Just seventy-five years ago, the American government did something that most would consider unthinkable today: it rounded up over 100,000 of its own citizens based on nothing more than their ancestry and, suspicious of their loyalty, kept them in concentration camps for the better part of four years. How could this have happened? Uprooted takes a close look at the history of racism in America and follows the treacherous path that led one of our nation's...

3) Sitting Bull and his world

Author

Marrin, Albert

Pub. Date

2000.

Language

English

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Discusses the life of the Hunkpapa chief who is remembered for his defeat of General Custer at Little Big Horn.

4) A light in the darkness: Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust

Author

Marrin, Albert

Pub. Date

[2019]

Language

English

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Jewish American Heritage - Young Adults

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Tells the story of Janusz Korczak, a Polish Jewish doctor who ran an orphanage for Jewish children in Poland and was eventually executed by the Nazis along with his staff and wards.

5) A time of fear: America in the era of Red scares and Cold War

Author

Marrin, Albert

Pub. Date

[2021]

Language

English

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In twentieth century America, no threat loomed larger than the communist superpower of the Soviet Union. The Communist Party of the United States attempted to use deep economic and racial disparities in American culture to win over members and sympathizers. Marrin shows how the miscarriage of justice in the Scotsboro Boys case, the tragedy of the Rosenbergs, and the menace of the Joseph McCarthy and his war hearings lured many Americans to the ideals...

6) Oh, rats!: the story of rats and people

Author

Marrin, Albert

Pub. Date

[2006]

Language

English

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Get ready to look at rats in a whole new way. These intelligent, compassionate creatures are greatly misunderstood.

7) Very, very, very dreadful: the influenza pandemic of 1918

Author

Marrin, Albert

Pub. Date

2018.

Language

English

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In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. By the summer of 1918, the second wave struck as a highly contagious and lethal epidemic and within weeks exploded into a pandemic, an illness that travels rapidly from one continent to another. It would impact the course of the war, and kill many millions more soldiers than warfare itself. Of all diseases, the 1918 flu was by far the...

8) Secrets from the rocks: dinosaur hunting with Roy Chapman Andrews

Author

Marrin, Albert

Pub. Date

[2002]

Language

English

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A biography of the scientist-adventurer, Roy Chapman Andrews, focusing on the expeditions he led for New York's American Museum of Natural History to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in an effort to uncover dinosaur fossils.