Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus)

DescriptionThis is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring a...

Reducere. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents a journey through America's past and our nation's attempts at renewal in this look at the Civil War's conclusion, R...

DescriptionThe New York Times bestseller. A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the vi...

Reducere. DescriptionThe decisive victories in the fight for racial equality in America were not easily won, much less inevitable; they were achieved through...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous ...

DescriptionThe Italian sculptor known as Donatello helped to forge a new kind of art--one that came to define the Renaissance. His work was progres...

Anthropology At the Dawn of the Cold War. The Influence of Foundations, McCarthyism and the CIA - Dustin M. Wax

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Clarence A. HaynesNumber of pages: 144Collection: True HistoryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 216 x...

Reducere. An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today's criminal justice crisis A deeply researched and ...

A globe-spanning narrative history of the 1850s - a time of electrifying change - seen through the eyes of the men and women who embraced the adven...

Publisher: Sitaram PressAuthor(s): Dena (Dena Merriam) MerriamNumber of pages: 576Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 154 x 230 x 32Cover type: Paper...

Reducere. In The Other American Dilemma, Rubén Donato and Jarrod Hanson examine the experiences of Mexican immigrants, Mexican Americans, and Hispanos/as in ...

Some legends suggest Jesus travelled to the British Isles with Joseph of Arimathea. Gordon Strachan uncovers fascinating connections between the Ce...

Reducere. A fresh look at the endlessly fascinating Tudors--the dramatic and overlooked story of Henry VII and his founding of the Tudor Dynasty--filled with...

Reducere. From New York Times bestselling author Alex Tresniowski comes a "compelling" (The Guardian) and "riveting" (The New York Times Book Review) true-cr...

Reducere. We know that Constantine issued the Edict of Milan in 313outlawed paganism and made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empiremanipulat...

From New York Times bestselling author Alex Tresniowski comes a page-turning, remarkable true-crime thriller recounting the 1910 murder of ten-year...

Award-winning and critically acclaimed author Candace Fleming presents the edge-of-your-seat true story of the search for Tutankhamun's tomb, the W...

The dramatic, untold story of a brilliant team, the world's first digital electronic computer, and the race to decrypt the Nazis' toughest code Pla...

A deeply researched, analytically rich, and vivid account of England's early maritime empirePublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Eleanor Hubb...

"So smart and entertaining it should come with its own popcorn"--PeopleCoinciding with the sixtieth anniversary of the film version of Truman Capot...

Reducere. Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised and often racist tools for resha...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the spring of 1959, eighteen year-old Bruce Lee returned to San Francisco, the city of his birth. Although the martial arts were wide...

The diverse essays gathered in Working for the clampdown cast a critical light on both the cultural legacy and contemporary resonance of one of the...

Reducere. The Lion, the Lamb, and the Dawn of Christianity is a work of historical fiction based on the four New Testament Gospels of the Christian Bible. By...

Dive deep into the world of this everyday insect -- and the science behind its uncertain future.Bumble bees are as familiar to most of us as the fl...

The internationally bestselling account of the transformative period that followed the Armistice in November 1918.

Reducere. DescriptionFor many football fans, the National Football League season of 1970 was a landmark year in the history of the game. The NFL and the Amer...

Reducere. The sensational true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying aceAt the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies--the car a...

In the spirit of Devil in the White City comes a true detective tale of the highest standard: the haunting story of Eliot Ness's forgotten final ca...

Reducere. Hoosier hysteria is synonymous with Indiana's crazy love affair with basketball. For some, it harkens back to the final four teams that met as a re...

Publisher: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoAuthor(s): AristotleNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 141 x 216 x 5Cover type: Paperba...

Robert M. Edsel brings the story of his #1 New York Times bestseller for adults The Monuments Men to young readers for the first time in this dynam...

Reducere. For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Toget...

Reducere. From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator and ...

Reducere. Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likene...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): David Paul (Journalist) KuhnNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 233 x 24Co...

Westerners wanting to know about tantra--particularly the Buddhist tantra of Tibet--often find only speculation and fancy. Tibet has been shrouded ...

Reducere. After the Civil War's end, reports surged of violence by Southern whites against Union troops and Black men, women, and children. While some in Was...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John C. EbyAuthor: Fred MortonThis game situates students in the Multiparty Negotiating Process taking place at the World T...

Reducere. Critically acclaimed author Lawrence Goldstone offers an affecting portrait of the road to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, which sig...

Reducere. Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson unearths the heroic stories of Jewish survivors from different countries so that we may never forget the past...

Publisher: Quercus PublishingAuthor(s): Sverker JohanssonTranslator: Frank PerryPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 215 x 233 x 35Cover type: Paperba...