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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
37 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk's life's passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg's collection became so big it began to overflow his house...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Perseus Distribution
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xii, 365 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the life and achievements of the progressive activist, author, and teacher examines his roles as an anti-war veteran, an iconic contributor to the civil rights movement, and dedicated white professor at a historically black college.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Illuminates the achievements of the nineteenth-century historian, writer, and intellectual, discussing Adams's relationships with political leaders inside and outside of his family and his witness to the dawn of modern America.
"Henry Adams is perhaps the most eclectic, accomplished, and important American writer of his time. His autobiography and modern classic The Education of Henry Adams was widely considered one of the best English-language nonfiction...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Born in Louisiana to a soon-to-be absent father and an alcoholic mother--who tried to drown him in a bathtub when he was three--Clifton Crais spent his childhood perched beside his mother on a too-tall bar stool, living with relatives too old or infirmed to care for him, or rambling on his own through New Orleans, a city both haunted and created by memory. Indeed, it is memory--both elusive and essential--that forms the center of Crais's beautifully...
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The author of "The Gnostic Gospels" draws on personal experiences and the perspectives of neurologists, anthropologists, and historians to illuminate the enduring capacity of faith in explaining and meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century.
"Why does religion still exist in the twenty-first century? And why do so many people -- even, and especially, those who challenge religion -- continue to argue about the questions it raises? What purpose...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xv, 713 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An intellectual autobiography by Peter Brown, one of the most eminent historians of the last 50 years, who is credited with having created the field of study know as Late Antiquity, the period during which Rome fell, the three major monotheistic religions took shape, and Christianity spread across Europe situating it in the major developments in historiography and the study of the religion in the 20th century and the minds behind them"--
"A beautifully...
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