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  • Bones of the Empire Ancient Diets, Isotopes and the Hidden Population of Machu Picchu

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    High above the Urubamba River, on a ridge so improbable that it took the outside world four hundred years to find it, the Inca built one of the most breathtaking cities the ancient world ever produced. We know the story of the stones of Machu Picchu. We have never known the story of its people.Until now.In 1911, Yale archaeologist Hiram Bingham stumbled upon a lost mountain sanctuary,and the ... Read more

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  • Prescriptions for Death How Nazi Doctors Turned Science into Genocide

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    They wore white coats. They took oaths to heal. They believed in reason, progress, and the promise of science. And yet, in the shadowed corridors of the Third Reich, medicine became something else entirely, a weapon sharpened by ideology, wielded with clinical precision, and unleashed upon millions.Prescriptions for Death is a chilling, deeply human account of how some of the most educated minds ... Read more

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  • Borders of Power Migration, Identity, and the Rise of Authoritarian Populism in the Trump Era

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    In the early twenty-first century, migration became one of the most powerful and polarizing forces in global politics. In the United States, debates over borders, belonging, and national identity reshaped political discourse and helped fuel a new wave of authoritarian populism.Borders of Power offers a timely and incisive examination of how migration narratives transformed democratic politics ... Read more

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  • A Special Relationship Mackenzie King, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Making of Modern Canada–U.S. Relations

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    How did two unlikely leaders reshape the destiny of North America and forge one of the world's most enduring international partnerships?In A Special Relationship, acclaimed statesman William Lyon Mackenzie King and charismatic American president Franklin D. Roosevelt emerge as the central architects of modern Canada–United States relations. Against the backdrop of economic collapse, global war, ... Read more

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  • Black Wall Street in Flames The Tulsa Race Massacre and the Cultural Trauma of African Americans

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    What happens when prosperity becomes a threat—and history is set on fire?In Black Wall Street in Flames, the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 is examined not only as one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in American history, but as a defining moment of collective cultural trauma. Its echoes still shape the African American experience today.Once a symbol of Black excellence, ... Read more

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  • The Canal of Fire How the Erie Canal Ignited America's Religious Revolution

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    In 1817, a governor with more ambition than allies staked his career on an impossible idea: cut a 363-mile channel through solid rock and wilderness, by hand, with no engineers who had ever built a canal before. His critics called it "Clinton's Folly." They were wrong.Eight years later, when the Erie Canal opened from Buffalo to Albany, it didn't just move grain and lumber. It moved something far ... Read more

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  • Black Thursday The Great Crash of 1929 and the Making of the American Century

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    On October 24, 1929, the ticker tape couldn't keep up. By the time it caught up to the chaos on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, fortunes that had taken decades to build had vanished in hours. Within days, the word on every American's lips was a date that would outlive the men who lived through it: Black Thursday.But the story of the Crash was never really about the numbers. It was about ... Read more

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  • The Eugenics Code How the Quest for Perfect Humans Never Ended

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    In November 2018, a video appeared online that should not have been possible.A scientist in a lab coat, speaking calmly to a camera, announced something no doctor had ever dared claim before: he had rewritten the DNA of two human babies before they were born. Not treated a disease. Not managed a condition. Rewritten. Edited, at the molecular level, in a way that would pass to their children, and ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Indigo Fields Women, Slavery, Resistance, and Agricultural Innovation in the Making of Colonial America

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    The history books remember the men who signed the documents.This book is about everyone else.In the rice fields and counting houses of colonial South Carolina, three lives intersected in ways that would shape a colony, transform an economy, and quietly rewrite the boundaries of who mattered in early America. Ann Drayton, a widow who seized control of a plantation empire at a moment when the law ... Read more

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  • The House of Rothschild Banking, Power, and the Making of the British Empire

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    They didn't inherit the world. They bankrolled it.In the autumn of 1798, a young man stepped off a boat onto English soil with a bale of cloth samples, a letter of credit, and a father's impossible dream. Forty years later, when Nathan Mayer Rothschild died, his personal fortune equaled nearly one per cent of the entire British national income. No banker in history has ever come close.But this is ... Read more

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  • The Man Beyond the Machine Harry S. Truman and the Election That Changed America

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    Before he was President, before the atomic bomb, before the Berlin Airlift and the Truman Doctrine, and before the defining crises of the American century, Harry S. Truman was a machine politician from Missouri who everyone agreed was finished.They were wrong.The Man Beyond the Machine tells the story of the most consequential political upset you have never heard of, the brutal, byzantine 1940 ... Read more

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  • For Honor's Sake Why Confederate Soldiers Chose to Fight Through the Siege of Petersburg

    by Julia Wolbrook ...
    They were starving. Outnumbered. Holding a line that most of them knew, in the quiet hours before dawn, could not be held.And still they stayed.For Honor's Sake goes beyond the familiar story of Confederate defeat to ask a more unsettling question, not why so many men abandoned the Petersburg lines, but why so many did not. Drawing on the letters, diaries, and memoirs of the soldiers themselves, ... Read more

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