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The Black Death

362.19
STR

Runaway Slaves

973.7
COD

The Oklahoma City Bombing

976.6
ROL

Life Under Soviet Communism

306.0947
CAR

Prohibition

This book, presenting history through the works of first-person narrators, discusses Prohibition, from its beginning in 1920 to its ending in 1933.

363.4
Pro

Women's Suffrage

This book, presenting history through the works of first-person narrators, discusses the battle for state recognition of women's suffrage, the right to vote in political elections.

324.6
Wom

Runaway Slaves

This book describes the experiences of runaway slaves, black and white men and women who participated in the Underground Railroad, and black and white abolitionists who worked to end slavery.

973.7
Run

Sixties Counterculture

Presents several articles which discuss the seeds of the counterculture, the protests against the war in Vietnam, the hippies and the psychadelic revolution, guerilla politics as practiced by the Yipp

973.923
SIX

War-torn Bosnia

This book, presenting history through the words of first-person narrators, discusses the war in Bosnia, a war caused by ethnic conflict, nationalism, and demagoguery.

949.7
WAR

The Civil War

Presents various articles about the causes and conduct of the Civil War from the Confederate viewpoint.

973.7
CIV
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