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Defining a Nation: Our America and the Sources of Its Strength
David Halberstam
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October 1, 2003
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Bestselling author and Pulitzer winner Halberstam brings together a powerhouse list of journalists and scholars to consider why America, "for all its flaws, for all the things I dissent from, remains so powerful a beacon to so many of the less favored of t...
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Lewis & Clark: Voyage of Discovery
Sam Abell
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March 1, 2002
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In his preface, Stephen E. Ambrose describes the expedition of Lewis and Clark across the North American continent and back (from May 1804 to December 1806) as "the greatest camping trip of all time, and the greatest hunting trip. And one of the greates...
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Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture
Howard Dodson
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February 1, 2003
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This is that rare title that effortlessly spans audience and age-group divides while it popularizes serious and compelling scholarship, in this case challenging widely held conceptions about modern culture in the Americas. In clean, almost terse prose Dods...
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Voices of War: Stories of Service from the Home Front and the Front Lines
Thomas Wiener
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November 1, 2004
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Chosen from among the more than 30,000 oral histories collected by the Library of Congress's Veterans History Project, these first-person impressions of some 60 men and women who took part in the U.S.'s most salient 20th-century conflicts...
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Africana Woman: Her Story Through Time
Cynthia Jacobs Carter
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November 1, 2003
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A compendium of critical female figures from the African Diaspora is an excellent idea; the book succeeds in offering a range of biographies, from Hatshepsut of Egypt-who was wed to her half-brother and later usurped his throne-through Mary Todd Lincoln's ...
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Cradle & Crucible: History and Faith in the Middle East
David Fromkin
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February 1, 2004
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It is commonplace to remark with wonder on the reasons for the continued violent unrest in the Middle East. The contributors to this tremendously helpful survey of the history of the region provide illumination in short, focused essays on topics ranging fr...
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The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation: From the Louisiana Purchase to Today
Stephen E. Ambrose
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October 1, 2002
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"The Mississippi River alone represents more than 2,350 miles of America's lifeblood," write Ambrose and Brinkley of the waterway known as Old Man River and America's River. This lively narrative is built around the authors' trip up the Mississippi from Ne...
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On the Move: Transportation and the American Story
Janet F. Davidson
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November 18, 2003
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Davidson and Sweeney treat their topic, transportation in America, in terms of both its technical aspects and its cultural impact. The authors rely on three popularizing techniques. One method is their use of illustrative material depicting representative ...
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Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age
Tom D. Crouch
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May 1, 2003
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This is the latest book marking the hundredth anniversary of the Wright brothers' epic flight at Kitty Hawk. Crouch and Jakab, curators at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, trace the brothers' lives from their early years in Dayton, Ohio, and ...
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Battlegrounds : Geography and the Art of Warfare
Michael Stephenson
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September 9, 2003
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Thirteen sections, each featuring a type of terrain or geographical feature, assess geography's role in determining military strategy and tactics. Extensively illustrated with maps and photos, each chapter contains two to four short summaries of battles or...
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K-19 THE WIDOWMAKER: The Secret Story of The Soviet Nuclear Submarine
Peter Huchthausen
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July 1, 2002
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A companion to the feature film of the same name, K-19: The Widowmaker tells the hair-raising story of the Soviet submarine that nearly caused a nuclear meltdown in 1961. The sub developed a leak as it was heading toward the North Atlantic, and only the in...
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Return to Midway
Rick Archbold
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October 1, 1999
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On the morning of June 7, 1942, six months to the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the USS ...
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Collision With History: The Search for John F. Kennedy's PT 109
Robert D. Ballard
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November 26, 2002
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On a foggy August night in 1943, the future President's PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer in the Solomon Islands. Two of the 13-man crew died in the action, which cut their boat in two. Kennedy acquitted himself well in the aftermath,...
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Return to Titanic
Michael S. Sweeney
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November 1, 2004
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Expeditions to find Titanic began in 1953, but all of them failed until 1985, when Ballard (in collaboration with French explorer Jean-Louis Michel) pinpointed the ship's location and photographed it in detail. Since then, Ballard has retained a deep emotional connection to Titanic. "The ship wouldn't change much in ...
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Egypt of the Pharaohs
Kenneth Garrett
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October 1, 2001
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The Egyptians gave us the great pyramids, the Sphinx, magnificent treasures, and some of the most beautiful art and architecture in history. Brian Fagan, a renowned lecturer and professor of archaeology, makes this ancient civilization come alive, taking the reader on an unforgettable journey, spanning 6,000 years, into the ...
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