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Shocking revelations of a wife's adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposing upper-crust New York society and its secrets.
"Shocking revelations of a wife's adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposing upper-crust New York society and its secrets. What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch's country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there together?...
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"When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome of underlying conditions such as a faltering economy, social tensions, or the influence of Enlightenment thought. But what did Parisians themselves think they were doing--how did they understand...
3) The United States of English: the American language from colonial times to the twenty-first century
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"The United States of English tells the story of American speech from its earliest beginnings to its current state. Topics covered include the following: the foundations of American English, beginning with the earliest word adoptions; the origins of regional dialects; how the vocabulary developed; an exploration of American slang and language creation outside the mainstream, including internet-related; typical American grammatical structures and how...
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"In 1945 Malaya, when her family is in terrible danger due to a choice she made 10 years earlier, Cecily Alcantara, who was lured into a life of espionage for the invading Japanese forces during World War II, finds her actions catching up with her and will do anything to save those she loves"--
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The history of Rome has long been narrow and one-sided, essentially a history of The Doing of Important Things, and as far as Roman historians have been concerned, women don't make that history. From Romulus through "the political stab-fest of the late Republic, and then on to all the emperors, Roman historians may deign to give you a wife or a mother to show how bad things become when women get out of control, but history is more than that. Emma...
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"In this remarkable and enlivening study, Stefanos Geroulanos traces the development of our modern fascination with humanity's deep past, and lays out that fascination's deadly costs." --Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century An eminent historian tells the story of how we came to obsess over the origins of humanity--and how, for three centuries, ideas of prehistory have been used to justify devastating violence...
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2023
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In The History of Halloween, Naveah and her two brothers learn about this history from two mysterious Jack-o-lantern-headed figures who claim to have celebrated Halloween for centuries. Through their stories, the siblings learn the origins of many common Halloween traditions in the United States, including trick-or-treating, costumes, and Jack-o-lanterns.
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2023
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This comic written by students of Arvada High School (Arvarda, CO) tells the story of the East L.A. Walkouts of 1968, detailing how thousands of Los Angeles students, legendary teacher Sal Castro, and others helped spark the Chicano movement for justice by organizing to end discriminatory practices and substandard education for Hispanic, Latinx, and Chicano students in L.A. schools.
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2023
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Explore the story of the Harlem Renaissance and meet some of the Black writers, artists, and other creators whose work sparked a cultural revolution.
This comic and teaching guide look at the history and social factors leading up to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s and introduces readers to prominent figures such as W.E.B. Dubois, the poets Langston Hughes, Claude MacKay, and Gwendolyn Bennett, the painter Aaron Douglas, the photographer...
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