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Jules Archer
This second volume in the Epoch Biographies series covers the civil rights struggle through biographies of Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X. Essays providing an…
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Following her successes from All the Ghosts We’ve Always Had, critically-acclaimed flash fiction writer, Jules Archer, returns to the dinner table with Little Feasts, her debut short story collection. The…
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We often remember the 1960s as a time of peace and love, but it was also a time of assassinations, riots, and an unpopular war. Furthermore, more than three million…
An account of the military campaign in New Guinea during World War II, which the author viewed from several positions, including staff sergeant and war correspondent.
With today’s climate change, our environmental problems aren’t going away any time soon.
To Save the Earth looks at the lives of four extraordinary Americans who fought to save our…
Originally published by Viking in 1991 as Breaking barriers: the feminist revolution from Susan B. Anthony to Margaret Sanger to Betty Friedan
Ages 12 & Up
To preserve democracy, we must understand dictatorship
History has shown that dictators often share similarities in the ways they come to power, hold power, and topple…
Anyone who has ever participated in a demonstration, gone to a rally, or even written a term paper on a subject remotely un-American, you may have been watched. Whether they’ve…
Reprint with new foreword. Originally published: New York: Crowell-Collier Press. A1968.
The founding fathers and mothers of the United States were not, as history often makes them out to be, stuffy cardboard figures of virtue and nobility. They Made a Revolution…
Why do people riot?
From the Boston Massacre in 1770 to the Los Angeles riots of 1992, mob violence in the United States is often sparked by unjust court decisions…
Winners and Losers is a timeless exploration of a subject relevant to today’s youth that will inspire young readers to get involved. Jules Archer shares the accessible and entertaining history…
Treason can be defined as the breach of the allegiance which a person owes to the state under whose protection he lives. But what exactly does it mean to be…
Early in life, Joseph Stalin became convinced of the inevitability of social revolution. And in it, he was determined to play a prominent role. He carefully masked his great personal…
Originally published: New York: Hawthorn Books, 1973.
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