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  • African American Medicine in Washington, D.C.

    Healing the Capital During the Civil War Era

    by Heather Butts ...
    The true story of the black doctors and nurses who tended to Civil War soldiers in the capital.Just as African Americans fought in defense of the Union during the Civil War, African American nurses, doctors, and surgeons worked to heal those soldiers. In the nation's capital, these brave healthcare workers created a medical infrastructure for African Americans, by African Americans.Preeminent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • She Dared

    True Stories of Heroines, Scoundrels, and Renegades

    by Ed Butts ...
    Illustrated by Heather Collins ...
    From a true-life “Survivor Island” tale to the women who flew fighters and bombers for the Allies in World War II, Ed Butts invites you to meet twelve women who dared to live their lives on a tightrope. She Dared takes the reader to the Far North, where a single Native woman put an end to a ruinous war. There’s Molly Brant, who stepped out of the shadow of her famous brother Joseph to make her own ... Read more

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    The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation

    by Brad Ricca ...
    Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime!This is the shocking and amazing true story of the first female U.S. District Attorney and traveling detective who found missing 18-year-old Ruth Cruger when the entire NYPD had given up.Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the lawyer, detective, and first woman U.S. District Attorney who turned her back on New York society ... Read more

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  • Who Was Anne Frank?

    by Ann Abramson, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Nancy Harrison ...
    Series series Who Was?
    In her amazing diary, Anne Frank revealed the challenges and dreams common for any young girl. But Hitler brought her childhood to an end and forced her and her family into hiding. Who Was Anne Frank? looks closely at Annes life before the secret annex, what life was like in hiding, and the legacy of her diary. Black-and-white illustrations including maps and diagrams provide historical and visual ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Natural Alternatives to Antibiotics – Revised and Updated

    How to treat infections without antibiotics

    by John McKenna ...
    'A long-awaited book that answers many questions.' Jan de Vries Antibiotics were developed in the 1940s. Then, they were hailed as a huge breakthrough in the treatment of bacterial infections. Today, they are the most commonly prescribed drugs worldwide. But massive over-prescription of antibiotics has created its own problems. The advent of antibiotic-resistant organisms – or 'superbugs' – has ... Read more

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  • Historically African American Leisure Destinations Around Washington, D.C.

    by Patsy Mose Fletcher ...
    Series series American Heritage
    From the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, African Americans in the Washington, D.C. area sought leisure destinations where they could relax without the burden of racial oppression. Local picnic parks such as Eureka and Madre's were accessible by streetcars. Black-owned steamboats ferried passengers seeking sun and sand to places like Collingwood Beach, and African American families ... Read more

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  • Lives of Extraordinary

    Rulers, Rebels (and What the Neighbors Thought)

    by Kathleen Krull ...
    Illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt ...
    Series Book 19 - Lives of . . .
    Not all governments have been run by men. Lives of Extraordinary Women turns the spotlight on women who have wielded power, revealing their feats--and flaws--for all the world to see. Here you'll find twenty of the most influential women in history: queens, warriors, prime ministers, first ladies, revolutionary leaders. Some are revered. Others are notorious. What were they really like?In this ... Read more

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  • Allergy

    The History of a Modern Malady

    by Mark Jackson ...
    Allergy truly is a modern malady. Only one hundred years ago, the term 'allergy' was unknown, and diseases subsequently identified as allergic in nature, such as asthma, hayfever, eczema and food intolerance, were routinely considered to be rare, non-fatal conditions primarily afflicting the cultured and civilized classes of Western society.By the closing decade of the twentieth century, however, ... Read more

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  • The Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry

    A History of Misery and Medicine

    by John Paul Webster ...
    This account of the infamous asylum is "an excellent record of greed and corruption, but it is also a powerful testimonial to compassion and kindness" ( Hidden City).The Quaker City and its hospitals were pioneers in the field of mental health. Yet by the end of the nineteenth century, its institutions were crowded and patients lived in shocking conditions. The mentally ill were quartered with the ... Read more

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  • Frederick & Anna Douglass in Rochester New York

    Their Home Was Open to All

    by Rose O'Keefe ...
    The story of the upstate New York home where the orator and former slave lived with family, houseguests, and fugitives on the Underground Railroad.Despite living through one of our nation's most bitter and terrifying times, Frederick Douglass and his wife, Anna, raised five children in a loving home with flower, fruit, and vegetable gardens in Rochester, New York for twenty-five years beginning in ... Read more

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  • Guts & Glory: The American Civil War

    by Ben Thompson ...
    Illustrated by C.M. Butzer ...
    "[An] action-packed Civil War title . . . a rousing introduction to this defining conflict that makes the history appealing and relatable." — Publishers WeeklyAn International Literacy Association Teachers' ChoiceA National Parenting Publications Silver WinnerHistory comes alive for kids like no textbook can in this epic account of the American Civil War that's perfect for history buffs and ... ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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  • Carter G. Woodson in Washington, D.C.

    The Father of Black History

    by Pero Gaglo Dagbovie ...
    An in-depth look at the iconic African American scholar's life in—and his contributions to—our nation's capital.The discipline of black history has its roots firmly planted at 1538 Ninth Street, Northwest, in Washington, DC. The Victorian row house in "Black Broadway" was once the modest office-home of Carter G. Woodson. The home was also the headquarters of the Association for the Study of ... Read more

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