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Widely-known as the world's most persecuted minority group, the Rohingya in Myanmar are now facing extinction. Denied citizenship rights, denied their very ethnic identity, hundreds of thousands have fled Rakhine State in Myanmar over the border into Bangladesh, where they face squalid conditions. Many have witnessed death, mutilation and rape, as well as whole villages, what they called home, burning to ashes. Leading British Muslim figure Muhammad...
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What part of the U.S. did most of the pioneer families originate from when they moved West into Missouri when that section of the country opened up for homesteads?
William Bryan's 1876 book "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri" was written as after his travel by horse with his associate Robert Rose across five counties in Missouri where they interviewed local residents for much of the history found in his book. The counties included were:...
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"Wells...provided damning descriptions of the melee that claimed one too many black lives." -Concrete Demands: The Search for Black Power in the 20th Century (2014)
"To Wells...the events at East St. Louis combined some of the worst racist elements...in three days of rioting, 39 African Americans were killed." -Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform (2003)
"Her account of the riot which included interviews with riot victims documenting the violent...
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First settled by non-Native Americans in 1732, what is the history of the Shenandoah Valley?
In 1833, the Samuel Kercheval (1767-1845), the first major historian of the Shenandoah Valley, published "A History of the Valley of Virginia."
Topics covered by Kercheval include Indian wars, Indian settlements, first settlement of the valley, customs of the settlers, attacks on settlers, Dunmore's war with the Indians, War of the Revolution, life of settlers,...
405) Tears of amber
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469 pages ; 21 cm
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"With war looming dangerously close, Ilse's school days soon turn to lessons of survival. In the harshness of winter, her family must join the largest exodus in human history to survive. As battle lines are drawn and East Prussia's borders vanish beneath them, they leave their farm and all they know behind for an uncertain future. But Ilse also has Janusz, her family's young Polish servant, by her side. As they flee from the Soviet army, his enchanting...
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"There are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and rancor these days than immigration. In [this book], the renowned author Suketu Mehta offers a reality-based polemic that vitally clarifies the debate. Drawing on his own experience as an Indian-born teenager growing up in New York City and on years of reporting around the globe, Mehta subjects the worldwide anti-immigrant backlash to withering scrutiny. As he explains, the West...
407) Children of men
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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London, 2027. Humanity has become infertile and no child has been born for 18 years. Science is at loss to explain the reason. Immigration is a crime and refugees are caged like animals. African and East European societies have collapsed and their dwindling populations are migrating toward England and other wealthy nations torn apart by nuclear fallout, rampant terrorism, and political rebellion. In this climate of nationalistic violence, London peace...
408) Goodnight, Boy
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"Wake up. Wake up, Boy. I'm bored. Time passes slowly in here, just you and me. It must be lunchtime. He will let us out soon." A tale of two very different worlds, both shattered by the loss of loved ones. Tragic, comic and full of hope, thanks to a dog called Boy. The kennel has been JC's home ever since JC's new foster father locked them inside. As the hours and days pass, JC tells Boy about how he came to his country: his family, the orphanage...
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"Two New York Times Washington correspondents provide an inside account with never-before-told stories of the defining issue of Donald Trump's presidency: his steadfast opposition to immigration to the US. Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear have covered the Trump administration from its earliest days. In Border Wars, they take readers inside the White House to document how Trump and his allies blocked asylum-seekers and refugees, separated...
410) Storm blown
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In San Juan, Puerto Rico, Alejandro worries about his great-uncle while helping guests at a resort, and in New Orleans, Emily worries about her sick brother, as a major hurricane rages, changing both their lives forever.
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The story of a young Syrian refugee's attempt to reach Sweden, focusing on her ordeal in icy waters after the dilapidated fishing vessel in which she was traveling, along with 500 others, sinks.
Adrift in a frigid sea, no land in sight, Doaa Al Zamel floated with a small inflatable water ring around her waist and clutched two children who had been thrust into her arms by their drowning relatives. Once an average Syrian girl, her life was upended...
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Based on the acclaimed HBO documentary, the astonishing true story of how one American couple transported fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria to America in 1939 -- the single largest group of unaccompanied refugee children allowed into the United States. In early 1939, America's rigid immigration laws made it virtually impossible for European Jews to seek safe haven in the United States. As deep-seated anti-Semitism and isolationism gripped...
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1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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As the Empire of the Sun crumbles upon itself and a rain of firebombs falls upon Japan, the final death march of a nation is echoed in millions of smaller tragedies. Seita and his younger sister Setsuko are two children born at the wrong time, in the wrong place, and now cast adrift in a world that lacks not the care to shelter them, but simply the resources. They are forced to fend for themselves in the aftermath of fires that swept entire cities...
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Ai Weiwei is one of the world's most prominent artists and political activists. His books include Weiwei-isms and Humanity (both Princeton). His works have been exhibited at Tate Modern, the Guggenheim, and the Museum of Modern Art. He lives in Berlin. Twitter @aiww
A powerful portrait of the greatest humanitarian emergency of our time, from the director of Human Flow
In the course of making Human Flow, his epic feature documentary about the global...
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In the fall of 2015, Steven Heighton made an overnight decision to travel to the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece and enlist as a volunteer. He arrived on the isle of Lesvos with a duffel bag and a dubious grasp of Greek, his mother's native tongue, and worked on the landing beaches and in OXY, a jerrybuilt, and hoc transit camp providing simple meals, dry clothes, and a brief rest to refugees after their crossing from Turkey. In...
418) Typhoid Mary
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From 1900 to 1907, Mary Mallon, a.k.a. "Typhoid Mary" worked as a cook in the New York City area for seven families, leaving without notice each time a family would become infected with typhoid.
In late 1906, one family hired a typhoid researcher named Dr. George Soper (1870-1948) to investigate. He believed Mallon might have been the source of the outbreak. Soper went to work.
In 1917, Soper would publish a short 20-page work titled "Typhoid Mary,"...
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"The bravery of the early United States marshals in Oklahoma will be remembered by...Mrs. Zoe Tilghman, wife of Bill Tilghman, former U.S. marshal who was killed several years ago in a gun battle...Mrs. Tilghman is the author of...Outlaw Days." -The Oklahoma Daily, March 15, 1939
"Outlaw Days by Zoe Tilghman, Bill's widow...the Bill Tilghman legend was kept alive...by Zoe Tilghman, his early days in Dodge City...capturing Bill Doolin." -Tulsa World,...
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In 1867, when celebrated Sioux Chief "Squatting Bear" was visiting "The Great White Father" in Washington, D.C., 19-year-old Mary Barber (born 1848) would propose to and marry the great Brule warrior, who then promptly set out with her across the country to his Sioux village near Yankton, Dakota.
The marriage had created a major sensation in newspapers of that time. Barber notes that "along the route we were greeted either with cheers, or shouts...
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