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African american history: A very short introduction
By Jonathan Scott Holloway. 2023
What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering…
this seemingly simple question. This book illuminates the US's core paradoxes, inviting profound questions about what it means to be an American, a citizen, and a human being. This book considers how, for centuries, African Americans have fought for what the black feminist intellectual Anna Julia Cooper called "the cause of freedom." It begins in Jamestown in 1619, when the first shipment of enslaved Africans arrived in that settlement. It narrates the creation of a system of racialized chattel slavery, the eventual dismantling of that system in the national bloodletting of the Civil War, and the ways that civil rights disputes have continued to erupt in the more than 150 years since Emancipation. This Very Short Introduction carries forward to the Black Lives Matter movement, a grass-roots activist convulsion that declared that African Americans' present and past have value and meaning. At a moment when political debates grapple with the nation's obligation to acknowledge and perhaps even repair its original sin of racialized slavery, author Jonathan Scott Holloway tells a story about American citizens' capacity and willingness to realize the ideal articulated in America's founding document, namely, that all people were created equalAn army afire: How the us army confronted its racial crisis in the vietnam era
By Beth Bailey. 2023
By the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in United States history was…
descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. Morale was tanking. AWOL rates were rising. And in August 1968, a group of Black soldiers seized control of the infamous Long Binh Jail, burned buildings, and beat a white inmate to death with a shovel. The days of "same mud, same blood" were over, and a new generation of Black GIs had decisively rejected the slights and institutional racism their forefathers had endured. As Black and white soldiers fought in barracks and bars, with violence spilling into surrounding towns within the United States and in West Germany, Vietnam, South Korea, and Japan, army leaders grew convinced that the growing racial crisis undermined the army's ability to defend the nation. Acclaimed military historian Beth Bailey shows how the United States Army tried to solve that racial crisis (in army terms, "the problem of race"). Army leaders were surprisingly creative in confronting demands for racial justice, even willing to challenge fundamental army principles of discipline, order, hierarchy, and authority. Bailey traces a frustrating yet fascinating story, as a massive, conservative institution came to terms with demands for changeLà d'où jaillit la lumière
By Jill Biden. 2022
Mémoires de l'épouse de Joe Biden, qu'elle épouse en secondes noces en 1977. Enseignante d'anglais et d'histoire au lycée, elle…
conserve son métier lors de la vice-présidence de son mari sous les mandats d'Obama puis lorsque Biden accède lui-même au bureau ovale. Elle retrace son parcours, ses liens avec son mari et les enfants issus de son premier mariage, dont Beau, décédé en 2015When crack was king: A people's history of a misunderstood era
By Donovan X Ramsey. 2023
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A “vivid and frank” (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a…
community’s ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic “A master class in disrupting a stubborn narrative, a monumental feat for the fraught subject of addiction in Black communities.”— The Washington Post “A poignant and compelling re-examination of a tragic era in America history . . . insightful . . . and deeply moving.”—Bryan Stevenson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Just Mercy FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • ONE OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND VULTURE ’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, She Reads, Electric Lit, The Mary Sue The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history. Beginning with the myths inspired by Reagan’s war on drugs, journalist Donovan X. Ramsey’s exacting analysis traces the path from the last triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement to the devastating realities we live with today: a racist criminal justice system, continued mass incarceration and gentrification, and increased police brutality. When Crack Was King follows four individuals to give us a startling portrait of crack’s destruction and devastating legacy: Elgin Swift, an archetype of American industry and ambition and the son of a crack-addicted father who turned their home into a “crack house”; Lennie Woodley, a former crack addict and sex worker; Kurt Schmoke, the longtime mayor of Baltimore and an early advocate of decriminalization; and Shawn McCray, community activist, basketball prodigy, and a founding member of the Zoo Crew, Newark’s most legendary group of drug traffickers. Weaving together riveting research with the voices of survivors, When Crack Was King is a crucial reevaluation of the era and a powerful argument for providing historically violated communities with the resources they deserveLongtemps considérée comme une rébellion mineure, la tentative de révolution de 1837 a en réalité secoué l'ensemble de l'Amérique du…
Nord, menaçant de renvoyer le pouvoir britannique hors du continent, mais également d'inaugurer une expérience républicaine différente. La révolution a échoué, mais les idées qu'elle a véhiculées - tant progressistes qu'élitistes - résonnent encore aujourd'huiWe are golden: 27 groundbreakers who changed the world
By Eva Chen. 2024
This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is We Are Golden: 27 Groundbreakers…
Who Changed the World. Throughout history and to this day, people of Asian descent have been at the forefront of artistic brilliance, scientific advancement, and athletic excellence. From Sandra Oh to Patsy Mink, Bruce Lee to Michelle Kwan, We Are Golden , Eva Chen's follow-up to the New York Times bestselling I Am Golden, offers a fresh collection of groundbreakers perfect for every young listener's library. Let our voices be heard. Let our stories be told. We are golden . A Macmillan Audio production from Feiwel & FriendsA hundred years of horse tracks: the story of the Gray Ranch
By George Hilliard. 1996
"A Hundred Years of Horse Tracks" is the history of the Diamond A Ranch, perhaps better known as the Gray…
Ranch, located in New Mexico's boot-heel. Hilliard has supplemented sparse and scattered old sources with interviews of old-timers to produce this history of the ranch from the 1880s when it was initially settled by Michael Gray through sale to the Nature Conservancy in the early 1990s and subsequent sale in 1994 to the Animas Foundation which runs it as a working ranch under agreements preserving wilderness areas, preventing overgrazing, and ensuring the property stay whole. AdultA New Mexico primer: for students of all ages
By R. Kermit Hill. 2011
This book is a simple, no nonsense telling of New Mexico history and geography for those who are new to…
the "Land of Enchantment" and for those who want a quick, uncluttered story based on the theory that history should be fun. Adult1929, America before the Crash
By Warren Sloat. 1979
More than a mear overview of what may well be the most crucial year in American history and not at…
all a nostalgia trifle, 1929 is a dramatic tale of a nation leading the rest of the world into the twentieth century. Brillantly aware of the surge of energy that has made it the leading world power and yet blind to the destiny that waits in the caverns of Wall Street. AdultWhat so proudly we hailed: Francis Scott Key, a life
By Marc Leepson. 2014
This full-length biography explores the life and legacy of Francis Scott Key, who made his mark as an American icon…
by one single and unforgettable act, writing "The Star-Spangled Banner." AdultIn Crazy Fourth, Toby Smith tells the story of how the African American boxer Jack Johnson, the bombastic and larger-than-life…
reigning world heavyweight champion, met Jim Flynn on the Fourth of July in Las Vegas, New Mexico. In the end, once the dust finally settled on the whole unseemly spectacle, Las Vegas would spend the next generation making good on its losses. AdultThe sun: a mystery
By Courtney White. 2018
Dr. Bryce Miller, a young doctor in Boston, inherits a large, historic ranch in northern New Mexico from a wealthy…
uncle she barely knew. Then, a body is found murdered on the ranch. Is it a warning meant for her? Meanwhile, she must choose among a colorful cast of potential buyers who want to turn the working cattle ranch into something entirely different. AdultWalking in Baltimore: an intimate guide to the Old City
By Frank R Shivers. 1995
Mencken called Baltimore "a perfect lady". Outsiders called it "mobtown". Baltimore's unique charm may have something to do with the…
city's wonderful mix of opposites. You are invited to 12 tours to explore the city's rich past and lively presentCrab's Hole: a family story of Tangier Island
By Anne Hughes Jander. 1994
James K. Polk, 49 years old, was seen by some to be colorless, methodical, and plodding, but the dark horse…
candidate defeated the magnetic Henry Clay in the 1844 presidential election. Later Polk was seen to be honest, conscientious, limited in vision, but incapable of deceit or double dealing, with a strict integrity and intense singleness of purpose. AdultA woman's crusade: Alice Paul and the battle for the ballot
By Mary Walton. 2015
Alice Paul was from a strict Quaker family. A scholarship took her to England where she became devoted to the…
suffrage movement. Upon her return to the United States, Alice became a leader of the suffrage movement. With her unconventional tactics, Alice succeeded in forcing President Wilson and a reluctant U.S. Congress to pass the Nineteenth AmendmentMy hands sing the blues: Romare Bearden's childhood journey
By Jeanne Walker Harvey. 2011
As a young boy growing up in North Carolina, Romare Bearden listened to his great-grandmother's Cherokee stories and heard the…
whistle of the train that took his people to the North people who wanted to be free. When Romare and his family, faced with Jim Crow laws, boarded that same train, he watched out the window as the world whizzed by. Later he captured those scenes in a famous painting, Watching the Good Trains Go By. Using that painting as inspiration and creating a text influenced by the blues and jazz that Bearden loved, Jeanne Walker Harvey tells the story of Bearden's children by describing the patchwork of daily southern life that Romare saw out the train's window and the story of his arrival in shimmering New York City. Artists and critics today praise Bearden's collages for their visual metaphors honoring his past, African American culture, and the human experience. 2011. For grades K-3"Over fifty years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Robert Sadler was sold into slavery at the age of five--by his own…
father. This is the no-holds-barred tale of those dark days, his quest for freedom, and the determination to serve others born out of his experience. It is a story of good triumphing over evil, of God's grace, and of an extraordinary life of ministry. An updated edition of a classic title." -- Provided by publisherRockville: portrait of a city
By Eileen S McGuckian. 2001
"In this engaging look at Rockville's history, author Eileen McGuckian paints a vibrant portrait of the rural crossroads that was…
destined to become a thriving American City." For high school and adult readersCrafty bastards: beer in New England from the Mayflower to modern day
By Lauren Clark. 2014