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• Dear Miss Perkins

  a Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees From Nazi Germany

  Graham, Rebecca Brenner,

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  A fascinating portrait of the progressive female trailblazer and US Secretary for Labor who navigated the foreboding rise of Nazism in her battle to make America a safer place for refugees.

• The Bishop and the Butterfly

  Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

  Wolraich, Michael,

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  The riveting story of how the murder of femme fatale Vivian Gordon in 1931 brought about the downfall of the mayor of New York City and led to the end of Tammany Hall’s dominance.

• The U.S. and the Holocaust

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  Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein's three-part, six-hour documentary series examines how the American people and leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Souls of Black Folk

  With the Talented Tenth and the Souls of White Folk

  Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

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  This collectible hardcover edition of the groundbreaking book about being black in America, which was first published in 1903, combines history and autobiography to reflect on the magnitude of American racism.

• Fighting Words

  the Bold American Journalists Who Brought the World Home Between the Wars

  Cott, Nancy F.,

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  Acclaimed historian Nancy Cott follows these four largely unknown young Americans to reveal how foreign journalism shaped America's sense of its place in the world

• I Want You to Know We're Still Here

  a post-Holocaust Memoir

  Foer, Esther Safran,

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  A Jewish-American community leader and founding CEO of Sixth & I describes her parents' silence on their Holocaust experiences and her visit to the Ukraine in search of her family's stories.

• America's Jewish Women

  a History From Colonial Times to Today

  Nadell, Pamela Susan,

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  A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history.

• The Berlin Mission

  the American Who Resisted Nazi Germany From Within

  Breitman, Richard, 1947-

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  An unknown story of an unlikely hero--the U.S. consul who best analyzed the threat posed by Nazi Germany and predicted the horrors to come.come.

• The Death of Democracy

  Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic

  Hett, Benjamin Carter,

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  Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In The Death of Democracy, Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Why?

  Explaining the Holocaust

  Hayes, Peter, 1946 September 7-

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  An exploration of the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust challenges misconceptions and discusses how no single theory fully explains the tragedy, drawing on a wealth of scholarly research and experience to offer new insights.

• The Defender

  How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America : From the Age of the Pullman Porters to the Age of Obama

  Michaeli, Ethan,

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  Founded in 1905 by Georgia native Robert Abbott, Chicago's newspaper The Defender (now The Chicago Defender) served for decades as a prominent voice for African Americans throughout the country, including the Jim Crow South. Author Ethan Michaeli, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Road to Character

  Brooks, David, 1961-

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  David Brooks challenges us to rebalance the scales between the focus on external success—“résumé virtues”—and our core principles.

• The Making of Asian America

  a History

  Lee, Erika,

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  Describes the lasting impact and contributions Asian immigrants have had on America, beginning with sailors who crossed the Pacific in the 16th century, through the ordeal of internment during World War II and to their current status as "model…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Roosevelt I Knew

  Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965

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  A vivid and intimate portrait of the New Deal president by the first woman ever appointed to the U.S. Cabinet.

• A Nation of Immigrants

  Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

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  A study of the diverse contributions and achievements of immigrants from all regions of the world is used to dramatize the need for a more liberal immigration policy, in a new edition of the late president's study of the role of immigrants in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eichmann in Jerusalem

  a Report on the Banality of Evil

  Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975

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  Hannah Arendt's authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account.

• Night

  Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016

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  Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. [This book] is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Selected Poems

  Lazarus, Emma, 1849-1887

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  Draws on the collections of the nineteenth-century Jewish-American poet from her early works, published in her teens, to her definitive writings in Songs of a Semite, in a volume that offers insight into her outspokenness against anti-Semitism, her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Origins of Totalitarianism

  Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975

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  A political analysis of totalitarian societies, originally published in 1951, traces the nineteenth-century rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe and considers the institutions and operations of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• While Six Million Died

  a Chronicle of American Apathy

  Morse, Arthur D.

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  First published in 1967, While Six Million Died revealed the untold story behind the deliberate obstruction placed in the way of attempts to save the Jewish people from Hitler's "Final Solution," with detailed documentation from worldwide interviews…Read moreRead more of this annotation