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Author
Publisher
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In this book, historian J. Todd Moye masterfully reconstructs Baker's life and contribution for a new generation of readers. Those who despair that the civil rights story is told too often from the top down and at the dearth of accessible works on women who helped shape the movement will welcome this new addition to the Library of African American biography series, designed to provide concise, readable, and up-to-date lives of leading black figures...
185) The Cold War reference guide: a general history and annotated chronology with selected biographies
Author
Publisher
McFarland
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
For over forty years much of the world was held captive by a conflict between two wholly incompatible economic ideologies-capitalism and communism-and the two primary superpower countries who practiced them, the United States and the Soviet Union. This work is first a general history of the Cold War, with an overview of its root causes and the policies and theories that were in place from 1947 through 1990. A thoroughly annotated chronology of important...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton : The Revolution, a stunning group portrait of five American radicals fighting for their ideals as the country goes mad around them. Where do we find our ideals? What does it mean to live for them--and to risk dying for them? For Americans during World War I, these weren't abstract questions. Young Radicals tells the story of five activists, intellectuals and troublemakers who agitated...
Author
Series
Publisher
Townsend Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"John F. Kennedy grew up surrounded by wealth and privilege. He was given opportunities that most young people only dream of having. However, Kennedy learned quite young that money can't buy everything. He fought sickness and pain throughout his life, endured the death of a brother in World War II, and lost his favorite sister in a plane crash. It was, perhaps, this balance of privilege and pain that made it possible for Kennedy to understand...
Author
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
From humble beginnings in a small Texas town to making history as the first African American to walk in space, Dr. Harris has led a life of inspiration, dedication, and motivation. In Dream Walker, he recounts his formative years in the Navajo Nation into outer space and back to fulfill his earthly mission of planting seeds of self-empowerment and self-determination in today's young minds. He shares bits of wisdom and stories from his fascinating...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
An account of the contentious relationship between the thirty-fifth president and Martin Luther King, Jr. throughout the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement explores their influence on one another and the important decisions that were inspired by their rivalry
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Co
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
An autobiography of a boy who, at the age of three, fled civil war in Ethiopia by walking with his mother and brother to a Sudanese refugee camp, and later moved to Chicago and earned a scholarship to Harvard University. Includes recipes and discussion questions.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote when Deborah was born, "How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl." Deborah's effervescent memoir chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood in the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with Adolf Hitler and her controversially political sister Unity in 1937, to her marriage to...
Publisher
[Strong Sisters?]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Strong Sisters: Elected Women in Colorado tells the extraordinary story of elected women in Colorado. The compilation of oral histories from past and current female elected officials is the foundation for this documentary film. So what's going on in Colorado? Why does Colorado have this proud history of electing women to public office? What difference have elected women made in our state? And why hasn't Colorado elected a female Governor, U.S. Senator,...
196) Sweatshop Cinderella
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
[2010], ��2010
Language
English
Description
In the forefront of early twentieth-century American literature about immigrant women���s lives, Anzia Yezierska���s work includes short fiction, novels, and essays, and her output spans 50 years. This program vividly depicts this Jewish immigrant writer���s amazing story. Using archival stills and footage, silent film excerpts, letters, newspaper clippings, and interviews, this is a major contribution to our understanding and appreciation...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
If you have ever wondered what is was like to be an explorer in the unspoiled American West of the early 1800s, then this is the audiobook for you. Not only a groundbreaking work of American history by critically acclaimed author Robert M. Utley, A Life Wild and Perilous is also a dramatic story of innovation and survival. Here is your chance to live in the very heart of the American wilderness with legendary trappers and mountain men like Jim Bridger,...
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"he iconic activist and cofounder of the American Indian Movement (AIM) presents a no-holds-barred memoir in which he tells the unvarnished truth about the AIM as he lived it, revealing what motivated him to confront injustice and help others gain a sense of pride by knowing their culture,"--NoveList.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The author relates how his own study of memory converged with four distinct disciplines to give rise to the development of a new science of the mind that has changed our understanding of learning, memory, and mental illness.