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Critiques 12 American history textbooks arguing that they contain misinformation, fail to connect present issues with past events, and lack suspense and drama. Retells events in American history to combat these problems.
42) The Texans
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Time-Life Books
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[1975]
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English
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Text and numerous illustrations trace the history of Texas during the nineteenth century.
44) The rising sun
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An account of the campaigns and battles between Japan and the Allied nations in the Pacific and Asia during World War II.
46) The first salute
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"A view of the American Revolution"--Dust jacket
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Scholastic
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[2016]
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English
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"Escape from the ordinary and break into Alcatraz, America's most famous prison! The island of Alcatraz has always been a place that's fascinated visitors, from the Native American tribes who believed it was home to evil spirits to the Spanish explorers who discovered the island. In modern times, it was a federal prison for only 29 years, but now draws over a million visitors each year. Learn the history of America's most famous prison, from its initial...
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Random House
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Chronicles the history of the Texas Rangers, dispelling myths, noting dark moments, and discussing their beginnings; their formal organization in 1835; their roles in the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, and war with the Comanches; and the changes wrought by the twentieth century.
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Graywolf Press
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"Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon--the legacy of P.T. Barnum's 'humbug' culminating with the currency of Donald J. Trump's 'fake news'. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, with race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice Heth, a black woman whom he pretended...
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Scribner
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[1994]
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English
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Dee Brown is most renowned for authoring the all-time bestselling book on the West, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", which has sold more than 5,000,000 copies in English and has had countless translations the world over. This was the first fully realized, sympathetic history of Native Americans and became an immediate classic.
Here, now, is "The American West", a brilliant account of America's most famous drama. By centering solely on three subjects,...
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The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21, a927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to cross the Atlantic by plane nonstop. This and much, much more transpired in the epochal summer of 1927, and Bill Bryson captures its outsized personalities, exciting events, and occasional just plain weirdness with his trademark vividness, eye for telling detail, and delicious humor.
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Cambridge University Press
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Germany provides what has not been available before: an accessible, single-volume account of German history from earliest times to today, presented both chronologically and thematically. The book succeeds in putting into perspective Germany's complex past without shirking the issues it raises. When did German history begin? Who is a German? How was it possible for such an advanced and civilized state to have been...
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2011
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Lured by the promise of land and opportunity, miners, cowhands, laborers, settlers and fortune-seekers poured into Colorado during the mid-to-late 19th Century and into the 20th. To accommodate the population boom, industrious Coloradoans built scores of hotels some elaborate, some modest, all a touchstone to this critical era in Centennial State history. Join Alexandra Walker Clark on this tour through Colorado's historic hotels. Discover how the...
59) Liberation
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Time-Life Books
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Picture essay of the liberation of Paris.
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