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Bruns, Roger.

Summary: Collects speeches, memos, and other documents written for the possibility of failure in wars and foreign relations throughout American history, left unsaid and unpublished due to turn of events and sudden changes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 BRU

Armstrong, Jennifer

Summary: One hundred brief stories about real people and occurences in American history, arranged in chronological order by year from 1565 to 2000

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A. A. Knopf 2006

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973 ARM

McMahon, Sharon

14 holds on 3 copies

Summary: "From America's favorite government teacher, a heartfelt, inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country. In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn't make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thesis 2024

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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Summary: More than 450 accounts of the myriad customs, beliefs, legends, languages, adventures, and traditions that helped form America, illustrated with over 700 photographs, paintings, and engravings.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1993

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 DIS

Jones, Kimberly (Kimberly Latrice)

Summary: "A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, "How Can We Win.""--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 JON

Axelrod, Alan

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 AZE

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.1 I

Lankford, Andrea.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Santa Monica Press 2006

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Brooks, Rosa

Summary: A former top Pentagon official, daughter of anti-war activists, wife of an Army Green Beret and human rights activist presents a scholarly examination of how a constant state of war is contrary to America's founding values, undermines international rules and compromises future security. --Publisher

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 BRO

Davis, Kenneth C.

Summary: Explores America's hidden history in the first half of the nineteenth century, one of the most tumultuous but overlooked periods in the nation's early history. In the dramatic period from 1800 through 1850, the United States emerged from its inauspicious beginning as a newborn nation, to a near-empire that spanned the continent.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.09 DAV

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist USA Davis

Boller, Paul F.

Summary: "Presidential Campaigns devotes a chapter to each of America's elections, from George Washington's in 1789 to George W. Bush's in 2000, dealing with the candidates, the conventions, the party platforms, the speeches, and the reasons for the victories and defeats on election day. The book contains campaign highlights, too, singling out for special attention the gaffes, surprises, dramatic...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 BOL

DeRamus, Betty.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.7115 DER

DeRamus, Betty.

Summary: Slave couples who ran away together, a white woman who escaped with her slaves and an underground railroad that sometimes ran in reverse.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7115 DER

Jefferson, Margo

Summary: "Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a nervous system with pieces of different lengths and tone, conjoining arts writing (poem, song, performance) with life writing (history, psychology). The book's structure is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, MARGO JEF

Ellis, Joseph J.

Summary: Includes material on John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ELL

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 ELL

Drayton, Tiffanie

Summary: "After following her mother to the US at a young age to pursue economic opportunities, one woman must come to terms with the ways in which systematic racism and resultant trauma keep the American Dream inaccessible to Black people. In the early '90s, young Tiffanie Drayton and her siblings left Trinidad and Tobago to join their mother in New Jersey, where she'd been making her way as a domestic...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DRAYTON, TIFFANIE DRA

Rappaport, Doreen.

Contents: Preparing for war : The soldier with the pen : Peter Brown -- The oath : Francis Salvador -- "Yours, Portia" : Abigail Adams -- The decision : George Washington -- Tarnation Sybil! : Sybil Ludington -- A question of justice : Grace Growden Galloway -- The spy : James Armistead -- The recruit : Robert Shurtliff.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.3 RAP

Bird, Kai

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005

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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OPPENHEIMER, J. ROBERT BIR

Thomas, William G.

Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 THO

Makos, Adam

Summary: Adapted for young adults from the New York Times best-seller, this gripping true account of a WWII American tank gunner, who met his destiny in an armor duel and forged an enduring bond with his enemy, brings to life the perils of war.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SMO

O'Donnell, Patrick K.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "From the bestselling author of The Indispensables, the unknown and dramatic story of irregular guerrilla warfare that altered the course of the Civil War and inspired the origins of America's modern special operations forces. The Civil War is most remembered for the grand battles that have come to define it: Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, among others. However, as bestselling author Patrick K....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 O'DO

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