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| Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War
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Robert Roper.
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| Publisher: Walker. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780802715531. Daedalus Item Code: 30059 |
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| Walt Whitman's work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War profoundly affected his worldview as well as his poetry. Much less well known is the extraordinary war record of his younger ... (Read More)
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| Nueva York 1613–1945
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Edward J. Sullivan, ed.
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| Publisher: New York Historical Society. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781857596397. Daedalus Item Code: 30850 |
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| The population of New York City is now nearly one-third Hispanic, marking a demographic transformation that will have a huge impact on the city's culture, daily life, and its future, notes art ... (Read More)
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| Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning
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Kathleen Burk.
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| Publisher: Atlantic Monthly. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780871139719. Daedalus Item Code: 13919 |
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| America's close bond with Great Britain seems inevitable, given our shared language and heritage. But as Berkeley- and Oxford-educated historian Kathleen Burk shows in this groundbreaking history, ... (Read More)
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| On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery
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Robert M. Poole.
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| Publisher: Walker. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780802715487. Daedalus Item Code: 31915 |
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| "Along Eisenhower Drive, as far as the eye could see, the grave markers formed into bone-white brigades, climbed from the flats of the Potomac River, and scattered over the green Virginia hills in ... (Read More)
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| Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942
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Ian W. Toll.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393068139. Daedalus Item Code: 23887 |
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| On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Only six months later, in a sea fight north of the ... (Read More)
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| The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
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Robert A. Caro.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780375713255. Daedalus Item Code: 38567 |
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| (Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography) The fourth entry in Robert A. Caro's Pulitzer Prize– and National Book ... (Read More)
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| Patriot Sage: George Washington and the American Political Tradition
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Gary L. Gregg II & Matthew Spalding, eds.
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| Publisher: ISI Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781882926381. Daedalus Item Code: 31156 |
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| "[This book] opens with a preface by William J. Bennett, former Secretary of Education, U.S. drug czar, and chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which states the conservative agenda ... (Read More)
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| Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation into War
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Steven M. Gillon.
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| Publisher: Basic Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780465021390. Daedalus Item Code: 30258 |
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| Following Japan's bombing raid of the U.S. fleet in Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed December 7, 1941, to be "a date which will live in infamy." Indeed, the events of that day ended the ... (Read More)
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| The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival After Yorktown
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Thomas Fleming.
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| Publisher: Smithsonian/BOMC. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780061139109. Daedalus Item Code: 10507 |
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| On October 19, 1781, Great Britain's best army surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown, yet the future of the 13 former colonies was far from clear. George III had no intention of relinquishing ... (Read More)
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| A Pioneer ABC
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Mary Alice Downie and Mary Jane Gerber.
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| Publisher: Tundra Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780887766886. Daedalus Item Code: 32448 |
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| Inspired by the lives of British loyalists who emigrated to Canada after the American Revolution, this picture book for readers 4 to 7 takes the form of an alphabet primer, illustrated with realistic ... (Read More)
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