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Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
Joseph P. Reidy looks at the end of slavery as a process not a single event.
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Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk
The wife of President James K. Polk was an activist First Lady with an active role in the American feminist movement.
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Chisholm '72: Unbought and Unbossed
This documentary film takes an in-depth look at Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress.
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The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines
This book provides a look at how young women volunteered to help and entertain servicement from World War I through wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Bluff City: The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers
Author Preston Lauterbach examines the career of Ernest Withers,a civil rights photographer who was secretly an informant for the FBI.
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Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy
Powers's son offers new information about what happened to his father on the 1960 flight that caused an international incident.
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Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History
In his new book, Dr. Jeremy Brown describes the history of the flu virus and how close we are to finding a cure.
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Brad Meltzer investigates how some of his hand-picked troops and the governor of New York plotted against George Washington.
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Garrett Peck -- The Great War in America: World War and Its Aftermath
Offered in partnership with Tom’s Town, come celebrate the anniversary of Repeal Day with French 75 cocktails at the Truman Library and an interesting discussion with author and historian Garrett Peck.
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Leadership in Turbulent Times
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses her new book, Leadership in Turbulent Times, with Robin Young, co-host of WBUR's Here and Now.