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Women, gender, and sexuality in American historyRidley, Scott.
Summary: Four years after the Revolutionary War, America's independence was still in doubt. The new nation needed money and a vital surge in trade. In 1787, a group of Boston merchants decided to send two ships on a desperate mission around Cape Horn and into the Pacific Ocean, to establish new trade with China, settle an outpost on territory claimed by the Spanish, and find the legendary Northwest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENDRICK, JOHN RidleyThaggert, 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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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.896 THAUrlocker, M. Z.
Summary: 1950. The Cold War simmers, and ex-GI Jack Waters is called in to investigate a fatal accident at a research lab in California. When Waters recognizes the victim, he realizes he must revisit his hidden past in World War II to solve a murder and prevent Nazi scientists from creating a terrible, new weapon in America. Blending noir detective fiction with post-WWII history, The Man from Mittelwerk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkshares, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC URLChadwick-Joshua, Jocelyn
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 1998