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[2003]
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"First published in Spanish in 1911, this little-known biography of a late nineteenth and early twentieth century Colorado legislator is significant not just as an account of an accomplished politicians's career, but as the story of a life shaped by issues of race and class. Barela was born in New Mexico just before it became a U.S. territory, and his biography appeared just before New Mexico attained statehood.
His biographer, clearly promoting...
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©2003
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"Lewis and Clark: Across the Divide expands and transforms this familiar story by exploring the social and cultural landscapes the expedition traversed. Lewis and Clark: Across the Divide also follows the explorers' steps by reconstructing the richly physical worlds of the expeditions. Gathered in this volume are 400 illustrations, the results of a five-year enterprise to trace and authenticate the original artifacts, documents, maps, and artworks...
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2008.
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Media filters and personal preconceptions can make it hard to get a clear view of present-day Indian America. The reality is that the 500+ Native nations in the United States confront many of the same day-to-day challenges that are faced by other nations and communities--raising children with strong identities, practicing religion, providing economic sustenance, strengthening culture, managing business and governmental affairs, and protecting public...
290) A home on the field: how one championship team inspires hope for the revival of small town America
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[2006]
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The coach of North Carolina's 2004 state soccer championship winners traces how their victory was achieved in spite of many challenges, including prejudice in their small rural town, poverty, and ignorance.
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1997.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
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The bestselling author of "Stones from the River" breaks the silence which has haunted the lives of postwar German immigrants to tell the one story of the Holocaust readers have not been privy to--the legacy of shame and grief that shadows a people that can neither escape nor embrace its national heritage.
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2013
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Accessible text details the murderous policies that the Hitler and the Nazis inflicted upon Jews and other undesirables in occupied Europe during the Holocaust. For the first time in history, a modern industrial state harnessed modern production techniques exclusively to serve the goal of exterminating a peopleEuropean Jewry.
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[2016]
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In West Bank cities and small villages alike, men and women, young and old--a group of unforgettable characters--share their lives with Ehrenreich and make their own case for resistance and resilience in the face of life under occupation. Ruled by the Israeli military, set upon and harassed constantly by Israeli settlers who admit unapologetically to wanting to drive them from the land, forced to negotiate an ever more elaborate and more suffocating...
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[2021]
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" In 1944, at the height of World War II, 982 European refugees found a temporary haven at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York. They were men, women, and children who had spent frightening years one step ahead of Nazi pursuers and death. They spoke nineteen different languages, and, while most of the refugees were Jewish, a number were Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Protestant Christians. From the time they arrived at the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee...
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Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"Susan Lee Johnson's Roaring Camp explores the dynamic social world created by the gold rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Stockton. In it we find Mexican families like the Murrietas who worked the mines, did the wash, and rose up against Anglo rule. There are the California Indians who tried to maintain their customary practices even while helping to construct the sawmill at Sutter's fort where gold was discovered in 1848. We enter the all-male...
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