The American Women's Almanac: 500 Years of Making History, Hardcover - ***

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Honoring and celebrating achievements from the First Nations women and the French Huguenot Women of Fort Caroline to the unprecedented number of et...

Reducere. From ancient rock drawings to today's urban living, the Native American Almanac: More than 50, 000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenou...

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Herein The African American Civil Rights Movement is presented with 538 pages of primary documents after the civil war. Take a first-hand look into...

A dazzlingly original and ambitious work of art history, intertwining biography and cultural history, and packed with tales of rebellion, adventure...

The ghetto today: a story told in pictures, a history in the making. The forty-four black-and-white photographs presented here have been selected f...

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This set contains about 5 hours of romantic listening pleasure. Great performances by artists, such as Mela Tenenbaum, Sara Crombach, Klara Wurtz, ...

The story of the dynamic, driven, and sometimes despised third wheel in the creation of America's iconic theme park While the success of Disneyland...

Reducere. In the 1970s, the divorce rate in the United States doubled, and longtime homemakers suddenly found themselves at risk of poverty, not only because...

Reducere. In Plain Sight explores how the poetry of nineteenth-century American women that was once so visible within American culture could have, with the e...

Reducere. An alternative and unorthodox view of the colonization of the Americas by Europeans is offered in this concise history. Eurocentric studies of the ...

In their own voices, the full story of the women and men who struggled to make American democracy whole With a record number of female candidates i...

Using a page-a-day format, this is a collection of vignettes--inspired moments--from the lives of black woman across recorded time.About author(s):...

DescriptionIn 1917, the Assyrian American Association was founded and established in Chicago by those arriving in the United States in an effort to...

Reducere. Read here the storied history of these United States.The stories in this book are part of what Abraham Lincoln called the ``mystic chords of memory...

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Reducere. Madam C. J. Walker-reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire-has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. Born to former ...

Reducere. Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one co...

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"We the People." The Constitution begins with those deceptively simple words, but how do Americans define that "We"? In We the People, Ben Railton ...

Breaking the News asks timely questions about how reporting in Britain has written the narrative for pivotal moments in history. Among them are a g...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Destin JenkinsIllustration(s): 26 halftones, 10 tablesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 20...

Publisher: Read-Only MemoryAuthor(s): Matt LeoneIllustration(s): 50 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions:...

This collection, covering 500 years of transgressive Gaelic poetry with new English translations, breaks the mould for anthologies of Gaelic verse.

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This volume explores glass composition and production from the mid-second to mid-first millennia BC, the first thousand years of glass-making. Mult...

500 years on from the Reformation, Nick Page distils what we really need to know about Luther, Calvin and all those other serious religious types i...

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The First Lady--Serial Killer The nurse from hell. Always cheerful, helpful, and sweet, nurse Jane Toppan was the last person you would suspect to ...

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