Sojourner Truth Library: New History Books & Media

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D217 .R37 2007—Realities of representation : state building in early modern Europe and European America /

E175.85 .L64 2005—Lies my teacher told me : everything your American history textbook got wrong / James W. Loewen.

E169.12 .B73 2006—As others see us : the causes and consequences of foreign perceptions of America / Stephen Brooks.

E176.1 .S648 2006—Faith and the presidency : from George Washington to George W. Bush / Gary Scott Smith.

E183.8.K6 L38 2006—A troubled peace : U.S. policy and the two Koreas / Chae-Jin Lee.

E184.J3 I415 2006—Before internment : essays in prewar Japanese American history / Yuji Ichioka ; edited by Gordon H.

E184.M5 Q56 2007—Antonio’s gun and Delfino’s dream : true tales of Mexican migration / Sam Quinones.

E185 .E839 2004—Ethnic notions [videorecording] / Signifying’ Works; produced, written & directed by Marlon T. Riggs

E185.61 .H693 2007—Many minds, one heart : SNCC’s dream for a new America / Wesley C. Hogan.

E185.61 .J37 2007—Buried in the bitter waters : the hidden history of racial cleansing in America / Elliot Jaspin.

E185.61 .T925 2000—The civil rights movement for kids : a history with 21 activities / Mary C. Turck.

E185.97.W4 A3 2000a—Up from slavery / Booker T. Washington.

E195 .C85 2006—Cultures and identities in colonial British America / edited by Robert Olwell and Alan Tully.

E208 .A445 1993—The American revolutionaries : a history in their own words, 1750-1800 / edited by Milton Meltzer.

E443 .B55 1979—The slave community : plantation life in the antebellum South / John W. Blassingame.

E444 .U53 2003—Unchained memories [videorecording] : readings from the slave narratives / an HBO Documentary Film i

E444.T82 S37 1996—Minty : a story of young Harriet Tubman / by Alan Schroeder ; pictures by Jerry Pinkney.

E450 .C45 2005—The Underground Railroad for kids : from slavery to freedom with 21 activities / Mary Kay Carson.

E487 .E34 2006—Dixie betrayed : how the South really lost the Civil War / David J. Eicher.

E663 .A47 2006—American reformers, 1870-1920 : progressives in word and deed / [edited by ]Steven L. Piott.

E743 .K55 2007—Killed cartoons : casualties from the war on free expression / edited by David Wallis.

E748.M52 C36 2006—Mellon : an American life / David Cannadine.

E902 .P36 2007—Armed madhouse : from Baghdad to New Orleans— sordid secrets & strange tales of a White House gone

E99.H7 P67 2006—Classic Hopi and Zuni kachina figures / photographs by Andrea Portago ; text by Barton Wright ; [map

E99.I7 T45 1998—Legends of the Iroquois / as told by Tehanetorens (Ray Fadden).

E99.O45 H38 2006—The Oneida Indians in the age of allotment, 1860-1920 / Laurence M. Hauptman, L. Gordon McLester III

F106 .E53 2006—Encyclopedia of Appalachia / edited by Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell ; managing editor, Jill Oxendi

F127.D8 J64 2006—Bannerman Castle / Thom Johnson and Barbara H. Gottlock.

F128.3 .W4286 2003—We built this city [videorecording] : New York / produced and directed by Alexander Marengo.

F128.37 .E54 2006—Manhattan New York / Gerrit Engel ; introduction by Terence Riley ; text by Jordan Mejias.

F128.64.L6 C87 2000—Liberty / Lynn Curlee.

F129.B7 B48 2006—Brooklyn by name : how the neighborhoods, streets, parks, bridges, and more got their names / Leonar

F269 .S764 2006—The South Carolina encyclopedia / edited by Walter Edgar.

F3327 .G35 2007—Bolivia on the brink / Eduardo A. Gamarra.

F68 .P44 2006c—Mayflower [sound recording] : [a story of courage, community, and war] / Nathaniel Philbrick.

D210 .P72 2006—Palgrave advances in intellectual history / edited by Richard Whatmore and Brian Young.

D217 .R37 2007—Realities of representation : state building in early modern Europe and European America / edited by

D295 .R49 2006—Revolutionary movements in world history : from 1750 to present / James V. DeFronzo, editor.

D790.2 .G73 2006—Among the dead cities : the history and moral legacy of the WWII bombing of civilians in Germany and

DA125.A1 C63 2006—Hybridity, identity, and monstrosity in medieval Britain : on difficult middles / Jeffrey Jerome Coh

DA380 .L46 2005—The business of everyday life : gender, practice and social politics in England, c.1600-1900 / Bever

DA947.3 .B37 2004—Making the grand figure : lives and possessions in Ireland, 1641-1770 / Toby Barnard.

DB2022 .G65 2004—Time’s magpie : a walk in Prague / Myla Goldberg ; illustrations by Ken Nash.

DB984.4 .D46 2007—Budapest : a cultural history / Bob Dent.

DD101 .C58 2005—The German way of war : from the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich / Robert M. Citino.

DD258.75 .K36 2006—In pursuit of German memory : history, television, and politics after Auschwitz / Wulf Kansteiner.

DD97 .L47 2006—The seduction of culture in German history / Wolf Lepenies.

DE5 .C28 2006—The Cambridge dictionary of classical civilization / edited by Graham Shipley … [et al.] ; advisor

DF212.S4 S35 2006—The hero Schliemann : the dreamer who dug for Troy / Laura Amy Schlitz ; illustrated by Robert Byrd.

DS113.3 .Y54 2006—Ethnocracy : land and identity politics in Israel/Palestine / Oren Yiftachel.

DS119.7 .K85 2006—Historical dictionary of the Arab-Israeli conflict / P.R. Kumaraswamy.

DS135.P62 L645313 2006—Łódź Ghetto : a history / Isaiah Trunk ; translated and edited by Robert Moses Shapiro ; introduc

DS135.S75 A7153 1997—Jewish economy in the medieval crown of Aragon, 1213-1327 : money and power / by Yom Tov Assis.

DS485.H6 Z872 2006—Illustrated atlas of the Himalaya / David Zurick & Julsun Pacheco ; with Basanta Shrestha & Birendra

DS559.5 .D43 2005—Dear America [videorecording] : letters home from Vietnam / Home Box Office presents a co-production

DS59.K86 M427 2006—The Kurds : a people in search of their homeland / Kevin McKiernan.

DS62.2 .A63 2006—The ancient Near East : historical sources in translation / edited by Mark W. Chavalas.

DS63.2.U5 O54 2007—Power, faith, and fantasy : America in the Middle East, 1776 to the present / Michael B. Oren.

DS63.2.U5 Y37 2003b—The United States and the Middle East, 1914 to 9/11 [sound recording] / Salim Yaqub.

DS778.7 .C4563 2006—The Chinese cultural revolution as history / edited by Joseph W. Esherick, Paul G. Pickowicz, and An

DS778.7 .G86 2006—Historical dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution / Guo Jian, Yongyi Song, Yuan Zhou.

DS79.76 .A393 2007—The occupation of Iraq : winning the war, losing the peace / Ali A. Allawi.

DS79.769 .S55 2007—After the surge : the case for U.S. military disengagement from Iraq / Steven N. Simon.

DS95.6.I7 G66 2006—Syria and Iran : diplomatic alliance and power politics in the Middle East / Jubin M. Goodarzi.

DT14 .A374244 2005—African intellectuals : rethinking politics, language, gender, and development / Thandika Mkandawire

DT197.5.G7 M38 2005—Britain and Barbary, 1589-1689 / Nabil Matar.

DT2999.G63 A3 2007—When a crocodile eats the sun : a memoir of Africa / Peter Godwin.

DT516.828.B43 A3 2007—A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier / Ishmael Beah.

DT61 .D5613 1974b—The African origin of civilization : myth or reality / Cheikh Anta Diop ; translated from the French