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  • Turning Points in World History - The Creation of Israel

    Phillip Margulies

    Hardcover (Greenhaven Press, May 13, 2005)
    Israel's creation in 1948 was the fulfillment of an ancient dream for the persecuted Jewish people, the culmination of 75 years of Zionist diplomacy and settlement, and a disaster for 700,000 Palestinian refugees. This anthology examines the forces that led to the creation of Israel and the unresolved issues that continue to rivet the world's attention to this small strip of land on the Mediterranean Sea.

  • The Underground Railroad

    Dennis Brindell Fradin

    Library Binding (Benchmark Books, Sept. 1, 2008)
    "Covers the development of the Underground Railroad as a watershed event in U.S. history, influencing social, economic, and political policies that shaped the nation's future"--Provided by publisher.
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  • Korean War

    Carter Smith

    Library Binding (Silver Burdett Pr, Jan. 1, 1991)
    Describes the people, places, and events surrounding the Korean War

  • Turning Points in World History - Women's Suffrage

    Brenda Stalcup

    Hardcover (Greenhaven Press, March 1, 2000)
    The process of securing the right to vote for women was an important phase in feminism. Suffrage was first proposed as a part of a general declaration of the rights of women signed at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Chapters in this anthology discuss the roots of the movement, its tactics and disagreements, opposition to the suffragists, and the impact of the Nineteenth Amendment on American society.

  • Samuel Slater's Mill and the Industrial Revolution

    Christopher Simonds

    Library Binding (Silver Burdett Pr, Jan. 1, 1991)
    A biography of the English mechanical genius who, in 1789, defied laws forbidding the emigration of textile workers and established the American textile industry in Rhode Island.
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  • Turning Points in History: Penicillin

    Richard Tames

    Paperback (Heinemann Educational Books - Library Division, July 1, 2000)
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  • The Decline and Fall of Ancient Greece

    Don Nardo

    Paperback (Greenhaven Pr, April 1, 2000)
    Debates the factors that may have been responsible for the fall of classical Greek civilization.

  • Turning Points in World History - The Civil Rights Movement

    Paul A. Winters

    Hardcover (Greenhaven Press, Sept. 29, 1999)
    The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s was one of the most turbulent times in American history. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was eventually passed after years of conflict, demonstrations, and violence.

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

    Charlie Samuels

    Paperback (Gareth Stevens Classroom, Jan. 1, 2014)
    Examines the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War standoff in which the United States and the Soviet Union--and the world--narrowly escaped nuclear war.
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  • People Who Changed the World

    Philip Wilkinson, Jacqueline Dineen, Robert R. Ingpen

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Sept. 1, 1994)
    Profiles religious leaders, explorers, reformers, and other historical figures, from Confucius to Martin Luther King
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  • The Black Death

    Don Nardo

    Library Binding (Greenhaven Pr, March 1, 1999)
    Articles by noted scholars discuss the plague that decimated the population of Europe in the mid-fourteenth-century, irrevocably changing the structure of medieval society

  • Turning Points in World History - Ancient Egyptian Civilization

    Brenda Stalcup

    Hardcover (Greenhaven Press, Feb. 16, 2001)
    Chapters in this anthology examine the rise of Egyptian civilization; religious beliefs and practices; accomplishments in art, literature, and medicine; the decline of the empire; and the lasting influence of the first Egyptians.