19th century

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A Christmas carol

2014
A graphic novel adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel in which a miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

Was there really a gunfight at the O.K. Corral?

and other questions about the Wild West
2011
Presents seventeen common beliefs about the Wild West and investigates whether or not they are true.

The Shakeress

2008
While searching for her true self and for the way to meet the needs of her personal sense of spirituality, an orphaned teenaged girl joins a Shaker community in mid-nineteenth century New England and learns about a new religion called Mormonism.

Exiled

memoirs of a camel
2006
In the nineteenth century, Ali the camel is separated from his mother in Egypt and sent to Texas, where he becomes part of the United States Camel Corps, but does not forget his longing for sand dunes and freedom.

War on the Nile

Britain, Egypt, and the Sudan, 1882-1898
1984

Communism takes China

how the revolution went Red
1971

Blue at the mizzen

2000
Captain Aubrey stakes all on a desperate solo night raid against the might of the Spanish viceroy in Peru.

Emma's river

2010
In 1852, Emma, her pregnant mother, and her pony board the steamboat Sally May to meet her father in St. Joseph, Missouri, but when the ship explodes, Emma and all onboard must fight for their survival in the icy waters of the Missouri River.

God and race in American politics

a short history
2008
Discusses the history of race and religion in American politics, and describes how both opponents and supporters of slavery drew equally from the Holy Bible to support their claims, the 1830 slave revolt led by Nat Turner, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and more.

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