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"From Freddie Bitsoie, the former executive chef at Mitsitam Native Foods Café at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, and James Beard Award-winning author James O. Fraioli, New Native Kitchen is a celebration of Indigenous cuisine. Accompanied by original artwork by Gabriella Trujillo and offering delicious dishes like Cherrystone Clam Soup from the Northeastern Wampanoag and Spice-Rubbed Pork Tenderloin from the Pueblo peoples,...
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#1 The mood in the helicopter was upbeat, especially from Ronnie Means. He had taken a job building concrete silos before joining the Army, and he looked like he was giddy. I didn't hit it off with him until we spent five hours together on a bus.
#2 I had always known cold and snow in December, but here, the air was so thick and muggy that I struggled to take deep...
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In a series of episodes as fantastic as any fiction, a powerful civilization crumbled at the hands of a small band of warriors. Written by one of America's great historians, this gripping chronicle draws upon the firsthand accounts of eminent sixteenth-century captains and statesmen to relate the overthrow of the Inca empire by the Spanish adventurers under Pizarro's command. Author William H. Prescott's immensely readable narrative crackles with...
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#1 White America woke up after eight years of Barack Obama and decided they were not going to take it anymore.
#2 White Americans are always terrified of losing the power they have over Black Americans.
#3 White America woke up after eight years of Barack Obama and decided they weren't going to take it anymore.
#4 Donald Trump's presidential campaign...
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#1For over two hundred and fifty years, Europeans knew of the Pacific, but knew nothing about it. In September 1513, the Spanish conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama, sighting the sea from high ground.
#2 The Spanish showed little interest in the Chamorro people, but a different traveler, William Dampier, was interested in their...
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#1 On the northwest side of Hinckley, the Brennan Lumber Company was lit up by strange, reddish lights. The house shuddered as another windstorm hit it. In the town of Clara, Anderson, the girls were saying good-night to one another.
#2 Emil Anderson, the pastor, was returning home from a church conference in Hinckley. He was humming Swedish hymns and thinking...
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#1 The South Sea, or the Pacific Ocean, was named after Vasco Núñez de Balboa, who first crossed it in 1513. It was James Cook who first crossed the Pacific, discovering islands at almost every turn.
#2 The city's wealthiest merchant, John Jacob Astor, had made his fortune with these ships. American China traders, many of them from Boston and Salem, set out...
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A social history of the role of the Chinese laundry on the survival of early Chinese immigrants in the U.S. during the Chinese Exclusion law period, 1882-1943, and in Canada during the years of the Head Tax, 1885-1923, and exclusion law, 1923-1947. Why and how Chinese got into the laundry business and how they had to fight discriminatory laws and competition from white-owned laundries to survive. Description of their lives, work demands, and living...
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.' — Abraham Lincoln Is the story of the United States that of George Washington, John Adams and Barack Obama? Or of slave rebel Nat Turner, of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King? Or Sitting Bull and Al Capone? Or Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and OJ Simpson? Of course, it is the story of all these, of both civil war and world...
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#1 Robert Smalls was a enslaved man who was planning on escaping slavery with his family. He had been planning this for years, and his chance came when he was assigned to the Planter, a Confederate steamer.
#2 The Planter was a coastal steamer used to transport personnel, ordinance, and supplies between various locations in and around the harbor. It was docked at Charleston's...
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Book Preview: #1 The author was asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement by a man who said he had invented an electronic machine that sharpened blunt razor blades. The author was suspicious, but he was curious to hear the man's story.
#2 The Stone Age was a time when metal was extremely rare and highly valued, since the only sources of it were copper and gold, which occur naturally...
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#1 In the summer of 2008, a thunderstorm hit the small town of Prescott, Arizona, and drenched the thirsty pines, scrub oak, and manzanita. It was a emotional cleansing for the Kennedy family, who were finally starting to get along again.
#2 Carol was a gentle, loving and openhearted soul. She was a devoted mother and therapist, and she taught courses such as Yoga...
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Read by presidents, scientists, and national heroes, the Boy Scouts Handbook has been used by generations of American youths. Filled with practical advice for everyone, the book contains everything from safety tips on swimming and instructions for putting up a tent to directions for making an aquarium and pointers on how to identify common North American trees. More than 200 figures and illustrations accompany valuable information on woodcrafting,...
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#1 The negotiator had to establish trust with the suspect. He had to make him believe that everything was going to be okay, even though he knew that the FBI was prepared to take down the suspect at any moment.
#2 Charlie and his family went into the woods again on Saturday, April 2. Charlie built a simple lean-to. They made their way to a nearby country store,...
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#1 In 1797, a boarding party from the British frigate the HMS Rose went searching for four Marblehead sailors who had hidden themselves in the forepeak, a small space near the main hold. When they refused to yield, the British lieutenant attempted to push them around. One of the Marbleheaders stabbed him in the neck with a harpoon, and he died soon after.
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#1 The American Revolution is a permanent revolution, a constant eviction of all elements foreign to the American essence. Anything that stands in the way of this invention is not American.
#2 The drive west was a period of relative theological calm in the first few decades of the 1700s. But then came the Great Awakening in the 1730s, and hectoring jeremiads once...
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#1 I visited Heimo Korth in Alaska in 2002. He and his family were the only subsistence family I knew in Alaska. They lived almost strictly off the land. I was impressed by their independence.
#2 Heimo ferries me back to the cabin in a sled behind his Ski-Doo snowmachine. We cut through a maze of willows and then dip down into a creek bed. After a quarter of a...
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#1 Following the deportation of Marcus Garvey, the Black Star Line, and the Great Migration, black nationalism did not so much decline as it transformed into diminished versions of the movement.
#2 Earl and Louise's shared love for social justice drew them to an itinerant lifestyle that was only predictable by the frequency of childbirth and relocation. Their political activism...
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#1 The war worked to radicalize and arm paramilitary groups in the post–Vietnam War period. It brought racism, military training, weapons proficiency, and a readiness to continue fighting home with many veterans.
#2 The Vietnam War was also distinct from other wars in that it was a conflict with a local, civil conflict and an enemy comprised of highly motivated...
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