Muslims' Stories of Detention and Deportation in America After 9/11
Author: Irum Shiekh
This book collects personal narratives of immigrants from Pakistan, Egypt, India, and Palestine who were racially profiled and detained following the September 11 attacks. Exploring themes of transnationalism, racializat ... |
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Author: Matthew Partington & Linda Sandino
Interviews are becoming an increasingly dominant research method in art, craft, design, fashion and textile history. This groundbreaking text demonstrates how artists, writers and historians deploy interviews as creative ... |
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Author: Ron Tyler & Lawrence R. Murphy
Many defenders of slavery have maintained that the slaves in Texas were well-treated and happy, but as a former slave remarked, "Tisn't he who has stood and looked on, that can tell you what slavery is - 'tis he who has ... |
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Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory
Author: Julie Cruikshank
In this theoretically sophisticated study of indigenous oral narratives, Julie Cruikshank moves beyond the text to explore the social significance of storytelling. Circumpolar Native peoples today experience strikingly d ... |
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An Illustrated Oral History of the Great Depression
Author: Studs Terkel
First published in 1970, Studs Terkel's Hard Times has been called 'a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit' (Saturday Review) and 'an invaluable record' (New York Times). With grace and compassion, Terkel evokes ... |
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Soviet Airwomen in World War II
Author: Anne Noggle
The world's first women combat pilots were members of the Soviet Army Air Force, flying fighters and bomber aircraft opposite the Luftwaffe. 30 women flyers received Hero of the Soviet Union awards, one of that nation's ... |
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The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses
Author: Bess Lovejoy
IN THE LONG RUN, WE'RE ALL DEAD. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impe ... |
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Author: Gabor S. Boritt & Scott Hancock
This extraordinary collection of essays by some of America's top historians focuses on how African Americans resisted slavery and responded to freedom. Ira Berlin sets the stage by stressing the relationship between how ... |
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Interpreting the Middle East
Author: Bernard Lewis
Bernard Lewis is recognized around the globe as one of the leading authorities on Islam. Hailed as "the world's foremost Islamic scholar" (Wall Street Journal), as "a towering figure among experts on the culture and reli ... |
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Author: David Cannadine
History is everywhere in the media. Television viewers can spend every evening watching a different historian expound upon Empire, Witchcraft, the Civil War or Royal Mistresses or go to the cinema and watch reconstructio ... |
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Patriotic Reform in Europe and North America
Author: Koen Stapelbroek & Jani Marjanen
One of the most prominent, visible throughout a wide variety of contemporary sources, and geographically widespread phenomena in the eighteenth century was the rise of societies aimed at improving the economic basis of E ... |
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The Practice of Queer Oral History
Author: Nan Alamilla Boyd & Horacio N. Roque RamIrez
When written sources are scarce, historians often turn to oral histories for evidence. Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History is the first book to provide serious scholarly insight into the methodological ... |
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An Oral History of Operation Iraqi Freedom from the Battlefield to the Pentagon
Author: Carl Mirra
The first truly comprehensive oral history of the Iraq War, Soldiers and Citizens presents the raw and vivid testimonies of those who have been touched by the conflict. Included here are recollections from combat veteran ... |
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Author: Pere Alexandre Dumas
The 'Borgias' is the first volume if the 'Celebrated Crimes' series, written by Alexandre Dumas, Pere, prior writing his well known of historical novels. His works show an intimate knowledge of the characters, and they a ... |
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History, Memory, and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome
Author: Alessandro Portelli
In 1944, Nazi occupation forces in Rome killed 335 unarmed civilians in retaliation for a partisan attack the day before. This title relates the struggles for freedom under Fascism and Nazism, the battles for memory in p ... |
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African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South
Author: Anne M. Valk & Leslie Brown
This groundbreaking book collects black women's personal recollections of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South. Using first-person narratives, collected through oral ... |
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Author: Organization of American Historians
This new volume in the Best American History Essays series brings together classic writing from top American historians on one of our greatest presidents. Ranging from incisive assessments of his political leadership, to ... |
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Vibrant Voices from a Vast Continent
Author: John William Johnson, Thomas Hale & Stephen Belcher
It seems incredible that heretofore there has not been an introductory anthology of African epics presented in English. Western culture traces its literary heritage to such well-known epics as the "Iliad" and the "Odysse ... |
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Texas Independent Oilmen
Author: Roger M. Olien & Diana Davids Hinton
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Texas wildcatter was a recognizable figure in popular culture. Since then, the wildcatter's role is less celebrated but still important, as shown in the new introduction to this edition of a b ... |
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