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History and Current Events April 2024
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Recent Releases - History
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Madness : race and insanity in a Jim Crow asylum
by Antonia Hylton
Tracing the legacy of slavery to the treatment of Black people's bodies and minds in our current healthcare system, a Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregated asylums, built in 1911 Maryland by enchained Black men who were then incarcerated there.
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The witch of New York : the trials of Polly Bodine and the cursed birth of tabloid justice
by C. Alexander Hortis
In this first narrative history of Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder from 1844-1846, a constitutional lawyer and crime historian shows how dueling trial lawyers, ruthless newsmen and shameless hucksters turned her case in America's formative tabloid trial. Reviews call it "rollicking and unnerving," (Foreword) and "a lively history of early New York." (Kirkus Reviews)
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Saving Michelangelo's dome : how three mathematicians and a pope sparked an architectural revolution
by Wayne Kalayjian
In 1742, when the legendary dome atop St. Peter’s Basilica—designed by Michelangelo—cracks and threatens to collapse, Pope Benedict XIV summons three mathematicians whose groundbreaking ideas unknowingly invented the profession of engineering as we practice it today. With it, they transformed the architectural world and ushered in generations of future buildings and structures that, otherwise, would never have been built.
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Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane : Nazi gold and the murder of an entire French town by SS Division Das Reich
by Vincent dePaul Lupiano
The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is recognized yearly throughout France with the same profundity as the attack on Pearl Harbor. This is the story of the Oradour massacre and its real cause: how two SS officers--a general and a major--"acquired" one million dollars' worth of gold ingots while encamped at nearby Montauban, and how that led to the massacre of 642 men, women, and children in 1944."
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Normal women : 900 years of making history
by Philippa Gregory
Drawing on an enormous archive of primary and secondary sources to rewrite history, focusing on the agency, persistence and effectiveness of everyday women throughout periods of social and cultural transition, Gregory redefines "normal" female behavior to include heroism, rebellion, crime, treason, money-making and sainthood.
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Recent Releases - Current Events
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| A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging by Lauren MarkhamJournalist Lauren Markham's "remarkable, unnerving, and cautionary portrait of a global immigration crisis" (Kirkus Reviews) chronicles the aftermath of the 2020 burning of a large refugee camp in Greece, in which young Afghan migrants were falsely accused of arson. Try this next: The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri. |
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My side of the river : a memoir
by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
Exploring separation, generational trauma and the toll of the American dream, the author recounts what happened when, at 15, her parents were forced back to Mexico, leaving her and her brother to fend for themselves as underage victims affected by broken immigration laws. "Perfect for readers who want to learn more about how the U.S immigration system affects the families its laws separate." (Library Journal)
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