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Series
Publisher
Arcadia
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A fascinating journey through the history of Cambridge Springs and Edinboro, Pennsylvania with postcard images and anecdotes from the locals who experienced it.The penny postcard became popular during the years that mineral water therapy changed the quiet, rural town of Cambridge Springs into a popular resort town. Hotels and spas filled the area, and several daily trains brought guests to this world-class resort town. Hotels such as the Riverside,...
Author
Publisher
Arcadia
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations (maps) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Allegheny River of western Pennsylvania and New York rises in Potter County, Pennsylvania, and flows 320 miles to its confluence with the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh. The Allegheny's southern watershed district begins in East Brady, Pennsylvania, and ends in Pittsburgh, and it includes the historic Redbank Creek, Mahoning Creek, Crooked Creek, and Kiskiminetas River valleys. Along the Allegheny River: The Southern Watershed features over 200...
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Series
Publisher
Assembled and distributed by Chesterfield County Public Library
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
6 books (xvi, 294 pages ; 22 cm) + 1 discussion guide & accompanying materials in folder in bag
Language
English
Description
"A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning"--
4) An emancipation of the mind: radical philosophy, the war over slavery, and the refounding of America
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 374 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is a story about a dangerous idea-one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intellectuals to lead the abolition movement-the idea that all men are created equal"--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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This history of practitioners of "service magic" in medieval and early modern Europe reveals the central place they occupied in everyday life and how they helped soothe the anxieties of both commoners and nobles.
Author
Publisher
Allen Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, geopolitical dangers and an international system studded with catastrophic risk - the early decades of the 21st century may be one of the most revolutionary periods in modern history. But they are not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What makes an age a revolutionary one? And how do they end?In this major new work, Fareed Zakaria...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
678 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A history of England from the Norman Conquest through the twentieth century, told through the stories of ordinary women"--
Author
Publisher
Barnes and Noble Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Expanded version ; Revision no. 2.
Physical Desc
205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The History of Pierpont, Ohio is the story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. It's stories like that of Amos Huntley, not only was he a pioneer that opened this land, he was a veteran of the American Revolution, having answered the call of the Lexington Alarm in the opening battle of the war. Of Mary Turner, who buried her young daughter and later saw her four sons fight in the Battle of Nashville and all survive to come home.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 293 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, Prasad explores the global, natural, and cultural history (and future) of a unique material that has fascinated the world for thousands of years"--
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xx, 233 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Told chronologically and divided into ten decades, The American Teacher sheds light on the important role that teachers have played in this country over the last one hundred years. It is parsed through the voices of educators, intellectuals, and journalists who have weighed in on its many different dimensions from the 1920s to today"--
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
341 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of the women of Bletchley Park, Britain's top secret code-breaking school, is told through exclusive interviews with the women who served their country, and the impact that their service had on the rest of their lives. Based on extensive interviews conducted specifically for this book, Tessa Dunlop tells the story of the Bletchley Girls through the lives of 15 women who were all selected to work in Britain's most secret World War II organization...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time. For over the past century and a half, and still more rapidly in the last seventy years, the world has become increasingly urban, and the peasant way of life-the dominant way of life for humanity since agriculture began well over 6,000 years ago-is disappearing. In this new history of peasantry,...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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"As early as 1530, reports of El Dorado, a city of gold in the South American interior, beckoned to European explorers. Whether there was any truth to the stories remained to be seen, but the allure of unimaginable riches was enough to ensnare dozens of would-be heroes and glory hounds in the desperate hunt. Among them was Sir Walter Raleigh: ambitious courtier, confidant to Queen Elizabeth, and, before long, El Dorado fanatic. Entering the Elizabethan...
17) Throne of grace: a mountain man, an epic adventure, and the bloody conquest of the American West
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. Who inhabits this vast new garden of Eden? What strange beasts and natural formations can be found? Thus...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas, the first principals in the Dance Theatre of Harlem, who traveled the world as highly celebrated stars in their field and whose legacy was erased from history until now. At the height of the Civil Rights movement, Lydia Abarça was a Black prima ballerina with a major international dance company-the Dance Theatre of Harlem. She was the first Black ballerina on the cover of Dance magazine,...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Language
English
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NYT - Audio Nonfiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction
NYT - Audio Nonfiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction
Description
"On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
xxx, 718 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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In this magisterial history of the continent, Kathleen DuVal traces the power of Native nations from the rise of ancient cities more than 1000 years ago to the present. She reframes North American history, noting significantly that Indigenous civilizations did not come to a halt when a few wandering explorers or hungry settlers arrived, even when the strangers came well-armed. A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the...