Stringing Together a Nation
Stringing Together a Nation

Author: Todd A. Diacon

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2004-02-04

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780822332497

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DIVThis analysis of the career of Candido Rondon, an army officer who founded and directed Brazil's Indian Protection Service, provides an avenue to deconstruct recent Brazilian historiography on nation building, indigenous people, and state action./div

Kent State
Kent State

Author: Deborah Wiles

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2020-04-21

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1338356305

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From two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles, a masterpiece exploration of one of the darkest moments in our history, when American troops killed four American students protesting the Vietnam War. May 4, 1970. Kent State University. As protestors roil the campus, National Guardsmen are called in. In the chaos of what happens next, shots are fired and four students are killed. To this day, there is still argument of what happened and why. Told in multiple voices from a number of vantage points -- protestor, Guardsman, townie, student -- Deborah Wiles's Kent State gives a moving, terrifying, galvanizing picture of what happened that weekend in Ohio . . . an event that, even 50 years later, still resonates deeply.

A Book of Memories
A Book of Memories

Author: William H. Hildebrand

Publisher: Kent State University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780873384889

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An oversized (9.25x12.25) photographic narrative that combines historical overviews of higher education trends, political climates, and social and cultural movements with anecdotal reminiscences of campus life. Hundreds of (mostly b&w) captioned photographs selected from the University Archives enh