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Family separation and the U.S.-Mexico border crisis

2020
"This volume provides an authoritative, evenhanded overview of the Trump administration's family separation and child detention policies at the U.S.-Mexico border--and the impact of those policies and actions on children, their parents, border security, and American politics"--Provided by publisher.

Border

a journey to the edge of Europe
2017
"Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall, and it swarmed with soldiers and spies. On holidays in the "Red Riviera" on the Black Sea, she remembers playing on the beach only miles from a bristling electrified fence whose barbs pointed inward toward the enemy: the citizens of the totalitarian regime"--Provided by publisher.

The Counselor

a screenplay
2013
A screenplay of the motion picture "The Counselor" in which a lawyer known as the Counselor, who is about to get married, gets caught up in the drug trade on the Texas-Mexico border, thinking the consequence will never catch up with him, and finds his life and those he loves threatened by his actions.

Boundaries

how the Mason-Dixon Line settled a family feud & divided a nation
2014
Provides a history of the Mason-Dixon Line, the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, discussing the property disputes, family feuds, and exploration associated with it.

How the states got their shape

2010
Tells the story of how state boundaries were determined in the U.S.

Lakes, peaks, and prairies

discovering the United States-Canadian border
1984

Paris 1919

six months that changed the world
2003
After World War I ended, American President Woodrow Wilson, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and French premier Georges Clemenceau met in Paris for six months in 1919 to shape what they hoped would be a lasting peace.

The Dispute over Gibraltar

2007
Presents a history of Gibraltar which was ceded to Britain in 1713 through the Treaty of Utrecht, the battle over the control of the region, and the failed diplomatic and military efforts on the part of Spain to retake Gibraltar from England.

Vietnam

17th parallel
2004
Presents a brief history of Vietnam, and focuses on the formation of the 17th parallel demilitarized zone in 1954, and the role it served throughout the Cold War, the American war, and after Vietnam was reunited.

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