Washoe County Library System

"This updated edition of the essential collection of historic writings by pre-eminent scientists and historians who bore witness to the birth of the modern nuclear age now includes President Barack Obama's 2016 statement at Hiroshima, all-new writings from Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb, and a new preface by Cynthia C. Kelly"-- "On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first atomic bomb, discover new reflections on the Manhattan Project from...

"The largely untold story of the great migration of white southerners to the industrial Midwest and its profound and enduring political and social consequences Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work. The 'hillbilly highway' was one of the largest internal...