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Kids make history: a new look at America's story
Par Elspeth Leacock, Susan Washburn Buckley. 2007
Feel what it is like to participate in history as you follow in the footsteps of the young men and…
women who lived it. You will survive a harsh James Towne winter and battle the Redcoats in a Long Island cornfield; you will carry letters on the Pony Express and plant crops with Laura Ingalls; you will stow away on a whaling ship and help in the defense after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Grades 4-7. 2007.Journeys for freedom: a new look at America's story
Par Elspeth Leacock, Susan Washburn Buckley. 2008
Journeying: travels in Italy, Egypt, Sinai, Jerusalem and Cyprus
Par Nikos Kazantzakis, Themi Vasils, Theodora Vasils. 1975
Posthumous account of the novelist's visits to foreign lands in 1926, including interviews with Mussolini and the Greek poet Cavafy.…
Passion, struggle, and spirit are the themes in this travelogue. 1975. Uniform title: Taxideuontas.Journey home (Travel Literature Ser.)
Par John Hillaby. 1983
The author and his wife set out from Ravenglass, a place "that gives the impression it fell asleep on a…
bed of shingle centuries ago" and end their journey on Hampstead Heath. Tapping an inexhaustible seam of natural history, archaeology and folklore, John Hillaby blends his allusions to the past with topical commonplace things to create a unique mixture. 1983.Jewish New York: the remarkable story of a city and a people
Par Deborah Dash Moore. 2017
Reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city's most important ethnic and religious groups. Spanning three centuries, the book…
traces the earliest arrival of Jews in New Amsterdam to the recent immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union. Jewish immigrants transformed New York. They built its clothing industry and constructed huge swaths of apartment buildings. New York Jews helped to make the city the center of the nation's publishing industry and shaped popular culture in music, theater, and the arts. With a strong sense of social justice, a dedication to civil rights and civil liberties, and a belief in the duty of government to provide social welfare for all its citizens, New York Jews influenced the city, state, and nation with a new wave of social activism. In turn, New York transformed Judaism and stimulated religious pluralism, Jewish denominationalism, and contemporary feminism. 2017.James Madison and the struggle for the Bill of Rights (Pivotal moments in American history)
Par Richard E Labunski. 2006
The author analyzes James Madison’s influence on the formation of the U.S. Constitution and its first ten amendments, the Bill…
of Rights. Provides a detailed account of the debate between Madison and anti-Federalist Patrick Henry over the ratification of the Constitution and describes Madison’s hard-won election to Congress. 2006.Inside Camp David: the private world of the presidential retreat
Par Michael Giorgione. 2017
Camp David is a peaceful mountaintop setting, removed from the scrutiny of the press. It has served as both a…
site of critical diplomacy and unparalleled tranquility. It is here that one can see presidents and international leaders at their most unguarded, and as their most true selves. 2017.Into the raging sea: thirty-three mariners, one megastorm, and the sinking of El Faro
Par Rachel Slade. 2018
On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting…
in the worst American shipping disaster in thirty-five years. Relying on hundreds of exclusive interviews with family members and maritime experts, as well as the words of the crew members themselves--whose conversations were captured by the ship's data recorder--journalist Rachel Slade unravels the mystery of the sinking of El Faro. 2018.In the shadows of the American century: the rise and decline of US global power
Par Alfred W McCoy. 2018
In a new analysis, prizewinning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America's rise as a world power--from the 1890s through the…
Cold War--and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances. 2018.Recounts the perilous and remarkable 1983 journey of the author, who is a naturalist, the poet James Fenton, and three…
native guides to the center of Borneo, an area unvisited by outsiders since 1926. 1984.In trouble again: a journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon
Par Redmond O'Hanlon. 1989
O'Hanlon takes readers on a four-month journey up the Orinoco River and across the Amazon basin in search of the…
Yanomami Indians. His book contains humour, adventure, and a wealth of information. 1989.In Xanadu: a quest
Par William Dalrymple. 1989
This is an account of a quest, a journey which began in the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and took William…
Dalrymple and his companions across the width of Asia, along dusty, forgotten roads, through villages and cities full of unexpected hospitality and wildly improbable escapades, to Coleridge's Xanadu itself. 1989.In the kingdom of the thunder dragon
Par Joanna Lumley. 1997
In 1931 Joanna Lumley's grandparents undertook a three and a half month journey across the small and secret Himalayan kingdom…
of Bhutan, to honour the King with an award. Joanna retraces their steps to meet the King's descendants and discover for herself the charm of this forgotten land. Trekking on foot and pony across remote mountain passes and valleys, she visits the rural villages and the towering monasteries. She finds that little has changed since her forebears passed through, and is overwhelmed by the magic and beauty of Bhutan. 1997.Igniting the American Revolution: 1773-1775
Par Derek W Beck. 2015
Few Americans know that the Revolutionary War did not begin with the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 but…
over a year earlier in April 1775. Beck draws on previously unpublished documents to tell the full story of the war before American independence-from both sides. 2015.I drank the water everywhere
Par Charles N Barnard. 1975
Description of the voyages and travels undertaken by a world traveller, a former "Saturday Evening Post" editor. Among the places…
visited are Kwajalein, China's South Coast, the Champagne District of France, and the Greek Islands. c1975.An evening among headhunters: & other reports from roads less traveled
Par Lawrence Millman. 1998
In this collection of essays, an inveterate traveller visits some of the more remote precincts on the planet. Includes stories…
about relaxing in slow-paced Tonga, encountering ghosts in Samoa, dining on boiled walrus north of Hudson's Bay and social faux pas in Ecuador. Some strong language. 1998.Crash: the Great Depression and the fall and rise of America
Par Marc Favreau. 2018
Marc Favreau tells the story of the Great Depression, from the sweeping fallout of the market collapse to the more…
personal stories of those caught up in the aftermath. Packed with primary documents and firsthand accounts, this book shines a spotlight on pivotal moments and figures across ethnic, gender, racial, social, and geographic divides, reflecting many different experiences of one of the most turbulent decades in American history. Grades 5-8. 2018.An American quilt: unfolding a story of family and slavery
Par Rachel May. 2018
When we think of slavery, we don't usually think of the North, of the grueling labor of urban and domestic…
slaves. Rachel May's rich new book explores the far reach of slavery, from New England to the Caribbean, the role it played in the growth of mercantile America, and the bonds between the agrarian south and the industrial north in the antebellum era--all through the discovery of a remarkable quilt. 2018.Black reconstruction in America
Par W. E. B Du Bois. 2018
This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the…
Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society. 2018. Uniform title: Black reconstruction.Defining moments in black history: reading between the lies
Par Dick Gregory. 2017