Don Mitchell
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Virginia Hall was traveling in Europe. Which was dangerous enough, but as fighting erupted across the continent, instead of returning home, she headed to France. In a country divided between freedom and fascism, Virginia was determined to do her part for the Allies. An ordinary woman from Baltimore, Maryland, she dove into the action, first joining a French ambulance unit and later becoming an undercover...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
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Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the Freedom Summer murders, traces the events surrounding the KKK lynching of three young civil rights activists who were trying to register African Americans for the vote.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Henry Ford, a complex man who devoted his life to making automobiles so that the common man could own one. He employed minorities, the disabled and others deemed unemployable and provided a safe and clean work environment. He helped to provided education and other help for the less fortunate. He was the common man's friend. This same man also launched one of the bitterest campaigns against the Jews in American history, used labor spies and winked...
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
"When Middlebury writing professor Don Mitchell was approached by a biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department about tracking endangered Indiana bats on his 150-acre farm in Vermont's picturesque Champlain Valley, Mitchell's relationship with bats--and with government--could be characterized as distrustful, at best. But the flying rats, as Mitchell initially thinks of them, launched him on a series of 'improvements' to his land that would...
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Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"For many, the appearance of Occupy Wall Street seemed so sudden and so surprising it seemed to have come out of nowhere. But Occupy Wall Street was in some sense not unusual: it was part and parcel of a long history of riot, revolt, uprising, and sometimes even revolution that has shaped the city and the larger histories and geographies of which it is part. The history of New York is, in significant part, a history of revolt. Many citizens, activists,...
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