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History and Current Events June 2024
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| A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes by Anthony BaleHistorian Anthony Bale's fast-paced and engaging chronicle utilizes medieval travel guides and firsthand accounts to reveal how Europeans navigated the perils and pleasures of travel from the 10th to the 15th centuries. Try this next: The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry. |
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The New York game : baseball and the rise of a new city
by Kevin Baker
Filled with eye-opening stories from baseball's beginnings to the end of World War II, a historian presents all the legendary players, managers and owners, in all their vivid, complicated humanity, on and off the field, as well as a portrait of 19th-century American life in New York City, where it all started.
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| The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America by Tracie McMillanIn her reflective blend of memoir and reportage, award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan explores the economic benefits of white privilege. Booklist calls it "a fresh, urgent new look at the mechanisms of racism in America." Further reading: The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee. |
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An uncommon woman : the life of Lydia Hamilton Smith
by Mark Kelley
"A biography of Lydia Hamilton Smith (1813-1884), a prominent African American businesswoman in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the longtime housekeeper and life companion of the state's abolitionist congressman Thaddeus Stevens"
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| The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of... by Hampton SidesHistorian Hampton Sides' compelling, you-are-there latest offers an atmospheric account of controversial British cartographer James Cook's final Pacific voyage, which began in 1776 and ended three years later when he was killed by a group of Native Hawaiians whom he had exploited. Try this next: The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth by Adam Goodheart. |
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