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Touches on the trivial and the grand: on changes in diet and daily work and sport, on changing attitudes to the night sky, as well as on profound discoveries and mighty empires. This is the story of the world's people during the last four million years.

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This book presents a religious and social history of Cubas development as a nation and its relationship with the United States by examining the role of Presbyterian and other Protestant churches before and after the revolution in 1959.

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This book lies at the intersection of Civil War history and the history of American literature. Rogers challenges prevailing assumptions about the nature of Southern identity during the American Civil War and describes an important period in the life of William Gilmore Simms, one of nineteenth-century America's most widely read authors.

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This book lies at the intersection of Civil War history and the history of American literature. Rogers challenges prevailing assumptions about the nature of Southern identity during the American Civil War and describes an important period in the life of William Gilmore Simms, one of nineteenth-century America's most widely read authors.

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The shocking and incredible story behind Hitler's "special mission" to kidnap Pope Pius XII-kill him, if necessary-and the surprising result of its failure

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Ousterhout focuses on the disaffected in the pre-war decade, showing their increasing apprehensiveness about the escalating colonial anti-British measures and their belief that those measures were causing, rather than responding to, the increasingly violent British actions.

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Undoubtedly Catton's most brilliant books, A Stillness at Appomattox won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. Caton recounts the most spectacular conflicts between Grant and Lee and details the end of hope for the Confederacy.

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The America First Committee, founded in September 1940 to keep the United States out of what became the Second World War, was the largest antiwar organization in American history. An introduction by Bill Kauffman assesses the place of Ruth Sarles and America First in American history.

Ruth Sarles was at the center of the storm.

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Drawing upon a wide range of private papers, this family biography recreates the social and domestic setting of an ambitious family which had been part of the highest levels of political leadership in Britain for almost 150 years, throwing important light upon public and private centres of power and influence from the late 18th to the early 20th century.

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This guide is one in a series which explains the process of genealogical research. It covers topics such as culture, time, continuity, and change and individual development and identity, while also showing students how to employ skills such as collecting data and using electronic research tools.

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This guide assists students in understanding Irish American genealogy and covers topics such as individual development and identity and power and authority and governance. It also shows students how to employ techniques such as collecting data and using electronic research tools.

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This guide assists students in understanding Italian American genealogy and covers topics such as individual development and identity and power and authority and governance. It also shows students how to employ techniques such as collecting data and using electronic research tools.

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This guide assists students in understanding Jewish American genealogy and covers topics such as individual development and identity and power and authority and governance. It also shows students how to employ techniques such as collecting data and using electronic research tools.

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This guide assists students in understanding Mexican American genealogy and covers topics such as individual development and identity and power and authority and governance. It also shows students how to employ techniques such as collecting data and using electronic research tools.

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This guide assists students in understanding Native American genealogy and covers topics such as individual development and identity and power and authority and governance. It also shows students how to employ techniques such as collecting data and using electronic research tools.

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In the second half of the twentieth century Dominicans became New York City's largest, and poorest, new immigrant group. By 1990, one of every ten Dominicans lived in New York. This book tells the fascinating story of this emblematic migration from Latin America to the United States.

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The commander of the USS Sailfish couldn't know that the Japanese aircraft carrier he just torpedoed had picked up several crew members from its sister sub USS Sculpin that had been sunk days earlier. This is the story of the events that led to this amazing twist of fate.

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