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  Harlem Hellfighters The: The...

  Charles River Editors

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  The Harlem Hellfighters, also known as the 369th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army, embody a significant intersection of America’s military history and racial history. Initially raised as the 15th New York (Colored) National Guard and later federalized for World War I, the regiment was "loaned" to the French Army, where it compiled an extraordinary combat record, with a remarkable 191 days on the line and suffering about 1,400 casualties while never yielding its sector. These numbers, often highlighted in museum and official summaries, became a central pillar of the unit’s symbolic influence back home, and the unit’s performance in battle, unique experience under French command, and their triumphant homecoming in 1919 collectively reshaped debates concerning black soldiers’ loyalty, capability, and rights. As Colonel William Hayward famously told journalists, his men “never retire,” a sentiment that both the contemporary press and later unit histories preserved, capturing their combat ethos and the representational burdens they carried as black citizen-soldiers. 
  	At the same time, of course, their service did not immediately undo Jim Crow back home, even as the formation of the regiment was tied to civil rights efforts. Authorized in 1913 and organized in 1916 as New York’s first black National Guard regiment, the 15th drew volunteers from Harlem and beyond and practiced drills in borrowed spaces due to a lack of a finished armory. The regiment’s creation was the product of sustained black civic mobilization in New York and an older tradition of black soldiers that dated to the Civil War. When the United States declared war in April 1917, black leaders and newspapers urged enlistment, often framing service as a path to recognition and citizenship. W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1919 call to “return fighting” distilled that logic into a programmatic slogan.

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  We Can Build a Better Haiti

  M.Ed. Berlin J. Theodore, JD

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  "We can make a better Haiti" is a book that highlights the current events unfolding in Haiti and proposes some solutions and strategies to consider. Haitians seek change due to a combination of political turmoil, violence, humanitarian crises, and a desire for self-determination. Militias and armed groups, often manipulated by politicians, have now decided to take up arms against the politicians and the corrupted system. The path forward involves addressing these challenges while respecting Haitian sovereignty and their ability to shape their own destiny.

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  World English Bible Book 2 The:...

  Various Authors

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  The Book of Exodus is the second book of the Bible. It narrates the story of the Exodus, in which the Israelites leave slavery in Biblical Egypt through the strength of Yahweh, who has chosen them as his people. The Israelites then journey with the prophet Moses to Mount Sinai, where Yahweh gives the 10 commandments and they enter into a covenant with Yahweh, who promises to make them a "holy nation, and a kingdom of priests" on condition of their faithfulness. He gives them their laws and instructions to build the Tabernacle, the means by which he will come from heaven and dwell with them and lead them in a holy war to possess the land of Canaan (the "Promised Land"), which had earlier, according to the story of Genesis, been promised to the seed of Abraham.

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  Autobiography of Mother Jones

  Mary Harris Jones

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  Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1830-1930) was a fierce and tireless advocate of the labor movement. A trade union organizer, a feminist, and a working class hero, Mother Jones spent years fighting for the labor rights of miners, industrial workers, and children.

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  The Dictionary of Posh -...

  Hugh Kellett

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  The Dictionary of Posh serves as an essential guide to the (ab)use of many English words by the decidedly up-market and the resultant — and endangered — language they speak: Posh.
  
  Hugh Kellett hilariously captures the spirit and nuances of those who speak Posh and, allied with Oliver Preston's brilliantly accurate cartoons, this book is the key to understanding and interpreting this language ?— literally with tongue-in-cheek.
  
  Hidden within normal English is a separate language still spoken by those born with silver spoons in their mouths. It's called Posh. A word of English can be spelt the same but mean something completely different in Posh. If you say the word 'Mention' in English, people will understand 'Remark upon'; but in Posh this means a large house. Say 'Ace' and speakers of Posh will think you are referring to a cold thing one's butler puts in one's G&T.

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  India Old and New

  Sir Valentine Chirol

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  India, Old and New by Sir Valentine Chirol is a sweeping historical and political analysis of India from the ancient civilizations to the dawn of democratic governance under British colonial rule. Written in the aftermath of the First World War and in the early years of Mahatma Gandhis rise to prominence, the book serves both as a reflection on Indias enduring cultural legacies and a British imperialists commentary on the political transformation of the subcontinent. Chirol opens with a study of India's ancient heritage, exploring the strength of Hindu traditions and the historical impact of Islamic conquests. He chronicles the rise of the Mughal Empire and traces the transition to British rule under the East India Company, leading up to the watershed moment of the 1857 Mutiny (First War of Independence) and the reforms that followed. The book devotes significant attention to early nationalist movements, the Morley-Minto Reforms, and the socio-political changes that World War I accelerated. With a critical eye, Chirol discusses the emergence of Gandhi as a national figure and evaluates the risks he perceives in Gandhis philosophy and mass mobilization strategies, labeling them as potentially destabilizing for Indian society and British governance. Chirol's work is both a product of its time and a revealing window into British colonial attitudes. It is particularly valuable for students of South Asian history, colonial studies, and political thought, offering a contemporaneous narrative from a high-ranking British journalist and foreign policy expert who closely observed India's evolving political landscape.

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