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Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
4 volumes cm
Description
This reference traces key decisions in U.S. military history--from the Revolutionary War through the 21st-century conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq--by examining documents relating to military strategy and national policy judgments by U.S. military and political leaders.
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Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
4 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
Among the documents included in the set are important legislative documents such as the Reconstruction era amendments; critical Supreme Court decisions from Dred Scott v. Sandford to Plessy v. Ferguson to Brown v. Board of Education; and iconic speeches and writings by leaders such as Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Martin Luther King Jr., Shirley Chisholm, and Barack Obama. Key congressional...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xi, 603 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States, focusing on those who, from colonial times to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time, responding to what they saw as the injustices that prevented them from fully experiencing their vision of America. --Publisher's description.
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Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
xxxii, 221 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Most people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that this Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights activist delivered at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Far fewer people are familiar with the speeches Hamer delivered at the 1968 and 1972 conventions, to say nothing of addresses she gave closer to home, or with Malcolm X in Harlem, or even at the founding of the National Women's Political...
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"Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict provides a comprehensive, balanced, and accessible narrative of a complex historical topic. Charles D. Smith examines how underlying issues, group motives, religious and cross-cultural clashes, diplomacy and imperialism, and the arrival of the modern era shaped this volatile region. The narrative is supported by more than 40 primary documents that highlight perspectives from all sides of the struggle, as well...
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Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
463 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm
Description
History comes alive in this engaging and lavishly illustrated chronicle, which spans world events and people from ancient times to the 21st century. The voices of the great and humble speak through songs, documents, edicts, poetry, letters, menus, and even graffiti.
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xvi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Few institutions were as central to nineteenth-century American culture as the home. Emerging in the 1820s as a sentimental space apart from the public world of commerce and politics, the Victorian home transcended its initial association with the private lives of the white, native-born bourgeoisie to cross lines of race, ethnicity, class, and region. Throughout the nineteenth century, home was celebrated as a moral force, domesticity moved freely...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
223 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 24 cm
Description
A tour of the history of the world through the declarations, manifestos, and agreements from the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence to Wikileaks. This fascinating collection gathers the most significant written documents that have influenced and shaped the way we think about the world and the course of history. From the Magna Carta (1215) to the Gettysburg Address (1863) to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech (1963), the...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 442 pages ; 29 cm.
Description
"This work broadly surveys the development of water politics and policy in the United States from the early nineteenth century to the present day. It is a story told through documents that is wrought with conflict as competing legal rulings and legislation at the state, federal, and international levels have created a morass that pits interest groups against each other. ... Through these documents, readers learn how our water politics evolved, see...
12) Let nobody turn us around: voices of resistance, reform, and renewal : an African American anthology
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
xxix, 676 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the 20th century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable and Mullings, introduce the reader to the character and important controversies of each period of black history." "The selections represent a broad spectrum...
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Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
xv, 160 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
In this fresh look at liberty and freedom in the revolutionary era from the perspective of black Americans, Woody Holton recounts the experiences of slaves who seized freedom by joining the British as well as those, slave and free, who served in Patriot military forces.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xii, 384 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"The "yellow peril" is one of the most long-standing and pervasive racist ideas in Western culture--indeed, this book traces its history to the Enlightenment era. Yet while Fu Manchu evokes a fading historical memory, yellow peril ideology persists, animating, for example, campaign commercials from the 2012 presidential election. Yellow Peril! is the first comprehensive repository of anti-Asian images and writing, pop culture artifacts and political...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"A single photograph-an exceptionally rare "action shot" documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family-drives a riveting process of discovery for a gifted Holocaust scholar"-- Provided by publisher.
This book is about the potential of discovery that exists, if we choose to delve into it. It is also about the voids that exist in the history of genocide. Perpetrators of genocide not only kill, they seek to erase the victims from...





