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Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Long before the first shot of the Civil War was fired at Fort Sumter, violence had already erupted along the Missouri-Kansas border--a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murder, and revenge. This multifaceted study brings together fifteen scholars to expand our understanding of this vitally important region, the violence that besieged it, and its overall impact on the Civil War. Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri blends political, military,...
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[2017, 2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a dystopic future where a religion-based autocracy rules the country, women are second class citizens and after attempting to escape, June is sentenced to be a handmaid whose role is to bear children for childless government officials.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
"In January 1954, Joseph McCarthy was one of the most powerful members of the United States Senate. By the end of that year he had been censured by his colleagues, and his power was shattered. Ike and McCarthy is the dramatic story of how President Dwight Eisenhower worked behind the scenes to make this happen. When Eisenhower took office in January 1953, anticommunist fervor was at a fever pitch. The loudest voice was McCarthy's, charging that the...
Publisher
Libertas Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Is school the best way to get an education? Ethan and Emily Tuttle have spent several yearrs in school beging graded on the quality of their work. But after hearing an award-winning teacher discuss some problems with schooling and share a vision for how children are bet educated, the Tuttle family decides to embarck on a new learning adventure. Long-time educator John Taylor Gatto shares ideas with the Tuttle family from his Book "The Underground...