Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War
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Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditat…
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A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
An illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War. During the war, approximately 620,000 so…
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