovative educational masterpiece. Uniquely beautiful in its presentation, Byrne's edition was the first attempt to illustrate the classic books of mathematical...
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A sweeping insider look at the life of William Brennan, champion of free speech and widely considered the most influential Supreme Court justice of the twentieth century
Before his death, William Brennan granted Stephen Wermiel access to volumes of personal and court materials that are sealed to the public until 2017. These are what Jeffrey Toobin has called "a coveted set of documents" that includes Brennan's case histories-in which he recorded...
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"Common Sense & The American Crisis" presents a collection of Thomas Paine's most influential pamphlets that ignited the flames of the American Revolution. This book brings together Paine's passionate and persuasive arguments that rallied the colonists towards independence. His clear and compelling prose laid out the case for breaking free from British rule and establishing a new nation founded on democratic principles. Essential reading for understanding...
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Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year that began with the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses and ended with the publication of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, two works that were arguably "the sun and moon" of modernist literature, some would say of modernity itself.
In Constellation of Genius, Kevin Jackson puts the titanic achievements of Joyce and Eliot in the context of the world in which their works first appeared....
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Do you know the story of Johnny Appleseed? What does real estate law have to do with it? The history stories you think you know may not be what they seem. Find out how and why myths took the place of fact over time, and the fascinating history the myths may hide. Explore primary sources and learn the ins and outs of unraveling myths to find the facts.
16) The Capture and Escape From the Sioux: The Ordeals of an American Pioneer Woman Captured by India
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"A famous account of abduction and escape from hostile Indians in the old West.
In July, 1864 hostile Oglala Sioux Indians attacked the wagon train of the pioneering Kelly and Larimer families approximately 80 miles west of Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Several people were killed or wounded but Sarah Larimer and Fanny Kelly, together with some of their children, were taken into captivity by the Indians. On the second night of their captivity Sarah Larimer...
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Do you know the story of John Henry? What does the historical record show? The history stories you think you know may not be what they seem. Find out how and why myths took the place of fact over time, and the fascinating history the myths may hide. Explore primary sources and learn the ins and outs of unraveling myths to find the facts.
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