Sojourner Truth Library: New History Books & Media

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BL313.C28 1993—The hero with a thousand faces / Joseph Campbell.

BL782 .A45 1994—The gods and goddesses of Olympus / written and illustrated by Aliki.

CT25 .I58 1998—Inventing the truth : the art and craft of memoir / Russell Baker … [et al.] ; edited with an intr

D421 .B496 2006—A short history of the 20th century / Geoffrey Blainey.

D810 .P6 W4 2005—Wearing propaganda : textiles on the home front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931-1945

DA177 .S28 2006—The three Richards : Richard I, Richard II and Richard III / Nigel Saul.

DA30 .H86 2006—The human tradition in modern Britain / edited by Caroline Litzenberger and Eileen Groth Lyon.

DD389 .C53 2006—Iron kingdom : the rise and downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 / Christopher Clark.

DS127.M5 S547 2007—Six days in June [videorecording] : the war that redefined the Middle East / produced by WGBH Educat

DS135 .P63 K7355 2005—Memories of survival / Esther Nisenthal Krinitz and Bernice Steinhardt.

DS135.U43 A154 2005—Holocaust in the Ukraine / editor, Boris Zabarko ; translator, Marina Guba.

DS63.1 .J66 2007—Negotiating change : the new politics of the Middle East / Jeremy Jones.

DS706 .P513 2006—We live in China / by Pascal Pilon and Elisabeth Thomas ; illustrated by Sophie Duffet.

DS79.76 .R5 2006—Chasing ghosts : a soldier’s fight for America from Baghdad to Washington / Paul Rieckhoff.

E169.Z83 F35 2007—The terror dream : fear and fantasy in post-9/11 America / Susan Faludi.

E184.M88 P38 2007—Acts of faith : the story of an American Muslim, the struggle for the soul of a generation / Eboo Pa

E185.61 .B36 2004—Before Brown : civil rights and white backlash in the modern South / edited by Glenn Feldman.

E185.61 .W86 2002—The strange career of Jim Crow / C. Vann Woodward ; with a new afterword by William S. McFeely.

E310 .F97 2006—In the name of the father : Washington’s legacy, slavery, and the making of a nation / François Fur

E467 .B66 2006—The soldier’s pen : firsthand impressions of the Civil War / Robert E. Bonner.

E78 .N7 S87 2005—Adirondack : of Indians and mountains, 1535-1838 / Stephen B. Sulavik.

E895 .S84 2006—America alone : the end of the world as we know it / Mark Steyn.

E98.T73 F67 2007—The American discovery of Europe / Jack D. Forbes.

E99.I7 R43 2006—The collected speeches of Sagoyewatha, or Red Jacket / edited by Granville Ganter.

1435.3.A7 F54 2005—Lords of creation : the origins of sacred Maya kingship / Virginia M. Fields and Dorie Reents-Budet

F1437 .H39 2004—José de Bustamante and Central American independence : colonial administration in an age of imperia

F1787 .L945 2001—Culture and customs of Cuba / William Luis.

F272 .E34 2006—Plantation enterprise in colonial South Carolina / S. Max Edelson.