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The Cold War, Prohibition, the Gold Rush, the Space Race. Every part of your life - the words you speak, the ideas you share - can be traced to our history, but how well do you really know the stories that made America? We'll take you to the events, the times and the people that shaped our nation. A...
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This Land Is Their Land
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Thundersticks
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The Origin of Species
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An Old Fashioned Girl
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The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean
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Edgar Poe and His Critics
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Diana
Her True Story, Fully Revised 25th Anniversary Edition (Thorndike Press Large Print Biographies & Memoirs Series)
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Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt
The book, Records of the Salem Witch Hunt, uses official court records to paint a picture of what the Salem witch trials were like. It is available now from Cambridge University Press.
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Now, your book, Records of the Salem Witch Hunt, uses the official court records to try to paint a picture of what the trials were like.
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The book, Records of the Salem Witch Hunt, uses official court records to paint a picture of what the Salem witch trials were like. It is available now from Cambridge University Press.
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Now, your book, Records of the Salem Witch Hunt, uses the official court records to try to paint a picture of what the trials were like.
That was my conversation with Margo Burns, project manager and associate editor of Records of the Salem Witch Hunt, the definitive collection of transcriptions of the legal records related to the Salem witch trials, available now from Cambridge University Press.
The Origin Of Species
150th Anniversary Edition
The book was mentioned as outlining the theories of evolution and natural selection, which the Methodist minister in the story strongly disagreed with.
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He is carrying a new edition of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking book On The Origin Of Species, which outlines the theories of evolution and natural selection.
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The book was mentioned as outlining the theories of evolution and natural selection, which the Methodist minister in the story strongly disagreed with.
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He is carrying a new edition of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking book On The Origin Of Species, which outlines the theories of evolution and natural selection.
The Wee Free Men
Discworld Hardback Library (Discworld Novels)
This book was recommended for further information on the Plessy v. Ferguson case.
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For more information on Plessy v. Ferguson, we recommend We as Free Men by Keith Weldon Medley.
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This book was recommended for further information on the Plessy v. Ferguson case.
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For more information on Plessy v. Ferguson, we recommend We as Free Men by Keith Weldon Medley.
Without Precedent
Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
The book tells the story of John Marshall and the early Supreme Court.
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For more information on John Marshall and the early Supreme Court, we recommend Without Precedent by Joel Richard Paul.
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The book tells the story of John Marshall and the early Supreme Court.
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For more information on John Marshall and the early Supreme Court, we recommend Without Precedent by Joel Richard Paul.
What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20
A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World by Seelig, Tina (2010) Paperback
The book examines the end of Reconstruction and how Black scholars and communities have challenged the Lost Cause narrative.
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She's an assistant professor of U.S. and African American history at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the author of the upcoming book, They Knew What the War Was About, African Americans and t...
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The book examines the end of Reconstruction and how Black scholars and communities have challenged the Lost Cause narrative.
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She's an assistant professor of U.S. and African American history at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the author of the upcoming book, They Knew What the War Was About, African Americans and the Memory of the Civil War.
That was my conversation with Professor Ashley Lawrence Sanders, author of the forthcoming book. They knew what the war was about, African-Americans and the memory of the Civil War.
Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880
Du Bois's book challenged the Dunning School's interpretation of Reconstruction, arguing that it was not a failure due to Black people's unpreparedness for freedom.
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Du Bois, he writes Black Reconstruction in the 1930s, and he completely turns the Dunning School on its head and says, no, the Reconstruction era did not fail because Black people were ill-prepared fo...
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Du Bois's book challenged the Dunning School's interpretation of Reconstruction, arguing that it was not a failure due to Black people's unpreparedness for freedom.
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Du Bois, he writes Black Reconstruction in the 1930s, and he completely turns the Dunning School on its head and says, no, the Reconstruction era did not fail because Black people were ill-prepared for freedom.
And what Du Bois writes in this really centering Black freed people as part of this reconstruction study actually forms the foundation of Eric Foner's Reconstruction, which is what people consider the seminal book about Reconstruction now.
But at the time when Du Bois writes this, it doesn't get the mainstream attention.
What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20
A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World by Seelig, Tina (2010) Paperback
A book discussing the legacy of Reconstruction and how African Americans worked to counter the lost cause narrative of the defeated Confederacy.
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Her upcoming book is called, They Knew What The War Was About, African Americans and the Memory of the Civil War.
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A book discussing the legacy of Reconstruction and how African Americans worked to counter the lost cause narrative of the defeated Confederacy.
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Her upcoming book is called, They Knew What The War Was About, African Americans and the Memory of the Civil War.
Harvesting Hope
The Story of Cesar Chavez
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez was recommended for learning more about the United Farm Workers.
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If you'd like to learn more about the United Farm Workers, we recommend The Crusades of Cesar Chavez, a biography by Miriam Powell, and Cesar Chavez, a biography by Roger Bruns.
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The Crusades of Cesar Chavez was recommended for learning more about the United Farm Workers.
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If you'd like to learn more about the United Farm Workers, we recommend The Crusades of Cesar Chavez, a biography by Miriam Powell, and Cesar Chavez, a biography by Roger Bruns.
From the Jaws of Victory
The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement
It was recommended along with "Tramping Out the Vintage" to learn more about the United Farm Workers.
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If you would like to learn more about the United Farm Workers, we recommend From the Jaws of Victory by Matthew Garcia and Tramping Out the Vintage by Frank Barticke.
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It was recommended along with "Tramping Out the Vintage" to learn more about the United Farm Workers.
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If you would like to learn more about the United Farm Workers, we recommend From the Jaws of Victory by Matthew Garcia and Tramping Out the Vintage by Frank Barticke.
Tramping Out the Vintage
It was recommended along with "From the Jaws of Victory" to learn more about the United Farm Workers.
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If you would like to learn more about the United Farm Workers, we recommend From the Jaws of Victory by Matthew Garcia and Tramping Out the Vintage by Frank Barticke.
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It was recommended along with "From the Jaws of Victory" to learn more about the United Farm Workers.
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If you would like to learn more about the United Farm Workers, we recommend From the Jaws of Victory by Matthew Garcia and Tramping Out the Vintage by Frank Barticke.
America's Social Arsonist
Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century
It was recommended as a source to learn more about the United Farm Workers.
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If you'd like to learn more about the United Farm Workers, we recommend The Crusades of Cesar Chavez, a biography by Miriam Powell, and America's Social Arsonist, Fred Ross and Grassr...
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It was recommended as a source to learn more about the United Farm Workers.
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If you'd like to learn more about the United Farm Workers, we recommend The Crusades of Cesar Chavez, a biography by Miriam Powell, and America's Social Arsonist, Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the 20th Century by Gabriel Thompson.
The Disasters
The molasses flood was mentioned in a small section of a children's book titled "That's Incredible Disasters", describing it as a bizarre and strange disaster.
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I remember first learning about the Great Molasses Flood in a small quarter page portion of a slim children's book called That's Incredible Disasters.
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The molasses flood was mentioned in a small section of a children's book titled "That's Incredible Disasters", describing it as a bizarre and strange disaster.
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I remember first learning about the Great Molasses Flood in a small quarter page portion of a slim children's book called That's Incredible Disasters.
Dark Tide
Growing Up With Ted Bundy
It was recommended to learn more about the Boston Molasses Flood, especially the history of the North End and the attempt to implicate anarchists in the tank's collapse.
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If you'd like to learn more about this story, we recommend Dark Tide, The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo.
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It was recommended to learn more about the Boston Molasses Flood, especially the history of the North End and the attempt to implicate anarchists in the tank's collapse.
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If you'd like to learn more about this story, we recommend Dark Tide, The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo.
The Sugar King of California
The Life of Claus Spreckels
It was discussed as a book about the life of Hawaii's first and only queen, Liliuokalani, and how she fought annexation by the United States. It was mentioned that the book also covers her life after annexation and her legacy today.
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On the next episode, I'll speak with New York Times bestselling author Julia Flynn Seiler, author of Lost Kingdom, Hawaii's Last Queen, The Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure.
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It was discussed as a book about the life of Hawaii's first and only queen, Liliuokalani, and how she fought annexation by the United States. It was mentioned that the book also covers her life after annexation and her legacy today.
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On the next episode, I'll speak with New York Times bestselling author Julia Flynn Seiler, author of Lost Kingdom, Hawaii's Last Queen, The Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure.
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