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History - April, 2013

A history of the Narragansett tribe of Rhode Island : keepers of the bay / Robert A. Geake
Charleston, SC : History Press, 2011

Agnessa : from paradise to purgatory : a voice from Stalin's Russia / by Agnessa Ivanovna Mironova-Korol as told to Mira Mstislavovna Yakovenko ; translated by Rose Glickman

American photographs / Walker Evans with an essay by Lincoln Kirstein
New York NY : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK, c2012

Atlantic emporium : Portugal and the wider world, 1147- 1497 / Carl Hanson
New Orleans : University Press of the South, 2001

Between man and beast : an unlikely explorer, the evolution debates, and the African adventure that took the Victorian world by storm / Monte Reel
New York : Doubleday, c2013

Britain's oceanic empire : Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds c 1550-1850 / edited by H V Bowen Elizabeth Mancke and John G Reid

Diary and autobiographical writings of Louisa Catherine Adams / Judith S. Graham ... [et al.], editors
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013

Empires of faith : the fall of Rome to the rise of Islam, 500-700 / Peter Sarris
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011

Engaged resistance : American Indian art literature and film from Alcatraz to the NMAI / Dean Rader
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011

Freedom national : the destruction of slavery in the United States 1861-1865 / James Oakes
New York : W W Norton & Co, 2013

Henrietta Maria, the intrepid queen / Rosalind K. Marshall
London : HMSO, 1990

Interpreting sacred ground : the rhetoric of national Civil War parks and battlefields / J. Christian Spielvogel
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2013

Inventing the egghead : the battle over brainpower in American culture / Aaron Lecklider
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013

Lisboa--o que o turista deve ver = what the tourist should see / Fernando Pessoa ; [tradutor, Maria Amélia Santos Gomes (texto de F. Pessoa), Richard Zimler (prefácio)]
Lisboa : Livros Horizonte, 1997

Mark my words : native women mapping our nations / Mishuana Goeman
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2013

My life in prison : memoirs of a Chinese political dissident / Jiang Qisheng translated by James Erwin Dew and edited by Naomi May with a foreword by Andrew J Nathan and an introduction by Perry Link
Lanham [Md ] : Rowman & Littlefield, c2012

Napoleon in Egypt : August 17 - September 30, 1990 / curator, Bob Brier
Brookville, N.Y. : Hillwood Art Museum, [1990]

Nights out : life in cosmopolitan London / Judith R Walkowitz
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012

Personality, character and leadership in the White House : psychologists assess the presidents / Steven J. Rubenzer and Thomas R. Faschingbauer
Dulles, Va. : Potomac, c2004

Project Omaha Beach : the life and military service of a Penobscot Indian elder / Charles Norman Shay
Solon, ME : Polar Bear & Co., 2012

Rhode Island's Civil War hospital : life and death at Portsmouth Grove, 1862-1865 / Frank L. Grzyb ; foreword by Robert C. Rubel
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2012

River of dark dreams : slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom / Walter Johnson

Suddenly we didn't want to die : memoirs of a World War I marine / Elton E. Mackin ; with an introduction and annotation by George B. Clark ; foreword by Victor H. Krulak
Novato, CA : Presidio, 1996

The girls of Atomic City : the untold story of the women who helped win World War II / Denise Kiernan
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2013

The Marche / from the Italy experts
Milano : Touring Club Italiano ; [New York] : Distribution, USA/CAN, Publishers Group West, c2006, c1999

The prince / R.M. Koster
New York, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2013

The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks / Jeanne Theoharis
Boston : Beacon Press, c2013

War is beautiful : an American ambulance driver in the Spanish Civil War / James Neugass ; edited and with an introduction by Peter N. Carroll and Peter Glazer
New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., c2008

Yin-yang : American perspectives on living in China / edited by Alice Renouf and Mary Beth Ryan-Maher
Lanham Md : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc, c2012