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A logbook (or log book) is a record used to record states, events, or conditions applicable to complex machines or the personnel who operate them. Logbooks are commonly associated with the operation of aircraft, nuclear plants, particle accelerators, and ships (among other applications).
In 1838, prominent Catholic leaders of the Jesuits Order sold 272 enslaved people to fund Georgetown University. The book chronicles the history behind this event by following an enslaved family for almost 200 years. This book also shows how the Catholic Church in the United States depended on slave labor to run its institutions and grow its ...
The whereabouts of the original have been unknown since 1504. The copy descended to Columbus's grandson, Luis, who is thought to have sold it in order to fund his dissipated lifestyle. It too is now lost. [4] The only surviving version of the journal is an abstract written by Bartolomé de las Casas in preparation for his work Historia de las ...
A History of the Book in America is a five-volume series of scholarly books of essays published 2000–2010 by the University of North Carolina Press, and edited by David D. Hall. [1] Topics include printing, publishing, book selling, reading, and other aspects of print culture in colonial America and the United States.
The Oxford History of the United States book series originated in the 1950s with a plan laid out by historians C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter for a multivolume history of the United States published by Oxford University Press, modeled on the Oxford History of England, that would provide a summary of the political, social, and cultural history of the United States for a general ...
It really short-circuits kids’ ability to be empathetic and altruistic. 3. In 2006, Sold was a National Book Award finalist for Young People’s Literature. Then it became one of the most banned ...
Centre for the History of the Book; Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World; Old Books, How to find information on publication history and value (1998) Smithsonian Institution Libraries; Project Gutenberg – Free e-Books; History of books. Centre for the History of the Book; History of the Book at the American ...
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