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  • "Cap" Cornish, Indiana Pilot

    Navigating the Century of Flight

    Clarence "Cap" Cornish was an Indiana pilot whose life spanned all but five years of the Century of Flight. Born in Canada in 1898, Cornish grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He began flying at the age of nineteen, piloting a "Jenny" aircraft during World War I, and continued to fly for the next seventy-eight years. In 1995, at the age of ninety-seven, he was recognized by Guinness World Records as ... Read more

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  • The Valiant Soldier

    Series Book 43 - Poetry
    For my grandfather and all of those who, like him, served bravely in the military, giving their all to fulfill sense of duty. ... Read more

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  • Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement

    Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s

    by Traci Parker ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labor formation. Built on the goals, organization, and momentum of earlier struggles for justice, the department store movement channeled the power of store workers and ... Read more

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  • Street People Portfolio

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    New York City, 1970s. Take a walk on the wild side.1970s New York was a mecca for artists, writers, and musicians drawn to its vibrant energy and creative possibilities. It was also a place of grinding poverty and urban decay, where crime and violence were everyday realities and hope danced with despair.This curated selection of photographs from Street People Portfolio: Invisible New York Made ... Read more

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  • People's Diplomacy

    How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War

    Series series The United States in the World
    In People's Diplomacy**, Kazushi Minami shows how the American and Chinese people rebuilt US-China relations in the 1970s, a pivotal decade bookended by Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China and 1979 normalization of diplomatic relations.** Top policymakers in Washington and Beijing drew the blueprint for the new bilateral relationship, but the work of building it was left to a host of Americans and ... Read more

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  • Franklin Roosevelt: A Captivating Guide to the Life of FDR

    As the thirty-second president of the United States of America, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (30 January 1882—12 April 1945) is a common household name in both his home country and the world. Known as the man who led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II, Roosevelt was a leader and a statesman, a scholar and a politician. Beginning in 1933, he served as president until his ... Read more

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  • Tom Hayden on Social Movements

    by Tom Hayden ...
    "Every now and then, there's a surge of history in which a group of people has the chance to determine events by taking their lives, their destiny, into their own hands."Tom Hayden was a central figure in the Vietnam War peace movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He shows what social movements look like from the inside. He spells out why they are intense, complex, exhilarating -- and powerful enough ... Read more

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  • In Their Own Words

    Forgotten Women Pilots of Early Aviation

    by Fred Erisman ...
    Series series Purdue Studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics
    Amelia Earhart’s prominence in American aviation during the 1930s obscures a crucial point: she was but one of a closely knit community of women pilots. Although the women were well known in the profession and widely publicized in the press at the time, they are largely overlooked today. Like Earhart, they wrote extensively about aviation and women’s causes, producing an absorbing record of the ... Read more

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  • The 1937 San Francisco Police Graft Report by Edwin Atherton

    by Hank Chapot ...
    In 1935, the citizens of the city of San Francisco were indignant when tales of police officers having amassed huge fortunes through payoffs, graft and bribery came to light. In a convulsion of civic anger, District Attorney Matt Brady and Mayor Angelo Rossi were pressed to act, and they hired private investigator and former G-man Edwin N. Atherton. The so-called Atherton Report prompted dozens of ... Read more

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  • The Jewish Unions in America

    Pages of History and Memories

    Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fifty years he devoted his life to the struggles of fellow Jewish workers.The Jewish Unions in America blends memoir and history to chronicle this time ... Read more

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  • Dissent! Refracted

    Histories, Aesthetics and Cultures of Dissent

    Series Book 3 - Political and Social Change
    This collection of essays addresses the ongoing problem of dissent from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives: political philosophy, intellectual history, literary studies, aesthetics, architectural history and conceptualizations of the political past. Taking a global perspective, the volume examines the history of dissent both inside and outside the West, through events in the twentieth and ... Read more

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  • Ross-Ade

    Their Purdue Stories, Stadium, and Legacies

    Series series The Founders Series
    Dave Ross (1871-1943) and George Ade (1866-1944) were trustees, distinguished alumni and benefactors of Purdue University. Their friendship began in 1922 and led to their giving land and money for the 1924 construction of Ross-Ade Stadium, now a 70,000 seat athletic landmark on the West Lafayette campus. Their life stories date to 1883 Purdue and involve their separate student experiences and ... Read more

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  • A Force for Change

    The Class of 1950

    by John Norberg ...
    Series series The Founders Series
    Some of them were grown men going to college on the new G.I. Bill, and some were boys -- eighteen years old, straight out of high school. There were also young women coming to campus, rich in the traditions of their mothers and grandmothers. These women didn't know it, but the seeds of the modern women's movement had been planted during the war and in their generation. There were African-Americans ... Read more

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  • Enduring Liberalism

    American Political Thought Since the 1960s

    Series series American Political Thought
    Has the United States become more pluribus than unum? In terms of the nation’s political beliefs, Robert Booth Fowler answers both yes and no. While his study affirms significant diversity among an elite cadre of public intellectuals, it vigorously denies it in a general public that collectively adheres to the same set of liberal core values.Enduring Liberalism pursues two objectives. One, it ... Read more

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  • Pursuing Truth

    How Gender Shaped Catholic Education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland

    by Mary J. Oates ...
    Series series Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America
    In Pursuing Truth**, Mary J. Oates explores the roles that religious women played in teaching generations of college and university students amid slow societal change that brought the grudging acceptance of Catholics in public life.** Across the twentieth century, Catholic women's colleges modeled themselves on, and sometimes positioned themselves against, elite secular colleges. Oates describes ... Read more

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  • Reasons of State

    Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government

    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973–74 and 1979, which placed extraordinary new burdens on governments worldwide and particularly on that of the United States. Reasons of State examines the response of the United States to these and other challenges and identifies both the capacities of the American state to deal with rapid ... Read more

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  • Street People

    Selections

    New York City, 1970s. Take a walk on the wild side.1970s New York was a mecca for artists, writers, and musicians drawn to its vibrant energy and creative possibilities. It was also a place of grinding poverty and urban decay, where crime and violence were everyday realities and hope danced with despair.In this curated selection of stories and photos from Street People: Invisible New York Made ... Read more

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  • Life in the Teamsters: The History of D.R.I.V.E.

    “Life in the Teamsters: The History of DRIVE” explores key events that took place during the first decade (1959-1969) of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ political action organization, DRIVE. DRIVE provided rank-and-file members and their families with the opportunity to mobilize politically at the local, state, and national levels of government in order to protect the interests of ... Read more

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  • A Rock Fight At Caesars Palace

    Things We Lost in the Night, #0

    Series Book 0 - Things We Lost in the Night
    The amazing experiences of a young rock band who finds themselves chosen to open a lounge showroom at Caesars Palace. In 1966, a few months after Caesars opened its doors, rock and roll did not exist for the hotels in Las Vegas. It was unheard of for this most spectacular hotel in Las Vegas and the US to choose a band with the unlikely name of Stark Naked and the Car Thieves, new to Las Vegas ... Read more

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  • Multiculturalism and American Democracy

    Choice Outstanding TitleMulticulturalism: is it the face of twenty-first century America or merely a passing intellectual fad? With its celebration of ethnic diversity and strong advocacy of tolerance, this contemporary movement provides philosophical justification for many who seek to correct social inequities. But while its proponents see it as a means of promoting self-esteem among marginalized ... Read more

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  • The Dance with Community

    The Contemporary Debate in American Political Thought

    Series series American Political Thought
    Contemporary intellectuals have rushed to embrace the concept of “community.” What does this tell us about American political thought? Why are intellectuals uneasy with modern liberal individualism and its institutional policy results? Why is political intellectual discourse dominated today by complaint?In The Dance with Community Robert Booth Fowler reflects upon these and related questions. “My ... Read more

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  • Night of Destiny

    A Titanic Survivor Story

    Shanna Kathryn, a passionate young woman leaves the green shores of Ireland in pursuit of adventure, traveling to America on one of the grandest vessels ever constructed. The RMS Titanic pulls out of Queensland, Ireland on April 11, 1912 thus beginning the most dramatic journey of her life.On board she meets handsome mystery man, Amos, who from their first encounter in the middle of the Atlantic, ... Read more

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  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    This book is about the Cuban missile crisis.This book is a short description of this momentous event and the factors that led up to it.Before you start this book ask yourself these questions.What do you know about the Cuban missile crisis?Are you keen to learn about it?The book tells you about the Cuban missile crisis and describes its background, its historical context and the leading people ... Read more

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  • The United States and the Development of the Puerto Rican Status Question, 1936-1968

    This study traces the evolution of political status in Puerto Rico from 1936 to 1968, with special emphasis on the events that led to the creation of the Commonwealth in 1952. No other work published in English has dealt with the Puerto Rican status question in such detail.The central problem in the status debate has been: how to strike a happy balance between Puerto Rico’s economic needs, which ... Read more

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