Enemy in the Fort

Enemy in the Fort
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Publisher : American Girl Publishing Incorporated
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1584853069
ISBN-13 : 9781584853060
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Enemy in the Fort by : Sarah Masters Buckey

In 1754 New Hampshire, 12-year-old Rebecca Percy is worried about her parents, who have been captured by the Abenaki Indians, and about the mysterious boy raised by the Abenaki who has come to stay at the fort with her.

The Fort

The Fort
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 486
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ISBN-10 : 9780061969638
ISBN-13 : 006196963X
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fort by : Bernard Cornwell

A novel of the Revolutionary War.

WE HEREBY REFUSE

WE HEREBY REFUSE
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Publisher : Chin Music Press
Total Pages : 164
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ISBN-10 : 9781634050319
ISBN-13 : 1634050312
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis WE HEREBY REFUSE by : Frank Abe

Three voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice. The story of camp as you’ve never seen it before. Japanese Americans complied when evicted from their homes in World War II -- but many refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight. In this groundbreaking graphic novel, meet JIM AKUTSU, the inspiration for John Okada’s No-No Boy, who refuses to be drafted from the camp at Minidoka when classified as a non-citizen, an enemy alien; HIROSHI KASHIWAGI, who resists government pressure to sign a loyalty oath at Tule Lake, but yields to family pressure to renounce his U.S. citizenship; and MITSUYE ENDO, a reluctant recruit to a lawsuit contesting her imprisonment, who refuses a chance to leave the camp at Topaz so that her case could reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Based upon painstaking research, We Hereby Refuse presents an original vision of America’s past with disturbing links to the American present.

Charles Fort

Charles Fort
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : 9781440630453
ISBN-13 : 1440630453
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Charles Fort by : Jim Steinmeyer

The seminal biography of the twentieth century’s premier chronicler of the paranormal, Charles Fort—a man whose very name gave rise to an adjective, fortean, to describe the unexplained. By the early 1920s, Americans were discovering that the world was a strange place. Charles Fort could demonstrate that it was even stranger than anyone suspected. Frogs fell from the sky. Blood rained from the heavens. Mysterious airships visited the Earth. Dogs talked. People disappeared. Fort asked why, but, even more vexing, he also asked why we weren’t paying attention. Here is the first fully rendered literary biography of the man who, more than any other figure, would define our idea of the anomalous and paranormal. In Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural, the acclaimed historian of stage magic Jim Steinmeyer goes deeply into the life of Charles Fort as he saw himself: first and foremost, a writer. At the same time, Steinmeyer tells the story of an era in which the certainties of religion and science were being turned on their heads. And of how Fort—significantly—was the first man who challenged those orthodoxies not on the grounds of some counter-fundamentalism of his own but simply for the plainest of reasons: they didn’t work. In so doing, Fort gave voice to a generation of doubters who would neither accept the “straight story” of scholastic science nor credulously embrace fantastical visions. Instead, Charles Fort demanded of his readers and admirers the most radical of human acts: Thinking.

A Conquering Spirit

A Conquering Spirit
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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Total Pages : 433
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ISBN-10 : 9780817355739
ISBN-13 : 0817355731
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis A Conquering Spirit by : Gregory A. Waselkov

The August 30, 1813, massacre at Fort Mims left hundreds dead and ultimately changed the course of American history. The Indian victory shocked and horrified a young America, ushering in a period of violence surrounded by racial and social confusion. Fort Mims became a rallying cry, calling Americans to fight their assailants and avenge the dead. In A Conquering Spirit, Waselkov thoroughly explicates the social climes surrounding this tumultuous moment in early American history with a comprehensive collection of illustrations, artifact photographs, and detailed accounts of every known participant in the attack on Fort Mims. These rich and extensive resources make A Conquering Spirit an invaluable collection for any reader interested in America's frontier era. * Winner of the Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year award by the Alabama Library Association* Winner of the Clinton Jackson Coley award from the Alabama Historical Association

The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution

The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 800
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HWB3IE
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (IE Downloads)

Synopsis The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution by : Benson John Lossing

This work is a pictorial history of the American Revolution.

Fort McHenry

Fort McHenry
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Publisher : Red Chair Press
Total Pages : 35
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ISBN-10 : 9781634402439
ISBN-13 : 163440243X
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Fort McHenry by : Joanne Mattern

After America gained its freedom in 1776, the British were determined not to allow the new nation to trade with its enemy, France. Discover the unique role Fort McHenry played during the War of 1812.

The Declared Enemy

The Declared Enemy
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 412
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0804729468
ISBN-13 : 9780804729468
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis The Declared Enemy by : Jean Genet

This posthumous work brings together texts that bear witness to the many political causes and groups with which Genet felt an affinity, including May '68 and the treatment of immigrants in France, but especially the Black Panthers and the Palestinians. Genet speaks for a politics of protest, with an uncompromising outrage that, today, might seem on the verge of being forgotten.

Unlikely Allies

Unlikely Allies
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Publisher : Stackpole Books
Total Pages : 212
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0811732703
ISBN-13 : 9780811732703
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Unlikely Allies by : Dale Fetzer

Moving narrative of the harrowing ordeal of Civil War prisoners. Based on newly discovered primary sources.

Hold the Fort

Hold the Fort
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 52
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HN1M3P
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (3P Downloads)

Synopsis Hold the Fort by : Philip Paul Bliss