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2) History of New York State: A Captivating Guide to Historical Events and Facts You Should Know About
10) Founding Fathers: Biographies of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben
In a beautiful picture book brimming with P for Pride, writer and poet Seema Yasmin and illustrator Lucy Kirk celebrate all the joys and challenges of queer history in the United States through lively, rhyming verse and bright, colorful illustrations.
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Jim Crow's Pink Slip exposes the decades-long repercussions of a too-little-known result of resistance to the Brown v. Board of Education decision: the systematic dismissal of Black educators from public schools.
In 1954, the Supreme Court's Brown decision ended segregated schooling in the United States, but regrettably, as documented...
The conception, creation, recording, and significance of the Beatles' "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever"
John Lennon wrote "Strawberry Fields Forever" in Almería, Spain, in fall 1966, and in November, in response to that song, Paul McCartney wrote "Penny Lane" at his home in London. A culmination of what was one of the most life-altering and chaotic years in the Beatles' career, these two songs composed the 1967 double
...17) Elizabeth: An intimate portrait from the writer who knew her and her family for over fifty years
THE NO 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NOW FEATURING EXCLUSIVE MATERIAL ABOUT CHARLES III's CORONATION WITH ADDED PHOTOGRAPHS
A personal account of the life and character of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, from the writer who knew her family best
'Compelling . . . Fascinating' DAILY MAIL
'The writer who got closest to the human truth about our long-serving senior royals' THE TIMES
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Alcohol is a fundamental part of Western culture. We have been drinking as long as we have been human, and for better or worse, alcohol has shaped our civilization. Drink investigates the history of this Jekyll and Hyde of fluids, tracing mankind's love/hate relationship with alcohol from ancient Egypt to the present day.
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