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Author
Publisher
Universe Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The history of the world as witnessed through the most inspiring, rousing, and memorable speeches ever given. Throughout history, passionate orators have rallied nations, challenged accepted beliefs, and changed the course of history. Colin Salter has identified one-hundred of history's most inspirational, momentous, and thought-provoking speeches from ancient Rome and Athens to the 21st century and puts them into context, telling the stories behind...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Beginning with the debates over judicial power in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to controversial rulings on slavery, racial segregation, free speech, school prayer, abortion, and gay rights, constitutional scholar Peter Irons offers a penetrating look at the highest court in the land. Here are revealing sketches of every justice from John Jay to Samuel Alito, as well as portraits of such legal giants as John Marshall, Oliver Wendell Holmes,...
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"On October 1, 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada suffered the worst mass shooting in modern American history, resulting in 58 deaths and over 500 injured. It broke my heart. Las Vegas is my home. I felt like something needed to be done to help in a unique way."--JH WILLIAMS III, Artist and Curating Editor This "unique way" was the genesis of the WHERE WE LIVE anthology--a riveting collection of both fictional stories and actual eye-witness accounts told by...
Series
Library of America volume 233
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, this anthology charts America's long, heroic confrontation with its most poisonous evil."--Publisher description.
1969) Youth's companion
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1954.
Language
English
Description
Selections from the pages of the magazine first published in 1827.
1970) Eyewitness to history
Language
English
Description
A collection of primary sources of historical events spanning from the plague in Athens in 430 BC to the fall of President Marcos in the Philippines in 1986.
Publisher
Warner Bros Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Justice hits its mark! Based on the beloved DC series, Arrow reinvents billionaire Oliver Queen, a 'vigilante' archer determined to right the wrongs of those who've corrupted Star City. The Complete Series delivers danger, action, and intrigue as the Green Arrow, with the help of Team Arrow, struggles to save their city from diabolical masterminds harboring dark secrets and sinister agendas.
Season 1: After being marooned for five years on a remote...
Series
Publisher
Salem Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
The latest edition in the overwhelmingly popular Great Events from History series, Modern Scandals examines over 400 of the most important and most publicized scandals throughout the world since the beginning of the twentieth century. The essays in this set are 3-5 pages long and follow the same reader-friendly format that users have come to expect from the Great Events from History series.
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