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The memory of the Battle of Antietam was so haunting that when, nine months later, Major Rufus Dawes learned another Antietam battle might be on the horizon, he wrote, "I hope not, I dread the thought of the place." In this definitive account, historian D. Scott Hartwig chronicles the single bloodiest day in American history, which resulted in 23,000 casualties.

Clive Myrie presents a powerful four-part series documenting the events leading up to, surrounding and following the assassination of Martin Luther King - told by the people who were there. In 1968, Dr King was in Memphis to support a strike by the local sanitation workers, campaigning under the...

A captivating oral history of the iconic music venue the Stone Pony and of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Asbury Park, New Jersey—featuring interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt, Southside Johnny, members of the E Street Band and Asbury Jukes, the Ramones, the Jonas Brothers, Jack...

Da sempre simbolo del luogo in cui tutto può succedere, New York è la città che non dorme mai, dove persone e occasioni sembrano correre alla velocità della luce. Molto si è scritto di New York, in tanti l'hanno inseguita, cantata e descritta. Eppure dietro le pietre e i cristalli di Manhattan ci sono infinite storie da raccontare.

In the quiet valleys of southern Utah, in 1857, over 120 men, women, and children from Arkansas were brutally murdered by Mormon settlers and their allies. It was one of the darkest chapters in American frontier history—an event that has long remained shrouded in silence, misdirection, and denial. The Mountain Meadows Massacre is more than a historical crime; it is a story of how fear, fanaticism, and blind allegiance to religious authority can lead to devastating consequences. And for far too long, it has been treated as an inconvenient footnote by those who should have faced it head-on.

I Hear My People Singing shines a light on a small but historic black neighborhood at the heart of one of the most elite and internationally renowned Ivy League towns - Princeton, New Jersey. The vivid first-person accounts of more than 50 black residents detail aspects of African American life throughout the 20th century.

In this "vital book for these times" (Kirkus Reviews), Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today's most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes? The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As...

It might surprise you who’s a fan of poetry — when it meets them where they are. Before he became an award-winning writer and poet, Brian Sonia-Wallace set up a typewriter on the street with a sign that said “Poetry Store” and discovered something surprising: all over America, people...

Schon nach kurzer Zeit im Wilden Westen erwirbt sich ein junger Landvermesser den Kriegsnamen Old Shatterhand - und den Respekt seines kauzigen Lehrmeisters. Als die Apachen die Vermessungsarbeiten unterbinden wollen, verbündet sich die korrupte Bauleitung mit den Kiowas. Doch Old Shatterhand kann die gefangenen Häuptlinge Intschu-tschuna und Winnetou retten. Allerdings muss er lange warten, bis er von ihnen als ihr Befreier anerkannt wird und der Blutsbruder Winnetous werden kann. Die Häuptlingstochter Nscho Tschi verliebt sich in ihn - ein junges Glück, das nur von kurzer Dauer ist.

The year was 1965. The Beatles, Elvis Presley, and The Righteous Brothers filled the airwaves. Television shows like The Adventures of Ozzy and Harriett and The Andy Griffith Show mirrored the innocence of life in the dusty city of Tucson, AZ. But the sun-baked desert surrounding Tucson was hiding a sinister secret. A psychopath names Charles Schmid, later nicknamed the "Pied Piper of Tucson" by Life magazine, would steal that innocence away, along with the lives of three beautiful teenage girls.

Dansk-amerikaneren Jacob A. Riis ankom med dampskibet til Castle Garden i 1870. Med 40 dollars i lommen, foræret af hans naboer i Ribe, kun lige stået af båden, der havde fragtet ham fra det gamle kontinent kiggede den 21-årige Jacob A. Riis udover byen og beskrev et syn, der på samme måde må have betaget de mange andre immigranter, som han havde delt båd med: "...

They Called Them Soldier Boys offers an in-depth study of soldiers of the Texas National Guard's Seventh Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I, through their recruitment, training, journey to France, combat, and their return home. Gregory W. Ball focuses on the 14 counties in North, Northwest, and West Texas where officers recruited the regiment's soldiers in the summer of 1917, and how those counties compared with the rest of the state in terms of political, social, and economic attitudes.

Stereoless in Seattle: Why I Tried to Unionize Car Stereo Installers and Failed takes a light-hearted look at the car stereo industry through the eyes of someone who lived it for the better part of 25 years.

This new South End Press edition makes available the full text of this out-of-print classic - along with a new foreword by Manning Marable, interviews with participants in DRUM, and reflections on political developments over the past three decades by Georgakas and Surkin.