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Depicts the Civil War from a humanistic point of view. Examines the causes, events, and aftermath of the war, citing…
dramatic, first-hand accounts of both prominent and obscure persons who were involved. Avers that the divisive legacy of the Civil War continues to plague American politics, society, and life
Tells of Shi Nomura, who, along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants, was imprisoned by the U.S. government…
during World War II. Describes Nomura's unhappy stay at the Manzanar "internment camp" in California, and discusses the hostility and fear experienced by those who came to America in search of a better life. For grades 5-8
An anthology of news dispatches, articles, letters, and broadcast transcripts from the beachheads and front lines of World War II.…
Covers the beginning of the war, recounting the Munich Conference of 1938, Germany's invasion of Poland, Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and the early battles. Violence
An anthology of news dispatches, articles, letters, and broadcast transcripts from the beachheads and front lines of World War II.…
Covers the war's final eighteen months, recounting the Normandy invasion, the liberation of Paris, Pacific island battles, and the bombing of Japan. Violence
An American journalist explores the aftermath of German reunification following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Refutes the…
stereotype of Germany as a prosperous, internally tranquil nation. Portrays, rather, a divided country haunted by its past. c1995.
Examines the forces of political fragmentation ("jihad") and economic homogenization ("McWorld") that pervade post-cold war societies and discusses the relationship…
between these forces. Concludes that "neither . . . offers us a future that is other than bleak."
Chronicles the events and aftermath of World War I, the conflict that set the stage for twentieth-century history. Portrays both…
the military and the cultural context of the war, viewing the leaders, combatants, and citizens whose lives and futures were transformed by the conflagration. Companion volume to the PBS series. Violence
Describes the author's experiences in a German concentration camp. Ten Boom tells how she never lost faith in God and…
how she ministered to fellow prisoners and comforted them. For junior and senior high and older readers
A history and cookbook of Native American foods. Tells how the various items are obtained by farming, hunting, or gathering.…
Explains the methods used for preparing the foods. Includes actual recipes. For grades 2-4 and older readers
A primer on "the power of people to fight or resist attack without using violence." Discusses ethical and practical reasons…
for choosing nonviolence and assesses its effectiveness for achieving economic, political, or social ends. Recommends guidelines for action. For junior and senior high and older readers
The long-awaited narrative history of the women who volunteered in Nova Scotia during the Second World War by award-winning journalist…
and author of No Place to Go. "I was home cooking carrots because my mother was off winning the war." -- Patricia Timbrell, whose mother, Amy Jones, along with her friend Una Smith, established and ran the Central Magazine Exchange, which distributed four million used magazines and 30,000 packs of cards by June 1942 alone for troop and merchant ships in Halifax Harbour. Halifax women won the Second World War -- but not in the ways you might have been told. We all know the stories of Canadian women during the war who trained as machinists, welders, and streetcar drivers to fill the shoes of men who answered the call. We know how women kept the home fires lit while their husbands, brothers, and fathers fought. This is not that story. The Volunteers: How Halifax Women Won the Second World War is the untold story of Halifax women who geared up in a flash to focus on the comfort, community connections, and mental health of Halifax?s exploding population of sailors, soldiers, airmen, and merchant mariners. They did a job no government could have organized or afforded. They did it without being asked. And they did it with no respite from their daily duties. Thoroughly researched and compellingly told, and with a dozen archival images, The Volunteers examines the untold stories of the hardworking women whose unpaid and unacknowledged labour won the Second World War.
The former Soviet leader chronicles and assesses events of the final years of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991.…
Discusses his political platform of glasnost and perestroika, and recounts his achievements and mistakes in office. Avers that the Soviet system was collapsing as he took the reins of power in 1985
A journalist's account of political and economic changes in Mexico during the mid-1990s. Gives perspective on the 1994 Zapatista rebellion…
and political assassinations, the NAFTA accords, and more. Explains the importance of the United States's southern neighbor in the post-cold war era
A hunter of shipwrecks documents the discovery or survey of twelve major ships in deep waters. Each ship's story begins…
with an account of its final voyage, then describes how the ship was found. Featured are the Confederate submarine Hunley and the Allied troop transport Leopoldville, among others
El autor cubano-americano narra la historia de la invasión de Bahía Cochinos en que lucharon contra el régimen de Castro…
en 1961 para la liberación de Cuba. González relata su propia participación en la lucha desde las preparaciones y embarcaciones hasta el derrocamiento y encarcelamiento en Cuba. Sobre todo, critica el papel del gobierno de los Estados Unidos que en el principio apoyó la invasión, solo para abandonarla más tarde por razones políticas
Christopher Sears, thirteen, is headed from England to Jamestown, Virginia, when the boat runs ashore on the coast of New…
England. He is then taken in by the Brewsters of Plimoth Plantation. Christopher keeps a daily journal that describes farming, sickness, worship, and entertainment. For grades 3-6
Presents the life and career of Oliver Cromwell, soldier and politician, who in 1653 was declared lord protector of England.…
Follows the course of his troubled reign and describes the brutal military campaigns that he led against Ireland, Scotland, and Spain. Violence
Selections from the autobiographies of eight nineteenth-century Native Americans of the Great Plains. They relate the legends, traditions, histories, and…
lives of the Plains Indians before the region was changed by white settlers. For grades 6-9 and older readers
Chronicles the development of the Irish Republican Army from the 1916 Easter Rising to the April 1993 bombing of London's…
financial district. Details the politics and guerilla campaigns and conveys the author's view of the situation's moral ambiguity. Calls for a United Nations solution to the troubles in Northern Ireland. Violence