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#1 The end of American slavery was a process that took decades to complete. It began at the war's outset when slaves, eager to seize the opportunity presented by the presence of northern armies, began to seek refuge behind Union lines. The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863, was the crucial step in the process.
#2 Lincoln was not an abolitionist,...
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Read by presidents, scientists, and national heroes, the Boy Scouts Handbook has been used by generations of American youths. Filled with practical advice for everyone, the book contains everything from safety tips on swimming and instructions for putting up a tent to directions for making an aquarium and pointers on how to identify common North American trees. More than 200 figures and illustrations accompany valuable information on woodcrafting,...
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#1 On the northwest side of Hinckley, the Brennan Lumber Company was lit up by strange, reddish lights. The house shuddered as another windstorm hit it. In the town of Clara, Anderson, the girls were saying good night to one another.
#2 Emil Anderson, the pastor, was returning home from a church conference in Hinckley. He was humming Swedish hymns and thinking about...
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#1 Robert Smalls was a enslaved man who was planning on escaping slavery with his family. He had been planning this for years, and his chance came when he was assigned to the Planter, a Confederate steamer.
#2 The Planter was a coastal steamer used to transport personnel, ordinance, and supplies between various locations in and around the harbor. It was docked at Charleston's Southern...
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.' — Abraham Lincoln Is the story of the United States that of George Washington, John Adams and Barack Obama? Or of slave rebel Nat Turner, of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King? Or Sitting Bull and Al Capone? Or Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and OJ Simpson? Of course, it is the story of all these, of both civil war and world...
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Book Preview: #1 The author was asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement by a man who said he had invented an electronic machine that sharpened blunt razor blades. The author was suspicious, but he was curious to hear the man's story.
#2 The Stone Age was a time when metal was extremely rare and highly valued, since the only sources of it were copper and gold, which occur naturally...
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#1 In the summer of 2008, a thunderstorm hit the small town of Prescott, Arizona, and drenched the thirsty pines, scrub oak, and manzanita. It was a emotional cleansing for the Kennedy family, who were finally starting to get along again.
#2 Carol was a gentle, loving and openhearted soul. She was a devoted mother and therapist, and she taught courses such as Yoga...
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#1 The American Revolution is a permanent revolution, a constant eviction of all elements foreign to the American essence. Anything that stands in the way of this invention is not American.
#2 The drive west was a period of relative theological calm in the first few decades of the 1700s. But then came the Great Awakening in the 1730s, and hectoring jeremiads once again...
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#1 The explorers were uninvited guests in an unknown land, and any tribe they encountered was assumed to be hostile until proven otherwise. The threat of violence was implicit in the act of exploration.
#2 The Nez Perce were a tribe that the explorers got along with very well with. They were proud, dignified, reserved, slow to anger, and attentive to personal cleanliness....
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What really happened on 9/11? What can the evidence tell us? Who is covering up the evidence, and why are they covering it up? This book attempts to give some answers to these questions and has been written by someone who has become deeply involved in research into what happened on 9/11. A study of the available evidence will challenge you and much of what you assumed to be true.
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Compiled a century ago, when the wildness of the American West was still a living memory, these tales chronicle the rugged lives and audacious crimes of bank and train robbers, cattle rustlers, horse thieves, and other desperadoes. Recounted mainly by the outlaws themselves along with eyewitnesses to their deeds, the stories profile Billy the Kid, Frank and Jesse James, the Dalton Gang, Wild Bill Hickok, and other legendary figures of the era. In...
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#1 In October 1946, Luciano, who had been deported from the United States just seven months earlier, traveled to Cuba. He was there to meet his childhood friend and longtime criminal associate Meyer Lansky.
#2 Luciano and Lansky visited Cuba, where they had lunch at the Grand Hotel. They were there to celebrate Luciano's early release from prison and his deportation...
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#1 Jones was sent to cover the Yogurt Shop murders, in which two people were already dead. He was to find the killers, and the shirts they left behind would be hung up at police headquarters as evidence.
#2 The Yogurt Shop Murders were the first homicide investigation for Sgt. John W. Jones, who arrived at the scene shortly after midnight. He pulled in. The steel doors...
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#1 The Essex was one of a fleet of more than seventy Nantucket whaleships in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans in 1819. With whale-oil prices steadily climbing, the village of Nantucket was on its way to becoming one of the richest towns in America.
#2 The Essex was a ship that had a reputation for being lucky. In July 1819, a comet appeared in the night sky, and islanders...
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#1 Susanna's ordeal began when the group was attacked by the Abenakis. She was taken captive with her children, who were crying at a distance where they were held by their masters. She was pregnant, and soon after her daughter was born, she began having pains. The group proceeded on its way.
#2 The Abenakis brought Susanna to Fort St Frédéric, or Crown Point, at the...
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A social history of the role of the Chinese laundry on the survival of early Chinese immigrants in the U.S. during the Chinese Exclusion law period, 1882-1943, and in Canada during the years of the Head Tax, 1885-1923, and exclusion law, 1923-1947. Why and how Chinese got into the laundry business and how they had to fight discriminatory laws and competition from white-owned laundries to survive. Description of their lives, work demands, and living...
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#1 In 1797, a boarding party from the British frigate the HMS Rose went searching for four Marblehead sailors who had hidden themselves in the forepeak, a small space near the main hold. When they refused to yield, the British lieutenant attempted to push them around. One of the Marbleheaders stabbed him in the neck with a harpoon, and he died soon after.
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#1 The negotiator had to establish trust with the suspect. He had to make him believe that everything was going to be okay, even though he knew that the FBI was prepared to take down the suspect at any moment.
#2 Charlie and his family went into the woods again on Saturday, April 2. Charlie built a simple lean-to. They made their way to a nearby country store, where...
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#1 I had a small, talented team, but I was a control freak who didn't have anything resembling a blueprint for growth. I was sorely lacking the ability to manage anything beyond bringing in clients, and I was unable to concede enough authority to empower anyone on my staff to rise to the occasion and fill in the gaps.
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#1 The Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands began on 2 April 1982, with the invasion of Mullet Creek. The Argentinians were met by British troops, who surrendered after five hours of fighting. 67 Royal Marines and 11 members of the Royal Navy were captured.
#2 The Falklands are a temperate climate with little rainfall, but strong winds. The islands are treeless,...
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