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1) Stalin: the first in-depth biography based on explosive new documents from Russia's secret archives
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
The author of the best-seller, The Last Tsar, presents a dramatic new version of the life of the Soviet dictator, based on recently recovered documents from Russia's secret archives, including the files of the former KGB.--
Author
Language
English
Description
"As a columnist for the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri has watched in real time as those who didn't learn from history have been forced to repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it. If we repeat history one more time, we're going to fail! Maybe it's time for a new textbook. Alexandra Petri's US History contains a lost (invented!) history of America. (A history for people disappointed that the only president whose weird sex letters we have is Warren...
4) Jesus
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With reverence, splendid majesty, and grace, award-winning artist Demi celebrates the life of Jesus and creates a book to be treasured for all time.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A single photograph-an exceptionally rare "action shot" documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family-drives a riveting process of discovery for a gifted Holocaust scholar"--
This book is about the potential of discovery that exists, if we choose to delve into it. It is also about the voids that exist in the history of genocide. Perpetrators of genocide not only kill, they seek to erase the victims from the written records and...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
In a rural settlement 20 miles or so from Tuskegee in east-central Alabama [they] found him - the man Theodore Rosengarten calls Nate Shaw - a black man, 84 years old, in full possession of every moment of his life and every facet of its meaning. Nate Shaw's father was born under slavery. Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour. At the age of forty-seven,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning historian recounts the history of American liberty through the stories of twelve essential documents. Nationalism is inevitable: It supplies feelings of belonging, identity, and recognition. It binds us to our neighbors and tells us who we are. But increasingly-from the United States to India, from Russia to Burma-nationalism is being invoked for unworthy ends: to disdain minorities or to support despots. As a result, nationalism...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories -- from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address -- to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of printing.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A collection of one hundred documents that were important in the development of the United States from its founding to 1965, including the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and lesser-known writings. A collection of one hundred documents that were important in the development of the United States from its founding to 1965, including the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and lesser-known writings. Annotation. Our Documents is a collection...
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A literary exhibition of 101 objects from across the Smithsonian's museums that together offer a marvelous new perspective on the history of the United States. Ranging from the earliest years of the pre-Columbian continent to the digital age, and from the American Revolution to Vietnam, each entry pairs the fascinating history surrounding each object with the story of its creation or discovery and the place it has come to occupy in our national memory.--...
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