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Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Looking beyond the national leadership of the suffrage movement, an acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land.
For far too long, the history of how American women won the right to vote has been told as the tale of a few iconic leaders, all white and native-born. But Susan Ware uncovered a much broader and more diverse
...3963) Twelve Years a Slave
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve Years a Slave (1853) is considered to be one of the most riveting and important documents recounting slavery in the United States. It is the heart-rending memoir of a free black man who is taken hostage and sold into slavery in a Louisiana plantation, his twelve years of bondage, and his remarkable escape to freedom. Since its publication, this classic has become a historical reference for its salient of depiction of life as a slave in the...
3964) Martha Washington
Author
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
c1897
Physical Desc
xiv, 306 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more different in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist with enough faith in the innate goodness of his fellow man to be democracy's champion, was an aristocratic Southern slave owner, while Adams, the overachiever from New England's rising middling classes, painfully aware he was no aristocrat, was a skeptic about popular rule and a defender of a more elitist...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First Threshold Editions hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
x, 244 pages : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to eighteenth-century Massachusetts, they witness the Battle of Lexington and learn about the Declaration of Independence.
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young listeners alike. Ranging from "Why is there such a fuss about nonnative people wearing Indian costumes for Halloween?" to "Why is it called a 'traditional Indian fry bread taco'?," "What's it like for natives who don't look native?," "Why are Indians so often imagined rather than understood?," and beyond, Everything...
3971) Margaret Winthrop
Author
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
c1895
Physical Desc
xiii, 341 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
3972) March: Book Three
Author
Series
March trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Congressman John Lewis, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, brings the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world. In this conclusion to the March trilogy, he details the surpassing courage, sacrifice, and revolutionary non-violence that transformed American society in the 1960s.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Seventeen titles from the New York Times bestselling series brought to life by a full cast!
What makes a hero? Brad Meltzer and illustrator Christopher Eliopoulos answer that question, one great role model at a time. This audiobook collection includes:
I am Billie Jean King
I am Neil Armstrong
I am Sonia Sotomayor
I am Abraham Lincoln
I am Amelia Earhart
I am Rosa Parks
I...
What makes a hero? Brad Meltzer and illustrator Christopher Eliopoulos answer that question, one great role model at a time. This audiobook collection includes:
I am Billie Jean King
I am Neil Armstrong
I am Sonia Sotomayor
I am Abraham Lincoln
I am Amelia Earhart
I am Rosa Parks
I...
3974) The boys in the boat: nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"The University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the nine boys, in the depths of the Great Depression, showed the world what beating the odds really meant. They defeated elite rivals from California and eastern schools to earn the right to compete against the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic Games in Berlin....
3975) Those who saw the sun
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
276 pages.
Language
English
Description
"The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn't affect our present day, but we would be wrong. Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow. Jaha Nailah Avery is a lawyer, scholar, and reporter whose family has roots in North Carolina stretching back over 300 years. These interviews have been a personal passion project for...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? She was born in 1890 into a world that had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to...
3978) Beverly Hills spy
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 256 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland-a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars-who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.