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Gold Rush Women
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This small book's size belies the wealth of information it contains. The book gives brief (2-5 page) summaries of the lives of a wide variety of women that participated in the Klondike Gold Rush. The authors write as if they personally knew these women and were telling their friends about them. Their writing style is easy to read, brief and very d... »
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A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
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The tragedy of the Acadians is indeed terrible and the savage ways used to disperse them and deprive them of their lifestyle is beyond morality. But why is this ascribed to 'American history' and why does the author claim it was the first 'American' ethnic-cleansing? The Acadians did not live in the land that became the United States of America. The... »
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Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917
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Assiduous research, beautiful writing, and a great talent for historical reconstruction make Laura MacDonald's Curse of the Narrows the definitive account of the Halifax explosion of December 1917. MacDonald is a master of minutia--chemistry, laws of navigation, the horrors visited on the poor people of Halifax's north end--and she writes with s... »
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1867: How the Fathers Made a Deal
A fine volume that, while sometimes exploring the depths of issues, moved along at a good pace and held my attention throughout. I appreciated that Mr. M... »
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Ivan the Terrible
Biographies are strange business. The author has to assemble lots of potentially disparate, even contradictory facts into something that feels like a cohe... »
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