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Annette Gordon-Reed
Annette Gordon-Reed (born 1958)

historian, legal historian, jurist

  • Dartmouth College, Harvard Law School

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Vernon can read!
On Juneteenth
The Hemingses of Monticello
"Most blessed of the patriarchs"
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
The Hemingses of Monticello
Race on trial
Race on Trial
Andrew Johnson : The American Presidents Series
A Slave in the White House
Thomas Jefferson at Monticello
Irki Mahkemeye Cikarmak
Black Man in the Huddle
In the Hands of the People
Black Writers of the Founding Era
Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic
Race on Trial
Robert K. Massie
Robert K. Massie (1929-2019)

historian, essayist

  • Yale University, University School of Nashville

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The Romanovs
Catherine the Great
Nicholas and Alexandra
Peter the Great
Best Sellers
Nicholas and Alexandra
Peter the Great
Castles of Steel
Catherine the Great
Nicholas and Alexandra
Mary Durack
Mary Durack (1913-1994)

historian, poet

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Kings in grass castles
To be heirs forever
Sons in the saddle
Kings in Grass Castles
The aborigines in Australian literature
To ride a fine horse
Pilgrimage
A pastoral emigrant
Keep him my country
The rock and the sand
Child artists of the Australian bush
Yagan of the Bibbulmun
Kings in grass castles
Swan river saga
An Australian settler
Chunuma
The way of the whirlwind
Sons in the Saddle
Kookanoo and the kangaroo
The courteous savage
Kookanoo [and] kangaroo
Red Jack
Red Jack (Language Works, Level 3)
Glenn O. Phillips
Glenn O. Phillips (born 1945)

historian

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African American leaders of Maryland
The African Diaspora Experience, 4th edition
The Caribbean Basin initiative
Margaret Gillett
Margaret Gillett (1930-2019)

historian of pedagogy

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Our own agendas
We walked very warily
Foundation studies in education
Readings in the history of education
A history of education
A Fair shake
Dear Grace
The Laurel and the poppy ; a novel about the life of Francis Thompson, 1859-1907
Educational technology: toward demystification
The laurel and the poppy
Traf
Dmitry Svyatopolk-Mirsky
Dmitry Svyatopolk-Mirsky (1890-1939)

linguist, poet, journalist, literary historian, literary critic, translator

  • Faculty of Oriental Studies of the St. Petersburg University

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O literature i iskusstve
A history of Russian literature
A history of Russian literature, from its beginnings to 1900
Russia, a social history
Literaturno-kriticheskie statʹi
Modern Russian literature
Poėty i Rossii︠a︡
Russia
Pushkin
Stikhotvoreniia
The intelligentsia of Great Britain
Contemporary Russian literature, 1881-1925
Russia
Istoriya russkoi literatury
Statʹi o literature
Russkai͡a︡ lirika
A history of Russia
Uncollected writings on Russian literature
The letters of D.S. Mirsky to P.P. Suvchinskii, 1922-31
История русской литературы с древнейших времен по 1925 год
Lenin
A history of Russian literature
Versty
Contemporary Russian literature
Lenin
A history of Russian literature from the earliest times to the death of Dostoyevsky (1881)
A history of Russia
Russkai͡a lirika
Russia, a social history
Literaturno-kriticheskie statʹi
Wilfred Thesiger
Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003)

explorer, diplomat, historian, military personnel, photographer, traveler, botanical collector

  • University of Oxford, Eton College

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The Marsh Arabs
Arabian sands
Wild
My Life and Travels
The last nomad
Danakil Diary
Desert, Marsh and Mountain
A Vanished World
Among the Mountains
The Marsh Arabs (Travel Library)
My Kenya days
La Vie que j'ai choisie
The Thesiger Collection
The life of my choice
Crossing the Sands
Desert, Marsh and Mountain (Memoirs of Arabia)
The desert
Visions of a Nomad (Memoirs of Arabia)
Les Arabes des marais irakiens
Les déserts des déserts
Die Brunnen der Wüste. Mit den Beduinen durch das unbekannte Arabien
Visions of a nomad
Désert des déserts
Among the Mountains Travels In Asia
Wilfred Thesiger's photographs
A journey in Nuristan
Desert Marsh + Mnt De Lux
Arabian sands
Wüste, Sumpf und Berge
Carnets dAbyssinie
Arenas de Arabia
On the edge
William Muir
William Muir (1819-1905)

historian, politician

  • University of Edinburgh, Haileybury and Imperial Service College

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Mahomet and Islam
The Corân
The Mameluke; or, Slave dynasty of Egypt, 1260-1517, A. D
The life of Mahomet
The Mohammedan controversy
Annals of the early Caliphate
The call of the new era
The testimony borne by the Coran to the Jewish and Christian Scriptures
The life of Mahomet
The Mohammedan controversy
The CorKan
The life of Mahomet
Records of the Intelligence Department of the government of the North-West provinces of India during the mutiny of 1857
The life of Mohammad from original sources
The Honourable James Thomason, Lieutenant-Governor N.-W. P., India, 1843-1853 A.D
The beacon of truth, or, Testimony of the Coran to the truth of the Christian religion
Our grand old Bible
The rise and decline of Islam
The Caliphate, its rise, decline, and fall
The Caliphate
The life of Mahomet and history of Islam to the era of the Hegira
The Mameluke
The life of Moḥammad from original sources
Annals of the early Caliphate from the death of Mahomet to the Omeyyad and Abbaside dynasties A.H. XI-LXI (A.D. 632-680) from original sources
The opium revenue
Sweet first-fruits
The Mameluke or slave dynasty of Egypt; a history of Egypt from the fall of the Ayyubite dynasties to the conquest by the Osmalis, A.D. 1260-1517
Addresses made in the north-west provinces
Present day tracts on the non-Christian religions of the world
The Caliphate, its rise, decline, and fall
The life of Moḥammad
Non-Christian religions of the world
The Corân
The life of Mohammed from original sources
The Mameluke of slave dynasty of Egypt, 1260-1517 A.D
The mameluke or slave dynasty of Egypt
The beacon of truth, or, Testimony of the Coran to the truth of the Christian religion
The beacon of truth
The life of Mahomet
Sweet first-fruits
The life of Mahomet from original sources
Extracts from the Coran in the original
The Mohammedan controversy, Biographies of Mohammed, [etc] ...
Non-Christian religions of the world
The Mohammedan controversy, Biographies of Mohammed
The Old and New Testaments
Extracts from the Coran in the original
The honourable James Thomason, lieutenant-governor N.-W.P., India, 1843-1853 A. D.
The life of Moḥammad from original sources
Non-Christian religions of the world