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Debating the civil rights movement, 1945-1968

2006
Depicts the struggle to desegregate American society during the Civil Rights Movement from 1945 through 1968 and provides information about the leaders of the movement and interviews with the grassroots organizers. Includes an index.

Lies my teacher told me

everything your American history textbook got wrong
2018
Critiques twelve American history textbooks, arguing that they contain misinformation, fail to connect present issues with past events, and lack suspense and drama, and retells events in American history in ways that combat these problems.

England and the Italian Renaissance

the growth of interest in its history and art
2005
A chronological narrative of England's history and development during the Italian Renaissance that explores how each country's cultural history was influenced by the other during the time period.
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Talking about the past

2015
Explores how to learn more about family and local community history through interviews with older relatives, neighbors and other community figures.

Lies my teacher told me

everything your American history textbook got wrong
Critiques twelve American history textbooks, arguing that they contain misinformation, fail to connect present issues with past events, and lack suspense and drama, and retells events in American history in ways that combat these problems.

American history through literature, 1820-1920

2005
Examines the relationship between American history and literature between 1820 and 1920, presenting alphabetized articles on topics such as abolition, the Indian Wars, Romanticism, satire, and World War I.
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History in the making

an absorbing look at how American history has changed in the telling over the last 200 years
2006

American history

reconstruction through the present
1985

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