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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...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
x, 493 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An award-winning journalist follows up his New York Times bestseller American Carnage with this profoundly troubling portrait of the American evangelical movement in which he investigates the ways in which conservative Christians have pursued, exercised and often abused power in the name of securing this earthly kingdom.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
476 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An award-winning British-Egyptian writer presents an authoritative history of the first modern city and how it has shaped our modern world, including its role as a global capital of knowledge as well as the site of plagues and violence.
Author
Publisher
Islandport Press
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
viii, 228 pages ; illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Wild! Weird! Wonderful! Maine. celebrates more than 300 of the natural wonders, characters, inventors, historical firsts, legends, and landmarks, that give the state its zest.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
352 pages : 8 pages of photographs; 65 illustrations; 1 map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the efforts of three scientists to observe the rare total solar eclipse of 1878, citing how the ambitions of James Craig Watson, Maria Mitchell, and Thomas Edison helped America's early pursuits as a scientific superpower.
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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"--
9) The map book
Publisher
Levenger Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
360 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 30 cm.
Language
English
10) 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
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
li, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked. Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone-Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London-reveals how the idea of "industrial murder" is incomplete: many were killed where they lived in the most brutal of ways. He...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
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
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
xx, 300 pages ; illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Taking readers across Europe, Africa and the Americas, this dramatic journey through 13 witch trials, some famous, some lesser-known, empowers the people who were and are victimized and marginalized, giving a voice to those who were silenced by history.
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...
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xix, 294 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
From a 1597 manual for witch hunters by King James to court papers from the Salem witch trials, primary source documents provide historical accounts of accused witches from medieval Europe to early-nineteenth century America.
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
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
xii, 372 pages ; illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When asked why true crime is so in vogue, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Amber Hunt always has the same answer: it's no hotter than it's always been. Crimes and trials have captured American consciousness since the Salem Witch Trials in the seventeenth century. And these cases over the centuries have fundamentally changed our society and shifted our legal system, resulting in the laws we have today and setting...