All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake Book , Print in English
2021
"In 1850s South Carolina, just before nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother, Rose, gave her a sack filled with just a few things as a token of her love. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter, Ruth, embroidered this history on the bag--including Rose's message that "It be…
Eisenhower M Level Reserves
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E445.S7 M55 2021
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Born of lakes and plains : mixed-descent peoples and the making of the American West Book , Print in English
2022
"A revealing history of the West that pivots on Native peoples and the mixed families they made with European settlers. There is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using marriage to link communities and…
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F591.H993 2022
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Covered with night : a story of murder and indigenous justice in early America Book , Print in English
2021
"An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching consequences for Colonial America. In the summer of 1722, on the eve of a conference between the Five Nations of the Iroquois and British-American colonists, two colonial fur traders brutally attacked…
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HV6524 .E78 2021
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The sewing girl's tale : a story of crime and consequences in Revolutionary America Book , Print in English
2022
"A riveting historical drama that tells the story of the first rape trial on record in American history and the fault lines of class privilege and gender bias that it exposed, showing how much has changed over two centuries and how much has not"--
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KF223.B43 S94 2022
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