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Best of History Web Sites |
Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more. |
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The calling of Katie Makanya |
Profiles the life and career of South African political activist Katie Makanya. Describes how she pursued a bachelor's education as a teenager by living in England and performing for Queen Victoria in a choir. When Makanya returned to South Africa, she spent the next forty years working in Durban for a white missionary doctor and organizing political organizations. Features Makanya's words as told to the missionary doctor's daughter |
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Child 44 |
How do you solve an impossible crime? It is a society that is, officially, a haven for its citizens. Superior to the decadent West, Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs: education, health care, security. In exchange, all that is required is their hard work, and their loyalty and faith to the Soviet State. Leo Demidov knows this better than most. |
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English passengers |
Two eccentric Englishmen who want to embark for the other side of the globe buy the ship Sincerity and start out on an adventure |
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Internet Modern History Sourcebook |
Collection of historical texts related to modern (post-medieval) history. This is part of a larger project undertaken by Paul Halsall at Fordham University. |
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Into Africa: the epic adventures of Stanley and Livingstone |
Chronicles the lives and experiences of New York journalist Henry Morton Stanley and Scottish medical missionary David Livingstone, describing the circumstances of their 1871 encounter in Africa and the events that led to and stemmed from it |
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The kitchen boy |
Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, the author recreates the tragic, perennially fascinating story of the final days of Nicholas and Alexandra as seen through the fictional eyes of the Romanovs' young kitchen boy, Leonka. Now an ancient Russian immigrant, Leonka claims to be the last living witness to the Romanovs' brutal murders and sets down the dark secrets of his past with the imperial family |
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Lost and found in Russia |
After the fall of communism, Russia was in a state of shock. The sudden and dramatic change left many people adrift and uncertain—but also full of a tentative but tenacious hope. |
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Man is wolf to man |
Janusz Bardach's memoir, Man Is Wolf to Man, is more than just an account of his sufferings in a Russian labor camp; it is also a meditation on the will to survive in the face of hopelessness, the occasional kindnesses of strangers in unexpected places, and above all, the struggle to remain human under the most inhumane conditions. |
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Opposing Viewpoints in Context |
Information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. This resource features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites. (This database was funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Massachusetts Library System). |
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The poisonwood Bible |
Nathan Price and his family move to the Belgian Congo in 1959, and the experiences they have while living in Africa affect each member of the family in a different way |
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Puppet |
A fictionalized account of the last blood libel trial in Hungary in 1882 is told through the eyes of Julie, a friend of the murdered servant girl Esther and a servant at the jail where Morris Scharf, the accused, is imprisoned |
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Rose sees red |
In the 1980s, two teenaged ballet dancers--one American, one Russian--spend an unforgettable night in New York City, forming a lasting friendship despite their cultural and political differences |
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Satchmo blows up the world |
At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth, from Iraq to India, from the Congo to the Soviet Union, in order to win the hearts and minds of the Third World and to counter perceptions of American racism. |
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The secret river |
William Thornhill is deported to the New South Wales colony, where he struggles to gain power and comfort for his family amid convicts, charlatans, Aborigines, and arrivistes |
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A singular hostage |
Young Englishwoman Mariana Givens is drawn into a perilous conspiracy when she joins the entourage of British Governor-General Lord Auckland who is traveling across India to a meeting with the fabled Ranjit Singh, Maharajah of the Punjab, and becomes involved in the rescue of an infant kidnapped by Singh |
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The week the world stood still |
The Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War and the most perilous moment in American history. In this dramatic narrative written especially for students and general readers, Sheldon M. Stern, longtime historian at the John F. Kennedy Library, enables the reader to follow the often harrowing twists and turns of the crisis. |
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What is the what |
The story of a refugee of the Sudanese civil war. Fleeing from his village in the mid-1980s, Deng becomes one of the so-called Lost Boys--children pursued by militias, government soldiers, lions and hyenas and myriad diseases, in their search for sanctuary, first in Ethiopia and then Kenya. Eventually, Deng is resettled in the United States with almost 4,000 other young Sudanese men, and a very different struggle begins |
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