Duthu, N. Bruce.

Summary: Indian tribes have a legal status unique among America's racial and ethnic groups: they are also sovereign governments that engage in governmental relations with Congress. The self-rule of Native tribes long predates the founding of the United States, and that peculiar status has led to legal and political disputes--with vast sums of money hanging in the balance. From cigarette taxes to control...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008

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Hoxie, Frederick E.

Summary: Describes the Native American political activists who for two hundred years sought redress and change from the American government, and their place in shaping the modern political landscape for other activist movements.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012

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Witgen, Michael J.

Summary: "Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland in what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers of natural resources and buyers of trade goods,which made them key players in the political economy of plunder that drove white settlement and U.S. development in the Old Northwest. But, as...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture 2022

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Offspring (Musical group)

Contents: Welcome -- Have you ever -- Staring at the sun -- Pretty fly (for a white guy) -- The kids aren't alright -- Feelings -- She's got issues -- Walla walla -- The end of the line -- No brakes -- Why don't you get a job? -- Americana -- Pay the man.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1998

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Harper, Judith E.

Summary: Portrays the treatment and struggles of African Americans during the Revolutionary War and their contributions to the war effort.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022

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Holley, Santi Elijah

Summary: "A history of the rise and lasting impact of Black liberation groups in America, as seen through the Shakurs, one of the movement's most prominent and fiercely creative families, home to Tupac and Assata, and a powerful incubator for today's activism, scholarship, and artistry"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023

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Lemire, Jonathan

Summary: "A probing and illuminating analysis of current state of American politics, focusing on Donald Trump's lie about election fraud, by the White House Bureau Chief of Politico and the host of MSNBC's Way Too Early Donald Trump first tried it out in 2016, at an August rally in Ohio. He said that perhaps he wouldn't accept the election results in his race against Hillary Clinton, that the election...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022

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Hofstadter, Richard

Summary: "Here for the first time in a single authoritative annotated edition are two masterworks by one of America's greatest historians, Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970). In the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anti-intellectualism in American life (1963) and in The paranoid style in American politics (1965), Hofstadter offered groundbreaking and still urgent analyses of deep undercurrents in American life: a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2020

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Jacobs, Wilbur R.

Contents: Indian-white contact: background. The white man's frontier in American history: the impact upon the land and the Indian -- Unsavory sidelights on Colonial trade -- Wampum and the protocol of treaty-making -- White gift-giving: French skills in managing the Indians -- Indian-white contact: frontier conflicts. -- British Indian-white relations: Edmond Atkin's scheme for imperial control -- A...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1985

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Crytzer, Brady.

Summary: Through the life of Guyasuta, one of the period's most influential figures, the book traces how American Indians were affected by the wars leading to American Independence.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Contents: Introduction -- Paula Gunn Allen -- Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris -- Joy Harjo -- Linda Hogan -- N. Scott Momaday -- Simon Ortiz --Wendy Rose -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- Gerald Vizenor -- James Welch.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1990

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Davies, Ray

Contents: Americana (4:02) -- The deal (5:03) -- Poetry (5:05) -- Message from the road (2:57) -- A place in your heart (5:03) -- The mystery room (3:51) -- Silent movie (1:11) -- Rock 'n' roll cowboys (4:21) -- Change for change (3:23) -- The man upstairs (1:37) -- I've heard that beat before (4:03) -- A long drive home to Tarzana (4:59) -- The great highway (4:43) -- The invaders (3:47) -- Wings of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Recordings 2017

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Orchard, William C.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Museum 1975

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Summary: This original, eight-part series on four volumes, documents the history of American Indian achievement, its defining role in the growth of the country, and its influence on current events. The series highlights the many contributions of American Indians that have influenced and shaped the history of the United States.

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Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Ambrose Video Publishing 2008

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Pevar, Stephen L.

Contents: 1. A history of federal Indian policy -- 2. Definitions: Indian, Indian tribe, Indian country, and Indian title -- 3. The trust responsibility -- 4. Indian treaties -- 5. Federal power over Indian affairs -- 6. Tribal self-government -- 7. State power over Indian affairs -- 8. Criminal jurisdiction in Indian Country -- 9. Civil jurisdiction in Indian country -- 10. Taxation -- 11. Indian...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Illinois University Press 2002

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Thaggert, Miriam

Summary: "Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to 'ride Jim Crow' on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2022

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Schwartz, Thomas Alan

Summary: "A biography of American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020

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Schiavone, Michael.

Contents: The importance of the labor movement -- The rise and fall of organized labor -- Strategies to stop the decline -- SEIU and change to win : progressive or more of the same? -- Social justice unionism : a path to labor's renewal -- Nontraditional strategies -- Conclusion : a beginning.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Praeger 2008

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Willrich, Michael.

Summary: Chronicles how America's progressive era war on smallpox sparked one of the twentieth century's leading civil liberties battles, describing the views and tactics of anti-vaccine advocates who feared an increasingly large government.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2011

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Fowler, Loretta

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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2003

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Silbey, Joel H.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2002

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Thornton, Russell

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1987

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Brownell, Kathryn Cramer

Summary: "As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens across the nation. Yet over the next three decades, the expansion of a different technology, cable, changed all of this. 24/7 Politics tells the story of how the cable industry worked with political leaders to create an entirely new...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2023

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