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1225) Day of wrath
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Danish
Description
Set in the seventeenth century, this is the story of Anne, a young wife who is revolted when her husband, an elderly pastor, has an old woman burned at the stake as a witch. She tells her husband that she and his son are in love and that she wishes him dead. The pastor then dies of a stroke and Anna is accused of killing him by witchcraft. Deserted by the cowardly son and reviled by the pastor's shrewish mother, Anne is offered an opportunity to take...
1227) Haymarket: a novel
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
xvii, 522 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the parallel lives of World War II legend Tokyo Rose and a Japanese American woman named Iva Toguri. Close explores Toguri's character and decisions by placing her story and conviction for treason in the context of U.S. and Japanese racial views, Imperial Japan, and Cold War politics.
Author
Series
Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures volume no. 48
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
x, 93 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In his infamous opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) Chief Justice Taney had denied that any American descended from Africans, whether free or slave, could claim citizenship. The Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship clause repudiated this principle. The Fourteenth Amendment's connection to birthright citizenship, however, is not built exclusively through the lives and fortunes of black citizens. It requires an understanding of the Chinese experience...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
x, 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Prince Edward famously abdicated his crown over his love for American divorcée Wallis Simpson. But two decades earlier, he was an inexperienced young man, stationed behind the lines during World War I, socializing with the aristocracy of Europe while fellow soldiers were being shelled in the trenches. Marguerite Alibert was a beautiful but tough Parisian who had fought her way up from street gamine to the highest-ranking courtesan in Paris. She entertained...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy--from his family's roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice, and policing--telling the singular story of how one man's tragic experience brought about a global movement for change. The events of that day are now tragically familiar:...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
"When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, Prince Edward County, Virginia, home to one of the five cases combined by the Court under Brown, abolished its public school system rather than integrate. Jill Titus situates the crisis in Prince Edward County within the seismic changes brought by Brown and Virginia's decision to resist desegregation. While school districts across the South temporarily closed...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiii, 404 pages : illustrations, portaits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Trials of Allegiance examines the law of treason during the American Revolution: a convulsive, violent civil war in which nearly everyone could be considered a traitor, either to Great Britain or to America. Drawing from extensive archival research in Pennsylvania, one of the main centers of the revolution, Carlton Larson provides the most comprehensive analysis yet of the treason prosecutions brought by Americans against British adherents: through...
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