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Brown, Henry Billings 1836-1913 Harlan, John Marshall 1833-1911 History Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Packard, E. P. W. (Elizabeth Parsons Ware) 1816-1897 Politics and government Revolutionaries Slave trade United States History 19th century Tourgée, Albion W 1838-1905 United StatesHead, David
Summary: On March 15, 1783, General George Washington addressed a group of angry officers in an effort to rescue the American Revolution from mutiny at the highest level. After the British surrender at Yorktown, the American Revolution still blazed on, and as peace was negotiated in Europe, grave problems surfaced at home. The government was broke, paying its debts with loans from France. Political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.339 HEAGoldstone, Lawrence
Summary: "On December 7, 1941 -- "a date which will live in infamy" -- the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 341.6 GOLLuxenberg, Steve
Summary: Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the nineteenth century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the twenty-first. Separate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 342.73 LUXWhite, April
Summary: "From a historian and senior writer and editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.89 WHIFeldman, Noah
Summary: "An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time. The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 342.73 FONMoore, Kate
Summary: "1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and outspokenness, her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her and makes a plan to put her back in her place. One summer morning, he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PACKARD, E.P.W. MOOFields-Black, Edda L.
Summary: "In the spring and summer of 1863, as the outcome of the Civil War, and with it the fate of the nation, hung in the balance, Union forces struggled to capture the offensive. One promising place was along the coastal waters of South Carolina. A year and a half earlier, the Union Navy had taken the port cities of Port Royal and Beaufort, where the Union then made plans to attack the expansive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 FIEFoner, Eric
Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar comes a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 FONMay, Gregory
Summary: "The untold saga of John Randolph's 383 slaves, freed in his much-contested will of 1821, finally comes to light. Few legal cases in American history are as riveting as the controversy surrounding the will of Virginia Senator John Randolph (1773-1833), which-almost inexplicably-freed all 383 of his slaves in one of the largest and most publicized manumissions in American history. So famous is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 MAYBryant, Jonathan M.
Summary: A professor of history who specializes in slavery and constitutional law investigates one of the most significant--and unjustly forgotten--Supreme Court cases in American history involving the slave ship Antelope and the three hundred African lives at stake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 BRYMicklos, John
Summary: "The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 nearly doubled the size of the United States. The U.S. suddenly went from consisting of 17 states along the Atlantic coast to claiming land as far west as present-day Montana. The U.S. government knew little about the terrain there. Was there a water route to the Pacific? President Thomas Jefferson sent William Clark and Meriwether Lewis to find out. With nothing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 917.804 MICEscott, Paul D.
Summary: "Throughout the Civil War, newspaper headlines and stories repeatedly asked some variation of the question posed by the New York Times in 1862, "What shall we do with the negro?" The future status of African Americans was a pressing issue for both those in the North and in the South. Consulting a broad range of contemporary newspapers, magazines, books, army records, government documents,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Virginia Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 ESCHarris, Duchess
Summary: "The Thirteenth Amendment is one of the most important acts in the legal history of the United States. It is often said that the amendment abolished slavery. But its legacy is more complicated than that. The Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery except as a form of punishment. Southerners seized on this loophole. They unjustly arrested thousands of Black people. Black convicts were forced to do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J325.2609 HARCollier, Victoria L.
Contents: Basic training : preliminary information you should know -- Secret money for seniors -- Application process for improved pension benefits -- Health care benefits -- Burial benefits -- Getting help -- Attorney's fees -- Resources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collier Communications 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.8682 COLLuxenberg, Steve
Summary: Documents the story of the infamous nineteenth-century Supreme Court ruling in favor of segregation, tracing the half-century of history that shaped the ruling and the reverberations that are still being felt today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 LUXCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Blk LuxenbergWells, Jonathan Daniel
Summary: "Although slavery was outlawed in the northern states in 1827, the illegal slave trade continued in the one place modern readers would least expect, the streets and ports of America's great northern metropolis: New York City. In 'The Kidnapping Club,' historian Jonathan Daniel Wells takes readers to a rapidly changing city rife with contradiction, where social hierarchy clashed with a rising...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 WELGutzman, Kevin R. C. (Kevin Raeder Constantine)
Summary: "A lively and essential chronicle of the only consecutive trio of two-term presidencies of the same political party in American history, from the bestselling author of Thomas Jefferson - Revolutionary and James Madison. Before the consecutive two-term administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, there had only been one other trio of its type: Thomas Jefferson,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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Summary: Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 WHIHurston, Zora Neale
Summary: In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.3 HURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.3 HURBrockenbrough, Martha
Summary: "A timely and important picture book that introduces readers to Wong Kim Ark, who challenged the Supreme Court for his right to be an American citizen"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ARKChaffin, Tom
Summary: Thomas Jefferson first met the Marquis de Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state's governor, in fighting off the British. The two could not have seemed more different. When Jefferson moved to Paris three years later as a diplomat, speaking little French and in need of a partner, their friendship began in earnest....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 CHADurkin, Hannah
Summary: "Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors-the last documented survivors of any slave ship-whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: Provides practical tips for navigating the workplace while pregnant or being a new parent, covering such topics as morning sickness, maternity leave, and discrimination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014