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22. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin. This book is a powerful exploration of race relations in America in the early 1960s. The author presents his experiences and observations in the form of two essays. The first is a letter to his 14-year-old nephew, discussing the role of race in American history.
Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference. Bibliography of Benjamin Franklin. Big Miracle (book) Big Trouble (Lukas book) Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues. The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom. The Black History of the White House. Black Reconstruction in America. Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham.
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- Team of Rivals. The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Doris Kearns Goodwin | 5.00. Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.
- A People's History of the United States. Howard Zinn | 4.91. "A wonderful, splendid book--a book that should be ready by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." --
- 1776. David McCullough | 4.87. In this stirring book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence, when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.
- Unbroken. A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption. Laura Hillenbrand | 4.84. In her long-awaited new book, Laura Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in Seabiscuit.
At the time of the American founding, there were about half a million slaves in the United States, mostly in the five southernmost states, where they made up 40% of the population. Many of the leading American founders – most notably Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and James Madison – owned slaves, but many others did not. Benjamin ...
The history of books became an acknowledged academic discipline in the 1980s. Contributions to the field have come from textual scholarship, codicology, bibliography, philology, palaeography, art history, social history and cultural history. Its key purpose is to demonstrate that the book as an object, not just the text contained within it, is ...
This is a list of the images that were published in the 1904 edition of David H. Montgomery's The Beginner's American History. The images are listed in order of appearance. The images are listed in order of appearance.
