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HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY January 21,2021
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To continue serving the community, we are currently offering Curbside and Vestibule Pick Up of library materials. Pick Up Service Hours: Monday: 9 AM-12 PM & 1-7 PM Tuesday-Saturday: 9 AM-12 PM & 1-5 PM |
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Ida B. the queen : the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells by Michelle DusterWritten by her great-granddaughter, a historical portrait of the boundary-breaking civil rights pioneer includes coverage of Wells’s early years as a slave, her famous acts of resistance and her achievements as a journalist and anti-lynching activist. BIOGRAPHY WELLS
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As World War II raged in North Africa, General Erwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans and weaknesses. In the summer of 1942, he led his Axis army swiftly and terrifyingly toward Alexandria, with the goal of overrunning the entire Middle East. Each step was informed by detailed updates on British positions. The Nazis, somehow, had a source for the Allies' greatest secrets. Yet the Axis powers were not the only ones with intelligence. Years in the making, this book is a feat of historical research and storytelling, and a rethinking of the popular narrative of the war. It portrays the conflict not as an inevitable clash of heroes and villains but a spiraling series of failures, accidents, and desperate triumphs that decided the fate of the Middle East and quite possibly the outcome of the war.
940.5485 GOR
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The crooked path to abolition : Abraham Lincoln and the antislavery Constitution by James OakesAn award-winning scholar uncovers Lincoln's strategy for abolishing slavery in this groundbreaking history of the sectional crisis and Civil War. Some celebrate Lincoln for freeing the slaves; others fault him for a long-standing conservatism on abolition and race. James Oakes gives us another option in this brilliant exploration of Lincoln and the end of slavery. 973.74 OAK
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