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History and Current Events April 2025 |
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The last dynasty : ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra by Toby WilkinsonThe author describes the extraordinary cultural reach displayed at the height of the Ptolemies power: how they founded new cities, built spectacular new temples and created a dazzling civilization that produced astonishing works of sculpture, architecture, and literature. He also shows how such expansionist ambitions led to the era's downfall.
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The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America by Kostya KennedyReleased in time for the 250th anniversary of the event and featuring fresh insights, journalist Kostya Kennedy's accessible history chronicles Paul Revere's fateful midnight ride to warn American minutemen of the British army's impending arrival.
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The crossing : El Paso, the Southwest, and America's forgotten origin story by Richard ParkerReinterprets American history through the lens of El Paso, Texas, highlighting its role as a crossroads of Indigenous trade, European colonization, westward expansion, immigration and civil rights. The city is portrayed as a vital yet overlooked blueprint for America's diverse and interconnected future.
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| Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS by Lisa RogakBiographer Lisa Rogak's chronicles the courageous exploits of four women who worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II: American reporter Betty MacDonald, Czech polyglot Zuzka Lauwers, American navy wife Jane Smith-Hutton, and German American film star Marlene Dietrich. |
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Abundance by Ezra KleinA compelling exploration of how systemic scarcity in areas like housing, healthcare and climate action stems from outdated solutions emphasizes the need for a mindset shift toward abundance and proactive systems to drive transformative progress.
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The Bright Ages : A New History of Medieval Europe by Matthew GabrieleTaking us through ten centuries and crisscrossing Europe and the Mediterranean, Asia and Africa, this popular history sheds new light on the European Middle Ages, revealing a time of beauty and communion that flourished alongside dark brutality.
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Blood and iron : the rise and fall of the German Empire, 1871-1918 by Katja HoyerBefore 1871, Germany was not yet a nation and it's founder, Otto von Bismarck, had to bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser. In this study of five decades that changed the course of modern history, Katja Hoyer tells the story of the German Empire from its violent beginnings to its calamitous defeat in the First World War.
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