M.B - 20th Century 7

Behind the Iron Curtain: A Teacher’s Guide to East Germany and Cold War Activities discusses teaching Cold War activities through an East German perspective. The book is comprised of eight chapters ……続きを見る

Adolf Eichmann was the operational manager of the genocide that dispatched six million European Jews to the gas chambers. Escaping US custody in 1946, he hid in various locations in Germany before a……続きを見る

Experience the mosaic of mid-century Manhattan in this exuberant oral history that begins in the post–World War II years when the city came into its own, and ends in the mid-1970s when it nearly wen……続きを見る

Winner of the Computer History Museum Prize of the Special Interest Group: Computers, Information, and Society Imagine biology and medicine today without computers. What would laboratory work be lik……続きを見る

Choice Outstanding Academic Title Everything began to unravel on October 5, 1986, when a Nicaraguan soldier downed an American plane carrying arms to “Contra” guerrillas, exposing a tightly held U.S……続きを見る

Challenging sweatshop labor practices is extremely difficult, but garment workers, labor unions, and non-government organizations from Central America and the United States have successfully mobiliz……続きを見る

Judith Brown explores Nehru as a figure of power and provides an assessment of his leadership at the head of a newly independent India with no tradition of democratic politics. 続きを見る

The Kennedys endure as American icons because of the mix between power and vulnerability that so many of them embodied. Our fascination and connection to them comes most strongly through the wives, ……続きを見る

British Tank Production and the War Economy, 1934-1945 explores the under-researched experiences of the British tank industry in the context of the pressures of war. Benjamin Coombs explores the var……続きを見る

In the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, questions persisted about how the potential cataclysm had been allowed to develop. A subsequent congressional investigation focused on what came to be k……続きを見る

Historians of the Civil Rights era typically treat the key events of the 1950s Brown v. Board of Education, sit-ins, bus boycotts, and marches--as a revolutionary social upheaval that upended a rigi……続きを見る

George Benjamin Luks (1867-1933) is renowned for the oil paintings, watercolors, and pastel drawings he created as an acclaimed member of the artists' collective known as the Ashcan School. His prof……続きを見る

From the award-winning co-author of I Am Malala, this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and far……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Länder - Zeitalter Weltkriege, Note: 1,3, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald (Historisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Sk……続きを見る

Gabrielle a tout juste vingt ans, Henry en a treize de plus. La future Colette est une jeune fille blonde, intelligente et... effrontée, à la chevelure extraordinaire. Willy, le nom de plume de Henr……続きを見る

For centuries, Presque Isle served as a way station for Native Americans and explorers. Lumbering and shipping led to the development of wooding stations along the Lake Huron shore, where settlement……続きを見る

'An exceptionally vivid account by a masterly writer' Max Hastings 'No book depicts all the myriad aspects better than Jonathan Dimbleby's majestic overview... truly gripping' Andrew Roberts _______……続きを見る

Rôle des anciens cadres de Vichy dans la Reconstruction, liens du patronat avec la pègre, financement secret des partis, dessous du paritarisme, caisses noires des syndicats patronaux, légende dorée……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur le maccarthysme en moins d’une heure ! Le 9 février 1950, Joseph McCarthy annonce lors du Lincoln Day qu’il existe au sein même du Gouvernement américai……続きを見る

Written by acclaimed sports author and oral historian Harvey Frommer and with an introduction by pro football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford, When It Was Just a Game tells the fascinating story of the ……続きを見る

Illinois State Historical Society Certificate of Excellence 2016 During the Great Migration of the 1920s and 1930s, southern African Americans flocked to the South Side Chicago community of Bronzevi……続きを見る

Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan examines how the performing arts, and the performing body specifically, have shaped and been shaped by the political and historical conditions experienced i……続きを見る

Throughout history, great speeches have produced great change. From inciting violence and asserting control to restoring peace and securing freedom, nothing has the raw emotional power of a speech d……続きを見る

More than forty years have passed since the official end of the Vietnam War, yet the war’s legacies endure. Its history and iconography still provide fodder for film and fiction, communities of war ……続きを見る

Left Out presents an alternative and corrective history of writing for children in the first half of the twentieth century. Between 1910 and 1949 a number of British publishers, writers, and illustr……続きを見る

In 1946, at a time when other French colonies were just beginning to break free of French imperial control, the people of the French Antilles-the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe-voted……続きを見る

In 1917, Henri Gaillard led a delegation of deaf French men to the United States for the centennial celebration of the American School for the Deaf (ASD). The oldest school for deaf students in Amer……続きを見る

Americans have fought two prolonged battles over Vietnamーone in southeast Asia and one, ongoing even now, at homeーover whether the war was unnecessary, unjust, and unwinnable. Revisionist historia……続きを見る

A Washington DC’s tale telling photo journal of what the city was in contrast to today’s Proximity to Power, with a protest or two thrown in for good measure. The emerging capital captured in the em……続きを見る

The National Endowment for the Arts is often accused of embodying a liberal agenda within the American government. In Federalizing the Muse, Donna Binkiewicz assesses the leadership and goals of Pre……続きを見る