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Yankees at the court: the first Americans in Paris
By Susan Mary Alsop. 1982
Worst of friends: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the true story of an American feud
By Suzanne Jurmain. 2012
Describes how their different political views caused friends Thomas Jefferson and John Adams to become rivals, until they learned to…
set aside their differences for the sake of their friendship. Grades 2-4. 2012.Worse than slavery: Parchman Farm and the ordeal of Jim Crow justice
By David M Oshinsky. 1996
History of the notorious Mississippi penitentiary, infamous for its brutality and deplorable conditions. Examines the state's profitable use of inmates…
as labour on the twenty-thousand-acre prison plantation and the earlier practice of leasing convicts out to work on cotton farms in the area. Strong language and violence. 1996.Women of the blue & gray: true Civil War stories of mothers, medics, soldiers, and spies
By Marianne Monson. 2018
Wives, mothers, sisters, advisers, soldiers, smugglers, spies. This book tells stories of women from the Civil War that remain relevant…
today, each showing a truer, fuller, richer version of history. 2018.Wolfe et Montcalm: la véritable histoire de deux chefs ennemis
By Joy Carroll, Suzanne Anfossi. 2006
Septembre 1759. Sur le champ de bataille des plaines d'Abraham gisent le général anglais James Wolfe et le général de…
l'armée française, Louis-Joseph, marquis de Montcalm, tous deux mortellement blessés. Ni l'un ni l'autre ne pouvaient se douter que l'issue de cette bataille déciderait du sort de tout un continent et façonnerait l'histoire du Canada et des États-Unis. Ces deux hommes nous sont présentés ici dans leur vie quotidienne, entourés de leur famille, de leurs maîtresses, de leurs amis et de leurs ennemis, et dévorés par leurs passions. 2006. Titre uniforme: Wolfe & Montcalm.Chronicles the long history of the fight for women's voting rights, beginning in 1848, with a focus on the years…
between 1913 and 1920 when the Nineteenth Amendment was passed. Includes profiles of notable women in the struggle. Gardes 5-8 and up. 2011.Witches!: the absolutely true tale of disaster in Salem (National geographic)
By Rosalyn Schanzer. 2012
Recounts in electrifying detail the true events of the 17th-century witch trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts. After two girls exhibit…
strange behavior, the colonial town's doctor concludes their symptoms are the result of witchcraft. Even today, the chilling events of this period remain one of the most disturbing passages of U.S. history. Grades 5-8. 2012.Wildmen, wobblies and whistle punks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest (Northwest Reprints Ser.)
By Stewart H Holbrook. 1992
Stewart Holbrook, a high school drop-out, logger, journalist, storyteller, and historian, was one of the best loved figures in the…
Pacific Northwest during the two decades preceding his death in 1964. This anthology collects two dozen of his best pieces on logging camps in B.C., ranches in Oregon, fires, floods and scoundrels. c1992.Wicked river: the Mississippi when it last ran wild
By Lee Sandlin. 2010
Long before it was dredged into a shipping channel or romanticized into myth, the untamed Mississippi - the lifeblood of…
communities that rose and fell along its banks - spawned a motley array of pirates and dignitaries, visionaries and thieves. 2010.When the United States spoke French: five refugees who shaped a nation
By François Furstenberg. 2014
Relates how a group of five French aristocrats sought refuge in the United States, a republic whose Enlightenment ideals mirrored…
their own, and spent the French Revolution in Philadelphia before eventually becoming involved in Franco-American diplomacy. 2014.West like lightning: the brief, legendary ride of the Pony Express
By Jim DeFelice. 2018
In the spring of 1860 on the eve of a civil war that threatened to tear the country apart, two…
Americans conceived of an audacious plan for linking the nation's two coasts, thereby joining its present with its future. This book traces the development of the Pony Express and follows it from its start in St. Joseph, Missouri 1,500 miles west to Sacramento. 2018.We need to dream all this again: An Account Of Crazy Horse, Custer And The Battle For The Black Hills
By Bernard Pomerance. 1987
Washington's crossing
By David Hackett Fischer. 2004
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, America was nearly defeated. Then on Christmas night, George Washington led his men…
across the Delaware River to destroy the Hessians at Trenton. A week later Americans held off a counterattack, and in a brilliant tactical move, Washington crept behind the British army to win another victory. The momentum had reversed. 2004.Ways harsh & wild: [adventure and hardship during the Yukon gold rush]
By Doris Andersen. 1977
Washington and Hamilton: the alliance that forged America
By Tony Williams, Stephen F Knott. 2016
In the wake of the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers faced a daunting task: overcome their competing visions to build…
a new nation, the likes of which the world had never seen. This book chronicles the unlikely collaboration between two conflicting characters working together to protect their hard-won freedoms. Yet while Washington and Hamilton's different personalities often led to fruitful collaboration, their conflicting ideals also tested the boundaries of their relationship - and threatened the future of the new republic. From the rumblings of the American Revolution through the fractious Constitutional Convention and America's turbulent first years, this captivating history reveals the stunning impact of this unlikely duo that set the United States on the path to becoming a superpower. 2016.Walking the trail: one man's journey along the Cherokee Trail of Tears
By Jerry Ellis. 1991
Waiting 'til the midnight hour: a narrative history of Black power in America (Griot audio)
By Peniel E Joseph. 2007
An acclaimed chronicler of the Civil Rights Movement, Peniel Joseph presents this sweeping overview of a key component of the…
struggle for racial equality - the Black Power movement. This is the story of the men and women who sacrificed so much to begin a more vocal and radical push for social change in the 1960s and 1970s. 2007.Votes for women!: American suffragists and the battle for the ballot
By Winifred Conkling. 2018
On August 18, 1920, American women finally won the right to vote. Ratification of the 19th Amendment was the culmination…
of an almost eighty-year fight in which some of the fiercest, most passionate women in history marched, protested, and sometimes broke the law in to achieve this huge leap toward equal rights. This volume covers not only the suffragists' achievements and politics but also the private journeys that fueled their passion and led them to become women's champions. From Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who founded the suffrage movement at the 1848 Seneca Falls convention; to Victoria Woodhull, the first female candidate for president; to Sojourner Truth and her famous speech, "Ain't I a Woman'"; to Alice Paul, who was arrested and force-fed in prison, Conkling combines thorough research with page-turning storytelling to bring the battle for the right to vote to vivid life. It also explores the movement's often powerful, sometimes difficult relationship with the temperance and abolition movements, and takes unflinching look at some of the uglier moments in the fight for the women's vote. For junior and senior high readers. 2018.Vietnam: the valor and the sorrow : from the home front to the front lines in words and pictures
By Thomas D Boettcher. 1985
Veil: the secret wars of the CIA, 1981-1987
By Bob Woodward. 2005
Based upon interviews with over 250 unidentified sources, various documents, and more than four dozen discussions with then Central Intelligence…
Agency (CIA) Director William J. Casey, the book presents a controversial history of the CIA and its influence on the foreign policy of the Reagan Administration. Also explores CIA-inspired covert wars, clandestine relationships, bribery, and assassinations during this period. Some descriptions of violence, strong language. Bestseller. 2005, c1987.