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Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain by Russell Freedman

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Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain by Russell Freedman

I was sent a copy of Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain by Russell Freedman   Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain by Russell Freedman Release Date: 2016-10-04 Angel Island, off the coast of California, was the port of entry for Asian immigrants to the United States between 1892 and 1940. Following the passage of legislation requiring the screening of immigrants, “the other Ellis Island” processed around one million people from Japan, China, and Korea. Drawing from memoirs, diaries, letters, and the “wall poems” discovered at the facility long after…

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We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell Freedman

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We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell Freedman

I was sent a copy of We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell Freedman   We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell Freedman Release Date: 2016-05-03 In his signature eloquent prose, backed up by thorough research, Russell Freedman tells the story of Austrian-born Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie. They belonged to Hitler Youth as young children, but began to doubt the Nazi regime. As older students, the Scholls and…

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Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship by Russell Freedman

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Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship by Russell Freedman

I was sent a copy of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship by Russell Freedman   Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship by Russell Freedman Release Date: 2016-03-08 From the author of Lincoln: A Photobiography, comes a clear-sighted, carefully researched account of two surprisingly parallel lives and how they intersected at a critical moment in U.S. history. Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass were both self-taught, both great readers and believers in the importance of literacy, both men born poor who…

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