Bjornlund, Lydia D.

Summary: Examines the forced removal of Cherokee Indians from their native lands to the Oklahoma Territory, their subsequent history, and the legacy of these events.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 BJO

Bartlett, Irving H.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crowell 1967

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 BAR

Edwards, Judith.

Summary: Slaves rebelled and sometimes ran away from their plantations. Abolitionists battled to win victories in Congress to help free the slaves but the actions of both slaves and abolitionists helped lead to Civil War.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 326.8 EDW

Erdosh, George

Summary: Describes the kinds of foods commonly consumed by colonists, including soldiers, during the time of the American Revolutionary War. Includes recipes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 1997

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.5974 ERD

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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenhaven Press 1992

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973.3 AME

Collison, Campbell.

Summary: Readers learn how to make their own cowboy hats, gold nugget pouches, and woven baskets as they explore the history of the American West! These crafts and more are shown to readers through step-by-step instructions and helpful photographs of the process and the finished product. The included crafts are meant to enhance the lessons readers learn about the settlement of the West, including the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press Pub. 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978 COL

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne

Summary: "Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally-recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 DUN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 DUN

McGowen, Tom.

Summary: Details the pivotal role that George Washington played during the American Revolution and the consequences of his involvement.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2004

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.3 MAC

Bronski, Michael

Summary: "A Queer History of the United States is groundbreaking and accessible. It looks at how American culture has shaped the LGBT, or queer, experience, while simultaneously arguing that LGBT people not only shaped but were pivotal in creating our country. Using numerous primary documents and literature, as well as social histories, Bronski's book takes the reader through the centuries--from...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.766 BRO

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.766 BRO

Erdosh, George

Summary: Describes some of the foods prepared in the various areas of what would become the United States during the colonial period. Includes recipes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 1997

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.5973 ERD

Franzen, Trisha

Summary: "Acknowledged by her contemporaries as the most outstanding woman suffrage orator of her time, Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) has nonetheless received minimal attention from historians. Trisha Franzen rectifies that oversight with this first scholarly biography of Shaw, a study that illuminates Shaw's oft-ignored early years and challenges existing scholarship on her time in the suffrage...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAW, HOWARD ANNA FRA

Nielsen, Kim E.

Summary: Covers the entirety of U.S. disability history, from pre-1492 to the present. Disability is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. It places the experiences of people with disabilities at the center of the American narrative. In many ways, it's a familiar telling. In other ways, however, it is a radical...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4 NIE

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4 NIE

Stein, R. Conrad.

Summary: Discusses the events surrounding the D-Day invasion of Europe by Allied Forces on June 6, 1944.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2004

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 940.54 STE

Archer, Richard

Summary: Perhaps nothing did more to foment anti-British sentiment than the armed occupation of Boston. This is Richard Archer's narrative of those critical months between October 1, 1768 and the winter of 1770 when Boston was an occupied town. Archer moves deftly between the governor's mansion and cobblestoned back-alleys as he traces the origins of the colonists' conflict with Britain. He reveals the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 ARC

Franklin, John Hope

Summary: Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation, to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. This book offers a portrait of her extended family and of the life of slaves before the Civil War. Based on family letters as well as an autobiography by one of her sons, the detective work follows a singular group as they walk the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.2 FRA

Altschuler, Glenn C.

Contents: All shook up : popular music and American culture, 1945-1955 -- Brown-eyed handsome man : rock 'n' roll and race -- Great balls of fire : rock 'n' roll and sexuality -- Yakety yak, don't talk back : rock 'n' roll and generational conflict -- Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news : rock 'n' roll and the pop culture wars -- The day the music died : rock 'n' roll's lull and revival --...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 ALT

Davidson, James West.

Contents: Into a changing world -- A moral education -- Unladylike lady -- Edged tools -- Ambition to edit -- They say -- Do something -- Exiled.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WELLS, IDA DAV

Labunski, Richard E.

Contents: The Philadelphia Convention -- The reluctant candidate -- The road to Richmond -- The Virginia Ratifying Convention -- The ratification vote -- The anti-federalists fight back -- The election -- Madison introduces the Bill of Rights -- Congress proposes the Bill of Rights -- Ratification of the Bill of Rights.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 LAB

West, Elliott

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.83 WES

Abranowicz, William

Summary: "This collection revisits key people and places in the civil rights movement, with photographs of locations throughout the south where significant events occurred during the Freedom Movement. The roughly 125 color photographs in the book range from portraits of prominent figures like John Lewis and Harry Belafonte to the barn where Emmett Till was murdered and the bus station where Freedom...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2021

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 323.0973 ABR

Baker, Emerson W.

Summary: "Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters. Believing that they suffered from assaults by an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.744 BAK

Douglass, Frederick

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press 1993

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 Dou

Crisp, James E.

Contents: Sam Houston's speechwriters -- With Santa Anna in Texas -- Looking for Davy -- The paintbrush and the knife.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.403 CRI