Segregated Skies: All-Black Combat Squadrons of WW II

Sandler chronicles the pioneering efforts of the all-black 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Medium Bomber Group during WW II, emphasizi...

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Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War forIndependence

We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independ...

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The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During theCivil War

Early in the Civil War, Louisiana's Confederate government sanctioned a militia unit of black troops, the Louisiana Native Guards. Int...

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The Civil War's African-American Soldiers Through Primary Sources

The Civil War began as a struggle to reunite a divided nation, and it became a fight to end slavery. For African-American soldiers, the c...

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Eugene Bullard: World's First Black Fighter Pilot

Winner of the 2014 Moonbeam Spirit Award in Nonfiction and the Best Young Adult Book in the 2014 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards, and named...

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The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During theCivil War

Early in the Civil War, Louisiana's Confederate government sanctioned a militia unit of black troops, the Louisiana Native Guards. In...

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Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II

African-American soldiers - shunted in and out of the military, restricted to menial "service" positions, called to duty only in...

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Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII'sForgotten Heroes

A powerful wartime saga in the bestselling tradition of Flags of Our Fathers, Brothers in Arms recounts the extraordinary story of the 76...

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Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II

In this inspiring account of the Tuskegee Airmen--the country's first African American military pilots--historian J. Todd Moye capture...

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The Tuskegee Airmen - Black Heroes of World War II

Harris recounts the story of African American aviators who fought against prejudice in the U.S. in order to become fighter pilots during W...

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To Thee I See: From picking in the fields of Texas to cooking for dignitaries on U.S. Navy ships, a journey I wouldn't change

In the story To Thee I See: From picking in the fields of Texas to cooking for dignitaries on U.S. Navy ships, a journey I wouldn't ch...

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Unjustly Dishonored: An African American Division in World War I

For nearly one hundred years, the 92nd Division of the U.S. Army in World War I has been remembered as a military failure. The division ...

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Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror

Foreign Intervention in Africa chronicles the foreign political and military interventions in Africa during the periods of decolonization ...

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US Army's First, Last, and Only All-Black Rangers: The 2d Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) in the Korean War, 1950-1951

The 2d Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was the first and only all-black Ranger unit in the history of the United States Army. Its ten-m...

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Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans

The national bestseller that tells the truth of about Vietnam from the black soldiers' perspective. An oral history unlike any other,...

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The Black Panthers: A Story of Race, War, and Courage—the 761st Tank Battalion in World War II

In a Segregated Military, the African American Armored Unit That Helped Patton Check the German Advance, Close the Rhine Ring, and Spearhe...

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Black Soldiers of the Queen: The Natal Native Contingent in the Anglo-Zulu War

“Black Africans made up more than half of the British army that invaded Zululand in January of 1879 and went on to fight the storied battl...

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Black Soldiers in Jim Crow Texas, 1899-1917

In Jim Crow Texas, black Regular Army units returning victoriously from Cuba and the Philippines collided head-on with local segregation a...

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A Woman's War: The Professional and Personal Journey of the Navy's First African American Female Intelligence

When Gail Harris was assigned by the U.S. Navy to a combat intelligence job in 1973, she became the first African American female to hold ...

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Dahomey as it Is: Being a Narrative of Eight Months' Residence in that Country by JA Skertchly

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