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  • Constantinople

    Tim McNeese

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Feb. 1, 2003)
    Describes the background to and the events of the 1453 siege of the Christian city of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire, by Turkish Muslims.

  • World War I

    Ken Hills, Francis Phillipps

    Library Binding (Marshall Cavendish Corp, Sept. 1, 1988)
    Book by Hills, Ken, Phillipps, Francis
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  • Saratoga

    Richard Worth

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, May 1, 2002)
    Provides a historical account of the Revolutionary War campaign of Saratoga.

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Jeremy Smith

    Library Binding (Gareth Stevens Pub Secondary Lib, Jan. 1, 2004)
    Discusses the demolition of the Berlin Wall and the impact this had on the world.
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  • The Release of Nelson Mandela

    Simon Beecroft

    Library Binding (Gareth Stevens Pub Secondary Lib, Jan. 1, 2004)
    A biography of the black South African leader who became a civil rights activist, political prisoner, and president of South Africa, told in the context of the history of his country.
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  • Thomas Paine's Rights of Man

    Christopher Hitchens, Simon Vance

    Audio CD (Tantor Media, Sept. 15, 2007)
    Thomas Paine is one of the greatest political propagandists in history. The Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the uprising of the French people, Paine's text is a passionate defense of the rights of man. Paine argued against monarchy and outlined the elements of a successful republic, including public education, pensions, and relief of the poor and unemployed, all financed by income tax. Since its publication, The Rights of Man has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, and suppressed. But here, commentator Christopher Hitchens, Paine's natural heir, marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. Above all, he shows how Thomas Paine's Rights of Man forms the philosophical cornerstone of the world's most powerful republic: the United States of America.

  • Gettysburg

    Earle Rice

    Paperback (Chelsea House Pub, June 1, 2002)
    Explains the events leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg, the defining battle of the Civil War, and describes the battle and its aftermath.

  • The First Test Tube Baby

    Fiona MacDonald

    Library Binding (Gareth Stevens Pub Secondary Lib, Jan. 1, 2004)
    Looks at the 1978 birth of Louise Brown, the first baby born through in-vitro fertilization, as well as events leading up to this revolutionary treatment for infertility and its ramifications.
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  • The First Man in Space

    David Cullen

    Library Binding (Gareth Stevens Pub Secondary Lib, Jan. 1, 2004)
    Describes the 1961 flight of Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, as well as the scientific background to that flight and space exploration since then.
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  • American War of Independence

    Philip Clark, Jack Keay, Richard Hook

    Hardcover (Cherrytree Books, )
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  • Tenochtitlan

    Samuel Willard Crompton

    Paperback (Chelsea House Pub, Feb. 1, 2003)
    Looks at Cortâes' conquest of the Aztec Empire.
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  • D-Day

    Colin Hynson

    Library Binding (Gareth Stevens Pub Secondary Lib, Jan. 1, 2004)
    Describes the Allied landing on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, with an overview of events leading to that invasion as well as a description of its momentous effects on the war.
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