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|  | Valley Forge by R. Conrad Stein
The Cornerstones of Freedom detail important events in United States history. Children are given the sense of being witnesses to history-in-the-making and contemporaries of famous people who helped shape the United States into the world power it is today. Starting with the Spring 1992 titles, a brand-new format has been introduced using more photographs (many in full-color), historical engravings, and an easy-to-read typeface. Many popular previously published titles will be updated in this new format. Each book includes an index. AUTHOR: R. Conrad Stein
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Brethren of the Sword by Barry Clifford
An extraordinary and dramatic tale of shipwrecks, underwater discovery, and the dawn of the golden age of piracy. On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank in the Caribbean Sea, one hundred miles off the Venezuelan coast, on the killer reef of Las Aves Island. These wrecks, which claimed more than 1,200 lives, proved disastrous for French naval power in the region and sparked the rise of a golden age of piracy, an era that was forever to alter the shape of the Americas. In The Lost Fleet, writer, explorer, and deep-sea diver Barry Clifford interweaves the dramatic tale of this maritime catastrophe -- and the dangerous upsurge of piracy in the world's seas -- with the contemporary account of his own expedition to document and explore the wrecks....Beautifully told, epic in scope, and steeped in period detail, THE LOST FLEET is a mesmerizing account of historical discovery and underwater reclamation for anyone with a heart for adventure and history, myth, and treasure hunting. AUTHOR: Barry Clifford
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Dixiecrat Revolt & the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968 by Kari A. Frederickson
In 1948, a group of conservative white southerners formed the States` Rights Democratic Party, soon nicknamed the Dixiecrats, and chose Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate. Thrown on the defensive by federal civil rights initiatives and unprecedented grassroots political activity by African Americans, the Dixiecrats aimed to reclaim conservatives` former preeminent position within the national Democratic Party and upset President Harry Truman`s bid for reelection. The Dixiecrats lost the battle in 1948, but, as Kari Frederickson reveals, the political repercussions of their revolt were significant. Frederickson situates the Dixiecrat movement within the tumultuous social and economic milieu of the 1930s and 1940s South, tracing the struggles between conservative and liberal Democrats over the future direction of the region. Enriching her sweeping political narrative with detailed coverage of local activity in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina--the flashpoints of the Dixiecrat campaign--she shows that, even without upsetting Truman in 1948, the Dixiecrats forever altered politics in the South. By severing the traditional southern allegiance to the national Democratic Party in presidential elections, the Dixiecrats helped forge the way for the rise of the Republican Party in the region. AUTHOR: Kari A. Frederickson
PUBLISHER: The University of North Carolina Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Jewish 100 by Michael Shapiro
Description not available.This survey of the most influential Jewish lives includes short biographies of Karl Marx, Jesus, Einstein, Freud, Moses, Chaim Weizmann, Haym Salomon, and many other Jews of note. Reprint. AUTHOR: Michael Shapiro
PUBLISHER: Kensington Publishing Corporation
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Navies & the American Revolution, 1775-1783 by Nicholas Tracy, Robert Gardiner
The crucial contribution of seapower to the struggle for American independence forms the theme for this volume. It draws on published prints, maps, and illustrated journals of the time to achieve a remarkable impression of the maritime aspects of the war in all its variety and drama. AUTHOR: Nicholas Tracy, Robert Gardiner
PUBLISHER: Naval Institute Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Images of a Rural Past by Jerold W. Apps, Steve Apps
Description not available.Text and photographs focus on rural objects of the past and how they were used, including kitchen stoves, windmills, threshing machines, and mail-order catalogs, as well as phenomena such as taverns, country stores, and county fairs. AUTHOR: Jerold W. Apps, Steve Apps
PUBLISHER: Amherst Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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