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Was Columbus the first European in the AmericasWhat sport became more popular after the Civil WarWere the Little Rock Nine a rockandroll bandAs bestselling author Kenneth C Davis knows history can be fun fascinating and memorable When his dont know much about history was published in 1990 it was a sensation The book delivered a fresh take on history with its wit and unusual detail Davis now does for young people what his earlier book did for adults In his trademark questionandanswer style peppered with surprising facts historic reproductions and Matt Faulkners lively illustrations Davis introduces our ancestors who settled the East and expanded the West as well as those who had been living here all along His sure touch brings the drama and excitement of the American story vividly to life. 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State St. University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Cell: (734) 417 - 4637 ; tiya@umich.edu Academic Positions University Professor M ary H Historyof the Abolition MovementHarriet Beecher Stowe Abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom146s CabinJoshua R Giddings Abolitionist Civil Rights HistoryHarry C Smith Journalist Legislator who champion An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rightsSpanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the Global South was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations like manifest destiny and Jacksonian democracy, and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms US history into one of the working class organizing against imperialism.Drawing on rich narratives and primary source documents, Ortiz links racial segregation in the Southwest and the rise and violent fall of a powerful tradition of Mexican labor organizing in the twentieth century, to May 1, 2006, known as International Workers\' Day, when migrant laborers--Chicana/os, Afrocubanos, and immigrants from every continent on earth--united in resistance on the first Day Without Immigrants. As African American civil rights activists fought Jim Crow laws and Mexican labor organizers warred against the suffocating grip of capitalism, Black and Spanish-language newspapers, abolitionists, and Latin American revolutionaries coalesced around movements built between people from the United States and people from Central America and the Caribbean. In stark contrast to the resurgence of America First rhetoric, Black and Latinx intellectuals and organizers today have historically urged the United States to build bridges of solidarity with the nations of the Americas.Incisive and timely, this bottom-up history, told from the interconnected vantage points of Latinx and African Americans, reveals the radically different ways that people of the diaspora have addressed issues still plaguing the United States today, and it offers a way forward in the continued struggle for universal civil rights.2018 Winner of the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award Presenting the full story of the CORONA spy satellites\' origins, Eye in the Sky explores the Cold War technology and far-reaching effects of the satellites on foreign policy and national security. Arguing that satellite reconnaissance was key to shaping the course of the Cold War, the book documents breakthroughs in intelligence gathering and achievements in space technology that rival the landing on the moon. This book describes the current state of our knowledge of the Brochs in Scotland—the most remarkable prehistoric buildings in Europe—and explores the controversies over their origins and functions. The author also provides an annotated list of the most accessible and well-preserved Broch sites today. In 1961, only a few weeks after Alan Shepherd completed the first American suborbital flight, President John F. Kennedy announced that the U.S. would put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. The next year, NASA awarded the right to meet the extraordinary challenge of building a lunar excursion module to a small airplane company called Grumman from Long Island, New York. Chief engineer Thomas J. Kelly gives a first-hand account of designing, building, testing, and flying the Apollo lunar module. It was, he writes, and aerospace engineer\'s dream job of the century. Kelly\'s account begins with the imaginative process of sketching solutions to a host of technical challenges with an emphasis on safety, reliability, and maintainability. He catalogs numerous test failures, including propulsion-system leaks, ascent-engine instability, stress corrosion of the aluminum allow parts, and battery problems, as well as their fixes under the ever-present constraints of budget and schedule. He also recaptures the anticipation of the first unmanned lunar module flight with Apollo 5 in 1968, the exhilaration of hearing Apollo 11\'s Neil Armstrong report that The Eagle has Landed, and the pride of having inadvertently provided a vital lifeboat for the crew of the disabled Apollo 13. This book describes the current state of our knowledge of the Brochs in Scotland—the most remarkable prehistoric buildings in Europe—and explores the controversies over their origins and functions. The author also provides an annotated list of the most accessible and well-preserved Broch sites today. In 1961, only a few weeks after Alan Shepherd completed the first American suborbital flight, President John F. Kennedy announced that the U.S. would put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. The next year, NASA awarded the right to meet the extraordinary challenge of building a lunar excursion module to a small airplane company called Grumman from Long Island, New York. Chief engineer Thomas J. Kelly gives a first-hand account of designing, building, testing, and flying the Apollo lunar module. It was, he writes, and aerospace engineer\'s dream job of the century. Kelly\'s account begins with the imaginative process of sketching solutions to a host of technical challenges with an emphasis on safety, reliability, and maintainability. He catalogs numerous test failures, including propulsion-system leaks, ascent-engine instability, stress corrosion of the aluminum allow parts, and battery problems, as well as their fixes under the ever-present constraints of budget and schedule. He also recaptures the anticipation of the first unmanned lunar module flight with Apollo 5 in 1968, the exhilaration of hearing Apollo 11\'s Neil Armstrong report that The Eagle has Landed, and the pride of having inadvertently provided a vital lifeboat for the crew of the disabled Apollo 13. New in paperbackWhat was achieved and destroyed, what was made up and forgotten in the American West as the continent was mapped, the natives were displaced, and exploits were transformed into legends? In this acclaimed collection, Larry McMurtry profiles explorers and martyrs, hucksters and scholars--figures in the West\'s enduring yet ever-shifting mixture of myth and reality.In these twelve pieces, McMurtry explores John Wesley Powell\'s journey on the Colorado, the dispossession of the Five Civilized Tribes, the fascination the Zuni held over a parade of unscrupulous anthropologists, and--in the bicentennial of their journey--the journals of Lewis and Clark, our only really American epic. The Benefits of Reading Books,Most people read to read and the benefits of reading are surplus. But what are the benefits of reading. Keep reading to find out how reading will help you and may even add years to your life!.The Benefits of Reading Books,What are the benefits of reading you ask? 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