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Discusses how the invention of the bicycle allowed women to take charge of personal transportation and set the stage for women's future battles for rights equal to men. Discusses how the bicycle has evolved throughout the ages and features photographs and illustrations, a timeline, and further reading sources.
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Follows the history of sugar production through songs, oral accounts, maps and archived illustrations. Shows how one product influenced world events such as the birth of slave trading in the Americas and the initial demands for freedom in the American colonies, Haiti, and France.
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For more than a decade starting in 1920, millions of regular Americans ignored the law of the land. Parents became bootleggers, kids smuggled illegal alcohol, and outlaws became celebrities. It wasn't supposed to be that way, of course. When Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the sale and manufacture of alcohol in the United States, supporters believed it would create a better, stronger nation. Instead it began an era of lawlessness,...
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