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  • African American Medicine in Washington, D.C.

    Healing the Capital During the Civil War Era

    de 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 ... Leer más

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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

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Natural Alternatives to Antibiotics – Revised and Updated

    How to treat infections without antibiotics

    de 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 ... Leer más

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

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Allergy

    The History of a Modern Malady

    de 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, ... Leer más

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  • The Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry

    A History of Misery and Medicine

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Frederick & Anna Douglass in Rochester New York

    Their Home Was Open to All

    de 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 ... Leer más

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

    The Father of Black History

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Murder and the Making of English CSI

    A history of the origins and development of forensic science in murder investigations in early twentieth-century England.Crime scene investigation—or CSI—has captured the modern imagination. On television screens and in newspapers, we follow the exploits of forensic officers wearing protective suits and working behind police tape to identify and secure physical evidence for laboratory analysis. ... Leer más

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  • Industrial Education for the Negro (Illustrated Edition)

    From 1890-1915, the most influential black man in America was Booker T. Washington, who less than 35 years earlier had been born into slavery. The young boy worked laboriously until emancipation before going on to seek an education. By the time he was 40, he was consolidating a network of supporters that came to be known as the Tuskegee Machine, helping coordinate action with the support of black ... Leer más

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  • The Path to Freedom

    Black Families in New Jersey

    T?he struggle for black freedom and equality is a legacy that belongs to all Americans. In the twentieth century, this story of triumph over injustice inspired the spread of democracy around the world. From the villages of Eastern Europe to the cities of Asia and Africa, people have found new strength, hope and courage in the ways African Americans defeated Jim Crow segregation in the United ... Leer más

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  • The Contagious City

    The Politics of Public Health in Early Philadelphia

    de Simon Finger ...
    By the time William Penn was planning the colony that would come to be called Pennsylvania, with Philadelphia at its heart, Europeans on both sides of the ocean had long experience with the hazards of city life, disease the most terrifying among them. Drawing from those experiences, colonists hoped to create new urban forms that combined the commercial advantages of a seaport with the health ... Leer más

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