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Use your library card and PIN to access a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history in the Gale Archives Unbound database.
In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans was unemployed. Violence was rampant. Hitler’s National Socialists surged at the polls. Paul von Hindenburg, an aging...
This pamphlet offers a condensed history of Europe between the fall of the Roman empire and the twelfth century. The author’s profound anticlerical bias becomes apparent as he explores the influence of Christianity on a world in which order was maintained by the imposition of violence, and in which the general populace was kept in a state of ignorance and serfdom. He supports his conclusions with quotes from his own translations of documents
...New York City’s Fire Company Number 11 is in trouble. A deadly snowstorm is blowing, and many of the volunteers are sick in bed. When the fire alarm sounds, who will answer the call? Who will save the neighborhood? Molly Williams, the company’s cook,...
The remarkable tale of two young men during the Klondike Gold Rush, told through first-hand diaries, letters, and more—“excellent reading” for middle grade fans of The Call of the Wild and adventure stories (School Library Journal)
As thousands head north in search of gold, Marshall Bond and Stanley Pearce join them, booking passage on a steamship...
In the summer of 1964, as the Civil Rights movement boiled over, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent more than seven hundred college students to Mississippi to help black Americans already battling for democracy, their dignity and the right to vote. The campaign was called...
A Step 3 Step into Reading Biography Reader about our forty-fourth president, Barack Obama—revised to include an account of his reelection and new photographs! With clear and accessible language, independent readers can learn how the lessons and...
Born in 1864, Nellie Bly was a woman who did not allow herself to be defined by the time she lived in, she rewrote the narrative and made her own way.
Luciana Cimino’s meticulously researched graphic-novel biography tells Bly’s story through Miriam, a fictionalized female student at the Columbia School of Journalism in 1921. While interviewing the famous...
13) Adrift
The bestselling author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes traces how civilizations have drifted apart throughout the 20th century and now lack the solidarity to address global threats to humankind.
“Maalouf is a thoughtful, humane and passionate interlocutor.” — The New York Times Book Review
The United States is on the verge of losing all moral credibility. The European Union is in the process of breaking...Antología, estudio, comparación, interpretación y simplificación de la historia de México Tenochtitlan
Desde su fundación, la historia de México Tenochtitlan se plasmó en los tlacuilolli (códices) por los tlacuiloque (los que escribían pintando). Luego de la colonización del Anáhuac, los descendientes de la nobleza nahua, algunos de ellos mestizos, convertidos a la religión católica
...17) Palestina
La fascinante historia, alejada del parque infantil, de un artilugio empapado de magia, pasiones, leyendas, ritos, goce, erotismo, diversión o muerte.
El columpio ha acompañado a los seres humanos desde la Grecia clásica o la China preimperial. Sus usos han labrado un terreno fecundo entre el arte y la vida, entre el ritual y el conocimiento, entre la cultura y el juego. Javier Moscoso, uno de los ensayistas
...Una iluminadora reflexión sobre el Mediterráneo como escenario de la historia
y como idea del mundo.
El Mediterráneo es un mar aparentemente plácido sobre el que a menudo se ciernen negros nubarrones, un lugar de encuentro y a la vez de conflicto, cuna de los mitos clásicos y de las grandes religiones monoteístas, escenario de algunas de las más deslumbrantes
...Tres grandes autores reúnen sus plumas en un solo volumen para hacer un recorrido histórico, pero crítico, de la historia de México. Toman como punto de partida la época prehispánica hasta el siglo XX.
Prólogo escrito por Francisco Martín Moreno.
«Ahora puedo ver, con más claridad que antes, cómo todas las tramas tienen
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