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LatinAsian Cartographies : History, Writing, and the National Imaginary

Subjects: American literature--21st century--History and criticism; Literature and society--United States--History--20th century; American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticismLITERARY CRITICISM / General; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: LatinAsian Cartographies examines how Latina/o and Asian American writers provide important counter-narratives to the stories of racial encroachment that have come to characterize twenty-first

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Racism in American Public Life : A Call to Action

Subjects: Racism in higher education--United States; African Americans--Education (Higher)--Social aspects; Educational equalization--United StatesHISTORY / United States / 21st Century; EDUCATION / Leadership

  • Abstract: For some in our society, diversity is a threat. Others feel society should be more inclusive, if only out of fairness. But as Johnnetta Cole ...

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Fighting Political Gridlock : How States Shape Our Nation and Our Lives

Subjects: Policy sciences--Virginia; State governments--United States; State governments--VirginiaPOLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: In this profoundly polarized era, the nation has been transfixed on the politics of Washington and its seemingly impenetrable gridlock. Many of the decisions that ...

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People Power : History, Organizing, and Larry Goodwyn's Democratic Vision in the Twenty-First Century

Subjects: Social justice--United States--History; Social movements--United States--History; Democracy--United States--HistoryHISTORY / United States / 21st Century; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General

  • Abstract: Featuring contributions from leading scholar-activists, People Power demonstrates how the lessons of history can inform the building of new social justice ...

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Tainted Tap : Flint's Journey From Crisis to Recovery

Subjects: Public health administration--Michigan--Flint; Water quality management--Michigan--Flint; Drinking water--Contamination--Social aspects--Michigan--FlintSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century; SCIENCE / Environmental Science

  • Abstract: After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years demanding action ...

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Gangsters to Governors : The New Bosses of Gambling in America

Subjects: State governments--United States--History; Gambling--Political aspects--United States--History; Gambling--Government policy--United States--HistoryBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: Winner of the 2018 Current Events/Social Change Book Award from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner of the 2018 Bronze Current Events Book Award from ...

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When Riot Cops Are Not Enough : The Policing and Repression of Occupy Oakland

Subjects: Social control--California--Oakland; Police--California--Oakland; Occupy movement--California--OaklandPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights

  • Abstract: In When Riot Cops Are Not Enough, sociologist and activist Mike King examines the policing, and broader political repression, of the Occupy Oakland movement during ...

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The Campus Rape Frenzy : The Attack on Due Process at America's Universities

Subjects: Rape in universities and colleges--Political aspects--United States; Rape in universities and colleges--United States; Due process of law--United StatesEDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / Federal Legislation; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century; LAW / Civil Rights

  • Abstract: In recent years, politicians led by President Obama and prominent senators and governors have teamed with extremists on campus to portray our nation's institutions of ...

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Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers : Women Transforming Public Space

Subjects: Feminism--United States; Protest movements--United StatesSOCIAL SCIENCE / General; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies

  • Abstract: From the Women in Black vigils and Dyke marches to the Million Mom March, women have seized a dynamic role in early twenty-first

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Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer : Charlottesville and the Politics of Hate

Subjects: Freedom of speech--United States; Hate speech--Law and legislation--United States; Unite the Right Rally, Charlottesville, Va., 2017SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy

  • Abstract: In the personal and frank Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer, Rodney A. Smolla offers an insider's view on the violent confrontations in Charlottesville during ...

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Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections

Subjects: Elections--Corrupt practices--United States--History; Voting--United States--History; Suffrage--United States--HistoryPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: Historians have long been engaged in telling the story of the struggle for the vote. In the wake of recent contested elections, the suppression of ...

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Entertaining Entrepreneurs : Reality TV's Shark Tank and the American Dream in Uncertain Times

Subjects: Entrepreneurship--United States; American Dream; Reality television programs--United StatesSOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: The Great Recession threatened the well-being of tens of millions of Americans, dramatically weakened the working class, hollowed out the middle class, and strengthened the ...

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A Mexican State of Mind : New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture

Subjects: Mexican Americans--New York (State)--New York; Arts, Mexican--New York (State)--New York; Popular culture--New York (State)--New York--Mexican influencesSOCIAL SCIENCE / General; ART / Art & Politics; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture explores the cultural and creative lives of the largely young undocumented ...

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Escape to Miami : An Oral History of the Cuban Rafter Crisis

Subjects: Adjustment (Psychology)--Case studies; Cubans--Florida--Miami--Biography; Psychic trauma--Case studiesHISTORY / Latin America / General; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

  • Abstract: While the Naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba is well-known for its infamous prison camp, few people are aware of its prior use as ...

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The War on Leakers : National Security and American Democracy, From Eugene V. Debs to Edward Snowden

Subjects: Democracy--United States; National security--United States; Electronic surveillance--United StatesPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International); HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: Four days before Pearl Harbor, in December 1941, someone leaked American contingency war plans to the Chicago Tribune. The small splash the story made was overwhelmed ...

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After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism : Taking Back a Revolution

Subjects: Women's rights--United States; Feminism--United StatesSOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies

  • Abstract: It is more than fifty years since Betty Friedan diagnosed malaise among suburban housewives and the National Organization of Women was founded. Across the decades, ...

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Refugees in America : Stories of Courage, Resilience, and Hope in Their Own Words

Subjects: Refugees--United StatesSOCIAL SCIENCE / General; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century; HISTORY / World

  • Abstract: It is not an easy road—but hope is the oxygen of my life. These insightful words of Meron Semedar, a refugee from Eritrea, reflect ...

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The Historian's Eye : Photography, History, and the American Present

Subjects: Street photography--United States; Documentary photography--United StatesHISTORY / United States / 21st Century; PHOTOGRAPHY / History; PHOTOGRAPHY / Photoessays & Documentaries

  • Abstract: Between 2009 and 2014, as the nation contemplated the historic election of Barack Obama and endured the effects of the Great Recession, Matthew Frye Jacobson set out ...

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Crisis! : When Political Parties Lose the Consent to Rule

Subjects: Crises--Political aspects--United States--History; Political parties--United States--History; Legitimacy of governments--United States--HistoryHISTORY / United States / 21st Century; HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties

  • Abstract: A timely analysis of the power and limits of political parties—and the lessons of the Civil War and the New Deal in the Age ...

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After the Crash : Financial Crises and Regulatory Responses

Subjects: Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--Influence; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Financial crises--PreventionHISTORY / United States / 21st Century; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy

  • Abstract: The 2008 crash was the worst financial crisis and the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression. It triggered a complete overhaul of the global ...

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Signature Wounds : The Untold Story of the Military's Mental Health Crisis

Subjects: Veterans--Mental health--United States; Soldiers--Mental health services--United States; Soldiers--Mental health--United StatesHISTORY / United States / 21st Century; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

  • Abstract: The surprising story of the Army's efforts to combat PTSD and traumatic brain injury The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a tremendous toll ...

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Confederate Statues and Memorialization

Subjects: Soldiers' monuments--Southern StatesHISTORY / United States / 21st Century; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination

  • Abstract: Nine killed in Charleston church shooting. White supremacists demonstrate in Charlottesville. Monuments decommissioned in New Orleans and Chapel Hill. The headlines keep coming, and the ...

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The Modern Republican Party in Florida

Subjects: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV); HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: Despite Florida's current reputation as a swing state, there was a time when its Republicans were the underdogs against a Democratic powerhouse. This book tells ...

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The Contemporary Western

Subjects: Western films--United States--History and criticism; Violence in motion picturesHISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: In this book, John White explores how films such as Open Range, True Grit and Jane Got a Gun reinforce a conservative myth of America ...

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Houston, Space City USA

Subjects: Astronautics--Texas--Houston; Manned space flight--HistoryPHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: On July 20, 1969, humanity paused with attention locked to television and radio broadcasts as the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission dramatically touched down on the dusty ...

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Monetary Policy in an Uncertain World : Ten Years After the Crisis

Subjects: Monetary policy; International finance; Financial institutions, International--Law and legislationBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Money & Monetary Policy; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy

  • Abstract: Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis we are again facing the possibility of economic turmoil as the Fed and other central banks exit their unconventional ...

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Twilight of the American Century

Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Commentary & Opinion; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International)

  • Abstract: Andrew Bacevich is a leading American public intellectual, writing in the fields of culture and politics with particular attention to war and America's role in ...

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The Justice of Contradictions : Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption

Subjects: Judges--United States; Constitutional history--United States; Constitutional law--United States--Interpretation and constructionPOLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Judicial Branch; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Lawyers & Judges; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: Engaging but caustic and openly ideological, Antonin Scalia was among the most influential justices ever to serve on the United

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Empire in Retreat : The Past, Present, and Future of the United States

Subjects: Imperialism; Land settlement--United States--HistoriographyHISTORY / United States / 20th Century; HISTORY / United States / 19th Century; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: A sweeping history of the United States through the lens of empire—and ...

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Savannah in the New South : From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

Subjects: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV); HISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: An examination of the Georgian city's complicated and sometimes turbulent developmentSavannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First ...

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Troubling Transparency : The History and Future of Freedom of Information

Subjects: Public records--Law and legislation--United States; Government information--United StatesLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century; LAW / Government / Federal

  • Abstract: Today, transparency is a widely heralded value, and the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is often held up as one of the transparency ...

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Imperial Benevolence : U.S. Foreign Policy and American Popular Culture Since 9/11

Subjects: Imperialism--History--21st century; Popular culture--United States--History--21st centuryHISTORY / United States / 21st Century; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism; PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism

  • Abstract: This is a necessary and urgent read for anyone concerned about the United States'endless wars. Investigating ...

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Detain and Punish : Haitian Refugees and the Rise of the World's Largest Immigration Detention System

Subjects: Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States; Haitians--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States; Detention of persons--United StatesHISTORY / Latin America / General; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration

  • Abstract: Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Haiti-Dominican Republic Section Isis Duarte Book Prize Immigrants make up the largest proportion of federal prisoners in the

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American Nightmares : Social Problems in an Anxious World

Subjects: Anxiety--Social aspects--United StatesSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies

  • Abstract: In an accessible and droll style, well-known sociologist Joel Best shines a light on how we navigate these anxious, insecure social times. While most of ...

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Unrivaled : Why America Will Remain the World's Sole Superpower

Subjects: Unipolarity (International relations); Hegemony; Great powersPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International); HISTORY / United States / 21st Century; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General

  • Abstract: The United States has been the world's dominant power for more than a century

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Redrawing the Historical Past : History, Memory, and Multiethnic Graphic Novels

Subjects: Memory in literature; Minorities in literature; Graphic novels--History and criticismHISTORY / United States / 21st Century; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture

  • Abstract: Redrawing the Historical Past examines how multiethnic graphic novels portray and revise U.S. history. This is the first collection to ...

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Improving the Viability and Perception of HBCUs

Subjects: Education, Higher--United States--Public opinion; African American universities and colleges--Administration; Educational leadership--United StatesPOLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African; EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: This book offers an examination of the development of HBCUs and their role in higher education. Chapters in the volume analyze the contemporary role of ...

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Zbigniew Brzezinski : America’s Grand Strategist

Subjects: National security--United States--History--20th century; Polish Americans--Biography; Statesmen--United States--BiographyBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: As National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928–2017) guided U.S. foreign policy at a critical juncture of the Cold War. But his ...

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Warring Over Valor : How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Subjects: Heroes--United States--History--21st century; Heroes--United States--History--20th centuryHISTORY / General; HISTORY / Historiography; HISTORY / Military / United States

  • Abstract: By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the ...

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The Seedtime, the Work, and the Harvest : New Perspectives on the Black Freedom Struggle in America

Subjects: African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century; Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th centuryHISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV); HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: This volume's contributors expand the chronology and geography of the black freedom struggle beyond the traditional emphasis on the Jim Crow South and the years ...

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Boycott! : The Academy and Justice for Palestine

Subjects: Academic freedom--Palestine; Boycotts--United States--21st century; Academic freedom--United StatesHISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has expanded rapidly though controversially in the United States in ...

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The Recovery Revolution : The Battle Over Addiction Treatment in the United States

Subjects: Therapeutic communities; Self-help groups; Substance abuse--Treatment--United States--HistoryHISTORY / United States / 20th Century; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century; HISTORY / Social History

  • Abstract: In the 1960s, as illegal drug use grew from a fringe issue to a pervasive public concern, a new industry arose to treat the addiction ...

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End of Its Rope : How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice

Subjects: Discrimination in capital punishment--United States; Judicial error--United States; Capital punishment--United StatesLAW / Criminal Law / Sentencing; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: Today, death sentences in the U.S. are as rare as lightning strikes. Brandon Garrett shows us the reasons why, and explains what the failed ...

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Why I March : Images From The Women's March Around the World

Subjects: Women--Social conditions--21st century--Pictorial works; Feminism--21st century--Pictorial works; Women's rights--History--21st century--Pictorial worksHISTORY / Women; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century; PHOTOGRAPHY / Photoessays & Documentaries

  • Abstract: An inspiring photographic account of the worldwide Women's March of 2017—one of the biggest peaceful protests in history.On January 21, 2017, five ...

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Strangers with Memories : The United States and Canada From Free Trade to Baghdad

Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political; HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-); HISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: In the early 1990s North America was the vibrant centre of an increasingly democratic and revitalized western hemisphere. The United

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Mainstreaming Black Power

Subjects: African American political activists--History--20th century; Black power--United States--History--20th century; African Americans--Politics and government--20th centuryHISTORY / African American & Black; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: Mainstreaming Black Power upends the narrative that the Black Power movement allowed for a catharsis of black rage but achieved little institutional transformation or black ...

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After Katrina : Race, Neoliberalism, and the End of the American Century

Subjects: Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Social aspects--Louisiana--New Orleans; Neoliberalism--United States; African Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans (La.)--Social conditionsHISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: Through the lens provided by the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, After Katrina argues that the city of New Orleans emerges as a key site ...

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In/visible War : The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America

Subjects: War in mass media; Mass media and war--United States; War and society--United States--History--21st centuryHISTORY / Modern / 21st Century; HISTORY / Military / General; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century

  • Abstract: In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and ...

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From Memory to Memorial : Shanksville, America, and Flight 93

Subjects: United Airlines Flight 93 Hijacking Incident, 2001HISTORY / United States / 21st Century; ARCHITECTURE / Landscape; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)

  • Abstract: On September 11, 2001, Shanksville, Pennsylvania, became a center of national attention when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a former strip mine in ...

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Reagan's War on Terrorism in Nicaragua : The Outlaw State

Subjects: Counterrevolutions--Nicaragua--History; International law--United States--History--20th century; Terrorism--Prevention--Government policy--United States--HistoryHISTORY / United States / 20th Century; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

  • Abstract: During the first two years of Ronald Reagan's second term the United States developed an offensive strategy ...

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