history

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Election day

an American holiday, an American history
1991
Describes the voting and reporting process of the American electoral system and the activities and celebrations of American campaigns and election days.

Thurgood Marshall

the fight for equal justice
1990
Examines the life of the first African-American to be appointed an associate justice to the United States Supreme Court.

Boss of bosses

the fall of the godfather : the FBI and Paul Castellano
1991

Beloved

a novel
1988
Sethe, an escaped slave who now lives in post-Civil War Ohio, has borne the unthinkable and works hard at "beating back the past." She struggles to keep Beloved, an intruder, from gaining possession of her present while throwing off the legacy of her past.

Nightmare in red

the McCarthy era in perspective
1990
Describes the people caught up in the anti-Communist fervor from World War II to the 1960s.

Mexicano resistance in the Southwest

"the sacred right of self-preservation"
1981

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