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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.Two roads to Sumter: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis and the march to Civil war
By Bruce Catton, William Bruce Catton. 2001
This work focuses on America in the 1850s and shows how north and south became increasingly isolated from each other…
and started down the two roads to the Battle of Fort Sumter and all-out war. Concurrently the book examines the formation and divergence of the attitudes of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis (both born in Kentucky) during this complex period of American history. It describes the era when great railroads were built; the tremendous land-hungry westward expansion of people; the development of the great industrial empires of the north and the great farm empires of the South, and the major factors which, woven together, precipitated the Civil War. Originally published in 1963. 2001.Turning points: the Detroit riot of 1967 : a Canadian perspective
By Herb Colling. 2003
An analysis of the events leading up to, and immediately following, the Detroit Riot of 1967. It looks at Detroit's…
racial history through the eyes of its nearest neighbour, the city of Windsor, at perhaps the city's darkest, but most poignant, moment. It is an effort to determine what was, to understand what is, and what are the differences and similarities of life as experienced on the Canadian and American sides of the river. Descriptions of violence. 2003.Tried by war: Abraham Lincoln as commander in chief
By James M McPherson. 2008
James M. McPherson highlights the role President Abraham Lincoln played as the head of the U.S. military during the Civil…
War. Stresses Lincoln’s study and application of war strategies and his development of a political and national policy that focused on preserving the union. 2008.Trente ans de captivité: chez les Indiens Ojibwa
By John Tanner, Edwin James, Pierrette Désy. 1983
Pendant 30 ans, Tanner va partager la vie des ojibwa. Les guerres le feront s'affronter aux sioux et les chasses…
lui feront parcourir le Minnesota, le Manitoba et l'Ontario. Ce récit est authentique. Quelques descriptions de violence. 1983.Trees on Mars: our obsession with the future
By Hal Niedzviecki. 2015
A roller-coaster tour through our obsession with the future - and what's at stake when we neglect our present. Meet…
futurist consultants who preach the need for constant change, to a fourth-generation New Jersey dairy farmer grappling with the increasing complexities of a once-bucolic industry, to a group of Stanford undergraduates pulling all-nighters in an effort to produce the next must-have app. Through these characters and others, Niedzviecki shows how future-obsession and future-anxiety are affecting real people. 2015.To be a slave
By Julius Lester. 1995
A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from…
the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century. Junior and Senior High. 1995.Threshold of war: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American entry into World War II
By Waldo H Heinrichs. 1988
A study of FDR's performance on the way to America's entry into World War II - a diplomatic, intelligence, strategic,…
military, and political tightrope act. Roosevelt is portrayed as extremely cautious and calculating, continually keeping his options open. Covers the nine-month period between March 1941 and the December attack on Pearl Harbor. 1988.These truths: a history of the United States
By Jill Lepore. 2018
In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins…
and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas - "these truths," Jefferson called them - political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, "on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching," writes Jill Lepore in a groundbreaking investigation into the American past that places truth itself at the center of the nation's history. In riveting prose, These Truths tells the story of America, beginning in 1492, to ask whether the course of events has proven the nation's founding truths, or belied them. "A nation born in contradiction, liberty in a land of slavery, sovereignty in a land of conquest, will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history," Lepore writes, finding meaning in those very contradictions as she weaves American history into a majestic tapestry of faith and hope, of peril and prosperity, of technological progress and moral anguish. A spellbinding chronicle filled with arresting sketches of Americans from John Winthrop and Frederick Douglass to Pauli Murray and Phyllis Schlafly, These Truths offers an authoritative new history of a great, and greatly troubled, nation. Bestseller. 2018.The Watergate: inside America's most infamous address
By Joseph Rodota. 2018
Rodota unlocks the mysteries of the Watergate, reveals a surprising connection between the Watergate and Ronald Reagan, and unravels how…
the Nixon break-in transformed the Watergate's reputation and spawned generations of "-gate" scandals, from Koreagate to Deflategate. 2018.The warmth of other suns: the epic story of America's great migration
By Isabel Wilkerson. 2010
Chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South…
for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. Bestseller. 2010.The Vanderbilt women: dynasty of wealth, glamour, and tragedy
By Clarice Stasz. 1991
This book, part biography, part social history, portrays fascinating women of the Vanderbilt dynasty -- religious yet socially conscious Alice;…
feminist, mansion-builder Alva; sculptress and museum launcher Gertrude; and "poor little rich girl" Gloria. 1991.The United States and the Cold War: 1941-1953
By Richard Crockatt. 1989
The summer of 1787: the men who invented the Constitution
By David O Stewart. 2007
Over the span of four hot summer months, delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia hammered out what would be…
regarded as one of the most important documents in world history. But the drafting of the Constitution was fraught with contention and divisive issues that threatened the very future of the Union. Issues such as slavery and states' rights could have formed insurmountable barriers, but America's founders somehow reached enough of a consensus - and compromised when necessary - to produce this remarkable work. 2007.The terrible hours: the man behind the greatest submarine rescue in history
By Peter Maas. 1999
On May 23, 1939, the Squalus submarine failed to resurface from a test dive and settled 243 feet down on…
the ocean floor off Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Maas provides accounts of the thirty-three survivors and their families, and of Charles Momsen, who created the device used in their rescue. Bestseller. 1999.The San Francisco earthquake
By Max Morgan Witts, Gordon W Thomas. 1971
A minute-by-minute account of the effects and aftermath of one of the most devastating earthquakes in America. The 1906 earthquake…
is a precursor, some believe, to a more tragic one yet to come. 1971.The roaring '80s
By Adam Smith. 1988