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Publisher
Vast Productions USA
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Based on the book of the acclaimed name by Robert Bevan, explores the urgent issue of cultural destruction, The file looks atthe current actions of ISIS, but also at how over the past century, the intensity of destruction has accelerated as laws have moved in and out of step with an issue that has finally captured our proper attention"--Disc jacket.
The bombing of Sarajevo's National Library and the burning of its ancient books. The looting of the...
Author
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In 2002, we learned that President George Washington had eight (and, later, nine) enslaved Africans in his house while he lived in Philadelphia from 1790 to 1797. The house was only one block from Independence Hall and, though torn down in 1832, it housed the enslaved men and women Washington brought to the city as well as serving as the country's first executive office building. Intense controversy erupted over what this newly resurfaced evidence...
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