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Feb 27, 2023 5 Great Books on Women’s History

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Celebrate Women’s History month with these five books from the library selected by Librarian Allyson Mower....

Feb 20, 2020 Book of the Week — An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord’s Dealings With Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist…

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"I believe that God is honored as much when He tells me to do a thing and I obey, as when He says not to do it, and I obey." An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings With Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist...

etching depicting the meeting between Cortes and Montezuma (who comes laden with apparent gifts)

Nov 08, 2019 The Meeting*

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“…King Montecuma accompanied with his Nobles, and those of the most distinguished Rank in his Court, entertain’d the Spaniards with all sorts of Divertisements, to testify how mightily they were pleased with their Arrival. The King’s Brother came to meet ’em with a splendid Retinue;...

Jun 19, 2019 Book of the week — The Oasis

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"To suppose that slavery can long continue in this country, when other nations shall have freed themselves from the foulest stain which ever polluted humanity, is to contemplate a period when the United States will become a nuisance upon earth, and an object of derision...

Aug 25, 2016 On Jon’s Desk: Uncle Tom’s Cabin — not just some backwoods book

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Title Page, U.S. First Edition, March 1852 Title Page, Early Great Britain Edition, May 1852 Title: Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly (United States) / Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Negro Life in the Slave States of America (Great Britain) Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe First Edition (U.S.) /...

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