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2007, c2006., Pantheon Books Call No: 973.85 GRE Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Re-creates the events surrounding the 1886 bombing of a Chicago labor rally and the controversial trial and eventual execution of four men accused of the crime.
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1999., Lawrence Hill Books Call No: 815 DOU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A collection of the most important of Douglass's hundreds of speeches, letters, articles, and editorials.
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By McNeese, Tim2007., Juvenile, Chelsea House Call No: 324.273 MCN Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Reform movements in American historySummary Note: Introduces students to the Progressive Movement, discussing the people, legislation, and events that shaped the movement, as well as its impact on American history in the twentieth century.
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By McNeese, Tim2007., Juvenile, Chelsea House Call No: 324.27 McN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents only Series Title: Reform movements in American history
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By Meacham, Jon[2018]., Random House Call No: HI-INT 973 MEA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "We have been here before. In this timely and revealing book, ... author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. With clarity and purpose, Meacham explores contentious periods and how presidents and citizens came together to defeat the forces of anger, intolerance, and extremism. Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called 'the better angels of our nature' have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and illuminating the courage of such influential citizen activists as Martin Luther King, Jr., early suffragettes Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt, civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks and John Lewis, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Army-McCarthy hearings lawyer Joseph N. Welch, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in American history. He writes about the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the birth of the Lost Cause; the backlash against immigrants in the First World War and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s; the fight for women's rights; the demagoguery of Huey Long and Father Coughlin and the isolationist work of America First in the years before World War II; the anti-Communist witch-hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy; and Lyndon Johnson's crusade against Jim Crow. Each of these dramatic hours in our national life has been shaped by the contest to lead the country to look forward rather than back, to assert hope over fear--a struggle that continues even now. While the American story has not always--or even often--been heroic, we have been sustained by a belief in progress even in the gloomiest of times. In this inspiring book, Meacham reassures us, "The good news is that we have come through such darkness before"--as, time and again, Lincoln's better angels have found a way to prevail."--Dust jacket.
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2001., Juvenile, Oxford University Press Call No: 973.01 WAL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Pages from historySummary Note: Describes slavery in the United States, the harsh conditions under which slaves lived, the revolts, and the involvement of slaves in the Civil War.
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[2013]., Juvenile, Grosset & Dunlap Call No: 973.7 MC DONOUGH Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: What was-- ?Summary Note: Presents a brief history of the Underground Railroad and stories of slaves who escaped the South before and during the Civil War by using it.
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2013, Pre-adolescent, Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC Call No: JNF025200 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: What was--?Summary Note: Provides an account of the Underground Railroad, explaining what it was, describing the roles of key individuals, and discussing the impact of the Underground Railroad on the history and development of the United States.
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By Derks, Scott2006., Grey House Publishing Call No: 305.5 DER Edition: 1st. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Remote access available: onondaga