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Mulberry trees were planted all over the United States. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
Dear Nettie, The only piece of mail Mr. ever put directly in my hand is a telegram that come from the United States Department of Defense. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Voorhies sent samples to colleagues all over the western United States asking if there was anything about it that they recognized. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
Had they crossed the border into the United States? Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
Eleven southern states seceded from the United States, forming the Confederate States of America. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
On a map of the United States it is an incidental smudge of green, but on foot the scale of it is colossal. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
Human beings who ate infected beef also got the disease, although there were no human cases reported in the United States. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
The front of the school was deserted but along the curb United States marshals were spaced, not in uniform but wearing armbands to identify them. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the United States, he’d put himself through two years of chiropractic school, and now ran a small office in Birmingham with a human skeleton he was still paying for in installments. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
It was becoming clear that when the war ended the United States and the Soviet Union would be the only world powers left standing—and that they’d be rivals. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
The boy’s mother left him as a baby to go to the United States and hasn’t shown any interest since. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
“As you know,” Mrs. Brown is saying, “the United States has now joined the embargo.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
In other words, if Anthony won at the Supreme Court, women across the United States would win the right to vote without waiting for Congress or the states to give them that right. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
To win World War II, the United States needed to recruit thousands of new code breakers, and the majority of the hires were female—about eleven thousand women in all. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Apparently they had entered the United States on nursery stock imported before restrictions were established in 1912. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Cleveland’s newspapers made a strong point of declaring that only eight of those arrested had been born in the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
With more than a million troops on active duty, about five percent of the country’s population is in uniform, compared with about half of one percent in the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
When Elizabeth Cady Stanton returned to the United States, her friends and family asked what had impressed her most about her honeymoon tour of Great Britain and France. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
And yet the tangled story of slavery, sugar, and freedom still had one extremely dark twist to come, in the United States. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the rate of alcoholism was high in the United States, and with the high rates of drinking came violence, much of it targeting women in their own homes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
The United States flag got a second nickname during the Civil War, Old Glory. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
The rural economy of the United States had already been in desperate straits for some time by that fall. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
It seemed impossible that in 2005, in the United States, there was an entire city cut off from all communication, all contact. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
It was not what he expected when he boarded the bus to the border, but it did not take long for him to realize that success in the United States required more than hard work. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
SSa everyone knows, Smokey the Bear is a symbol of the United States Forest Service. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
To them, what mattered was that it gave the United States an advantage over potential enemies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Before that bomb was dropped—right over here in the United States, what about the one hundred thousand loyal naturalized and native-born Japanese-American citizens who were herded into camps, behind barbed wire? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
Here in the United States this treat is called “popcorn.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z
Papa got a visa by taking vows in a false marriage with a widow who was leaving Haiti to come to the United States. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z
Similarly, the Pilgrims and the Puritans, the first groups from England to settle what became the United States, believed they had a covenant with God to take the land. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
Nicknamed “Mendel’s bulldog”—an animal that he resembled both in countenance and temperament—Bateson traveled to Germany, France, Italy, and the United States, giving talks on heredity that emphasized Mendel’s discovery. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
The Interstate Highway Act brought autobahns to the United States and became the largest public works project in the nation’s history, building 46,000 miles of road with more than $130 billion of federal money. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z
Before European settlement, the mainland United States was home to hundreds of Native American tribes and languages and came under control of a single government only within the last hundred years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
“I pledge a lesson to the frog of the United States of America, and to the wee puppet for witches’ hands. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z
All his major published works on political philosophy, including his Defence of the Constitution of the United States of America and Discourses on Davila, along with his unpublished autobiography, lacked coherent form. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
In the dreams, she hugs her children, then realizes she has to return to the United States so they can eat well and study. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
I know the world is ever in motion, but the speed of change in the United States is simply dazzling. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
“I am unalterably opposed to this course of action which, in my judgment, is an aggressive course of action on the part of the United States,” Morse said. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Why would anyone throw the first Puerto Rican president of the United States into a snowbank? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
A Google alert flagging my name in an article posted on the United States Olympic Committee website, titled “Fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad Qualifies for Olympics, Will Become First Athlete to Compete in a Hijab.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
That conclusion is clearest for the eastern United States, where less than a dozen crops were domesticated, including small-seeded grains but no large-seeded grains, pulses, fiber crops, or cultivated fruit or nut trees. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
It is nearly the last significant undammed river in the United States. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
Just fourteen years old, he was now officially ranked as a chess master, the youngest person ever to achieve that ranking in the United States. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
After a few years, Koch returned to the United States, but his film career had been damaged. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
Here in the United States the problem has been most troublesome in the rice-growing areas of California and the South. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
He wasn’t interested in being anyone’s tour guide, not even the former president of the United States. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z
The United States will have done something the French don't like, and people will behave as though it's all my fault. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
They do not explain why the US military waged a ground war against Indigenous nations for more than a century after that, and why conflict continues today in the courts of the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
Bobby Fischer’s renunciation of his citizenship was never accepted by the United States. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
She and her late husband had once been friends with many Japanese officials, but that was before Japan and the United States had gone to war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Still, her resolve to stay in the United States brings a new nightmare. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
More than a decade later, she told a confidant that the raid “was what one might have expected of Nazi Germany, but not of the United States.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
I had pictured us taking off to the United States of America, angel wings on our shoulders. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
The British preference, have woken, was once considered obsolete in the United States. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
Over 115 million African blacks—close to the 1930’s population of the United States—were murdered or enslaved during the slave trade. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the United States, only Florida, eastern Texas, and the upper Midwest seem–so far–to be almost entirely immune. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
Finally back in the United States, Houston and a friend, still in uniform, were returning home on a train when a white man refused to sit next to them in the dining car. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
When Hernando de Soto became the first European conquistador to march through the southeastern United States, in 1540, he came across Indian town sites abandoned two years earlier because the inhabitants had died in epidemics. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Butler arranged for Woodhull to speak before the House Judiciary Committee, making her the first woman to ever address a committee of the United States Congress. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
The number of police officers per capita in the United States rose about 14 percent during the 1990s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
It’s also clear that Native Americans of the eastern United States were not overlooking potential major crops among the wild species around them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
She was seventy-seven and thinking of having an operation, and she wanted it performed in the United States. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
But it wasn’t only events in the United States that caught Oppenheimer’s attention—he was also alarmed by the violent rise of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party in Germany. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump talked about building walls and deporting the eleven million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Just as “victory” had been the watchword for the past four years, now “reconversion” came to the fore, with the United States trying to adjust its psyche and its economy to the peace. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
Today, anyone may have a shot at becoming a United States Supreme Court justice or a CEO, and there are more and more self-made billionaires. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
He wants to be in films, he wants to direct, in the United States. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
“Nonsense,” huffed Dr. Argon, a psychologist from below the United States. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z
As another example, archaeologists originally assumed that Mexican corn, beans, and squashes reached the southeastern United States by the most direct route via northeastern Mexico and eastern Texas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Across the country, the United States debated the quality of its schools, concerned with how American students matched up to the Soviets in math and the sciences. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
He even told them that he arrived in the United States on a submarine. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
Through its inability to solve its racial problems, the United States handed the Soviet Union one of the most effective propaganda weapons in their arsenal. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
Booth seethes at the outrageous notion that slaves be considered equal citizens of the United States. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
“Speak into the microphone,” she said, and she continued, “What is the purpose of your visit to the United States?” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z
Eight years earlier, American agents had discovered "bugs," or tiny listening devices, embedded inside the Great Seal of the United States in the US ambassador's office. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Pollard and Woolf returned to the United States, where racing had been relegalized, and their careers began to diverge. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
Manufacturing jobs were transferred by multinational corporations away from American cities to countries that lacked unions, where workers earn a small fraction of what is considered a fair wage in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Dasch started at the beginning, revealing that he came to the United States from Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
Astronomically, the U.S.S.R. and the United States are the same place. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
The armed forces of the United States are loaded with Texans and often dominated by Texans. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
Washington gave Genêt what amounted to a diplomatic cold shoulder, meeting with him very briefly, but refusing to discuss the subject of United States support of the French. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
Similarly, America's emergence as the dominant world power in the 1940s could never have occurred if the United States had not established stable national institutions at the start that permitted the consolidation of the continent. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
With only a small battery of ICBMs powerful enough to reach the United States, and none of them completely reliable, Khrushchev felt that he needed a much bigger bargaining chip with Kennedy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
To calm things down, President Truman sent in the United States Navy to reopen the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
“It doesn’t matter. My dada says servants have a right to privacy, and he’s a United States senator, so his opinion is worth more.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
When I returned to the United States and to Duke, I immediately informed my fencing coach that I would be leaving the team for my senior year. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
During World War II, Purple gave the United States and its allies a secret edge in the Pacific. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
“Let us be united for peace. Let us also be united against defeat. Because let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Too many other countries, especially the United States, got involved with money, guns, and bossing around. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
Political scientists are divided over whether the twenty- five million people of Mexican ancestry in the United States represent an exception to the classic immigrant success story. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
Without getting into specifics, Furman explained that the United States and Germany were racing to make a new kind of bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
In 1857 she bought a small frame house in Auburn from William H. Seward, who was at the time the United States Senator from New York. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
The country that scores highest on the individualism end of that scale is the United States. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
Where I come from, everyone wants to be in the United States. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
But the best were in the United States, if we were willing to go. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
The New York Amsterdam News, our local weekly Negro newspaper, suggested that the United States was now going to treat Negroes as equals for the first time. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
When letters could be openly exchanged between China and the United States, she wrote immediately to old friends in Shanghai and Kweilin. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
The members urged that work proceed “on the highest priority” and in close collaboration with the United States. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
The Icelandic Chess Federation urges the President of the United States to pardon Bobby Fischer and let him go free. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
“It says here we’re the property of the United States Government,” Caesar pointed out. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
When the United States entered World War I, some 2.7 million men were drafted into the army, and more than 300,000 volunteered for duty. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
It was a conspiracy, he conjectured, and the United States government and the Jews were responsible. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Any mugger with even a little initiative is bound to be armed, for in a country like the United States, with a thriving black market in guns, anyone can get hold of one. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
In some areas of the United States the mosquito vector of western equine encephalitis has developed resistance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
With twelve years having passed, he figured that as long as he stayed away from the United States, he’d be safe. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Who then was to be the United States Open Champion? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
I remembered Mrs. Chavez telling me about her mother moving from one island to another and how she had later come to the United States. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z
They are hunted like animals by corrupt police, bandits, and gang members deported from the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Furious, the United States at last joined the global conflict by declaring war on Japan the next day. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
Fornatee had been in the United States for seven years, longer than most of his teammates, and was used to life in America. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
He reached the Rio Grande and actually saw the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
“Like the ones pharmaceutical companies use to make medicines in the United States.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
And like in the United States, the way we celebrate is with great parties filled with lots of music, dancing, and delicious grilled meats. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z
Others, like Bienvenue, had joined along the way and made the team the center of their new lives in the United States. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
Board of Education, the landmark 1954 decision that banned segregation in all public schools in the United States of America. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
If you’re wealthy and can afford to do $500,000 or more in business in the United States, you can also be granted a green card. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
The drugs weren't readily available in the United States, and so states had started importing them from European manufacturers. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
Almost beyond belief, we really were going to the United States of America! The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
This idea is the basis of the origin story of the United States, a story that, like a myth, has been retold for hundreds of years. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
The family would be going to the United States, to a place called Atlanta. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
A black administrator for the United States Employment Service echoed the concern: “There has not been a single vacant job in Chicago for a colored man.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
In over twenty years of war, the United States had never actually tried to win. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
“Coach Warner, you may be interested in this information. This is from the Tangerine Times, August first: ‘Tangerine County is the lightning-strike capital of the United States. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
Either the peaceful dissolution of the United States or a civil war would occur unless some sort of political bargain was struck. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Board of Education decision, the United States Supreme Court overruled the “separate but equal” laws once adopted in the 1896 Plessy v. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
“We are representatives of the Federal Registrars; we are charged with hunting down deserters from the United States Army.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z
However, almost all of those men were told they could not be warriors for the United States because they only spoke Navajo or because what English they spoke was not good enough. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
And the United States was on his side. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Militarily, the Tet Offensive was a win for South Vietnam and the United States. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
By the mid-1980s, nearly 20 percent of the people in jails and prisons in the United States had served in the military. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
If American and British engineers could build an underground tunnel long enough and somehow reach the cables from below, then the Soviets would have no idea that the United States was listening in. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
In July 1975, the United States and the Soviet Union had their first joint mission—a Soviet Soyuz capsule docked with a US Apollo module. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
Twelve years prior, months after the 1992 indictment had been issued, Bill Clinton had been elected President of the United States. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The United States finished between fifteenth and thirty-first in the three categories tested by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
Tell the world to watch out, because I may be talking to the next President of the United States and his Secretary of State. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
Descendants of the Siberians settled the thick forests of the eastern United States, the swamps of the Mississippi Delta, the deserts of Mexico and steaming jungles of Central America. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her mother emphasizes that the United States is a cold place, where neighbors barely know one another. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
These two regiments had become friendly during the Mexican Revolution while patrolling the United States border with Mexico the year before and hoped to be fighting side by side in France. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
“It was beginning to become clear to most economists that mobility in the United States was neither what they had long believed nor what most Americans took for granted,” Janny said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
“A long time ago, the United States government—” “The united what?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
“I had no idea that anything was going on in regard to atomic energy in the United States.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
My travels on the speaking circuit took me to different corners of the United States. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
He notified the Rosenwald Committee that he’d accept their invitation to compete for the United States Championship—the prelude, he hoped, to eventually capturing the World Championship as well. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Even in powerful nations like the United States and the United Kingdom, only the very elite—or the incredibly determined—could learn to fly. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
That semester, fourteen of us left our respective corners of the United States and traveled to South Africa. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
“The United States government wishes you well and I wish you well.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
At that meeting, Lewis and Clark told the tribal leaders that their land was now the property of the United States, and that a man in the east was their new great father. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
The United States was in the midst of the Civil War; slaves from Africa were not an option. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z
“You have tarnished the honor of the United States,” replied Tho. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
In poor urban neighborhoods across the United States, black and brown boys routinely have multiple encounters with the police. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
The president of the United States could not die in a theater. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
“The president of the United States has died.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
The telegram said that if the United States declared war, Germany wanted Mexico on its side. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
In June 1997, a few weeks after graduating from Smith, Luma gave her parents the news by telephone: she was staying in the United States—not for a little while, but forever. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
When he learns I know almost nothing about Minnesota he tells me all about it—how it became a state just over seventy years ago and is now the twelfth largest in the United States. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z
Both bin Laden and Ronald Reagan saw the Soviet Union as the “evil empire,” but bin Laden came to see the United States as evil too. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z
In major cities across the United States, the majority of young black men are under the control of the criminal justice system or saddled with criminal records. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Countries outside the United States suffered deadly yellow fever attacks as well. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
He’d waited tables at a roadside restaurant in Panamá, which turned out to be the only experience he needed to find work in the United States. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
In reality, the United States wasn’t trailing the Soviet Union quite as badly as it appeared in the wake of the Sputnik crisis. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
So Britain decided to call in a favor from their bestie: the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
One hundred years ago there had been trouble between the United States and Aztlan, which was called Mexico in those days. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
The coup was a huge, fateful step into the quicksand that Vietnam was rapidly becoming for the United States. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
“But now everybody but us left for the United States of America,” I say sadly. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
Conversely, the domestic sunflower of the eastern United States never reached Mesoamerica, and the domestic turkey of Mesoamerica never made it to South America or the eastern United States. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
This is a history of the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
The United States has always been a multicultural nation. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
Lupita knew of their wealth not only from her observations of what they threw away, but also from the letters of her mother’s sister Consuelo, who lived in the United States. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
Enrique’s disappearance stirs up a bad memory: Lourdes’s ex-boyfriend and Diana’s father, Santos, tried to make his way back to the United States after being deported to Honduras. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Bancroft had also been hired by Franklin, who had arrived in Paris to head a three-man commission that would represent the new United States of America in France’s royal court. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
The United States and other Western nations demanded the abolishing of South Africa’s Draconian security laws, which allowed for detention without trial. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
Only five weeks later, during the July 4 weekend, he captured the United States Junior Championship at a tournament held at the Franklin Mercantile Chess Club in Philadelphia. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
I can see her in my mind’s eye—Nurse May- inga, the source of the virus in the United States Army’s freezers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
He wanted them to see exactly what he had seen when he first came to the United States. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
In 1959, a rebel force led by Fidel Castro had overthrown the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, an authoritarian leader supported by the United States and by the many American companies doing business on the island. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
In spite of everything, Enrique has failed again—he will not reach the United States this time, either. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
So even with the outsourcing of some service jobs from the United States to India, India’s growing economy is creating a demand for many more American goods and services. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z
That summer was exceptionally hot across much of the United States, though the summer of 1936 would cruelly eclipse even this one. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
The United States in less than a year. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
“I propose the name Victoria C. Woodhull to be nominated president of the United States.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
The most obvious two are similarity and contrast: Coherence Relation Example Typical Connectives Similarity Herons live in the and, similarly, likewise, northern United States. too Herons live in most of Canada. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
The news ticker reminded them that the President of the United States had declared National Prayer Week, and that everybody should pray. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
If not, she will continue on to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
In 1866, a cable link connected the United States and Europe. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
The United States had one flag design, the familiar Stars and Stripes, which changed only when additional stars were added to indicate that a new state had been accepted into the Union. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
To keep that from happening, the United States needed inside information about the plans of South America’s Nazi sympathizers and the spies who were working with them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Nearly half of the 180 or so major insect enemies of plants in the United States are accidental imports from abroad, and most of them have come as hitchhikers on plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
On a clear, sunny day, nearly sixty years after Hitler's Nazi saboteurs landed on America's shores, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger planes and carried out suicide attacks against the United States. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
The woman asked me the final question: “Do you know anyone in the United States?” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z
She will become a resident and bring her children to the United States legally. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
But within two weeks of the peace agreement, the United States violated it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Water pollution experts throughout the United States are concerned by the fact that detergents are now a troublesome and practically universal contaminant of public water supplies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
The white man taking his application gave him the standard literacy tests: “What is the first line of the thirty-second paragraph of the United States Constitution?” he asked. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
Two months later, he flew back to the United States. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
But at this point, even the United States was over the shah because...wait for it...he increased the price of oil. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
The so-called Dutch elm disease entered the United States from Europe about 1930 in elm burl logs imported for the veneer industry. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Now, at that time—April, i960—there were in United States prisons one hundred and ninety persons awaiting civil execution; five, the Clutter killers included, were among the lodgers at Lansing. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
They were African doctors who were paid by the American embassy to screen immigrants to the United States. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
Just two years later that brown-haired young man was elected to Congress and eventually became president of the United States. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
What manner of words could one use so as not to be too forward, too lacking in respect toward the President of the United States? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z
The acting vice president of the United States, Thomas W. Ferry, stood at the podium. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
Others are smugglers, who circulate, offering, in a whisper, to take people over to the United States for a good price. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Its reputation went far beyond the borders of the city; Chicago was known throughout the United States and the world as the Queen City of the West and the Gem of the Prairie. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z
During the first dozen years after its entry into the United States, the beetle increased rapidly, free of the restraints that in its native land hold it in check. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
The United States responded by banning all commercial Soviet flights from US airspace. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
In 2001, though, with the Internet rapidly expanding, his rants were heard all over the world, and what he said brought renewed scrutiny by the United States government. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Yes, this is the United States, I thought to myself. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The New York Times Poll, which is the source of this and the previous charts in this chapter, was based on telephone interviews conducted March 9-14, 2005, with 4,764 adults throughout the United States. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
It had taken Joseph Stalin’s physicists just four years to reach nuclear parity with the United States—about the time frame predicted by Robert Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Colonial governments, and later the United States, frequently deployed rangers to quash Indigenous resistance and displace Indigenous nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
In April, at a speech in Philadelphia, Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson sparked the president’s wrath by gently suggesting the United States might try harder to find a negotiated settlement in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z
This is what happened in some of the western national forests a few years ago, when in 1956 the United States Forest Service sprayed some 885,000 acres of forested lands with DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Although Hitler was at the height of his power, having conquered Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, the Balkans, the Netherlands, France, and parts of Russia, he remained worried about the United States. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
It had already been nine years since Ralph had touched foot in the United States. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
River valleys of the southwestern United States eventually came to support irrigation agriculture and complex societies, but only after many of the developments on which those societies rested had been imported from Mexico. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
The announcer was saying something about the Isle of Wight and the Normandy coast and Royal Air Force bombers attacking enemy coast-defense guns and United States Air Force bombers attacking shore defenses. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z
No one in the United States, or in the world, had ever ascended so quickly. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
“Of the leads we have,” Moscow informed its agents in the United States, “we should consider it essential to cultivate the following people.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
He’d started to receive fan letters and requests for photos, autographs, even some selected game scores to autograph and inscribe—not just from the United States but from different corners of the globe. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
It was a tradition in many chess clubs, not only in the United States but throughout the world, that children were not to be heard, and certainly not seen. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The method has been tested in research areas scattered throughout the eastern United States. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
The Russians had built atomic and hydrogen bombs, and they had jet bombers that could reach the United States. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
To this day, it remains one of the United States government’s largest and most secretive research institutions. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Lieutenant Uhura, a black woman and proud citizen of the United States of Africa, served as the Enterprise’s communications officer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
From here I can see the United States. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z
He hands out black-and-white maps of the United States. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z
“But repeated acts of violence against the Armed Forces of the United States must be met not only with alert defense, but with positive reply,” he said. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
While bombs fell in the North, Nixon sent a blunt note to President Thieu in the South: the United States was going to make a deal with or without his consent. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
More than four decades have passed since the United States was defeated in Vietnam, yet the veterans I interviewed had vivid memories of their year “in country.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
The United States still had many military facilities in Europe; when I earned ratings of fluent in German, Polish, and Russian, I expected to be stationed in Germany or Poland. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
Even in Texas, where nearly 40 percent of the nearly 1,400 modern-era executions in the United States had taken place, the death-sentencing rate had dropped dramatically, and the pace of executions had finally slowed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
Soon afterward, when German submarines attacked more American ships, the United States entered the war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
A year after his liberation, Jack had his paperwork in hand to go to the United States. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z
But when the Nazis had come to power in 1933, he refused ever to play again in Germany, became a French citizen, and moved to the United States. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
In 1980 in the United States, it took twenty-five jobs to generate one million dollars in manufacturing output. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
They packed up their camp quickly, and the 33rd President of the United States picked Bod up and bundled him over his shoulder. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z
The plan was that he would eventually bring as many members of his extended family as possible to the United States. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
It was also the case that Jamaica’s English elite, unlike their counterparts in the United States, had little interest in the grand project of nation building. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
For the first time in all her years in the United States, Lourdes doesn’t cry on New Year’s Eve. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
At that point, their long-distance bombers would be in range of the United States itself. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
It seemed a preposterous way to confront the colossal power of the United States government. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
But having returned to Germany after spending nearly twenty years living in the United States, his command of the German language wasn't very good. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
She never tells her she is going to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
When the Soviet Union heard that the United States was planning to launch the country's first female into space aboard the space shuttle, the Soviet space agency committed to putting another Soviet woman into space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
“She was too old to run to the United States.You know that. But I’m sure she loved you,” he added as the little boy sniffled. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Fischer: The United States is based on lies. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The 33rd President of the United States handed Bod over to the famous writer Victor Hugo, who threw the boy into his sack and put it over his shoulder. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z
Then the journey to the United States would become an adventure. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
Calling the president of the United States a “kaiser” was an outrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
Two months later, after a fascist coup in Bolivia, the United States decided it was time to round the spies up. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Throughout the journey across the United States, Shirley stared out the window of the train. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z
But their pleas went unheeded; the prospect of a national strategic advantage galvanized both the U.S.S.R. and the United States, and the nuclear arms race began. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
While he undoubtedly thought this description cast a wide and inclusive net that pulled in residents from all the regions or sections of the United States, it did not include all inhabitants. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Did the bombings by the combined forces of France, England, Russia, and the United States mean Hitler was losing? Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z
There are enough guns in the United States that if you gave one to every adult, you would run out of adults before you ran out of guns. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
He’d amassed 10½ points, and just as at the United States Open, he hadn’t lost a game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
But the United States Pharmacopeia product was expensive, and bootleggers conceived the idea of making a substitute Jamaica ginger. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
As former US vice president Al Gore has stated, “The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more...the future of human civilization is at stake.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
I was the most vulnerable kid in the United States. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z
I had thought after all of those wins in the United States on the national circuit that I had proven that I could handle a major competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Because the mountains interfered with reception, in 1954 he erected an antenna on a high ridge and provided one of the first cable television systems in the United States as a free service. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
The Explorer and Sputnik programs continued with scientific exploration, although both the United States and the Soviet Union still had the occasional failure. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: “No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z
But even though she had been in the United States for twenty-one years, some of her mail still came addressed to Dung. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z
Toño will send him money when I am safe in the United States. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z
I hoped the Mist would keep the humans from seeing it clearly, because what I saw would’ve caused panic and riots across the entire United States. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z
I read that Puerto Rico is part of the United States, but right now it feels like we’re in a totally different country. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z
Boston and New York have already been ravaged by the disease, with hospitals being filled to beyond capacity, and the deadly disease is moving west across the United States. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
During the Great Depression, which began in late 1929, businesses across the United States closed down, putting millions of people out of work. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
It was kind of ironic that as anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States and the rest of the Western world increased, the media’s interest in my story grew in tandem. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
They had tried to come into the United States once before but had been turned back. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
The Soviets' success spurred the United States on, and America had its first success on January 31, 1958. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
Even if we change the probability to one in a million for such a predictive dream, we’ll still get huge numbers of them by chance alone in a country the size of the United States. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Every day in the United States, two hundred new jail cells are constructed. I don’t want one of them to have my name on it.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z
It also committed the United States to compensate English creditors for outstanding pre-revolutionary debts, most of which were owed by Virginia’s planters. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Boy or girl, it doesn’t matter in the United States. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
Tijuana’s greatest tourist attraction was its racetrack, which benefited from the hard times afflicting the racing industry in the United States. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
After Castro took power in 1959, the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
You know things are bad when the United States Marine Corps is using stethoscopes and divining rods. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z
Just like the United States, Russia is also looking at its next step in space exploration. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
It’s from a city called Pittsburgh, far, far down in the United States. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z
Because the United States and Britain were now fighting together, Elizebeth turned to British code breakers for help. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
He was back at the United States border on January 18. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
The United States, meanwhile, has had a different abortion history than Europe. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
Victoria Woodhull wanted respect, both as a suffragist and as a candidate for president of the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
Sugar Ditch is as low as you can go in Mississippi, maybe the whole United States. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
The contraption lay with its stomach on terra firma, heavy and sluggish and looking more like a wounded duck than like one of those newfangled airplanes they were starting to produce in the United States. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Because there were so few Muslim women on the professional sports circuit, I was an inspiration for a lot of people, especially as the first professional athlete from the United States who also wears hijab. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
President Dwight Eisenhower, in his farewell speech in January 1961, railed against the United States’ growing military-industrial complex. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, sometimes referred to as the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, developed in what is now the northeastern part of the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
While I was in the midst of having another abnormal attack of fatigue, the United States Olympic Committee assigned us an official team psychologist, Jamie Harshaw. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
They are trained in Torrance to travel across the United States, give presentations, and raise awareness about human rights abuses in North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
The Seattle Strike, the first general strike in the United States, takes place. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
Great Blue Herons live and breed in most of the northern United States. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
Groves also liked the fact that Oppenheimer had been born in the United States. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
On the bright side, my sister and I were now legally allowed to work in the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
In the early part of the war’s fourth year, General Grant was placed in command of all the armies of the United States. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z
He had sent her to the best schools and had encouraged her to go to college in the United States. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
The opening ceremony was scheduled to begin, would begin, on Monday morning with a parade from the Loop to Jackson Park, led by the new president of the United States, Grover Cleveland. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
Vice President Andrew Johnson is sworn in as the seventeenth president of the United States. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
Was this the harbinger of a new war, one that would draw in the United States? The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
Blackwell came from a progressive family full of strong women, including his sister Elizabeth, the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
Dr. King’s murder caused immediate riots in more than one hundred cities across the United States. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Eventually they sold almost everything they owned and used the money to buy plane tickets to somewhere else, somewhere better, which to them had always meant the United States. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
Many MS gangsters setde in Chiapas after committing crimes in the United States and being expelled to their home countries in Central America. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
“Once clear of the European coast,” said Buxton, “you and the scientist will be dropped to one of our submarines, which will take you aboard for return to the United States.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
Malcolm refused to see the impossibility of the white man conceding secession from the United States; at this stage in his career he contended it was the only solution. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
I request that you pass the following to the authorities in the United States of America. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
With so many deaths occurring each week, the priority was transferring the bodies back to the United States as quickly as possible. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
Regina Wender Fischer, Bobby’s mother, was born in Switzerland and moved with her family to the United States when she was just two years old. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
But by the late twenties, as he had witnessed the menacing rise of eugenics in the United States, he had begun to reconsider his enthusiasm. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
Neil replied that he was honored and privileged to be on the moon, representing the United States and men of peace from all nations. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
To that end, he intended to leave South Korea and move to the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
Although he wanted to return to California, he didn’t want to take the chance of entering the United States just yet. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
“So this is the United States,” Moon Orchid said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
Later, in the 1920s, he escaped a prison camp in Siberia and made his way to the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
If it doesn't work out, we can always return to the United States. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
She thought about how in school she had learned that there had once been a civil war in the United States. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
Flies in Canada, for example, have been slower to develop resistance than those in southern United States, where long hot summers favor a rapid rate of reproduction. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Remarkably, in the United States, a life sentence is deemed perfectly appropriate for someone whose only crime is a first-time drug offense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Until her foreign debts were paid and her credit with the Dutch bankers in Amsterdam restored, the United States would simply not be taken seriously in Europe’s capitals. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
A new kind of competition between Russia and the United States took shape that fall, a nuclear arms race that quickly raised the stakes of the Cold War to unforeseen and terrifying heights. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
As a United States Olympian, would I stand on the front lines and publicly challenge our so-called leaders who had normalized hate? Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
France still did not want an open alliance with the United States. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
We thanked the woman and hightailed it out of there, eager to make our flight back to the United States. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
The C.D.C.’s actions effectively stopped the importation of monkeys into the United States for several months. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Bobby’s team also pleaded to the court that it strike down the deportation order requested by the United States and brought by the Japanese Immigration Bureau. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
There is an obvious reason why we focus on those particular facts: blacks are the sole native Africans familiar to most Americans, because they were brought in large numbers as slaves to the United States. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
They talked about how nice it would be for those who were familiar with the United States to go back and do something for the Fatherland. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
In theory, they were even given equal pay to men—an issue that wasn’t dealt with in law until 1963 in the United States and 1970 in the United Kingdom. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
The Pentagon, meanwhile, publicly denied that the United States was bombing Cambodia. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
"But it was easier for them to bring me to Houston. A free vacation to the United States. Who am I to turn that down?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
“The South Vietnamese people will assume that we have been sold out by the United States,” he complained to Kissinger, “and that North Vietnam has won the war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
And he likely had access to the intelligence the United States desired most: information about the USSR's nuclear missile program. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Rather, she carted Joan from place to place as the United States struggled with the end of the Depression and the country’s entry into the Second World War. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
It would not be long, he predicted, before Europeans would be coming to the United States for their Studienreisen. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
As an American with limited experience outside the United States, I was dazzled by the age of the buildings and marveled at their ornate architecture. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
It has to mean more than our coming to the United States. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
Looking at the small firefights and numbers of enemy killed, de la O figured the United States had the upper hand. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
Arrested again, he was brought back to the United States to appear before a judge. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
Finally, let’s apply these lessons to comparing different industrial belts or businesses within the United States. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Monclova looked as beautiful and as cultured as any large city in the United States. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
Hundreds of enthusiastic congregants packed the pews at the overwhelmingly black church eager to hear what the first black Democratic nominee for president of the United States had to say. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Is this what school was like in the United States? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
History of music education in the United States. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
He was invited in the spring of 2008 to tour Japan and the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
Only a few hours after the outbreak of hostilities between Japan and the United States, San Piedro Island late last night was prepared—temporarily at least—for an air raid bombing or other serious emergency. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
It may also be the last town in these United States of America where nobody bothers much about locked doors or wondering where their kids are. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z
Hunt and Liddy were part of a secret team working directly for the president of the United States. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
She herself could not practice openly in the United States because the training here was so different and because she could never learn English. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
In January 1960, the newspapers ran small articles about the arrival in Charleston of a senator from Massachusetts who was running for president of the United States. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
"How old were you when you came to the United States? To New York, right? And where did you live before that?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
The United States, committed to stopping the further spread of communism, backed the government of South Vietnam; it was corrupt and unpopular, but firmly non-communist. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
The thirteen days that followed became known in the United States as the "Cuban Missile Crisis" and in the Soviet Union as the "Caribbean Crisis." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
He used the power of his post to continue the killing until he fell out of favor with the United States. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
The attorneys for the United States made repeated references to the May 1954 decision. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was the first instance in the history of the United States when the US Constitution actually denied rights instead of granting them. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
In the kitchen of a Victorian house near the center of town, Major Nancy Jaax, a veterinarian in the United States Army, stood at a counter making dinner for her children. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
In 2019, the United States Senate passed a resolution in her honor. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Those homelands were the Fertile Crescent and China in Eurasia, and the Andes and Amazonia, Mesoamerica, and the eastern United States in the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
In the United States, by contrast, voting disqualification upon release from prison is automatic, with no legitimate purpose, and affects millions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
It wouldn’t really eliminate the need to make a decision, because the closer South Vietnam got to collapse, the more pressure there would be on the United States to intervene. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
They attribute the cyclical nature of racial progress to the “unstable equilibrium” that characterizes the United States’ racial order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Passed to keep the United States from getting entangled in another world conflict, the acts forbade Americans to help other countries that were at war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Catherine, whose second birthday I celebrated with Farmer and Didi in their Paris apartment, is a teenager and attends a boarding school in the United States. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
In the United States the FBI, which often has to extract DNA in criminal cases, considers the test, when done with the latest technology, infallible. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Little Rock was in the middle of the United States of America. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
The sixteenth president of the United States of America did not, as you might imagine, speak in a rich chocolaty baritone. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z
As an African American woman, with three young children who will never know a world in which a black man could not be president of the United States, I was beyond thrilled on election night. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Migrants deported by the United States often return to the San Jose church. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
At fourteen, Antonio became the youngest person in the United States condemned to die in prison for a crime in which no one was physically injured. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
“One can imagine the consternation and admiration that would be felt here if the United States were to discover suddenly that some other nation had already put up a successful satellite.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
After the war, Robert E. Lee applied for a pardon for his acts against the United States. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
As Golos's lover and his main espionage protégée, Elizabeth Bentley quickly became indispensable to Stalin's underground operation in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Lourdes crosses into the United States in one of the largest immigrant waves in the country’s history. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
He spoke of sociological trends in Chamisa County, in the entire United States. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
My next stop was the United States, but I would be returning to England on my way back to South Africa, which is when I was scheduled to meet with Mrs. Thatcher. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
They represented social service agencies in the United States and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
He made disparaging remarks about the United States. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
Every single one of my sons’ playmates has at least one parent or grandparent who was born outside the United States; that’s true of three of my own sons’ four grandparents. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
That is the case with the most familiar origin story of the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
An antojo, one of the older aunts continues, is a very old Spanish word "from before your United States was even thought of," she adds tartly. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
As he delivered his poison against the Jews, the Japanese government, and the United States, he was oddly frisky, as if he’d just become aware that he was free. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Even before Elizebeth and her team broke into the RED network, the United States and its allies were searching for a way to smash Argentina’s spy rings. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Once again worldwide attention was drawn to violence in the United States being carried out in the name of white supremacy. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
Later on, lithium would revolutionize the treatment of bipolar disorder, but the drug would not be licensed in the United States until 1970. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
In the North, men said that it had cost anywhere between forty and a hundred thousand dollars for the United States Government to return Bums to his master. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
Elizabeth Bentley was the most well-connected Soviet spy ever to defect to the United States authorities. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
You walk into any trading post on any rez in the United States and shout, “Hey, Junior!” and seventeen guys will turn around. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z
Most important, he had no intention of leaving Iceland, because of the threat of extradition to the United States. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Didn’t that tall fence at the border checkpoint run along the entire bottom of the United States? Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
When I sat down before the council, Samantha Power, the United States Ambassador to the UN, introduced me to the audience. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
Their argument was that when he competed in Yugoslavia, he violated the trade sanctions purely as a political act against the United States, and he was now being punished for it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Lourdes’s sister Mirian toys with the idea of bringing her children to the United States but quickly dismisses it as too dangerous. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
It was a lot of pressure to be at the center of so much attention, especially when the stakes were so high for Muslims in the United States. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
The United States and the rest of the world must turn to renewable energy, also called green energy. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
Six months behind the Soviet Union, the United States had also entered World War II. The two huge nations, so different from each other, were allied against Germany. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
Today, about 12 percent of all student pilots in the United States are women. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
But not all who came to the United States were “pushed” out of Europe; many were “pulled” to America, a country seen by many as the golden land, offering freedom and opportunity to all. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
She had spent the better part of the past eight years in Europe, and during that time her career in the United States had languished. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z
By this time both of them must think she and Salvador were over the border and in the United States. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
The guard has a son twenty-three years old, and the slaying impels the young man to go to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Teller’s contribution was a warning that the United States could never devise a foolproof monitoring regime to guard against clandestine testing by the Soviets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
In January 1991, the United States entered the first Gulf War and was going after Saddam Hussein. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
Theatre groups in towns and cities across the United States presented live dramas, comedies, and musicals at prices affordable to struggling families. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
It turned out that under the western United States there was a huge cauldron of magma, a colossal volcanic hot spot which erupted cataclysmically every 600,000 years or so. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
Lourdes hears he has again left Honduras headed for the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
In 1867, while still serving as secretary of state and still bearing the disfiguring facial scars of the knife attack, he purchased Alaska for the United States. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
“This is the United States of America—we don’t have firing squads,” I explain. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
Although the United States was still officially neutral, it was lending aid to Britain, then under Nazi assault by air and sea. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
“Today, July second, 1964,” he said, “the president of the United States signed the Civil Rights Act into law in the East Room of the White House....” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Doctrine of Discovery influenced the policies of the young United States and directly affected the lives and the very existence of Native people. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
It rains on this inconsequential town more than any other place in the United States of America. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
Each September, he leads a silent procession of people who place a cross on a fence overlooking the Rio Grande, one for each migrant who has recendy died trying to cross into the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
At long last, the United States had formally divorced a test ban from the broader question of disarmament. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
While the United States was still reeling from the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 9, 1941, under an order of Stalin, the first of Marina Raskova’s aviation regiments was created. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
“But the guidebook says the money in Puerto Rico is exactly the same as the rest of the United States,” I say, confused. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z
Now even his grandmother wishes he would go to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
In the United States our foresters seem to have thought of biological control chiefly in terms of introducing insect parasites and predators. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
The United States, he insisted, must stop the bombing and withdraw American troops from the South before any serious negotiation could begin. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
As more and more African nations achieved independence, the United States government was compelled to defend racial equality here at home. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
In the 1920s in the United States, high school girls were given special classes in sewing, cooking, and hygiene, while boys learned woodworking and how to use tools. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
Terrified that the Germans or the Japanese might be targeting the United States mainland, a front-page headline in the Los Angeles Times blared on July 27, “City Hunting for Source of Gas Attack.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
Yesterday being the day of independence for the United States, Wimpy had a barbecue behind his store. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
H. G. Wells was visiting the United States on a speaking tour to encourage American support for Britain in the war against Germany. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
Aside from family and friends, the men I most trusted all had something in common: they all wore the uniform of the United States of America. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
Teachers who have done this activity with their students say that most of them draw the shape of the current United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
Even today, in 1914, there’s not but one United States flag in the whole town. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z
In 1960, a full 75 percent of the foreign-born population residing in the United States was from Europe. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
I couldn’t live like this in the United States. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
He and fifty others were to take an oath to swear allegiance to the United States, to become our nation’s newest citizens, when a suicide bomber cut that dream short. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
It took Mr. Daley the rest of recess to calm them down and to convince them that there were no pit vipers in Washington State—or anywhere in the United States. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z
Two years later, in 1803, France sold its North American territory to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
The doctor has been granted a fellowship at a hospital in the United States, and he, Victor, has just heard the family's papers have received clearance from the head of Immigration. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
“I don’t want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be the president of the United States of America.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
In 1876, five years before Garfield was shot, Joseph Lister sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the United States to make his case. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
Today the most numerous Native American tribe in the United States is the Navajo, who on European arrival were just one of several hundred tribes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Still another speaker rose and described the domestic situation in the United States and linked it with the world scene. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the late 1920s, General Motors secretly began to purchase trolley systems throughout the United States, using a number of front corporations. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z
Many people in the area who give are from small towns where roughly one in five youngsters has left for the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
She returned to the United States feeling like there was nowhere she truly belonged, but that doesn't mean she and my dad don't still mourn the loss of another one of our Iranian habits. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
In the 1930s, just over a hundred women in the United States worked as professional mathematicians. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
I wasn't sure what that was, or if we even had them in the United States. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
More significant, he ignited a phenomenon in the United States not seen before: Almost overnight, a chess boom arose. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Some are surprised to discover entire new families in the United States—a stepfather, stepbrothers, and stepsisters. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
The combination has been in use for six hundred years throughout the English-speaking world, though with greater frequency in the nineteenth century and in the United States. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
Truman wanted to know that the United States had a working atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
The fear was that in the end, even the United States would be overrun by Communists. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
They are rated as among the most dangerous materials of this type in use in the United States. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
I am the future of the United States of America. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
The other eleven players were considered some of the finest and highest rated in the United States, and the club members were excited by the event. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The British had sent Cockcroft to the United States to solicit engineering help to turn the magnetron into a serviceable radar apparatus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
There was one Canadian member of my clique, who always blathered on and on about how her parents had taken the appropriate legal channels to move to the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Arthur Dula, an American lawyer who specializes in laws governing international space-related activities, stated that such discrimination should make Russia's Federal Space Agency ineligible for any more funding from the United States. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
There were business and professional people, such as the militant former Brooklynites Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lee, both of them dentists, who had given up their United States’ citizenship. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
I'd already been living in the United States for a decade. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
To his surprise, even Santino, a quiet ten-year-old Sudanese boy who had arrived in the United States only a few weeks before the season, found his way into the rotation. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
Shortly after his return to the United States in 1790, Jefferson began to harbor the foreboding sense that the American Revolution, as he understood it, had been captured by alien forces. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
It was true that Purple had warned that Japan might attack the United States. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
At the end of the 1950s, when the American space program looked as uncoordinated and spindly as a foal, predicting that the United States would best the Soviets might have seemed like a fool’s bet. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
The Ulster Scots had a key role in shaping not just the geography of the United States but also its political leadership. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
Our American relatives wrote letters and sent packages to us, packages filled with food donated by other friends from Narewka now living in the United States. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
It was clear that Somali Bantu slated for resettlement in the United States would need a great deal of help. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
LiNK pushes the North Koreans it helps bring to the United States to make a “life plan” soon after they arrive. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
I didn’t know what to say, and I wasn’t about to tell him that all of the Zamborskas—including Dr. Zamborska’s mother and father—had been born in the United States. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Five years ago we were on our way back to Afghanistan from the United States. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z
He’s in this book called The United States of Poetry and some body said he’s a reverend. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Of all the domestic extremist groups active in the United States today, the most troubling are those affiliated with the white supremacist movement. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
They are depressed because Toronto isn’t the United States without a war on, as they thought it would be, but some limbo they have strayed into by accident and can’t get out of. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
Such notice will be sent to the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
April 30: Several bombs are intercepted in the first wave of the 1919 anarchist bombings in the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
The Mercury Theatre on the Air was being carried that night by dozens of stations throughout the United States, and the calls came from all over. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
Your sister, Celie Dear Nettie, The only piece of mail Mr. ever put directly in my hand is a telegram that come from the United States Department of Defense. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
US space officials dismissed the Soviet's plans to put a woman in space as more about besting the United States than any scientific interest in women in space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
The Illinois Central Railroad runs a thousand miles south to north down the middle of the United States. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Moreover, despite the rising global tensions with the USSR, the United States was enjoying one of the most prosperous decades in its history. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Every racial caste system in the United States has produced racial stigma. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
The United States accounted for 125 of these; the Russians, 44; and Great Britain, 21. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Mind-numbing games like that were invented to take your mind off the fact that nearly 3,300 people die in car wrecks every single day in the United States. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
In mid-July, one hundred thousand irate Soviet citizens, inflamed by the government-controlled press, besieged the American embassy on Tchaikovsky Street, demanding that the United States withdraw its troops from Lebanon. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Her son told me he fell in love with the United States, where he hoped to live one day, by watching blurry videos of Charlie’s Angels. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
Their descendants, also called Indigenous peoples, carry memories and stories of how the United States came to be the nation we know today. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
It is extremely unlikely, therefore, that the death penalty, as currently practiced in the United States, exerts any real influence on crime rates. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
Jorge’s letter arrived that morning, as if his prescience extended even to the irregular postal service between the United States and Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
Today in the United States there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations composed of nearly three million people. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
In the origin myth of the United States, these documents have sacred status. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
It was, in every way, a shining symbol of the wealth and unlimited potential in the United States. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z
She really wanted to fly Zlata over to the United States to meet our class! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
Meant to hold those convicted of the most serious crimes, it has long been considered the most dangerous, most hopeless prison in the United States. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
Aboard the USS Arizona, an officer was about to suit up to play in the United States Fleet championship baseball game. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z
Though no open battles took place, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in a cold war. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
This man was the Democratic nominee for President of the United States! Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
It’s like she landed at Ellis Island, where immigrants used to enter the United States, and got permanently stuck there—afraid to make her way to solid American ground. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
But the president of the United States was not worshiping in a church. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
A couple of days later, in Lawrence’s office, York was startled when Ernest asked him bluntly: “Does the United States need a second nuclear weapons laboratory?” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
In that relatively short period, more than twenty-five million newcomers poured into the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
Perhaps on some other anniversary of the United States somebody will read this and see what the cost has been. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
And more recent events, like abolitionist efforts and the many revolts against slavery in the United States. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
United States and Britain were totally at fault. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
From here you can see the United States, a thin fuzz on the horizon. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
In the arsenic-sprayed cotton country of southern United States beekeeping as an industry has nearly died out. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Captain Ty Hill graduated from Valley Forge Military College and earned the rank of second lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
Since the 1990s, Mexico and the United States have tried to thwart them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
A generation or more ago, the towns of large areas of the United States lined their streets with the noble elm tree. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
The sides were set for the biggest and deadliest war in history—the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union led the Allied Powers against the Axis Powers of Germany, Japan, and Italy. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
Compounds containing spores of Bacillus thuringiensis are now being manufactured by several firms in the United States under various trade names. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Rather than just kill Lincoln and Grant, he now plans to do nothing less than undertake a top-down destruction of the government of the United States of America. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
Not long after Kanue arrived in the United States, he was playing soccer in the parking lot of Southern Pines when one of the other kids told him he should come practice with the Fugees. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
In the United States the arsenic-drenched soils of tobacco plantations, of many orchards in the Northwest, and of blueberry lands in the East may easily lead to pollution of water supplies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Let us say that the Muslims were to achieve the possession of the six or seven states that they claim are owed to Negroes by the United States as “back payment” for slave labor. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z
He described cover names, fragmentary messages, traces of the work of Soviet agents operating deep under cover in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
The modern United States is a European-molded society, occupying lands conquered from Native Americans and incorporating the descendants of millions of sub-Saharan black Africans brought to America as slaves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
I polled about half of the companies on the Fortune 500 list—the list of the largest corporations in the United States—asking each company questions about its CEO. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z
“You act like Maleeka is working for the president of the United States. Man.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z
City College was free, and Michigan—then, as now, one of the top universities in the United States—was $450 a year. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
But by leapfrogging the United States into space, the Russians had turned even local racial policy into fodder for the international conflict. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
The movement regularly holds protests against police killings of African Americans and against such issues as racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
Luma learned to speak English without an accent and met kids from the United States and Europe, as well as the children of diplomats from all over the world. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
Kind of ironic that today the United States would really love more democratic countries in the Middle East, and Iran was one, until the CIA got involved. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Some weren’t, just as not every business titan in the United States was born in the mid-1830s. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
“You do realize you’re talking to a United States senator,” he says placidly. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
Beneath was an article detailing how the United States, under President Eisenhower, had secretly worked to undermine elections that were supposed to unite North and South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
In the pecking order of fifth grade, I was closer to the top than the bottom because my parents were rich and my dad had met the president of the United States. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z
I was honored to be acknowledged for breaking barriers in sport, as the first Muslim woman to represent the United States in international competition, but I hadn’t even qualified for the Olympics. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
There were press reports that Bobby might be indicted and extradited back to the United States. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The United States and the Soviet Union were, officially, allies in August 1945. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
The anti-immigrant nativist sentiment that has pervaded the United States in recent years is reflected in statistics kept by organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
There were plenty of people who hadn’t wanted their country to go to war with the United States. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
She gave me a mint from her purse and welcomed me to the United States. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
There are answers to these questions, but they are difficult to swallow when millions of Americans have displayed a willingness to elect a black man president of the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Each year, about sixteen thousand wild monkeys are imported into the United States from the tropical regions of the earth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
He tells her he likes the comforts of the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
“I repeat my personal assurances to you that the United States will react very strongly and rapidly to any violation of the agreement.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Within a few weeks, she and William would become the most important code-breaking team in the country—just as the United States went to war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
After weeks of hearing testimony concerning the raids, the committee issued what it titled “A Report on the Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
On that day, crime was just about at its peak in the United States. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
Dasch explained his desire to help the United States fight the Nazis, not with guns, but with propaganda. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
“The hell I can’t—if I want to. All right! Mr. Trask, you served in the United States Cavalry. The weapons of the cavalry are carbines and pistols. You—” He stopped and swallowed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
It recognized England’s right to retain tariffs on American exports while granting English imports most-favored status in the United States; it implicitly accepted English impressment of American sailors. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Later in the day they heard that the United States Government Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry had been seized. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
She absorbs everything she can about Mexico and about Mexicans in the United States. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z
The chemical treatments were continued, nevertheless, without consultation with either the United States Fish and Wildlife Service or the Illinois Game Management Division. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
The Boy Scouts, whose first troop in the United States was organized in Pawhuska, in 1909, joined the search for Vaughan. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
It is implied that anything might take you to London or Saint Kitts, but if you live in Paris, it must be because you hate the United States. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
He met with executives from Columbia Broadcasting System and Philco in the United States and flew to Holland to make a pitch, fruitlessly, to the Dutch technology conglomerate Philips. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
There were twice as many songbirds in the eastern United States in 1948 as now. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
Just two weeks after that July 4 weekend tournament, the 1956 United States Open Championship was going to be held in Oklahoma City. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The United States is “not behind except in fame,” he groused to Beams. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
We’ve had running water longer than the United States has existed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z
Anderson now found herself in great demand throughout the United States. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z
He was working on a one-volume history of the United States Army Air Corps in World War Two. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was also made at a time when significant changes were about to take place in the physical landscape of the United States, changes that would have great bearing on the Red Summer. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
Now, it is extremely unlikely that Negroes will ever rise to power in the United States, because they are only approximately a ninth of this nation. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z
Chess clubs everywhere saw memberships swell; during the match, the Marshall Chess Club’s roster doubled to six hundred, and the United States Chess Federation added tens of thousands to the fold. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Despite the popularity of celebrity female aviators such as Amelia Earhart, the general public in the United States felt that women should not be flying. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
For many refugee families, Clarkston is just a first stop in America, a place to get a foothold before moving on to secondary migration centers in the United States. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
His name was derived from his serial initials, of course, but it was apt, nevertheless, for the SPD models were among the fastest robots turned out by the United States Robot & Mechanical Men Corp. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z
Trying to prevent Fischer’s escape to Iceland, various agencies in the United States accelerated their pursuit of Bobby, putting more pressure on Japan to extradite him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Relations between the United States and Vietnam are now friendly. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
She wanted to study what the ATA was getting right, so she could go back to the United States and set up a similar program for women pilots in her own country. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
“How does the president of the United States lose his top-secret briefcase?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
Orion was under serious development in the United States until the signing of the international treaty that forbids the detonation of nuclear weapons in space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
As Eisenhower predicted, the U-2 scandal exploded the new relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
In theory, these naturalized citizens are equal in standing to those born in the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
Donald Byrne, the United States Open champion, said he was so on edge that he spent the entire day before the match trying not to think of chess, reading the romantic prose of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Other than that, the FBI eventually considered Regina Fischer harmless to the security of the United States. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The United States was trying to keep out of it, but it was hard to stay neutral. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
When she immigrated to the United States with my parents before I was born, she enthusiastically embraced American New Age culture like a long-lost friend. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
Ellsberg tried to convince her that he—that the United States—was fighting for a noble cause. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
But three subsequent United States Supreme Court decisions had put strict limits on the sentences that juveniles can receive, eliminating death sentences and many sentences of life without the possibility of parole, sometimes called LWOP. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
Back home in the United States, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump continued his campaign, all the while pushing his anti-Muslim agenda. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
At the time, there were no formal women's organizations in the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
Whether it was Cuba, Russia, or the United States, whether about the nature of crime, money, or bureaucracies—or human nature in general, including how many people really belonged in prison—their views rarely matched. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
We’re less than a half mile from the National Institutes of Health, and my zip code has one of the highest concentrations of graduate degrees per capita in the United States. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
Finally, after four days of play, the United States team had taken a humiliating beating, falling to the Soviets 20–12. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
But there was so much to know—so much geography to cover—Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, the United States. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
One hundred years after the Red Summer, and despite significant gains made by African Americans in the past century, serious racial issues continue to plague the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
Customers in the laundromat talk about "green cards" and "papers" that give them permission to stay in the United States. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
No doubt it started growing long before the camps, long before the Second World War and the First World War, probably before the Civil War, and maybe even before the United States was a country. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
Had Purple given the United States a warning of the attack—a warning that was ignored? The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Within two years after this insect was accidentally introduced from Europe in 1917, the United States Government had mounted one of its most intensive programs for locating and importing parasites of an insect pest. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Saw a map of the continental United States. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z
An old picture of Poppy before he came to the United States hung high and crookedly on one wall. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
To vitalize a fifth column, they would create a large network of Nazi sympathizers working against the United States from within the United States. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
The United States was already on the verge of war with Great Britain, and this development was cause for more alarm. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
The president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, attended its grand opening. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
Under DACA, undocumented children who entered the United States before the age of sixteen would avoid deportation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
One of the first orders of business was to prevent Fischer’s deportation to the United States. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
She will go to the United States and make money and send it home. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Any such initiative, he said, would place the United States in “an extremely difficult position through out the world.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
News & World Report ranked it as the top high school in Utah, and one of the top seven hundred in the United States. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
Although the first known human cases in the United States appeared only as recently as 1962, Lyme disease is already reaching epidemic proportions in many parts of our country. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Clarence and Clement, the beefy twins who headed up security for the Lemoncello Library, marched into the Rotunda Reading Room flanked by six robotic carts loaded down with United States Postal Service mail bins. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z
Yes, the United States was helping the Soviet Union—but not out of the kindness of its heart. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
Kennedy held out until March 2, 1962, when he announced in a televised address that the United States would resume nuclear tests in the atmosphere. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Class is a potent force in health and longevity in the United States. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
After years of men obeying his every order, he bows to an even greater authority than the president of the United States: his wife. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
At 2:45 a.m., they crammed into a small truck and a taxi and drove, headlights off, along the dark, tree-lined avenue leading to the concrete walls surrounding the embassy of the United States. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
"Maybe you do things different in your United States of America." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
The tensions between the United States and France would linger for years, but the immediate crisis ended. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
At the time, Congress was about to pass a new immigration act that made it easy for so-called Nordic people to immigrate to the United States. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
This is a tropical or subtropical insect, inhabiting South and Central America and Mexico, and in the United States normally restricted to the Southwest. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Based in southern Ohio, the Hopewell interaction sphere lasted until about 400 a.d. and extended across two-thirds of what is now the United States. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
Since the Battle of Fort Sumter took place in South Carolina in April 1861, the United States has been a “house divided,” locked in a civil war between the free North and the slaveholding South. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
Although the Bush administration talks about legalizing some Mexicans with a guest worker program, there is opposition to another amnesty, and the number of Mexicans illegally living in the United States continues to soar. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
He promoted the match to bring global publicity to the Yugoslavian embargo and to make it appear as though the United States and other nations were attempting to suppress an important artistic endeavor. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Perhaps Salvador could think of a way to send letters from the United States to Dorotea secretly. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
The Society called attention to the great variety of species of fish and other forms of life inhabiting the southeastern part of the United States, including species that occur nowhere else in the world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
In the United States, talk of boycotting the 1936 Olympics had been simmering since the Nazis had come to power in 1933. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
The card allows noncitizens the opportunity to work in the United States, and it also enables them to acquire a Social Security number. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
In the United States, with a population of two hundred and seventy-five million, that comes to one hundred and thirty-seven thousand intersexuals alive today. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
There are about 6.5 million American Muslims in this country, making them one of the largest religious groups in the United States. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
It was the deadliest shooting by a lone gunman in United States history. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
He has tried to enter the United States three times. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
McNamara agreed that more soldiers were needed to prevent defeat, but pointed out that if the United States escalated, so would the enemy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
A new generation of agents would have to come on the scene, more than a decade later, before the United States was ready to make its next move against the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
From the Pilgrims to the founders of the United States and continuing to the present day, the idea of a covenant involving people and God has persisted. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
Furthermore, Dasch expressed his regret in returning to Nazi Germany almost as soon as he arrived, and how he had worked on figuring out a way to return to the United States. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
Not surprisingly, the United States is also the only industrialized country in the world that does not provide its citizens with universal health care. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
I am still tight with fear of capture and also with excitement—to be at last in the United States. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z
The show was a guessing game to determine a contestant’s “secret,” in this case not that Bobby or his mother might be a Communist, but that he was United States Chess Champion. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
In this respect, the United States was way behind the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
It is a bird of spectacular appearance and beguiling habits, building its floating nests in shallow lakes of western United States and Canada. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
“Not now. They’ve been registered in Albany. These two little birds are quite famous and are under the protection of the United States government.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z
Were we supposed to come here, to the United States? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
The United States Army’s 101st Airborne Division para-troopers accompanied the students while an Army helicopter flew overhead. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
As it turned out, no one from the United States women’s saber team did well in the individual competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
They have sent six of their sons into the United States Army. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
Rowing before an immense crowd, Oxford defeated Harvard, but the event was so widely publicized in the United States that it produced an explosion of interest in rowing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
I began to accept invitations to share my story at churches, synagogues, schools, and political, military, civic, and philanthropic organizations, locally and across the United States and Canada. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
The spaceling would have observed no food production in the eastern United States, because food production did not begin there until around 2500 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
“No one who was in the United States as I chanced to be…” wrote a British journalist, “will forget the feverish condition of the public mind at the time.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
Chess Federation sent a communiqué to the Icelandic Chess Federation asking about the disposition of Bobby’s body, presumably wanting to bring him back to the United States, a move that Bobby would have detested. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The Osage chief stated that his people “had no choice, they must either sign the treaty or be declared enemies of the United States.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
“Have you ever been in contact with him since coming to the United States?” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then, do an internet search for “Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible to Receive Services from the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
Even after the birth of the United States, Native peoples would not get out of the way. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
It was prompted less by developments on the disarmament front than by a very different event in the technological contest between the United States and Russia. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Below it he read a line that said: Issued by the Communist Party of the United States. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
Since the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa, the former number-one jailer, the United States has run neck and neck with Russia in the race to become the world leader in rates of imprisonment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Yet some 7,000,000 pounds of parathion are now applied to fields and orchards of the United States — by hand sprayers, motorized blowers and dusters, and by airplane. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
And how was I doing on the Transcontinental Railroad in the United States? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
Little has changed for Peralta, a cook who has worked at menial jobs in the United States for fifteen years. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
But, I persisted, cautiously, and in somewhat different terms, this twenty billion dollars, or whatever it is, depends on the total economy of the United States. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z
Toño wants to teach me all there is about the United States in one gulp, fast fast. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z
Books like the one by Frederick Olmstead opened my eyes to the horrors suffered when the slave was landed in the United States. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the United States, I rarely spoke about my experiences during the war. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
The economic crisis in the United States had created devastating ripples across the globe, sending world financial markets into a tailspin. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Cahokia’s rise coincided with the spread of maize throughout the eastern half of the United States. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
In social studies I scored ninety-nine percent on the final test on the United States Constitution. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z
At this point, the United States was politically motivated to back Iraq in the war. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
His comments about Jews and the crimes of the United States had stirred things up, but as an American citizen wasn’t he protected by the First Amendment? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Mr. Derby was broken in health—dying—but he had accomplished that last dream of his—to have Salem build a frigate for the United States Navy. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
Stanton asked to present the declaration to the president of the United States “as an historical part of the proceedings.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
It was, he warned, “the first symptom of a spirit which must either be killed or will kill the constitution of the United States.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
There was no South Korean version of the “9/11” effect that propelled the United States into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
More than 100,000 Miao-speaking refugees from Vietnam have carried this language family to the United States, where they are better known under the alternative name of Hmong. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Great Britain had faded to the rear of the field, essentially tied with the United States for last place. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
We didn't feel we had the best the United States had to offer. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
The consul’s wife smiled tensely and said, “Oh, dear, that’s too bad,” which baffled Mami completely, as she thought Yale was the school where the best families in the United States educated their sons. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
His father hopes that bringing him to the United States will straighten out the teenager. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
For people of European ancestry, social class divisions were certainly more fluid in the United States than they had been in Europe, but the United States was never an entirely classless society. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
Kemp, a case that presented convincing empirical evidence that the race of the victim is the greatest predictor of who gets the death penalty in the United States. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
Started out where he was born—China—then went to parts of Europe and up and down the East Coast of the United States before settling in New Jersey. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
Fifteen thousand lives: that happens to be about the same number of people who die in homicides in the United States every year. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
“Yes, from the United States,” I confirmed as I relinquished my end of the stretcher gratefully. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
Another friend is panic-stricken when her three-year-old son is caught by Border Patrol agents as a smuggler tries to cross him into the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Back in the United States, Liyana’s classes had oral history assignments where they were supposed to go home and ask their oldest relatives or neighbors what the world was like long ago. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
Certainly, the Department of Justice wanted him deported back to the United States to stand trial for his violations, possibly in concert with the Department of the Treasury, for income tax evasion. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The big tankers from the United States or England always carried fresh water to us in ballast, and then it was distilled again so that we could drink it. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
In a move many believe was intended to distract attention from the Vietnam War, Nixon announced that scientists would cure cancer within five years, just in time for the United States Bicentennial. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
The law was designed to prevent information that could harm the United States from reaching an enemy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
“It should be clear,” Kennedy wrote, “that United States Government action regarding the Alabama schools will come only if Governor Wallace compels it.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
But Luma was more interested in life in the United States than she was in what an education there might do for her in Jordan. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
When Lucy Burns returned to the United States in 1912, she reconnected with Alice Paul. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
Like the United States, Brazil had a population of different Indian tribes native to the land. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z
In the entire history of the United States, no amendment to the US Constitution had ever been repealed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
On business trips, Jack was sometimes able to see Moniek, who moved to the United States in 1950, settled in New York State, and worked in the construction business. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z
The American president, J « Harry Truman, had petitioned Congress to allow tens of thousands of concentration camp survivors to immigrate to the United States. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z
Bobby initially agreed to cooperate, but with the explicit caveat that the film was to be a dissertation on the evils of the United States, not about his personal life or about chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
At that point, the United States and Soviet Union would be in an arms race—each trying to produce weapons fast enough to stay ahead. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
The hoax spread when other newspapers throughout the United States and the world reprinted the articles as if they were true. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
There ought to be a suture, a layer of scar tissue, stretching up the eastern seaboard of the United States. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
The College was dedicated to improving the science of medicine, and its member physicians were among the best educated and most experienced doctors in the United States. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
The failure or success of this generation of Mexicans in the United States will determine the place that Mexicans will hold here in years to come, Sarukhan said, and the outlook is not encouraging. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the dizzying sequence of events that comprises the political history of the 1790s, the full range of their disagreement was exposed and their different agenda for the United States collided head-on. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Still, with his third New Year in the United States, Enrique resolves to change. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
“They migrate from the United States to Aztlan this time of year. You wonder how they find a speck of water like this in all the dry desert.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Shortly afterward, the United States' own satellite blew up on the launchpad. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Many American newspapers carried the story, praising the brave commanding woman who’d flown for the Soviet Union, allied with the United States against the Nazis. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
Night in the Gulf of Tonkin was morning on the east coast of the United States. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
As she worked around the house that morning, Lupita thought about her aunt in the United States and wished they could ask her for money. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
Izaguirre told them she would go to the United States and send money for pinatas and books. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
From the perspective of the resettlement agencies, Clarkston, Georgia, was a perfect community in which to place refugees who were just arriving in the United States. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
Like Bobby, Bhagwan had also had trouble with the United States Immigration Department, and was arrested and made to leave the country. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
I signed petitions and wrote letters to United States senators. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Ever since Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States had been demanding unconditional surrender. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
Plus, it’s in New York, which is basically the art capital of the United States. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
“A hooded crane. The only one in Indiana. Maybe the only one in the United States. They winter in Asia, which means he’s about seven thousand miles from home.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
These networks reached into what we know today as the Southwest and West Coast of the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
Lincoln’s funeral procession was the saddest, most profoundly moving spectacle ever staged in the history of the United States. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the United States, the pattern is similar. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
Beginning with Andrew Jackson in 1829, seventeen presidents of the United States have been of Ulster Scots lineage, including Ronald Reagan, the Bushes, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
December 21: The United States deports 249 people that it has accused of being anarchists. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
Since arriving in the United States with his mother, Beatrice, and older brothers, Mandela and Darlington, Jeremiah had been cooped up in his family’s Clarkston apartment on strict orders from his mother. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
He, too, is going alone to find his mother in the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Mexican crops finally began to reach the eastern United States by trade routes after A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
“Fremont has the largest population of Afghans in the United States,” said Uncle Amin. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z
Coach Korfanty had had an illustrious fencing career in his native Poland before immigrating to the United States and starting a career in coaching in Portland, Oregon. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
This is a route you take to become a legal resident of the United States when you’re escaping persecution in your home country, and when returning to said country could put your life at risk. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
After all, she had crossed into the United States twenty years before, and she had married a pocho, a man of Mexican descent born in the United States. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
Most of all, they wanted us to take advantage of every opportunity afforded to us by living in the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
It persists today, as is evident when the United States invades countries claiming to be rescuing them. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
It soon became clear that the Soviets meant to use Powers as a pawn in a campaign to embarrass the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
We remembered Hernando de Soto, who was the first European to explore what is now the southern United States, as Hernando de Soda: It was so hot down south that he needed a soda. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Shin’s adjustment to life in the United States had not been easy. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
In 1919, Chicago was regarded as the crime capital of the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
The same logic didn’t apply in the United States, where the president is independently elected and often does not represent the party that has a majority in the Congress. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
The United States had installed Jupiter medium-range missiles, topped with nuclear warheads, along the Turkish-Russian border, putting them within easy range of Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
I had a World Cup in London at the end of the week, so I flew in a few days before to meet with cultural attaches and representatives from the United States embassy. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
The United States had only itself to blame for this perception. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
“Dan and I are charged with ‘conspiracy to defraud the United States.’” he told reporters. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
James Mott accepted, so it was a man, not a woman, who called to order the first women’s rights convention ever held in the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
And when Mr. Barber asked, “Who would like to do the Transcontinental Railroad in the United States?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
This classic example of bacterial control has a long history of use in the eastern part of the United States, as I have pointed out in Chapter 7. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Farmer had already pointed out how absurd it was that the United States had some of the best TB care in the world, but where, he asked, was the TB? Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
In December 1957, the United States made its first attempt to put a satellite into orbit with its Vanguard. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
Once more they took to the road, walking north toward the United States border. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
By 1941, some sixty-four million pairs of nylon stockings had been sold—more stockings than there were adult women in the United States. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
On November 21, 1850, he wrote a letter to Millard Fillmore, who was then President of the United States. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
Our other example of indigenous agriculture apparently constrained by the local flora comes from the eastern United States. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
On seeing my person, he took the opportunity to inform me that he had just that moment finalized plans to return to the United States for a period of five weeks between August and September. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
Another time, in a misprint he hadn’t caught, Roberto’s article had stated that Senator Smathers had delivered an elegy, instead of a eulogy, of Trujillo before the joint members of the United States Congress. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the United States, music education developed around a method of instruction, the Normal Music Course, the remnants of which are adhered to even today in music classrooms. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
Foreigners who traveled to the United States often experienced the caste system firsthand. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
If that means the United States is founded on a contradiction, then so be it. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
She and my father joined the Narewka Benevolent Club, which had been founded by Jews who had immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
They gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to listen to speeches, then many of them marched on the Pentagon, headquarters of the United States Department of Defense. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
The only female astronaut in the United States for the next 20 years would be Astronaut Barbie. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
It was a symbol of past glory, of early migration to the United States and the dreams that people brought over along with the music. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z
And yet, Tet was a disaster for the United States too—a psychological disaster. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
In Salinas we were aware that the United States was the greatest and most powerful nation in the world. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
But then the United States threatened to dismiss the shah as well, and he was like: "How soon do we get this overthrow party started?" Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Reaching for a pile of newspaper clippings, Kurnakov showed Hall an article about a new type of missile being developed by the United States. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You can’t imagine an actor ever becoming president of the United States, for example,” which was true. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
He was told that a letter to the United States would take somewhere between three and five weeks to reach its destination. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z
The United States took over the project in 1904 and encountered the same disease enemies as the French. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
Chess fans all over the United States are toasting Bobby Fischer and we are happy to join in the acclaim. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
From the United States I proceeded to Canada, where I had a meeting with Prime Minister Mulroney and also addressed their Parliament. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The New York Times proclaimed it “the greatest dust storm in United States history.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
They have watched and worried as their own children struggled to reach the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the thirty-second President of the United States, had polio. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
It soon became the leading model for prisons in the United States. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
President Johnson was saying that the United States was willing to stop its bombing if the North Vietnamese were ready to begin serious talks. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
I was going back to the White House, and this time the president of the United States greeted me—and I have the pictures to prove it! Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z
Fischer headlines dominated the front pages of newspapers all over the world, crowding off such “secondary” news items as the 1972 United States presidential nominations. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
By winter, the United States was at war and tobacco companies were supplying free cigarettes to soldiers, so the market was booming. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
He finally settled back in the relative safety of the United States and dies in a car crash driving me to a basketball game. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z
The reason is simple: nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than this ongoing war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
The Samson Raphael Hirsch Seminary and College was the only yeshiva in the United States that offered a secular college education. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z
Svetlana's second mission allowed the Soviet Union to best the United States yet again. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
George Ticknor Curtis, the United States Commissioner, who presided at the hearing, decided that Sims, who was a fugitive slave, must be returned to his owner in Georgia. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
The United States had just undergone the failed Cuban Bay of Pigs drama, followed by the Cuban Missile Crisis. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Many were triaged in the war zone and then treated at a military medical facility in Landstuhl, Germany, before being flown to the United States. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Kathy often worried about the National Guard and other soldiers returning to the United States after time in Iraq and Afghanistan. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
He reminded them that the United States was “up against an extremely difficult world opinion situation” and declared that he did not want the nation to be “crucified on a cross of atoms.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
He returned to America in time to be elected the first vice president of the United States, which most observers, including Adams himself, interpreted as a popular mandate on his historical contribution to independence. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
But in fact, economic mobility—moving from one income group to another over a lifetime—has actually stopped rising in the United States, researchers say. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
And James Abram Garfield became the twentieth president of the United States, a sprawling country of 50 million people. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
It also stated that any person “not being an Indian” who tried to settle or hunt on Muscogee lands would not be protected by the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
If the United States backed down here, in Hitler's former capital, who would trust it to stand up to Stalin anywhere else? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
The United States has almost always had a racial undercaste—a group defined wholly or largely by race that is permanently locked out of mainstream, white society by law, custom, and practice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
One of the best-known examples of fish destruction in the United States took place in 1955, as a result of spraying in and near Yellowstone National Park. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
A huge wave of immigrants came to the United States, many of them Germans who had either worked in or even owned breweries back home. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
From campus visits to conference keynotes, I was getting invitations from all across the United States. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
As for the British women, now that the war was over, the situation in the air was the same as it was in the United States and the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
The short-term wins for the United States and United Kingdom included regaining limited access to Iran's oil by having a stake in a holding company called Iranian Oil Participants, or IOP. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
In the case of the national university, it was the recognition that the United States was still very much a nation in the making because its population was still a people in the making. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
In eastern forests of Canada and the United States bacterial insecticides may be one important answer to the problems of such forest insects as the budworms and the gypsy moth. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Few supported these efforts to put a woman in space, but after American John Glenn orbited the Earth, the Soviets feared the United States was catching up or even surpassing them in the Space Race. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
He told me how wonderful it would be to return to the United States; how many things I had missed while we were on the island. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
The idea he put forth was that a testing moratorium would halt research into making H-bombs safer, thereby leaving the United States with an obsolete “dirty” nuclear arsenal. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
In American History they’ve been studying how the United States was founded on indentured servitude. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z
After all, soon after Germany attacked the Soviet Union, the United States began shipping planes, tanks, cannons, and food to the desperate Soviets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
He and two other pilots traveled from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington, in the United States, flying in a special long-distance plane designed by Andrey Tupolev. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
In the new United States, the Revolution gave white men with property a sense of freedom, while Africans were still enslaved. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z
A woman astronaut would contribute less weight to the capsule, and perhaps this was one contest the United States could win. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
Without specific motivation, such as winning against the United States, it seemed the Soviet men in charge of the programs did not see any justification to put a woman into space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
Office of Refugee Resettlement for four one-way plane tickets to the United States. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
“The day after tomorrow at the latest. Sí, you must go to the United States.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
Dad puts one hand on either side of the frame, filling the entire doorway, filling the Continental United States. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z
The second way was the American quarantine in the early 1990s of HIV-positive Haitian refugees, who were detained at the United States naval base at Guantanamo Bay. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
Bombarding the waste uranium with neutrons would allow the United States to “break the bottleneck of this raw material problem,” he promised. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
We had met in the United States as he had researched the Nation of Islam for his book, Black Nationalism. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Anita”—she points at me—“I want you to say, ‘Welcome to the United States.’” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
No such restrictions impede the use of these poisons in the United States, however. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
He had returned to the United States reporting confidently and loudly that the Jewish outcry was much ado about nothing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
“It is now, but it will be part of the United States eventually, just like Maryland or Pennsylvania.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z
On January 31 the special committee gave Truman its recommendation that the United States proceed with the Super. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Some of the correspondents asked whether he was going to defend his United States Championship title in the Rosenwald tournament. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Two sleeper agents from communist Czechoslovakia had been living for nearly a decade in the United States, posing as defectors and staunch anticommunists. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Nevertheless, the planes hired by the United States Department of Agriculture and the New York Department of Agriculture and Markets in 1957 showered down the prescribed DDT-in-fuel-oil with impartiality. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
If she went to the United States, would it allow Jasmin to have both her parents at her side more quickly? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
When, ultimately, Bobby walked into the lobby of the Astoria Hotel in Leipzig, he was greeted by a man who resembled a younger and handsomer Groucho Marx: Isaac Kashdan, the United States team captain. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Meanwhile, Suzuki and Bosnitch appealed to the courts on Bobby’s behalf for him to become a political refugee from the United States and be allowed to live in Japan. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Naturally, the French republic had turned to the United States for help, only to have President Washington hesitate. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
The history of the United States had been offered to me as consisting of the accomplishments of white people, mostly men, and the enslavement of black people. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
Or I might be trained for some special duty here in the United States. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
On that morning, satisfying one of his urges to participate in nature, Leper Lepellier was the first thing the rising sun struck in the United States. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
It’s small With two rooms Of books, a globe That I once Dropped, some maps Of the United States and Mexico, And a fish tank with A blue fish that Is always making jeta. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
“If New Jersey is still in the United States, then we can go get her. We can explain everything and show them that her papers are good,” I say. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
In a little less than two weeks, they were going to have to race again, twice, in a pair of two-thousand-meter sprints, to earn the right to represent the United States in Berlin. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
Beginning in early childhood, their government has taught them that South Korea started the war with the encouragement and armed assistance of the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
Dates for China are nearly as early, while dates for the eastern United States are clearly about 6,000 years later. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
It eventually became clear to Colin that Starnes did not mean “the United States of America” but rather “this general area of south-central Tennessee.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z
In the United States, DDT resistance among flies had become widespread in the Tennessee Valley by 1948. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
At that time, the lower forty-eight United States had not seen a volcanic eruption for over sixty-five years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
Along with the lynchings, the Red Summer would be characterized by the race riots that erupted in some thirty cities in the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
When the space program began, women in the United States couldn't get credit cards, rent cars, or obtain loans to buy houses. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
He was thrown into more turmoil when he heard that back in the United States, King had publicly come out against the war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
It would have seemed absurd, given that racial segregation was the primary vehicle of racialized social control in the United States during that period. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
From there they’d gone to London, then to the United States. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z
The last time chess had made the Times front page was in 1954, when the Soviet team visited the United States and Carmine Nigro had brought the eleven-year-old Bobby to witness the international match. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
There was a war going on in Afghanistan, a new color-coded threat advisory system being used in the United States, and Osama bin Laden was apparently hiding somewhere in a cave. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
If someone is an engineer and is going to contribute to innovation in the United States, then shouldn’t they have priority over someone who simply has a family member who lives in the country? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
In the six events held that day, the United States finished second to last in three and dead last in the other three. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
For her, the years from 1938 to 1941 were a time of “exciting, round-the-clock adventures, as we counter-spied into the minds and activities of the agents attempting to spy into those of the United States.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
The students and friends he’d hung out with in Korea cared mostly about Korean nationalism or what college they were going to—preferably in the United States—and what degree they would earn. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
“We all have wounds from that war. But now Osama has turned against the United States.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z
She'd pop that invisible hat on her head, go to the airport, and get on a plane headed back to the United States. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
And could the United States glean enough intelligence from its $20 million device to head off its Soviet adversary and avert a nuclear war? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
The United States was flooded with visa applications. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
Perhaps the most striking illustration is to be found in the cooperation between Great Britain, the United States of America and the Soviet Union in the fight against Hider. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was the first national women’s newspaper in the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
The United States would need men like us to be explorers and adventurers. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
The United States rushed weapons to the British, but stayed out of the fighting. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
With LiNK’s help, he obtained a ten-year multiple-entry visa that allowed him to stay in the United States for up to six months at a time. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
In 1949, West Germany became an independent state, ruled by a democratic form of government modeled after those of the United States, Britain, and France. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
A full- grown steer may succumb to a heavy infestation in 10 days, and livestock losses in the United States have been estimated at $40,000,000 a year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
In 1916, before the United States entered the war, American packers exported 70 million tons of canned beef, 262 million tons of fresh beef, and more than 500 million tons of bacon. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
With every hour that passed, Philadelphia shed the appearance of a ghost city and looked more and more like the capital of the United States. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
I was concerned about the situation and had telephoned Robin from the United States to ask him his opinion. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
In fact, looking back on it, Roosevelt believed that he never would have become president of the United States if it hadn’t been for his experiences in the Dakota Territory. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z
Keeping track of the artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy is as difficult as keeping track of the tax laws in the nineteen fifties and sixties in the United States. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
Every time the United States launched a satellite, the Russians launched one bigger and better. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
There is no handbook for incoming first ladies of the United States. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
The United States wanted Hitler to think that there was a "mole" inside the Nazi regime. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
So Walter Kappe had come up with the idea to send Germans who had already lived in the United States back to infiltrate the country and establish a new spy network. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
Failure to anticipate and preempt such appeals would set the stage for the same divide-and-conquer tactics that have reliably preserved racial hierarchy in the United States for centuries. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Some of it ended up in glass vials in freezers owned by the United States Army, where it was kept immortal in a zoo of hot agents. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Until the United States cured its “Mississippiitis”—that disease of segregation, violence, and oppression that plagued America like a chronic bout of consumption—the paper declared, it would never merit the position of world leadership. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
Boys who had not seen their parents taken believed they had made it to the United States. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
During the 1990s violent crime declined across the United States for a number of fairly straightforward reasons. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Some people argue that even if a person isn't a citizen of the United States, he or she should still have rights outlined in the U.S. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
I looked at a map of the United States at school. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z
Nor could food production spring up spontaneously in deserts remote from sources of water for irrigation, such as central Australia and parts of the western United States. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
She named her newborn Robert James Fischer, and Hans Gerhardt Fischer was listed as the father on the birth certificate, despite the fact that he’d never entered the United States. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
He no longer inveighed against the United States but against a segment of the United States represented by overt white supremacists in the South and covert white supremacists in the North. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
The first cases of DDT resistance among agricultural insects appeared in the United States in 1951, about six years after its first use. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Top players in the United States predicted that Bobby wouldn’t qualify for a place in the Candidates this time. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Aided by an eidetic memory, he was the last non-lawyer to argue a case before the United States Supreme Court—a case he won. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Schools, local governments, and private companies used it to fire, expel, or exclude anyone considered disloyal to the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
I'm a pretty, slightly chubby White House intern who's had a brief affair with the president of the United States. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
Later that month, President Kennedy had announced to the nation that the United States would have a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
He was a full professor of the University of Cairo, on leave from there to be in New York as the Director of the Federation of Islamic Associations in the United States and Canada. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
Our litigation strategy was complicated by the fact that more than 2,500 children in the United States had been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
My heart beat loudly at the words United States of America. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
“People throw away everything in the United States. Even things that are still perfectly good.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
Category 5 hurricanes had only struck the United States mainland three times before, and never New Orleans. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
But that boom came much too late to prepare Native Americans of the United States for the impending disaster of European colonization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Many people in Pakistan have been told that the United States is a dark and godless place, but everyone I met there was quite nice. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
After World War II, Wernher Von Braun, the leader of this effort, came to the United States with some of his experts and began building rockets in this country. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
Years later, Dasch would finally learn why the commission had found him guilty: "a last minute change due to fear when he arrived in the United States." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
Out in the field, they weren’t fighting to protect democracy, or the United States, or any ideal. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
The brief but powerful text read, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
I was so excited to be at my first World Championships and representing the United States that I must have seemed like a puppy on Red Bull; my eagerness showed all over my face. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
She tells him that parents can do that in the United States, even if children haven’t committed a crime. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Still, why should there be a law saying that only a person born in the United States could be president? Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
“And you gotta pass a test—about the Constitution of the United States.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
The President had sent a telegram to Governor Faubus saying he was sure the governor, the National Guard, and other state officials would give full cooperation to the United States Supreme Court. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
To be sure, the legalization of abortion in the United States had myriad consequences. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
As William battered at Purple with all his might, Jewish refugees were being turned away from the United States, on the grounds that they were not the kind of citizens America wanted. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Meanwhile members of the island’s Japanese community pledged their loyalty to the United States. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
The Japanese had attacked the United States at a place called Pearl Harbor. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
“No, darling. A man who takes people over the border. You pay him and he helps you go to the United States. Only first you have to cross the Farms.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
While living in the United States, Zafoona had watched the news coming out of Afghanistan with growing concern. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z
The United States, the whole world, couldn’t manage without it. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
His fear was that a State Department representative might show up at the airport with a court order and try to have him extradited back to the United States to stand trial. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Early in 1942, a young Soviet physicist named Georgi Flerov sat in the library of a military base in southwestern Russia, flipping through a tall stack of physics journals from the United States. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
When the president of the United States reached the gates of Heaven, God got up to greet him as well. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z
“There have been three attacks on the United States this morning.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z
That decision would change their lives and eventually the life of every woman across the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
Later we went to Hong Kong, and when we finally left in 1949 for the United States, I think she was even looking for them on the boat. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
“What are you doing here—in the United States?” she was asked. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
Salvador had been correct in thinking that getting into the United States to work would be difficult. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
I had the other boys come over, and when I introduced them, he beamed and said, “The United States Air Force would love to have each and every one of you.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
In it he observed that wilderness as it was commonly understood simply did not exist in the eastern United States, and had not existed for thousands of years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
On the morning of March 8, 1965, hundreds of United States Marines splashed through shallow water up to the beaches of Da Nang, South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
The bird had been eliminated by DDT and pesticides in much of the United States in the forties, fifties, and sixties. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z
Terman believed that his Termites were destined to be the future elite of the United States. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
The Bureau of American Ethnology worked closely with the United States Geological Survey, an independent federal agency founded at the same time. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
Race has always influenced the administration of justice in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Maria Isabel’s sister Irma tried to make it to the United States but ran out of money in Mexico and had to turn back. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
It was the first national women’s political organization in the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
That day, I stared for a few extra seconds at the little oblong bubble next to my husband’s name for president of the United States. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
In 1972, there were just a few hundred paramilitary drug raids per year in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
During those first years in America, I had been in contact with other Lost Kids who had left Kakuma and come to the United States. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You know the penalty for shielding a deserter from the United States Army?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z
Part of it may be a simple reluctance to credit that the culture of liberty held so essential to the identity of the United States could have so many different forebears. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
“You know that even if the United States Army actually kills the bonus marchers, there’ll be no revolution,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
In November 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
I had decided that finding an on-trend, long-sleeved maxi dress in the United States market was like finding a unicorn in the desert. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
The final form is a client questionnaire that asks me to give a full accounting of my time in the United States. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z
Water from the system—the first water system in the United States—was sweeter tasting and had no offensive odor. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
The news media latched onto McCarthy's speech and catapulted him to national prominence as the most aggressive anticommunist leader in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Throughout the United States, people who are newly released from prison are required to make payments to a host of agencies, including probation departments, courts, and child-support enforcement offices. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Four more islanders of Japanese descent—this was a frontpage article—enlisted in the United States Army. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
Other corporate failures occurred both in Europe and in the United States, but their true meaning remained for the moment unclear—in retrospect, a good thing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
In the United States, orchestra musicians began to organize themselves politically. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z
I can’t help but think that the United States of America isn’t so united after all. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
All over the United States, track managers realized that Belmont had beaten them to the punch. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
Bunderson asked if it was available in the United States and Dr. Strayer said everywhere. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
In the Soviet Union these include capitalism, God, and the surrender of national sovereignty; in the United States, socialism, atheism, and the surrender of national sovereignty. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
An extraordinary percentage of black men in the United States are legally barred from voting today, just as they have been throughout most of American history. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
A similar death rate in the United States would claim about twelve million lives. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
We were not just fighting for the United States. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
Stranded in the middle of the muddy street with no place to go, the president of the United States was dying in the presence of a mob of hundreds, perhaps a thousand, witnesses. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
On the other side of the island flows the northern channel, even more frightening because it is closer to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Mom, E.J., and Lee Lee keep on talking, comparing the experience of African Americans and Native Americans in the United States. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
He was taken before a Federal Commissioner in the United States Courtroom for a hearing. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
When I finished telling, she said, “Women are too busy to be running for president of the United States. What are they teaching at that school? Woman president. Hmp.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z
A new law roped every citizen of the United States into conspiracy with the slave catchers, requiring everyone to search out and turn in any slaves they knew to be in hiding. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
The program was conducted by the Michigan Department of Agriculture with the cooperation of the United States Department of Agriculture; its announced purpose was control of the Japanese beetle. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Hannah Song was frustrated that Shin sometimes avoided responsibility, expected special treatment, and made little effort to learn English, which limited his usefulness as a spokesman in the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
My mother was six months’ pregnant when she decided that she would have to be the one to immigrate to the United States with my brothers because my dad was constantly being watched. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
Soros wanted to involve the international community, particularly the United States. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
Instead, the most recent trend in corrections is the advent of the “supermax” prison, of which there are now roughly three dozen in the United States, including New York’s newest facility. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
As a result, representatives in the United States had drawn up the Constitution with particular attention to the issue of where they would meet in the future. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
By early 2000, United States prisons and jails held nearly 2 million people, meaning that one out of every 140 residents was behind bars. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
In 1969, President Richard M. Nixon signed an executive order that outlawed the development of offensive biological weapons in the United States. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
In 2012, the United States saw the first decline in its prison population in decades. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
I continued to train at the foundation in Manhattan and lived at home with my parents in New Jersey, but I would compete representing the United States as a member of the national team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Although in the United States the women struggle to pay rent and eat, in the imaginations of their children back home they become deliverance itself, the answer to every problem. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Sergio tells me about a whole bunch of decorated Puerto Rican men and women who have served in the United States military. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z
Nonetheless, we have an excellent reason to encourage a person in the United States to drive on the right. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
Estimates of online gamers in the United States alone run as high as 15 to 20 million people. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Those ancestors walked into the gathering as legal property and emerged as free citizens of the United States of America. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
But he was not alone in his belief that the Soviets were engaged in foul play inside the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
A giant map of the United States made of pickles. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
Also, once the United States entered the war, there was a real surge of support for their ally, the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
He straightened his thin shoulders and marched up the stairs as though he were the President of the United States. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z
Shortly after Johnson’s speech, the North Vietnamese agreed to meet with the United States in Paris, France, for preliminary negotiations to end the war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
The cutoff date for almost all nonschool baseball leagues in the United States is July 31, with the result that more major league players are born in August than in any other month. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
She tacks up a full-color road map of the United States in her bedroom and charts her mileage daily with a green felt marker. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
The rocks could hardly be called land, but we knew they were the beginning of the Hawaiian Islands and we knew that the Hawaiian Islands were a territory belonging to the United States. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
And longtime congressman John Lewis, a veteran civil rights activist and moving spirit of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, denounced the ruling as a major blow to minorities in the United States. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
He resettled in the United States in 1940, thereby avoiding any more serious consequences of challenging the totalitarian line. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z
He worried that his siblings expected him to go, given that he was the only one who might have any chance at all of entering the United States; getting a visa from Syria was hopeless. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
At the same time, as men across Europe were enlisted to fight for their countries, the flow of immigrants into the United States ceased. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
As far as thousands of private citizens and a large number of government officials were concerned, these strikes were fostered by Communist agitators, eager to throw the United States into turmoil. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
“I will not be the first president of the United States to lose a war.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
Eventually, after some speech making about the contribution of chess toward a possible détente between the Soviet Union and the United States, play got under way. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
I promised faithfully that when I returned to the United States, I would relay to Afro-Americans his personal warm regards. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
Ultimately it would open the door to "vitalize a real Fifth Column movement in the United States." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
How could they, when the United States wouldn’t so much as recognize them? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was founded in 1877, three years after the Mechanics’ Institute Chess Club of San Francisco, and for many years it included almost every great player that the United States produced. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
In early 2012, I was ranked number two in the United States and thirteenth in the world. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Oppenheimer knew that this was a duel the United States could not afford to lose. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
This photograph was taken in the United States Capitol, where thirty-seven operators answered thousands of calls every day. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
The history of racial caste in the United States would end with the Civil War if the idea of race and racial difference had died when the institution of slavery was put to rest. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
The United States has now become the husband of Zaire’s economy, and not a very nice one. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
If you could tell the President of the United States about your community, what would you tell him? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
The United States cut off oil exports to Japan. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
The next day, the United States went to war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Even when the United States consisted of just a few states on the Eastern Seaboard, the country’s founders fully intended for “America” to extend “from sea to shining sea.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
In time, the French government, prompted by complaints from the United States, replaced Genêt with a new minister, who brought along orders for Genêt’s arrest. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
“In that case,” Dad said, “Summerhill will inform the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. Her visa will be canceled, and she will have to leave the country immediately or be deported.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Compare these odds with those for a timber cutter, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls the most dangerous job in the United States. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
Here, compiled by the Tuskegee Institute, are the decade-by-decade statistics on the lynching of blacks in the United States. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
“What do you think the reaction all over the United States will be?” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z
I asked myself these questions when, after spending nine months in France, I returned to the United States for a five-week trip to twenty cities. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
He tried to draw maps of the United States, discussing details he had heard from friends or relatives. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z
From its beginning, the United States and its citizens have welcomed, solicited, bribed, and forced people from other places to come to lands it said were “cleansed” of their Indigenous inhabitants. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
Gran stared at me as if I’d asked whether aliens had just landed on Earth and appointed Garfield as the new purrsident of the United States, with Snoopy as his VP. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z
He coupled this commitment with a buildup of the navy, which would enable the United States to fight a defensive war if negotiations with France broke down. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
The eighty-eight players in the First Canadian Open may have composed a stronger roster than had been fielded at the United States Open a few weeks earlier. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
As we took our seats, I noticed the United States and Arkansas flags displayed in the front of the room. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
"The only thing left for you to do is return to the United States." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
In 1947, India became the first British colony since the United States to break free from foreign rule. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z
She felt that he was taking huge risks to help the United States and that the stress of his secret life was beginning to show. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Closer to home for Americans, Fort Bragg fever was the name applied to a new leptospiral disease that broke out in the United States in the summer of 1942 and soon disappeared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Today the Jockeys’ Guild, which covers riders in the United States, receives an average of twenty-five hundred injury notifications per year, with two deaths and two and a half cases of paralysis. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
We also took pride in the fact that most of our items were $100 or less, and that all of our clothing was made in the United States. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Here in the United States, we have to go to school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
The results of Braman’s study have been largely corroborated by similar studies elsewhere in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Eventually, the United States might develop into a nation of laws and established institutions capable of surviving corrupt or incompetent public officials. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
The author writes that he is a Boricua living in the United States. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z
This book tells the story of the United States as a colonialist settler-state, one that sought to crush and subjugate Indigenous populations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
From obsessive reading online, the politics, history, and geography of the two Koreas, China, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States would all become familiar. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
I’m in business—I’m a representative of the government of the United States. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
He tells her he wants to bring her to the United States in a year. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
This is a chronic disorder that affects only children of immigrants, who experience a constant gnawing guilt for the multitude of sacrifices their parents made to bring them to the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Ten years ago, I would have argued strenuously against the central claim made here—namely, that something akin to a racial caste system currently exists in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
For that, my father came back to the United States and died. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z
On April 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I. To support the country’s war effort, the striking miners gave up many of their demands and went back to work. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z
Bod’s view of things was upside down at this point, bouncing up and down on the back of the 33rd President of the United States, gritty sand from the path blown up into his face. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z
“But one man trying to sponge Seabiscuit would have about as much chance as a kindergarten kid trying to jimmy his way into the United States mint with a fountain pen.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the late 1980s, another group of outsiders took note of Clarkston: the nonprofit agencies that resettle the tens of thousands of refugees accepted into the United States each year. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
The effects are felt throughout the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Unfortunately, such vision has not prevailed in the corresponding agricultural services of the United States. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
The evolving Indigenous alliance posed a serious barrier to the United States’ expansion. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
The humiliations, so commonplace in the United States that they barely raised eyebrows, much less the interest of the press, were the talk of the town in the envoys’ home countries. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
In many ways the article stirred up more emotion across the United States than the murder had. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The Bund fully supported the Nazis' principles that were rooted in anti-Semitism, anti-communist sentiments, and the demand that the United States remain neutral in the war. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
It was a story about how Yu Li came to the United States from China with his parents. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
Sputnik weighed three times more than the United States' Vanguard 1 satellite, which had not even launched successfully. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
By June more than half the United States was in the grip of severe heat and extreme drought conditions. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
Ho sent a series of messages to President Harry Truman, asking the United States to recognize the independent nation of Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Throughout the United States, public housing agencies have adopted exclusionary policies that deny eligibility to applicants even with the most minor criminal backgrounds. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
The trip was paid for from the $5,000 appearance fee he was getting to compete for the United States in the Olympiad in Varna, Bulgaria. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Ground, sea, and air troops from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, supported by the French resistance, stormed onto the beaches of Normandy in France. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
A number of African American performers, among them Roland Hayes, Alberta Hunter, and Josephine Baker, escaping racism in the United States, had enjoyed successful careers in England and France. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z
We stopped at my office and he went in to look at the map of the United States that I had on the wall. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z
“I went from being able to walk into any restaurant and store in the United States and buy whatever I wanted to having nothing,” she said. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
He flipped through all our passports, holding the picture page up to us to check that we were, in fact, who the United States Department of State claimed we were. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z
At her new home in the northeastern United States, her mother cleaned house and babysat two toddlers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
“At this auspicious period,” he wrote, “the United States came into existence as a Nation, and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be intirely their own.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
In the disposition of capital cases in the United States, the median elapsed time between sentence and execution is approximately seventeen months. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
But the United States differs from Europe in ways that can gum up the mobility machine. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
Lieutenant Snell stood and with his glass at eye level returned the toast by saying, “Long live the United States, and success to the Marines.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
I’m lingering in Lucinda’s bedroom, watching her pack and repack her small suitcase as if there’s going to be a test on it when she lands in the United States. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
It was still a radical proposition for the time and widely criticized, particularly in the United States, where resistance to drift lasted longer than elsewhere. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
He makes himself one promise: “I’m going to reach the United States, even if it takes one year.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Abraham Lincoln, he had de whole United States tuh rule so he freed de Negroes. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z
The Russell Stover box is pretty low because no one has been to the United States lately to buy chocolates. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
The family was assigned to an International Rescue Committee caseworker who would help them resettle in the United States. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
Yes, college competition was tough, but domestic competitions meant competing against a much larger field of competitors, fencers of all ages from across the United States. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Starting in 1846, the Chicago harbor was designated by an act of the United States Congress as an official port of entry. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
The capture and confession of Klaus Fuchs were like a dam breaking in Lamphere's and Gardner's years-long accumulation of clues, leads, and evidence of an active Soviet espionage ring in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Generose hadn’t thought that living in the United States would force her to decide between working and watching her children. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
In this way, Black said, the Soviets would soon wipe out the greed and poverty plaguing countries like the United States. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
A handsome Eames-designed executive swivel chair, an exact duplicate of the one Fischer had sat in while playing Petrosian in Buenos Aires, was flown in from the United States. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Name the attorney general of the United States. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
The war in Vietnam spread to Cambodia when the United States bombed Cambodia’s borders to try to destroy the North Vietnamese bases. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
“How do we get to the United States?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
The women did not realize the significance of what they were doing: planning the first women’s convention ever held in the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
Should the United States commit to fighting a major ground war in Vietnam? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
His enlistment seemed just another of Leper’s vagaries, such as the time he slept on top of Mount Katahdin in Maine where each morning the sun first strikes United States territory. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then the United States would have less jurisdiction over him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
“You are a human map of the United States,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z
She was a judge on the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
That was when problems began to develop in the United States. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
Negotiations to end the war gave birth to an independent nation: the United States of America. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
His father, Inocencio, had once dreamed of going to the United States, but never had the money. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
The imperative to raise the general level of technical proficiency had only grown stronger as the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union grew more inflamed. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
The moment he’d heard “Southwest United States,” Gold figured Fuchs must be at Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mostly, she prays for an amnesty for immigrants so she can become legal and bring her daughter Belky to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
The rogue commander was getting more and more belligerent, the United States more and more concerned. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z
Others bring a small Bible with telephone numbers, penciled in the margins, of their mothers or fathers or other relatives in the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Eisenhowers brochure put forth a vague, practically useless timetable for when the United States might be expected to achieve a variety of objectives in space: “Early,” “Later,” “Still Later,” “And Much Later Still.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
He told me about living and working in buildings constructed hundreds of years before the United States was even founded. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
The research had application to the design of missiles, of great interest as the United States sought to gain every possible military and technological advantage over the Soviet Union. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
“Copies gone show up in the bookstores and the libraries tomorrow. Twenty-five hundred in Mississippi, other half all over the United States.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
Outside Syria, lots of different countries are involved: Russia and the UK, Saudi Arabia and France, Iran, the United States. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z
On the opposite wall is a map of the United States with colored pins stuck in it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z
But when we got to Queens, in New York City, in the United States of America, I became dumb, just because I couldn’t speak English. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z
An aunt urges Maria Isabel to go to the United States, alone. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
At first that one talked about how things were elsewhere in the United States. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
Someone in the crowd lowered to half-staff the United States flag flying in front of City Hall. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
State Department decided to allow certain refugees from the Sudanese civil war into the United States. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
I was less than a year old when my parents brought my brother and me to the United States. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
Of course, that looks an impractical kind of position to us in the United States, but what's always puzzled me is how you English don't seem to share the view of the French. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
Its specialty was reading the coded cables of foreign diplomats who were based in the United States. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
A Central American youth rides a freight train through Mexico toward the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
As they both ate, she asked, “How far is it to the United States?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
The comparable disparity for whites in the United States is 8 percent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Imported monkeys must be held in quarantine for a month before they are shipped anywhere else in the United States. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Since Enrique has been at the river, he has watched thirty other men and boys sleep at the camp, pay a smuggler, then cross the river into the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Nevertheless, the United States now boasts an incarceration rate that is six to ten times greater than that of other industrialized nations—a development directly traceable to the drug war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
On the night of November 7, 1919, Palmer launched his campaign of rounding up suspected anarchists and Communist agitators for the purpose of deporting them from the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
It was a yellowing, brittle, classroom-size map of the United States printed thick with potential destinations. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z
By selecting the Potomac location, the Congress had implicitly decided to separate the political and financial capitals of the United States. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Trout in both eastern and western parts of the United States were affected; in some areas practically 100 per cent of the trout over three years of age developed cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Papi begins explaining that the Garcías have finally gotten permission to leave the country, and they’ll be taking the airplane in a few hours to go to the United States of America. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
I could write to the president of the United States and ask him to make an exception of Alice and me. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
Thirteen machines of thirty-five inches or more had been commissioned or were already operating in the United States by late 1939. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
During most of the forty-odd years since its arrival in the United States the fire ant seems to have attracted little attention. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Her nine-year-old daughter, Diana, who was born in the United States, offers comfort. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Other nations in the world who are interested in the plight of our race and who would like to see the United States divided would come to our aid. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
Parts of Greenland, Ireland, Scotland, and Scandinavia have the same rocks as the eastern United States—are, in effect, ruptured outposts of the Appalachians. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
The only hope, he believed, was for the United States to stop building bombs and to somehow convince the Soviet Union not to start. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was packed into fruit barrels and shipped to the United States. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
Even so, she returned to the United States with no major achievements to show for her absence of nearly a year. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z
In the United States the price of corn is usually below what it costs to grow it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
As advances in medicine and disease prevention have increased life expectancy in the United States, the benefits have disproportionately gone to people with education, money, good jobs, and connections. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
It ended, again in a gesture of ostentatious moderation, with the unadorned signature: “G. Washington, United States.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
He demanded his freedom, writing, "I have rightly earned such liberty by beating Hitler at his own game and thereby have saved the people of the United States loss of life in addition to destruction." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
They signed it “From three of your former scientific colleagues during your stay in the United States.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Tuxedo Park became an obligatory stopover for eminent scientists visiting the United States. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Pena had studied and worked for twelve years overseas, mainly in Canada and the United States. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
In all, the mural was about 120 feet long, and it sought to depict the entire history of Louisiana in particular and the United States generally. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
The longshoremen’s victory launched the modern labor movement in the western United States, in which workers have the right by law to form unions and bargain with employers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z
The United States of America broke free of England but kept slavery. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z
Was Haupt willing to go to war for the United States? Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
When the news spread that the drugs were being used in executions in the United States, European producers stopped making them available. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
He then rose and, lifting his glass, he said with feeling, “Gentlemen, the President of the United States.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
They were the men who had spread the name of Salem so far and wide that natives of some distant islands thought Salem was a country—near the United States—and probably bigger. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
However, those few successes have changed our food habits far less than Mexican corn changed food habits of Native Americans in the eastern United States after A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Bod found himself being introduced to the 33rd President of the United States and the Emperor of China. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z
“Oh, you thought—no, no, Opa wasn’t in the United States Air Force. He was in the Luftwaffe.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z
Antiwar activists wanted the United States out of Vietnam, honor or no honor. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
For several months, Andy met Shin once a week for an hour to discuss how his life was shaping up in the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
He wanted to discuss a trouble spot of increasing concern to the United States: a mountainous, heavily forested country winding more than a thousand miles along the coast of Southeast Asia. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
He was going to the United States to find work. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
No one in the US government was better informed about Soviet activities in the United States than J. Edgar Hoover. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
In the United States, we see these same faces, and our reflex is to pick up our pace and cross the street. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
An import from the United Kingdom, The Weakest Link for a short time became wildly popular in the United States. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
Indeed, its only peer in the United States was the Manhattan Chess Club, forty-nine blocks to the north. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
For instance, Native American societies became renowned for their mastery of horses, and in some cases of cattle and sheepherding, in parts of the Great Plains, the western United States, and the Argentine pampas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Given time, legions of men are drawn into the game, both ebony and ivory: the Congo’s CIA station chief, the National Security Council, even the President of the United States. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
It is, instead: Why were such otherwise-sensible statesmen as Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton all convinced that the newly established government of the United States was so precarious and problematic? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Our apartment was in the American building; there were so many teams from the United States that we had an entire tower to ourselves. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Did the United States government know about the jelly beans? The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z
Bobby’s situation aside, it was becoming difficult at that time for any United States citizen to remain in Moscow. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Then Rukia said, “I know what our specific subject can be. We can talk about what would happen if a woman ran for president of the United States.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z
The amendment declared that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States...are citizens of the United States.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
The Eleanor Holm story, as at least some of the journalists had calculated, made headlines for days back in the United States, and in the long run it did wonders for her career. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
"Judge Ford has just been appointed to the United States Supreme Court." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
He paused for a second and then added defiantly, “I deserted, you know; I up and left ol’ Abe’s Army of the United States.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You studied in the United States, did you not?” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z
He said: “Last year in the United States, we had 56,000 deaths as a result of car accidents, and I decided I’d rather use buses.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
When they returned to the table with food piled on their plates, Dasch said, "Aren't you glad to be back in the United States?" Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
Kosti Vehanen, her Finnish accompanist, had appeared with her in Scandinavia and throughout Europe, while Billy King had been her accompanist in the United States and a “good and faithful friend” as well. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z
Or as an American friend put it to me much later: “Look, if you draw a two thousand-mile-long line across the United States at any angle, it’s going to pass through nine murder victims.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
At church dinners Enrique meets other children who hope to reach their mothers in the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Malcolm X understood that the United States was created by and for privileged white men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
The others were graduate students from Peru and the United States. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
But my parents decided to take any means necessary to get us safely out of the country and to the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Now and again, I met other Schindlerjuden in the United States. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
This made Haupt suspicious of Burger's motivations for returning to the United States and raised doubts about his loyalty to the Fatherland and the men on the sabotage mission. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
Between 1920 and 1940, the population of southern California nearly tripled, as about 2 million people arrived from across the United States. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z
He was American, so my mother was able to bring our family to the United States. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
The North Korean government turned him into an actor who always played an evil Caucasian face in propaganda movies that demonized the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
“Thank you, Doctor. I’ll repay you as soon as I get to the United States. Please give me your address.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
In a given year, there is one drowning of a child for every 11,000 residential pools in the United States. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
“What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
She won’t let herself adjust to the comforts of life in the United States such as hot water. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
One hundred seventy flights transported 19,000 troops from the United States to Western Europe. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Joey nominated himself for President of the United States. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her passengers, as she called the fugitives who would travel with her, would not be safe there, would not be safe in Boston or in Syracuse—or anywhere else in the United States. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
Until 1860, no black person had ever sat on a jury in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
And until recently, I was the First Lady of the United States of America—a job that’s not officially a job, but that nonetheless has given me a platform like nothing I could have imagined. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
And anyway, it wasn’t so long ago that slavery was common practice throughout all the United States. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z
By the ninth decade of the twentieth century the strategic missile and bomber forces of the Soviet Union and the United States were aiming warheads at over 15,000 designated targets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Some were lawyers and well-known citizens, such as Samuel Adams of Boston, a graduate of Harvard and cousin of John Adams, a future President of the United States. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of...” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z
The “red cell” committee thought it unlikely that an established terrorist group would work in the United States during a hurricane. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
She brought a workbook that she and Rafael had used when they first came to the United States. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
Columbia, he said, should run a full complement of the advertising created by his firm in the local editions of TV Guide and Parade magazine in twenty-six media markets around the United States. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Each year, the United States issues about 70,000 patents, only a few of which ultimately reach the stage of commercial production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Agriculture occurred in as much as two-thirds of what is now the continental United States, with large swathes of the Southwest terraced and irrigated. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
The countries in the West, particularly the United Kingdom and the United States, wanted to reward Mr. de Klerk for his reforms, believing that this would encourage him to go further. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The New York winter wind began to blow snow flurries through the trees of Central Park as Bobby entered the Manhattan Chess Club for the first round of the United States Championship. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
“Name the eleventh President of the United States and his entire cabinet.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
Let’s turn now to corn in the area of the continent that we know today as the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
Enrique is breaking a promise he made to leave his addictions behind once he crossed into the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Of course, in the end, Yifeng did come to the United States anyway, his stomach burbling with fool hope. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
The London Times of Great Britain pointed out the folly of the United States in the face of serious international threats. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
“The president of the United States would like to formally request the state box for this evening—if it is available,” the note reads. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
After plannings and more plannings by El Alacrán and the rest, dodging bands of police and border patrols, I Manuel Flores, shivering with fear and cold, have touched the earth of the United States. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z
For the United States, it was a complete screwup. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
The South African government had powerful allies in Great Britain and the United States who were content to maintain the status quo. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
“ICE will drop the charges and release your mother into the United States.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
He was twenty-two years old, born in Ireland in 1868; his family emigrated to the United States in 1871 and in August that year moved to Chicago, just in time to experience the Great Fire. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
The United States defied the blockade with a massive airlift of supply planes that flew over Soviet forces and directly into Tempelhof Airport in the Western sector of Berlin. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Government officials in Port-au-Prince told the peasants that their pigs would be replaced with pigs purchased in the United States, from Iowa farmers. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
When she asked him how he got back to the United States, he wouldn't say anything. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
Continental drift was not entirely without support in the United States. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
“We’re from the Office of the President of the United States; please open your door,” they called back. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
That spring, D-Day was approaching, and the United States was still fighting, island by island, for the Pacific. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
The weapons establishments in the Soviet Union, the United States and other nations are large and powerful. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
The United States Office of Plant Introduction alone has introduced almost 200,000 species and varieties of plants from all over the world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
"Lieutenant Kappe bothered the hell out of me to give him some reliable address in the United States through which he could always reach me." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
He and his agents were looking for ways to attack the United States and its allies, too. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
The United States and Britain could not hope to keep a monopoly on nuclear technology for more than a few years, they warned. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
She wanted the grand procession to take place on March 3, 1913, the day before the inaugural parade for the twenty-eighth president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
And yet, away from public view, one of the largest concentrations of professional female mathematicians in the United States stayed on the job, their identities wedded to their professions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
In return, the dealers would promise not to sell drugs to the citizens of the United States and Mexico. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
First, the First Son of the United States didn't actually do anything wrong. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
I leaned in and saw several jagged routes drawn onto a map of the United States. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z
But we’re all citizens of the United States, forced on a dead-end journey into the desert. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
“I am President of all the people of the United States,” Roosevelt said. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z
He assured Thieu that the United States was not abandoning South Vietnam, that Nixon would continue the bombing as long as necessary. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Richard Nixon said, “I will not be the first president of the United States to lose a war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
I Robert James Fischer do hereby irrevocably and permanently renounce my U.S. citizenship and all the supposed rights and privileges of United States citizenship. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
They were pioneers in the field of infertility treatments, and were responsible for the first test-tube baby born in the United States. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
Some historians and legal scholars refer to the United States as “a nation of laws.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
In the United States the great pioneer of rocketry was Robert Hutchings Goddard, who was born in Massachusetts in 1882—the same year my dad was bom. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
She ultimately found what she was looking for—and more still—in the Communist Party of the United States of America, the CPUSA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
He wants to look better when Maria Isabel comes to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Panic spread from coast to coast: was it possible that the satellite was mapping the United States, with the intent of locking down targets for missile-delivered hydrogen bombs? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
He wanted to be the first president of the United States of Puerto Rican descent. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
What are the chances he would have gone to Harvard Law School, much less become president of the United States, if that had happened? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Generally speaking, writers avoid using the word genocide in history and textbooks about North America and the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
Back in 1960, I had felt a surge of hope when John F. Kennedy became president of the United States. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The maps, which you order through the United States Department of Interior, U.S. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Because let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
But it was in the pages of the New York Herald, on April 2, 1870, that Woodhull announced her candidacy for president of the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
One of the striking characteristics of the criminal justice system in the United States is how much more likely blacks are to be arrested and convicted and imprisoned for crimes than whites are. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z
My father got his scholarship to study medicine in the United States and his family was not happy. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
Now that the United States had entered the war, Hitler wanted fast action on Kappe's plan. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
After corn’s arrival in the eastern United States, seven centuries more passed before the development of a corn variety productive in North American climates triggered the Mississippian emergence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Padre Leo takes down the migrants’ information, then gives them a meal card or arranges to pick up money wired by relatives in the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
To the United States government and its Department of Psi Youth, it was the lovechild of a car alarm and a dental drill, turned up high enough to make your ears bleed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
“Statistically speaking, a black woman living in the United States is most likely to die at the age of seventy-eight from heart disease.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z
His one lingering concern may have been a recent United States Supreme Court case that threatened a longstanding feature of high-profile criminal trials in the South: the all-white jury. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
Yet that number is a tiny fraction of all the corn produced in the United States. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
“The United States. I campaigned for her. She was a lawyer in Washington, and I thought she had a lot of sense.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z
He was suggesting that the tank had been deliberately destroyed by anarchists, foreigners who were probably part of a Russian-inspired Communist plot to raise havoc in the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
And that’s why, when the news broke that I had qualified for my first United States National Team, I was shocked. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
And I don’t mean nothing going on just in Jackson, I mean nothing in the entire United States. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
And there wasn’t a Brooklyn boy who wouldn’t rather play on the Brooklyn’s team than be president of the United States. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
Six days after Bobby’s arrival back in the United States, the Marshall Chess Club followed through on its intentions and held a reception for him with more than one hundred members in attendance. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The suicide rate in 2008 was two and half times higher than in the United States and significantly higher than in nearby Japan, where suicide is deeply embedded in the culture. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
Bentley's confessions convinced him that the United States had been infiltrated by Soviet spies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Code breaking even helped drag the United States into the war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
I didn’t know what chips were called in the United States, but one of the women had been to Europe and she knew. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
I was invited to apply to go to the United States. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
The first interesting thing about the Beatles for our purposes is how long they had already been together by the time they reached the United States. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
In 1789 George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
The precedent he was setting may have seemed uplifting in retrospect, but at the time the glaring and painful reality was that the United States without Washington was itself unprecedented. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Neither of the Palmers was injured nor was the man living across the street, who happened to be future president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
After immigrating to the United States three years ago, Uncle Amin hadn’t passed the medical board exams needed to practice as a doctor. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z
Its leaders founded a black college—which became the first publicly supported liberal arts college for blacks in the United States. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
In the late 1940s, the United States had no spies in the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
According to the New York Times, "it's been estimated by some intelligence experts that Mr. Walker provided enough code-data information to alter significantly the balance of power between Russia and the United States." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
It’s funny how in the United States I’m too fat, and in Mexico I’m too skinny. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
The doctors took trips to France, the United States, Scotland, and Mexico to study new techniques that were being developed—especially those of French surgeon Paul Tessier, whose pioneering work was fundamental. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z
Large majorities of black men in cities across the United States are once again subject to legalized discrimination effectively barring them from full integration into mainstream, white society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
The Japanese beetle, an insect accidentally imported into the United States, was discovered in New Jersey in 1916, when a few shiny beetles of a metallic green color were seen in a nursery near Riverton. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Exactly this sort of situation has been produced artificially in other birds by various experimenters, notably Dr. James DeWitt of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
My first day of school in the United States was very hard. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
President Carter reluctantly allowed them into the United States so the shah could receive surgery for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, but then all hell broke loose in Tehran. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
It turned out it was heading to the United States, and when it made port Nasser jumped off and immediately sought asylum. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
“Who do these people think they are? Gods? They can just choose to wipe out the entire eastern half of the United States? Like the PFC has more right to live than anyone else?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
Academia was just beginning to sense the United States government’s potential heft as a patron of scientific research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
It was necessary to demonstrate his loyalty to the United States: his country. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
In 1957 the United States Department of Agriculture launched one of the most remarkable publicity campaigns in its history. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
The difference was that now the United States knew what to do. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
Unlike in Honduras, in the United States beer is cheap. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
I remember my dad saying, “Everything will turn out OK. In the United States, there are more opportunities, better jobs, and no terrorism.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
The president swore to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States when he took office. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
Gambling on Warcross is illegal in the United States; it’s one of the many laws the government has recently passed in a desperate attempt to keep up with technology and cybercrime. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
In the 1783 Treaty of Paris, the Crown ceded to the United States territory from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean, south of the Great Lakes and north of Spanish-occupied Florida. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
The United States is feeding the beast, man. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
But its primary meaning in the United States today is “irrelevant” or “hypothetical.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
Christopher filmed my preparations for traveling to the United States, along with those of two other Lost Boys. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
In contrast, many apparently widespread Native American crops prove to consist of related species or even of genetically distinct varieties of the same species, independently domesticated in Mesoamerica, South America, and the eastern United States. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
In the early 1940s, the United States managed to intercept a mountain of cable telegram traffic from Soviet embassies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Once in the United States some ladies came knocking at the Abbouds’ door when Poppy was home alone. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
Who comes to the United States and ends up in Delaware? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
“This is my son, a private soldier, Mr. Secretary—just as I was—a private soldier in the United States Army.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
Bell was being argued in the Supreme Court in 1927, the rhetoric of genetics and eugenics penetrated social, political, and personal discourses in the United States. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
For decades, the northern and southern regions of the United States bitterly argued over slavery. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
“I have a mom in the United States,” Enrique tells a guard. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
When asked about a dead friend who had been born and raised in the United States, Biddle explained that he hadn’t really died of the fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
Central American migrants headed for the United States ride in railroad cars through southern Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Each morning they went out, but each dusk they were back in the park complaining of no work to be found and talking feverishly of ways to get into the United States. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
As it happened, Lowell Lee Andrews, whose case had twice traveled all the way to the United States Supreme Court, was scheduled to hang one month later. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Rosenberg trial sparked fears inside the United States that living throughout the country were communist sympathizers plotting to overthrow the government. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
He worked in the kitchen of a naval hospital and they both said he was a medical dietician for the United States Navy. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mayor Gayle vowed that the city would hold out until the very end, meaning until someone representing the United States actually showed up in Montgomery and delivered the Supreme Court’s order to integrate the buses. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z
It was the life she had always dreamed of—we were even citizens now—and in the United States no less. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
Her tours of the United States and Canada alone took her to more than 600 cities, where she performed to over 6 million listeners in more than 1500 auditoriums. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z
Above on the wall was a framed picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who’d beaten out Hoover as president of the United States. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z
The early settlers in the United States were not content to remain on the Atlantic shore but pushed westward to the Pacific as fast as they could. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
But he had come to believe such things in the United States. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
They call heroin la cura, the cure. deported by the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
He declined to give details, but assured them: “I will not be the first president of the United States to lose a war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Scientists in Czechoslovakia are experimenting with protozoa against webworms and other insect pests, and in the United States a protozoan parasite has been found to reduce the egg- laying potential of the corn borer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
The stage was set for the first and most sensational face-off of the Cold War era in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
He, my father, and my mother were Kibei, which meant they were born in the United States but were sent to Japan for their education. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z
I was regularly speaking at universities, Muslim conferences, and different cultural organizations, in the United States and some internationally as well. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Having friends from all over the world seemed perfectly normal to Qendrim; it was all he had known since arriving in the United States. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
The soldiers told us we had to leave because the United States was going to bomb our city. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
When the war began in July 1914, the United States was on the verge of changing dramatically to a more modern society. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
In fast motion, a ring of fire spreads out from the Pacific Ocean east toward the United States, and west toward Japan. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
“It’s not like that at all. Countries can disagree but life goes on. The United States wants to be friends with this country. How many of you have a teenage brother or sister?” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
Later, I write in my diary about the Washburn family maybe moving back to the United States. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
Thanks in part to their efforts against the rumrunners, the Coast Guard’s network covered the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Most of the modern music in which convergence is most active has thrived in a relatively prosperous, educated milieu, dominated by the United States and Europe, where something approaching a cultural consensus exists. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z
Finally, he embarked on a number of prolonged trips to Mecca and the newly independent African states through the good offices of the representatives of the Arab League in the United States. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
Since the 1940s, the United States had kept a draft in place, requiring all men ages eighteen to twenty-four to register for military service. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
“I want to know how they died. I want my children to hear this. I want my country to hear this. I want the United States to hear this.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
The blackboard had fixed upon it in permanent paint, on one side, the United States flag and under it the words “Slavery, Suffering and Death,” then the word “Christianity” alongside the sign of the Cross. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
The United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, dwarfing the rates of nearly every developed country, even surpassing those in highly repressive regimes like Russia, China, and Iran. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Census Bureau reported in 2002 that there are nearly 3 million more black adult women than men in black communities across the United States, a gender gap of 26 percent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
He would know the ways of the United States. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
“During your sojourn in the United States did you ever come across the deceased?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z
The use of DDT would be banned in the United States in 1972, but the antimosquito campaign had died long before that. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
You know, when I won the World Championship in 1972, the United States had an image of a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
In the fall of 1958, it felt to the high-school students of the United States as if the country was launching us in reply. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
But the fun ended abruptly late one night shortly after the United States entered the war, when Dr. Tuve discovered Merle copying down Morse code in the attic. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
In 1929, the same Great Depression that affected the United States also struck Germany and other European countries. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
Sharp introduced the first low- priced fax machine in 1984, and sold about 80,000 of those machines in the United States in that first year. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
If you were an American citizen, it was illegal in most cases to visit Cuba from the United States, but permission was like this. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
Because they were born in New York, Peralta’s children are United States citizens, and their health care is generally covered by Medicaid. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
A precinct captain, an alderman, a lawyer, or a United States representative, probably. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
On October 15, 1969, cities across the United States erupted in protest. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
Then they would change them, leaving the United States and its allies in the dark about their plans. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
It would be damaging to American prestige, because it would be viewed around the world as a defeat for the United States in the Cold War. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Its college faculty was supposed to be excellent, and its rabbinic faculty consisted of some of the greatest Talmudists in the United States. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z
Hands up, he says, who is the President of the United States of America? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z
Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
She reached under her desk and pulled out a thick leather book called Atlas of the United States of America. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z
Bull appeared on the back porch wearing a sweat suit with “United States Marine Corps” stenciled on it. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
Eventually, internecine warfare erupted between the United States and Soviet Chess federations and FIDE. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
“Am not,” the president of the United States protested. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
Yet when the United States captured its first Nazi spy in 1938, the FBI bungled the case. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Southwest; at less than 0.3 miles per year, for corn and beans from Mexico northward to become productive in the eastern United States around A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
The NACW, along with its publication Woman’s Era, the first periodical published in the United States by black women, became a powerful force in the fight for the ballot. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
First Jackson and then Smith were also prepared with their response, which turned out to be the fullest public exposition of the proslavery position yet presented in the United States. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
It says, “Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
So on Maribel’s first day of school in the United States, Arturo and I woke up early, filled with impossible expectation, and roused Maribel, watching her push her hair off her face. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
Launching a satellite was something the United States had been working on without much success. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
Outraged by the lack of local law enforcement interest in the case, the black community and civil rights activists persuaded the United States Department of Justice to get involved. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
They detracted not only from who he incontestably was—a grandmaster and the United States Champion—but who he believed he was—the strongest player in the world. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
“I could not believe that the United States could fail in the end to solve the problems that the French had not solved.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Ulbrickson was horrified and furious when he saw the assignments—lane one: Germany; lane two: Italy; lane three: Switzerland; lane four: Hungary; lane five: Great Britain; and lane six: the United States of America. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
She grew up on her mother’s fried pork chops, spare ribs, and meatballs—all cooked with lard—and had become a pizza, hamburger, and french fry enthusiast in the United States. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
Along with reducing Cold War tensions and improving relations with the United States and other western nations, Gorbachev granted the Soviet people freedoms that they had never experienced. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
But a large number of United States citizens loved Genêt and the French cause and rallied around him. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
Mining has of course always been a wretched line of work everywhere, but nowhere more so than in the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
Lucas is my oldest brother who stopped beating me up a year and a half ago when the United States Army drafted him to beat up Vietcong instead. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
The thing to do was to be prepared—as my grandfather had been when it was demanded that he quote the entire United States Constitution as a test of his fitness to vote. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
Even so, prison construction in the United States seems to have developed an unstoppable momentum. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Beginning in the 1960s, crime rates rose in the United States for a period of about ten years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Instead, Japan became even more determined to conquer new territory, new sources of raw materials—even if this meant taking on the United States. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
Secretary of War Stanton arrives, makes the room next to Lincoln’s his headquarters, and takes charge, acting as interim president of the United States. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
Cuban-American treaty, Guantanamo Bay, on the southeast corner of the island, was under permanent control of the United States. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
No one here wants to admit it, but the United States is part of México’s problem. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
This pattern, dating back to slavery, has birthed yet another racial caste system in the United States: mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Speaking from the White House, President Eisenhower said he sent troops because “Mob rule in Little Rock menaces the very safety of the United States and the free world.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
"McCarthyism" became a catchphrase for the hunt for communist subversives, a frenzy that would engulf the United States for the rest of the 1950s. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
He was poised for battle against the chess establishment, the Union Bank of Switzerland, the Jews, the United States, Japan, Icelanders in general, the media, processed foods, Coca-Cola, noise, pollution, nuclear energy, and circumcision. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
In that moment, my teammates reassured me that they welcomed the diversity of our team and wanted to show the world what the United States truly stood for: inclusion and diversity. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
He wrote, “There is virtually no case law whatsoever in the entire United States that has addressed it. The technology is just too new.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
With Japan posing a growing threat in the Pacific, the United States couldn’t afford to have that happen again. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Grizzlies, by contrast, number no more than 35,000 in the whole of North America, and just 1,000 in the mainland United States, principally in and around Yellowstone National Park. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
Collins was one of the finest players in the United States, and for a number of years was rated in the top fifty; Nigro never reached anywhere near that achievement. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
We timed ourselves often: “WethepeopleoftheUnitedStatesinordertoformamore- perfect union ...” I had memorized the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Roosevelt in chronological as well as alphabetical order. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
Back in the United States, the antiwar protests began almost immediately. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
“What is the purpose of your visit to the United States?” she asked, never looking up from the papers before her. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z
There was some talk as to whether there were cameras on board, looking down at the United States, and I heard one newscaster wonder out loud if maybe an atomic bomb might be aboard. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
“Puerto Rico is part of the United States, you ignoramus!” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z
“My father wasn’t,” protested Flaco.“He’s living it up in the United States. He’s running a movie studio, and when he gets enough money, he’ll send for me.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
He promptly left Congo—which has recently descended once again into civil war—and hopes to reunite with his family, either in the United States or in Europe. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
As I slept, the news was confirmed: American voters had elected Donald Trump to succeed Barack as the next president of the United States. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Some Americans were against resettling the 130,000 Vietnamese refugees brought to the United States, and host families or sponsors had to agree to take responsibility for the refugees before they could leave Fort Chaffee. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
"Neither of my parents had ever been outside the United States before," Powers remarked. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
I was traveling from Warsaw, Poland, following a weeklong training camp, and my mother and Faizah were flying directly from the United States to meet me in Greece. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Most of the young men from the northern part of the United States treated the incident with amusement. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
And suddenly the United States became huge beyond belief and impossible ever to cross. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
Many years later, after she was dead and he was living in the United States, he would tell me that he loved his mother. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
Native Americans of the eastern United States domesticated no locally available wild pulse, no fiber crop, no fruit or nut tree. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Kappe had lived in America for a dozen years, where he was referred to as "the No. 1 Nazi in the United States" before he was deported in 1939. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
A lot of VC were killed north of Saigon, and President Johnson was saying that the United States was ready to come to the peace table if the Communists were. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
“How come de United States privy house, Tea Cake?” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z
Dr. Fine wasn’t playing for the United States because he had retired from play in 1951. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Don Francisco’s show is widely watched in the United States and throughout Latin America. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
His ultimate aspiration was to be president of the United States, which meant his approach to solving the threat would require precision and shrewd calculation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
The United States obliterates Moscow and urges all patriotic Americans to boycott vodka. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
I rose and approached the president of the United States of America. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
They couldn’t bring him home because there was a problem with the paperwork, and the police in the village “were not responding to inquiries from the United States Embassy.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z
The most notorious such quakes ever to hit the United States were a series of three in New Madrid, Missouri, in the winter of 1811-12. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
When the United States entered World War II, he tried to enlist as a navy pilot. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
They flooded across Opium to the border of the United States until that government threatened to put El Patron out of business. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
One day in the summer recently, when he was visiting the United States to tend to some business, I met him in a coffee shop in a shopping mall not far from his home. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Someone from the United States Department of State was calling and wanted to speak with me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
The papers had been waiting for them, arranged with the help of Habib’s old college adviser in the United States. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z
If my sister or I got arrested, it could cost all of us the ability to stay in the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Not sure where to go, they decided they’d pay a visit to the president of the United States, whom they understood to live somewhere upriver. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
The United States insisted that North Vietnam stop supporting the war in the South. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
The escalation of military force was quite dramatic in cities throughout the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
McNamara had told Congress the United States had “played absolutely no part in” these raids. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
They chatted quietly about the schools in the suburbs, how coats were marked down Columbus Day, whether the United States was doing the right thing in Korea. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
The cover features a guy proudly holding the flag of the United States in one hand and what must be the Puerto Rican flag in the other. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z
So, Papi raised his right hand and swore to defend the Constitution of the United States, and we were here to stay. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
Washington was then president of the United States, and Philadelphia was the temporary capital of the young nation and the center of its federal government. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
I didn't clarify that I meant something other than the East Coast of the United States. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
Who were they, all these Americans who left the United States—volunteers and draftees—to fight in a war far away? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
On December 7, 1941, the Axis power Japan surprised the United States with an air attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor in the territory of Hawaii. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
Five months after Carl bought the cart, the United States entered World War II, and the Goodyear plant became very busy. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z
My anxiety tripled when Samira explained that not having a green card or a Social Security number also meant we were breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
In going to the United States and meeting Bobby, Zita had accomplished at least part of what she’d set out to do. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The book you are about to read tells the story of one of the most remarkable and important years in the history of the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
Out front flew two flags: the Stars and Stripes of the United States and the Stars and Bars, the battle flag of the Confederacy. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
“Or had they been aided in their effort to build it by information stolen from the United States?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
Even before President Wilson mobilized United States troops, Swift had been called on for meat to feed the massive European armies that already had been battling for several years. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
The war was clearly going badly for the French, and commentators were warning that the United States needed to avoid involvement. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
If all goes well, then you finally become a legal resident of the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Burns led the picketing demonstrations and served more time in jail than any other suffragist in the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
The United States is one of the few governments that actually supports an agency devoted to reversing the arms race. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Apparently not the principal, the superintendent, or even the president of the United States could change school policy. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z
Some of her friends tell her she would be a fool not to follow Enrique to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
But before he reported to his new job as a prison guard, he went to the Abwehr headquarters, and offered his services in any capacity in the United States. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
More than 2.5 million Jews fled for their lives to the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
Fly across the United States, and you will step from the plane a quinzillionth of a second, or something, younger than those you left behind. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
—I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
If you will take a map of the United States and fold it in the middle, eastern edge against western, and crease it sharply, right in the crease will be Fargo. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
Early in 1958, the United States put up its first satellite, Explorer I, and it wasn’t long before people started talking about putting a man into orbit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
The older man does not know how tough it is to be a Mexican immigrant in the United States now, tougher than any young man who ever left Huamuxtitlan would admit. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
Black children today can even dream of being president of the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
While on a lantern-slide lecture tour of the United States, it was he who so notoriously quipped, “Because it is there” when an irritating newspaperman demanded to know why he wanted to climb Everest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z
Yet the country barely had time to catch its breath when, less than two weeks later, the largest strike that had ever taken place in the United States began. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
One of the first blows came from the highest level, the president of the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
Through Jewish organizations, my parents connected with our few relatives in the United States. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
In the past decade, the United States government and law enforcement agencies around the world have documented that some of these North Koreans are involved in criminal enterprises that funnel hard currency to Pyongyang. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
“They took her. They say she can’t come to the United States.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
As the United States continued to apply pressure, South America tilted toward the Allies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
“On July twenty-eighth, the United States of America will launch Ranger Seven from Cape Kennedy, Florida,” he said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
This military victory eventually led to a British capitulation three years later and to freedom for the United States—and lasting fame for Washington. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
In the United States, another kind of argument was raging, within the American government itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Conversely, domestic turkeys of Mexico and domestic sunflowers of the eastern United States might have thrived in the Andes, but their southward spread was stopped by the intervening tropical climates. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
“In 1877, when the United States government told him he had to live on a reservation, he said he wanted that reservation to be here.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z
Is that an act of great heroism in the United States of America? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
Fischer’s quest and charisma transformed the image and status of chess in the United States and other countries, as well. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
By the time he in third grade, though, he get to talking better than the President a the United States, coming home using words like conjugation and parliamentary. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
New recruits, fresh from the United States, were rushed to the company. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
The United States Army had ventured here before, in the early twentieth century, to restore order during another period of turmoil, only to leave and watch from a distance as the new government eventually collapsed. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
The only problem was, people in the Muslim community often referred to me as “the Olympic fencer” because I was building a reputation as a professional athlete who competed on a United States national team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
He battled the disease in Spain, where he lived, with the aid of an experimental drug that was not—and still is not—available in the United States. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
According to WHO, life expectancies in Cuba were about the same as in the United States. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
If they did, the suit would still be heard and decided in Alabama, but the judges would represent the United States government, not the state of Alabama or the city of Montgomery. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z
By 2006, people in the United States were sending around 12.5 billion texts a month, which sounds like a lot, but the technology really was embryonic. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
Using surveys from two polling companies, the researchers calculated that 6 million people across the United States heard the Mercury Theatre broadcast. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
“There is no group in the United States more able to carry out this threat than the Black Muslims,” he said. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
Early in January, when we had all just returned from the Christmas holidays, a recruiter from the United States ski troops showed a film to the senior class in the Renaissance Room. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
The fact that the Japanese had attacked Hawaii rather than invaded the continental United States was a distinction that neither of us bothered to quibble over. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
For if Haitians could claim their freedom and be recognized by America, why couldn’t slaves within the United States do the same thing? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z
Even the president of the United States had to go to school if he wanted to get into Georgetown. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
It briefly reviews the history of racialized social control in the United States, answering the basic question: How did we get here? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
These legacies may include the Uto-Aztecan languages of Mesoamerica and the western United States, the Oto-Manguean languages of Mesoamerica, the Natchez-Muskogean languages of the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Why do you always tell your friends that I arrived in the United States on a slow boat from China? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
It wouldn’t be safe for them to live in the United States. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
Potato insects are escaping chemical control in many sections of the United States. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
“I don’t have money on me, but I will pay you as soon as I find my mother. She will pay you in United States dollars.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z
The most spectacular of these approaches is the “male sterilization” technique developed by the chief of the United States Department of Agriculture’s Entomology Research Branch, Dr. Edward Knip- ling, and his associates. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
“If we fail to meet this challenge, all other nations will be on notice that despite its overwhelming power the United States, when a real crisis comes, will be found wanting.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
Many listeners became afraid when they thought that the United States had been invaded. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
The United States abounded with dollar bills, baseball sluggers, raccoon coats, diamond jewelry—and lonely, immigrant bachelors. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
“Corporal Jake Reynolds. National Guard of the United States. And you are out of order. I suggest you step aside.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
The staffs living standards would improve in time, but not until the appearance on the scene of an especially well-heeled patron, the United States government. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Those still close to Bobby asked the obvious question: If he was one of the best players in the world, or certainly in the United States, why couldn’t he make a living practicing his profession? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The United States has 67 major beer breweries, producing 23 billion liters of beer per year. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
They existed before, and they exist again, in the city of New Orleans and the United States of America. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
He knew the number of German Americans living in the United States and had compiled numerous charts, statistics, and personal information, such as their occupations and if they were Bund members. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
They ruled the drug empire that formed the border between the United States and Aztlan. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Damon Hininger, the president and chief operations officer of Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private-prison operator in the United States, is thoroughly optimistic. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
The United States also banned lead in indoor paint, "forty-four years after most of Europe," as McGrayne notes. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
It was rare in the United States, however, even in the jails, in the homeless shelters, and under the bridges that Joe often called home. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
As the nation’s chief law official and legal counsel of the United States, Randolph was someone whose opinion held great weight. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
Altogether, just 2 percent of the United States is classified as built up. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
It has come to our attention that the SES has been exhibiting unusual activity in the northeast of the United States. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
Unlike the United States, the Soviet government expected women to work outside of the home, and by the 1950s, many Soviet women were pursuing scientific and technical careers. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
They also house blood samples taken from most infants born in the United States since the late sixties, when states started mandating the screening of all newborns for genetic diseases. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
It was advertised as the first of its type in the United States, a place where cars were parked on three levels in the same building. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
She constantly reminds herself of the things she dislikes about the United States: children live confined indoors. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
While we sit and do our homework together in Danielle’s dark pink room, she tells me, “We came to the United States to get away from my father. Maman asked him for a divorce.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z
I can picture our moms, sitting at a cafe table with their Learn About the United States books, sipping tea. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
And most native societies in what is now the United States and Canada did not have the written languages, monumental architecture, or wide-ranging aesthetic traditions of their neighbors to the south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
Even though they knew no English, they believed that a better future was possible in the United States. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
Fleeing the Nazi conquest of Europe, the writer Vladimir Nabokov and his family took a ship to the United States in the spring of 1940. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
There was a special number for each type of work in The United States Marine Corps Manual of Military Occupational Specialties. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
Several years earlier, the US government had convicted Abel of running a network of Soviet spies in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
“There he is, the next president of the United States!” said the emcee of the rally. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You have been in the United States, then, for the last ten years on and off?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z
But there is another reason she hasn’t called: her life in the United States is nothing like the television images she saw in Honduras. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
According to the president of the United States, there would be no war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Matehuala is on a principal route for truckers headed to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Although Betty and her friends had certain rights, women in the United States were still not completely equal; their images were used to sell things. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
“I went to college in the United States; I guess some sort of accent stuck. My wife teases me about it, but I thought she was joking until now.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
Whereas Washington had been able to levitate above the partisan factions, “the next president of the United States will only be the president of a party.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Pike was a missionary from the United States, so he had to hide in a room in our house. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z
They would help anyone who came, be they Japanese, American Indian, or Latino, and whether they were in the United States legally or not. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
When Rondon finished, he led everyone in giving three rounds of cheers in honor of the United States, Roosevelt, and Kermit. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z
One half set off for Canada and the United States. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
It had long been part of the history and tradition of other countries, including the United States. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
A well-executed suborbital flight would buy the United States a little breathing room; but orbital flight—the end game of Project Mercury— was infinitely more complex. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
Abandoning his strict constructionism, Roberts unilaterally amended the Constitution and had Obama “solemnly swear that I will execute the office of president to the United States faithfully.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
There are ten times more astrologers in the United States than astronomers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Mr. Vice President,” Anthony said, “we present this Declaration of Rights of the women citizens of the United States.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
He also mentioned their training at Hitler's sabotage school and how the focus of the mission was to sabotage war production in the United States. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
It was a poor country, in part because the United States maintained its trade embargo, and because the Soviet Union, once it collapsed in the late eighties, no longer provided financial subsidies. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
Genêt’s first action in the United States was to hire American privateers, privately owned and manned ships, to attack and plunder British ships in the name of his government. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
With no siblings in the United States, and a guardian who was hardly ever home, Kanue began to view the team as his family. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
“So the United States has declared war on Japan?” asked Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z
Youzek, Hela, the Gamzers, and I had an emotional farewell before I boarded the train that would take me to the coast, where I would catch a ship to the United States. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z
In early July he persuaded Albert Einstein to put his name to a letter alerting the president of the United States to the threat. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
In the newspaper, I read how even the President a the United States telling Mayor Thompson he need to do better. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
When John died in a helicopter crash during the Vietnam War, Marti returned to the United States in a state of stunned disbelief. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
These were the obligatory so-called Studienreisen, or study tours, their goal being the students’ acquisition of the necessary grounding in “the modern developments in Physics” that was simply unattainable in the United States. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
More — much more — would follow as cities throughout the United States organized collections of blankets, bedding, clothing, food, and cash. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z
One issue outlined horrific prophecies, graphically illustrated, of what Armstrong predicted would be World War III, when the United States and Great Britain would be destroyed by a United States of Europe. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
They arrived at jfk International Airport and were driven by truck down the eastern seaboard of the United States to the Reston monkey house. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Farm Patrol was very efficient, and besides, El Patron had told him just as many people ran away from the United States as toward it. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
On the wall are topographical maps: the world; the United States; the oceans, Earth, and moon. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
The American Petroleum Institute canceled a research contract with him, as did the United States Public Health Service, a supposedly neutral government institution. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
Four months after Enrique arrives in the United States, his work hours get cut. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
He was the first Puerto Rican president of the United States. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
Determined to get as close to the front lines as possible, William asked the United States Army for a commission to serve as a code breaker overseas. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
To test this assumption, a scientific team from the United States Public Health Service sampled restaurant and institutional meals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
He said to Schmid, “It’s a pity,” while someone from the audience, angry at Fischer, yelled: “Send him back to the United States!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
After returning to the United States, he served as a city councillor in Washington, D.C., where his uncompromising positions made him many friends and numerous adversaries. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
This time we were going to fight as warriors for the same United States that had treated our ancestors so cruelly. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
The state continued trying to execute Mr. Hinton until we won a ruling in the United States Supreme Court in 2015 that required the prosecutors to finally reexamine the evidence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
North Korea would have lost the Korean War and disappeared as a state without the help of the Chinese, who fought the United States and other Western forces to a stalemate. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
One year later, the importance of the airplane to US defense was underscored when the Army Air Corps was elevated to the status of an independent branch of the military: the United States Air Force. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
It only really got going—in the United States and Europe—in 1993. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z
At the nub of his opposition to Jay’s Treaty, then, was his utter certainty that it threw the weight of the United States onto the wrong side of history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
The Americans I’ve befriended don’t hate the United States, they simply prefer France for one reason or another. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
“What if they don’t let me come back to the United States?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Constitution of the United States, only recently ratified, specifically prohibited the Congress from passing any law that abolished or restricted the slave trade until 1808. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
The increase is by no means confined to the United States; in all countries the recorded deaths from leukemia at all ages are rising at a rate of 4 to 5 per cent a year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
The President of the United States began talking on the radio! Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
Thanks to the persistence of this unlikely duo, Stalin's spies were finally being pushed out of the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
No group in the United States can be said to have experienced more privilege, and gone to greater lengths to protect it, than “the white man.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Across the United States, millions of Americans were glued to their televisions for the evening news reports, and stunned at the savage fighting they saw on their screens. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
He invited the president of France, the president of the United States, the president of Russia, Italy, Germany, and China, as well as our own president, His Excellency, the President for Life Papa Doc Duvalier. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z
I thought about moving back to the United States, that drive down to San Diego, the crash of the car. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z
Imagine, if you can, three million armed soldiers and an army of tanks and guns and bomber aircraft, all hurling themselves in a ferocious attack across the United States from Maine to Florida. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
“Do you really think that the United States of America is in a state of war with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
As hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union increased, it began to feel like a probability. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
Soon after he passed away, a magazine poll taken to determine who “was the greatest man in the United States” placed Billy Sunday eighth, tied with the legendary philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing opened wide the eyes of the United States to racial injustice. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
During the next few decades, they discovered more than eighty large paleo-Indian sites throughout the United States, Mexico, and southern Canada. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
In a population of about eleven million, the country boasted more doctors per capita than any other country in the world, and twice as many per capita as the United States. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
So suppose the United States wanted to reduce enemy forces by 20 percent—a significant figure, though hardly enough to break their will. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
But if Kennedy, a white man—the president of the United States—says that things need to change, surely white people will listen to him. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Hold it with dignity and grace, like the president of the United States is supposed to hold the fate of the free world. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z
To the left of the clock stood the flag of the United States, with all forty-eight stars brilliant against a navy field. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z
Virtually unnoticed, he will become one of an estimated 48,000 children who enter the United States from Central America and Mexico each year, illegally and without either of their parents. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Exactly three hundred years later, in 1919, the United States experienced more labor strikes in one year than in any other year in its history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
In the United States, gangs have traditionally been a sort of halfway house for recent immigrants. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
International headlines took aim at the United States, with one London newspaper taunting that "the Americans have made fools of themselves." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Many government officials believed that the anarchists were sympathetic to the Communists who had taken over the Russian government and were determined to make the United States their next target. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
From En-gland and Europe, the United States had inherited a system of mainly corporal punishment for crimes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Japan and the United States declare war on North Korea. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
Seeing black people graduate from Harvard and Yale and become CEOs or corporate lawyers—not to mention president of the United States—causes us all to marvel at what a long way we have come. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
In the United States, it was hard to get hold of these telegraph code books, but William had a few. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
The same fate might have awaited Enrique without the money that arrived from the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Arriving in the United States, the Irish found that life in the new country was not much better. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
In the rest of the United States, drive-ins were usually a seasonal phenomenon, closing at the end of every summer. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z
Just a few minutes before, the president of the United States had been a vibrant and larger-than-life presence. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
The commander was the Count of La Perouse, a noted explorer who had fought for the United States in its War of Independence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
She is heading north to find work in the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
He would be extradited to the United States and probably imprisoned for ten years. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Probably no other agricultural program has been carried out on so large a scale as the dusting and spraying of millions of acres of land in southern United States to control the fire ant. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Grandpa had thought up Southern Independence Day way back in February as a practical joke on the United States of America. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z
If he succeeds, Lincoln’s prayer for a reunified United States of America may never be answered. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
The United States was almost inadvertently deciding to segregate them. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
One day, he asks his grandmother, “How did my mom get to the United States?” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Booth’s achievement is described in the Richmond papers as “the most deplorable calamity, which has ever befallen the people of the United States.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
So all the time I was growing up, right on into high school, I had this ambition to go to the United States and finish my schooling there. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the 1964 “long, hot summer” riots in major cities across the United States, the socially disinherited black ghetto youth were always at the forefront. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
Bentley told all: She named names, exposed her Russian contacts, and painted a shocking picture of a vast communist conspiracy operating in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Mr. Dyer went into another long lecture about the different way of viewing the world from the perspective of a culture that thought more communally than the highly individualistic United States. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
On an average day in the United States, 320 people are shot with a firearm and some 90 people die from a gunshot wound. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
They said it showed how powerful the slaveholding South had become, that part of the United States Army should have been called out to assure the return of one miserable fugitive. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
The PAC echoed the axioms and slogans of that time: Africa for the Africans and a United States of Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
It wasn’t his fault, he said, if some refugees hadn’t learned the rules of the road in the United States. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
Lawrence was the University of California’s first Nobel laureate—indeed, the first from any public university in the United States. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
“I was going to the United States to harvest chiles,” he says. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
United States scientists have had some encouraging early results with the melon fly and the oriental and Mediterranean fruit flies in laboratory tests in Hawaii and field tests on the remote island of Rota. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
American agents had no evidence that Semyonov was a spy, but they knew some Soviets living in the United States were spies. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the midst of this, they contacted both the United States and Japanese embassies in Reykjavik to protest Fischer’s incarceration. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
They heard him expertly exhorting the audience about what is needed today by “the black man here in these United States.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
Yes, she said, he had been transferred somewhere in the Southwest United States. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
But with the United States headed into a full-scale war, it was the best she could get. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
When visitors come from the United States, I draw up little itineraries. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
Mrs. Myers handed out books almost as though she were President of the United States, dragging the distribution process out in senseless signings and ceremonies. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z
When I was commissioned, less than a year from that moment, I was told I was one of the youngest officers in the entire United States military. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
Throughout his long career in the United States and Europe, Welles worked in stage, radio, film, and television. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
No caste system in the United States has ever governed all black people; there have always been “free blacks” and black success stories, even during slavery and Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Rondon explained that Roosevelt was not the president of the United States now, but he had been. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z
Five days later, as North Vietnamese troops encircled Saigon, Ford ordered the evacuation of all United States citizens from Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
More important, it might precipitate regime collapse in North Korea and lead to the unification of the Korean Peninsula under a Seoul-based government closely allied with the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
J. Edgar Hoover had even starred in a short film that celebrated the FBI’s great victory against Nazi spies in the United States and South America. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
The school year in the United States is, on average, 180 days long. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
Constitution specifically provides that “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied...on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
The United States government wanted this deadly enemy identified and eradicated. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
I didn’t go on to tell her that right in die United States, there are hungry people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
Hotels filled up with Seabiscuit fans hailing from all over the United States. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
She’d have to live illegally in the United States, always fearful of being caught and deported. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
The very first time that Elizebeth tried to solve an Enigma message was back in January 1940, before the United States had entered the war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
From there, he'd obtained a visitor's visa to the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
She had often studied the map of the United States and crossed its plains, mountains, deserts, and rivers in her imagination. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the United States they include major corporations famous for their homey domestic manufactures. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
It also highlighted her key role in the I'm Alone case, which had saved the United States a small fortune. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
The United States would spend $24 billion on Apollo, in order to plunge the sword into the heart of the Soviet Unions ambitions in space. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
"Comrade Deputies," he shouted, "I must report to you on aggressive actions against the Soviet Union in the past few weeks by the United States of America." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
As a teenager—indeed, still a child—he will set out for the United States on his own to search for her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Consider this passage: The northern United States and Canada are places where herons live and breed. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
Under his breath, my dad said, “Every year the same thing. If it’s in Spanish, it’s a piece of home. Well, I never heard this song until I came to the United States.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
What makes the black man think of himself as only an internal United States issue is just a catch-phrase, two words, “civil rights.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
Its details were known all over the United States. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
According to the law, most of them were still property, their names on pieces of paper in cabinets kept by the United States Government. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
During my five weeks in the United States, I spent a lot of time on planes and waiting around in airports, where the image of Americans as hard workers was clearly up for grabs. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
“No! I’m the president of the United States. I don’t have to swallow.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
Much to his chagrin, it was discovered that the speaker of the United States House of Representatives owned and operated an illegal still. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
With the absorption of Europe by Russia and the British Empire by the United States, two of the three existing powers, Eurasia and Oceania, were already effectively in being. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
As the year 1919 began, the United States was a nation filled with a spirit of relief and hope for the future. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
It fell to me to fly to Washington, D.C., to address the United States Department of the Interior Committee on National Historic Landmarks. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
On the highway, trucks hiss their brakes, stopping at the border before entering the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Alexis de Tocqueville is famous for his seminal book Democracy in America, but what is less well known is his original purpose in coming to the United States. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
These God-fearing Calvinists formed a wall of colonization for the new United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
Fischer had not only retained his title as United States Champion, he’d accomplished something unprecedented: For the third year in a row, he’d marched to the title without being defeated in any of the pairings. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
President Truman was on a ship back to the United States, eating lunch with the crew. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
If things got worse in Europe, philanthropic spending would grind to a halt in the United States; even if the war clouds dispelled, millions of dollars would shift to Europe for economic reconstruction. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
And the subsequent political history of the United States then became an oscillation between new versions of the old tension, which broke out in violence only on the occasion of the Civil War. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
The consensus outside Virginia seemed to be that “not one person in a thousand in the United States knows that there is such a place on earth,” and those few who did were all Indians. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Fuchs was doing interesting calculations, but the real action was taking place in the United States. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
At last, they asked the United States Customs Bureau for help. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Then I pulled up the United States Citizen Registry database and attempted to log in. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z
But the point was brutally clear: the United States could not win this kind of war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
It was now official; I was one of the top four women’s saber fencers in the entire United States, earning me a spot on my first national team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
These stations, with funding from South Korea, the United States, and Japan, mix Asian and world news with sharply critical coverage of North Korea and the Kim dynasty. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
My mother came to the United States at the age of three. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
He says his mother has gone to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
The thought of losing Lucinda to the United States of America, hard as she sometimes is on me, is too sad to think about. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
There are twenty-five major wet mills in the United States, most of them owned by two corporations, Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
The shopkeeper nodded, gazed at the fine hat, and said, “It can be arranged, muchachos. Do you have someone to go to in the United States?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
“I don’t want the United States to have to put troops there,” he said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
These events and achievements are historically significant because they shaped the subsequent history of the United States, including our own time. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
We were probably sending out so much demigod aura that every monster in the northeastern United States knew we were here. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z
But she had never told him that she wanted to come to the United States. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
To test his theory, Ames prepared a document with the names of two Soviet intelligence officers who had approached the CIA to work as double agents for the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
What officer is designated by the Constitution to be president of the Senate of the United States? Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
This has brought me into conflict with the people who back any recommendations by the United States Department of Agriculture but I have the facts and will stick with them.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Song was the executive director of Liberty in North Korea, the human rights group that had helped bring him to the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
For the third time in the century, the United States found itself trailing technologically during a period of rising international tension. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
In return, Hitler declared war on the United States. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
Eventually, Herbert found a permanent job as a janitor with the United States Radium Corporation in downtown New York. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
She could not get work anywhere in the United States and would be deported to England as soon as the paperwork was finished. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
When my grandparents moved to the United States, their first priority was to save enough money to buy this house on Paulding Avenue. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
There is—there will be—no quick, easy way for Shin to adapt to life outside the fence, whether in the United States or in South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
What Alexander’s work suggests is that the way in which education has been discussed in the United States is backwards. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
Just imagine the sequence Herons live in the northern United States; similarly, herons live in most of Canada. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
Like Japan, which exports consumer electronics and imports beef from the United States and wheat from Australia, Chichen Itza apparently traded its way through the drought. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
That is not to suggest that the nearly five million Mexicans who, like Peralta, are living in the United States illegally will never emerge from the shadows. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
After they embraced, she asked him how he had managed to get back into the United States. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
Most of the year he traveled throughout the United States and Europe while Frank and his mom stayed home. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
On the first form, I answer several variations on the questions of whether I’m a communist, a criminal, or a terrorist and whether I would take up arms to defend the United States. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z
In the United States as in Europe, many of Darwin’s most ardent backers were successful tradespeople whose hobby was butterfly or beetle collecting. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
Again, the United States faced the possibility of a communist Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Would the United States be more likely to use atomic bombs, knowing no one else could strike back? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
They get an express passport with “Gogol Ganguli” typed across the United States of America seal, Ashoke signing on his son’s behalf. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
In the large brick building in Tegucigalpa, young women sit in rows behind sewing machines, furiously stitching medical scrubs for export to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
The Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States echoed the Declaration of Sentiments, written almost thirty years before, but it did not include the same demands. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
The situation is even worse for the millions more who have illegally entered the United States since 1990. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
The demand angered the United States, the largest aid donor, and it frustrated the monitoring techniques that the U.N. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
One cannot just introduce good institutions to poor countries like Paraguay and Mali and expect those countries to adopt the institutions and achieve the per-capita GNPs of the United States and Switzerland. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Here in the United States, notwithstanding those few ‘good’ white people, it is the collective 150 million white people whom the collective 22 million black people have to deal with! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
The races—in Greece, Italy, the United States—kept him away too long. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
This is probably expensive; he knows that collect calls to the United States from back home in Honduras cost several dollars a minute. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
A month after joining the United States Navy, Milton found himself stationed at Coronado naval base in San Diego. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
By the time he sailed back to the United States, his fondness for the Filipino people had intensified. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
He simply wasn’t sure that the United States had the military strength to take on so many formidable foes. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
Eventually his efforts led to the introduction of the Clean Air Act of 1970 and finally to the removal from sale of all leaded gasoline in the United States in 1986. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
Viking mission, which had been informally scheduled to set one of its two descent craft gently down on the Martian surface on the Bicentennial of the United States, July 4, 1976. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Everyone in California, the United States, on Earth, breathes in dramatically. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z
The United States' brief monopoly on the world's most powerful weapon came to a sudden, shocking end. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Khrushchev's public speeches only made matters worse; he taunted the United States, saying that Russia was "turning out missiles like sausages!" Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Eventually, the three women were able to bring their children to the United States, some legally, others with smugglers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
I could never be president of the United States. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Stanton argued that his response proved her point, demonstrating that men had “run this government for one hundred years without consulting the women of the United States.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
First, all around the United States, then up to Canada and down to Mexico. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the United States, the Army’s Eighty-second Airborne Division went on alert and prepared to evacuate the Americans by air as soon as the first Ebola cases started popping up in the city. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was a long, thin strip of land lying between the United States and Aztlan. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Consider the recent history of homelessness in the United States. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
The MS control the tops of freight trains operating north of the Rio Suchiate, where many migrants going to the United States begin their trek through Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
And, as it turned out, the Soviet codebook first captured in Finland finally found its way to the United States—to the desk of Meredith Gardner. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Within four days, their ranks had swelled to more than 365,000, the largest walkout that had ever taken place in the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
But I’m from Puerto Rico, and Puerto Rico is part of the United States of America too, so Spanish should be American, right? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z
There are roughly 1.5 million abortions in the United States every year. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
Given the number of handguns in the United States and the number of homicides each year, the likelihood that a particular gun was used to kill someone that year is 1 in 10,000. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
Write the preamble of the Constitution of the United States. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
United States established precedent for relocation of citizens during times of war. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
The global balance of terror, pioneered by the United States and the Soviet Union, holds hostage the citizens of the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
“This is the President of the United States speaking,” Bigger said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
Langley was one of the United States’ most powerful offensive weapons—a secret weapon, or nearly secret, hidden in plain sight in a small southern town. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
In the fall of 1959, seeking to ease tensions with his rival, Eisenhower invited Khrushchev to make the first-ever visit by a Soviet leader to the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Actually I’m not even sure there are chimpanzees anywhere in the United States, except for zoos. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z
Today, Jarvious Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon and is currently on parole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
There were thousands of children like them scattered throughout prisons in the United States—children who had been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole or other extreme sentences. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
I thought it was funny as I looked around and noticed we were all wearing our nightgowns and pajamas to greet the messengers from the President of the United States. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Eleven years before, he tells the townspeople, his mother left home in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, to work in the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
So German agents funneled money to Indian immigrants in the United States, who used it to fund a revolt in their home country. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
The United States and Oman had just completed negotiations on a free-trade agreement to eliminate tariffs and trade barriers between the two nations. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z
As soon as Team USA put out a press release announcing me as the first United States athlete in hijab to qualify for the Olympic Games, the phone didn’t stop ringing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
If the United States canceled the tests, it would lose technological ground to the Soviets; if it staged them, the nation would “lose the confidence of the Free World as the champion of peace.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
In these respects the United States is a thoroughly “normal” country. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Libya—Mu’ammar Gadhafi was attempting to ingratiate himself with the United States and couldn’t take the chance of antagonizing President Bush. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Indigenous nations did not consent to a basic assumption of the Treaty of Paris: that they and their homelands were part of this “United States.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
I started a campaign of phone calls and e-mails to get my mother to come to join me in the United States. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
In his next five games, Bobby won three and drew two; one of the draws was with twentyseven-year-old Arthur Bisguier, the defending United States Open Champion and one of the strongest players in the nation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
How could he be president of the United States if he was only second in his class? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
In the United States you are innocent until they prove you guilty. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
The third party he presumed responsible was the United States government. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Was it an Illegal trying to the reach the United States? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Roaring Twenties stood at the tail end of a historic surge of immigration to the United States. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
By the time I closed myself into a church bathroom stall, news of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus had reached the United States. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
It seemed the United States was on the move. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
“Every ten years the United States government collects data to find out who is living in the US. The census takers ask questions about age, sex, and race, to see how the country is changing.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z
When I watched, I looked at their hems cut so short and their necklines so low, I wondered if there was a clothing shortage in the United States. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
That night, as the sun sets, Enrique stares across the Rio Grande and gazes at the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
A Bosnian woman living in L.A. sponsored Tony’s trip to the United States to have his jaw reconstructed. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
On the other hand, Dr. Wayland Hayes of the United States Public Health Service contends that in every individual a point of equilibrium is reached, and that DDT in excess of this amount is excreted. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
We had poverty in the United States, though I had never really seen it up close. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
After World War II, a “cold war” had begun between the democratic United States and the Communist Soviet Union. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
I wanted to go to the United States of America, but my uncle was big and strong, so he pried me away with little difficulty. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
Even within the United States, the fate of those principles was still problematic. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Second, the reports Adams was receiving from John Quincy in Prussia, based on his network of contacts in Paris and Amsterdam, provided fresh evidence that Talleyrand was now eager for peace with the United States. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
In 1945, for instance, AT&T began introducing a kind-of mobile phone service, derived from military radio technology, in a few metropolitan markets in the United States. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
Rosaleen came home, a bona fide registered voter in the United States of America. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
The United States’ entry into World War I, however, put a temporary halt to those demands. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
Burger reminded him that they hadn't done anything against the United States, and by going to the FBI, they were doing everything in their power to prevent the men from committing any acts of sabotage. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
The Diaries describe a violent Aryan revolution in the United States that overthrows the government and seeks to take over the world. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
I read that they are happening everywhere and how everything is so dangerous in the United States. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z
Samuel P. Huntington, a Harvard professor of government, takes the extreme view that Mexicans will not assimilate and that the separate culture they are developing threatens the United States. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
It was illegal in the United States to just not go to school—wasn't it the same in Zimbabwe? I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
It read “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
“Tam Lin says you’re to stay put for now. He’s going to spread a rumor that you’ve taken a Safe Horse north to the United States. He says that should keep the Farm Patrol busy.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
"The Woman Question. My pamphlet, 'On the Woman Question in the United States,' will be your guide. And now, Brothers," he said, his eyes sweeping around the table, "the meeting is adjourned." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
Still, Mariel was the most decorated fencer in United States history for a reason, so I knew she wouldn’t go down without a fight. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
You’d have thought he was the President of the United States or something. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z
Nothing and no one— not even the president of the United States—would thwart * James Hood left the university after only two months, wanting to avoid a breakdown. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
At the meeting, Woodhull established the Equal Rights Party, which then nominated her as its candidate for president of the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
Vanguard was the United States’s International Geophysical Year satellite program, and von Braun, since he worked for the Army, was somehow too tainted by that association to make the first American try for orbit. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
I received a surprising call one day from the Swedish Ambassador to the United States, who told me that EJI had been selected for the Olof Palme International Human Rights Award. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
Of these, five became well established in the eastern United States. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
This is the way the roundup works, and it works this way in virtually every major city in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Because Mia and I had both arrived in the United States sick, we spent a lot of time in the doctor’s office, where we were stuck with needles many times. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z
In 2000, the family received word that they had been accepted for relocation to the United States and a place called Georgia. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
Throughout all the colonies and most of the early United States, one of the most common drinks was hard cider made from fermented apples. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
March 5: A. Mitchell Palmer becomes attorney general of the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
“We have to find some papers of a great traitor to the United States.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
They continued to maintain that Bobby would be deported back to the United States once the legal proceedings were concluded. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
“A few people, I guess. It’s dangerous, with cliffs and things. Why, I’ve read there’s more unexplored country in the mountains of Monterey County than any place in the United States.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z
As a result, the United States rigidly enforced its refugee quotas. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
The preparatory steps are now under way, both in the United States and in the Soviet Union. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Suddenly, seven million children-—children who had existed only as phantom exemptions on the previous year’s 1040 forms—vanished, representing about one in ten of all dependent children in the United States. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
In 2015, after American women soldiers stationed in Afghanistan complained that the army still did not provide boots in women’s sizes, the United States Congress suggested it might be time for a more up-to-date policy. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
The Bushis were grateful when they learned they had been granted asylum by the United States, but the news was bittersweet. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
She was a strong fencer and had been ranked as high as number seven in the world and number four in the United States. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Call it sentimental, but the twentieth- century Broadway musical was created by Jewish men and women whose families had - almost universally - been offered a lifeline of opportunity via immigration from Europe to the United States. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z
That’s a mere drop in the bucket, compared to the number of texts sent—six billion in the United States each day. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
Shipman, who was rated among the top twenty players in the United States, grasped the boy’s potential. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
He had big news: Richard Holbrooke, a special ambassador from the United States, would be holding a meeting in Islamabad, and we were invited. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
It looks exactly like Learn About the United States, my mom’s citizenship study guide. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
“Before the United States entered World War Two, there were a bunch of American pilots in China. They were called the Flying Tigers. They flew those planes with the shark teeth on the nose.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z
He remarked that this type of virus had never been seen before in the United States, and it was right outside Washington. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the case of where herons live, most readers know that the northern United States is contiguous to Canada and that the two have similar ecosystems, so they don’t need a similarly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
But Coyotito—he was the one—he wore a blue sailor suit from the United States and a little yachting cap such as Kino had seen once when a pleasure boat put into the estuary. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z
Jacobs was forever predicting the imminent collapse of the United States government. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
It turned out that the Soviet team would be playing for the first time on United States soil. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
One of the conditions of their release was that they were never allowed to return to the United States. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
Fearing a first-strike nuclear attack by the United States, the Soviet Union resolved not to let its guard down. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Burger described him as being in a relentless "state of fear throughout our entire trip to the United States." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
That ambivalence was most clearly embodied by the President of the United States, Dwight Eisenhower. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
The very first time Alex pulled up to Pennsylvania Avenue as the First Son of the United States, he almost fell into a bush. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
On this day Arkansas Governor Billy Clinton, who in less than six years will be President of the United States, greets us warmly with a welcoming smile as he extends his hand. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The first point was to free Puerto Rico from the United States. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z
Indigenous fighters went to a British garrison in Canada to obtain weapons and supplies, and Tecumseh called for a unified and coordinated Indigenous-led war on the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
He lost the election, to nobody’s surprise save his own, but immediately launched another political campaign, this time for the presidency of the United States. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
Before the advent of blind auditions, the percentage of women in major symphony orchestras in the United States was less than 5 percent. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z
The United States became North Korea’s largest aid donor while remaining its most demonized enemy. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
He committed the United States to vanquishing the dictators who would deprive others of their freedom. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
They were stunned to see that the Twenty- fifth contained black soldiers from a new branch of the army known as the USCT—the United States Colored Troops. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
Like gymnastics, or track and field, fencing is still an individual sport, so even though I had qualified for the United States National Team, I would fence both the individual and team events during competitions. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
The complete set comprises the most comprehensive account of the United States ever got together, and nothing since has even approached it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
Migrants describe being locked up by police officers until a relative in the United States can wire the kidnapper’s fee and buy their freedom. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
This has been observed not only in the United States but in the far northern parts of Sweden and Finland, where the diet is ordinarily deficient in vitamins. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
They did not accuse him of plotting against the United States. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
Maria Isabel wouldn’t be the first in her family to go to the United States and leave children behind. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Hanako, surprised, said, “Well, I know Japan lost and the United States won.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
Then one of them shook our hands and said, “Welcome to the United States of America,” and pointed us out of Immigration. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
The United States and some other countries, as well as the United Nations, were attempting to isolate Serbia because of its sponsorship of violence against Muslims and other minorities. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
He remembers when she would call Honduras from the United States, the concern in her voice, how she would not hang up before saying, “I love you. I miss you.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Someday her family would leave the United States, the country her mother and she and her brother had been born in, and move overseas to the mixed-up country her father had been born in. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
I knew I was unique for being the first potential Olympic athlete to represent the United States wearing a hijab, but I didn’t know if it warranted the level of attention it brought me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Two factors make the situation especially dire in the United States. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
The craft union officials also sought the help of the president of the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
“Every man and woman in the United States will be asked to purchase war savings stamps,” I set the paper down. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z
There was so much else I wanted to tell him about the United States, and to learn about Zimbabwe. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
Indeed, GE over the years has frequently transferred Indian engineers who worked for it in the United States back to India to integrate its whole global research effort. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z
In 1992, the year before Walter’s release, thirty-eight people were executed in the United States. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
If you set it down on top of the United States, it would cover not quite half the lower forty-eight states. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
“What United States Navy ship was once captured by the North Koreans?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z
A protest movement immediately flared up on campuses across the United States. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
He wanted a full scholarship to Georgetown and summer internships with United States senators. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
If that is true, I wondered, then what do the courts matter—even the United States Supreme Court? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
At first, I was surprised that the paper would report the bad things that happened in the United States and that there were even stories that directly criticized President Kennedy. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z
But the United States, for all its wealth, leaves its citizens to fend for themselves—facing market-based rents, for example, on their wages alone. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
The United States of America has been Balkanized, has been divided into twenty petty nations so that it will never again be a threat to world peace. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
In reality, the United States wasn’t as gullible as it had been portrayed. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
And as the United States’ first athlete to compete at the games in hijab, I received a lot of additional media requests for interviews by myself. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Dasch reasoned that if he called the FBI and turned himself in, he would be a hero to the American people for stopping Hitler's secret attack on the United States. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
She wants to go to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Of forty-eight children in her class, thirty-six had a parent in the United States, most often a mother. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
The Manson impact was the biggest thing that has ever occurred on the mainland United States. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
The United States embraced democracy, while the Soviet Union was ruled by communism. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
One surprising finding about mobility is that it is not higher in the United States than in Britain or France. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
“It shouldn’t be said that the president of the United States died in a saloon.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
“That’s too bad. Boxing, that’s one good way for a kid to get ahead. Joining the United States Army or Navy is another.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
The United States was siding with West Pakistan, the Soviet Union with India and what was soon to be Bangladesh. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
As an analyst for the Rand Corporation, a think tank focused on military and international issues, he had been granted permission to conduct research at the Pentagon, home of the United States Department of Defense. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
After this ten-minute conversation, Bobby said he was going to play “no matter what,” and that the interests of the United States were greater than his personal interests. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Some countries, like the United States, had strict immigration quotas. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z
I was going to be on the United States Olympic Team in the 2016 summer games. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Dozens of cities in the United States are now following suit, pledging to use 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 or sooner. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
The Bolsheviks also made it clear that one of their main goals was to spread Communism throughout the world, including the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
The Chinese ambassador to the United States attended, along with prominent government officials and civil rights leaders. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z
In Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the United States had routed the forces of Saddam Hussein in Kuwait. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z
There are important differences, to be sure, among mass incarceration, Jim Crow, and slavery—the three major racialized systems of control adopted in the United States to date. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Thousands of copies changed hands across the United States on the first day, and countries around the world reported similar sales. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
All of my father’s brothers and sisters are scattered across the United States—Texas, Los Angeles, North Carolina, and Chicago. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
With someone from the United States embassy living next door, the SIM might not bother us anymore. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
The point, in fact, was to be unsubtle—to send a clear message to the world that nobody could harm the president of the United States. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Perhaps as a result, a child’s economic background is a better predictor of school performance in the United States than in Denmark, the Netherlands, or France, one study found. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
The United States demanded Diem remove his brother from power, and laid out the consequences if he did not. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
Those with broader ambitions had to somehow find their way into a private school, and from there to a university in the United States or England. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
He said again that he thought of himself as the best Japanese chess player in the whole United States. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z
“This is the United States of America,” he said. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z
It would have many more contestants, including some of the best players in the United States and Canada. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Ever since Reagan's election, the United States and the Soviet Union had been moving further apart, not closer together. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
This design was thought too similar to the United States flag and on May 1, 1863, a second design, nicknamed the Stainless Banner, was authorized. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
If Bobby had any trepidation about permanently severing his relationship with the United States, there was no evidence of it in the renunciation he wrote. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
I didn’t explain to them that no Iranian had yet committed an act of terror in the United States, nor had Iran invaded any other country in an unjust war. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z
No other country in the world disenfranchises people who are released from prison in a manner even remotely resembling the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
The Soviet Union and the United States were allies in World War II. But that’s because they were fighting common enemies—not because they liked each other. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
The older you are, the younger you get when you move to the United States. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
The British ambassador registered a protest, the American Embassy in Paris was stoned, and Canada sued the United States for over $386,000. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Sam talked on and on about how excited he was to be going back to the United States. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
Tensions between slaveholders and abolitionists kept growing, and by mid-January 1861, five slaveholding states—South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, and Georgia—had seceded from the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
The sugar story in the United States centered on Louisiana—though even supposedly free states like New York made fortunes in transporting and selling sugar grown by slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z
As the stock market crashed and the United States tumbled into the Great Depression, she was sent to Houston to help with a court case. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
The War Department, which oversaw the United States Army, realized it had a problem. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
While he exhibited flashes of brilliance, this wasn’t the same Bobby Fischer who’d swept through the United States Championship eighteen months earlier. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
“Generally,” he finally said, “it is neither wise nor prudent to mouth off to a junior high school teacher. Especially to one who has been a sergeant in the United States Army.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
Tipped by colored turncoats, the white enforcers organized elaborate ambushes, decimating the insurgents with gunfire and running them down on horseback, reinforced by the might of the United States Army. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
Legal documents in the United States only recognize “male” and “female” as genders, leaving anyone who does not identify as one of these two genders with no option. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
He wanted students to understand why it was vital for the United States to fight in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
According to the CIA, the bombing campaign was costing the United States nine dollars and sixty cents for every one dollar of damage inflicted on North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Gage prepared a speech titled “The United States on Trial, Not Susan B. Anthony,” which she presented to sixteen groups. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
When the women's movement hit the United States—along with the Civil Rights Act, which prohibited discrimination based on race or gender—things started to change. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
The two of them will journey to the United States together. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Across the United States, it caused fresh demonstrations, infuriating Nixon. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
Even the highly regarded Literary Digest got caught up in the panic, warning its readers that, “Outside of Russia, the storm center of Bolshevism is in the United States.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
Momma, I do believe that the manners and etiquette taught at Miss Preston's may be some of the best instruction in the whole state of Maryland, if not all of the United States. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
So I pledge to you, we shall have order in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Preschool in three cultures—Japan, China, and the United States. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
Or about how Zimbabwe was not the United States. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
“Now you’re misquoting the Bible phrase that became the first Morse code message transmitted in the United States on May twenty-fourth, 1844!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z
The thing to do was to be prepared—as my grandfather had been when it was demanded that he quote the entire United States Constitution as a test of his fitness to vote. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
Because the phone call in the office was from the United States Army. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z
Consider: The United States has been instrumental in the overthrow of truly genocidal dictatorships. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
I had made my first national team and would be representing the United States of America at the World Fencing Championships. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
Hitler responded by declaring war on the United States. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
It infuriated me that two people who loved each other as much as they did had to split up in the eyes of the law, just so they could remain in the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
One was the conviction of the stocky, beetle-browed Hungarian physicist that the lethargic pace of thermonuclear research had placed the United States at the mercy of the Soviet Union. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
No one as young as Bobby had won the United States Open before, and no one had ever held the United States Junior and Open titles concurrently. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
When we in the United States think of the most populous New World societies existing in 1492, only those of the Aztecs and the Incas tend to come to our minds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
The same moralistic dichotomy that Jefferson saw inside the United States between discernible heroes and villains, he also projected into the international arena. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Nearly a decade would pass before the United States regained the know-how or the will to launch espionage operations on Russian soil. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
America will continue to be divided into a North and a South, a United States of America and a Confederate States of America. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
When she was about sixty-eight years old, Brave Orchid took a day off to wait at San Francisco International Airport for the plane that was bringing her sister to the United States. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
Every so often Mami received a letter from her with a money order, or a package with the clothes my cousins in the United States had outgrown. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z
Supposedly this Devil One person was going to get one million dollars from the United States to pay soldiers to do that, go against the very person they all just elected. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Food aid from the United States, Japan, South Korea, and other donors mitigated the worst of the famine by the late 1990s. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
It was a requirement, Guo Ming noted to himself, that did not apply to the United States. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
During the first half of the twentieth century, the incidence of violent crime in the United States was, for the most part, fairly steady. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
As the train starts, Enrique shares his cheese, soda, and rolls with two other boys, also headed for the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
In 1939, the United States and other foreign countries closed their doors to Jewish refugees. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
In search of a better life, the Friedmans moved to the United States when Wolfe was still a baby. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
It could conceivably determine the future of the Rosen Association, here in the United States, in Russia, and on Mars. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z
Hoover incorrectly believed both the peace movement and the civil rights movement were Communist attempts to take over the entire United States. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
In 1794, Washington had sent Chief Justice John Jay to London to negotiate a realistic bargain that avoided a war with England at a time when the United States was ill prepared to fight one. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
More often one can see only the outlines of history, as in the reconfiguration of the eastern half of the United States. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
Papi always says that we need a government that will give these children a chance, like the one the United States has. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
She won the United States Feminine Aerobatic Championship three years in a row. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
At that time in the United States, Lombardy was in ability only slightly behind Fischer himself. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Fears of interracial sex and marriage have deep roots in the United States. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
The United States Department of Agriculture would doubtless answer that it has advised farmers to keep milk cows out of treated pastures for 30 to 90 days. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
They chose the United States because they'd already lived there for a period of time, while my dad was in college. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
I began to tell her about my past, stories I had told no one else since arriving in the United States. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
It was a pattern that would repeat itself in cities throughout the United States, as black communities found themselves embroiled in deep conflict over goals and strategies pursued by the black elite. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Offered in a year in which the average per capita income in the United States was $432, Strub’s purse caused a national sensation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
The people of the United States know, as I know, that that is just plain hooey. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Technically I wouldn’t be earning a salary—instead I received a training stipend from USA Fencing, the official organizing body of fencing in the United States. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
What amendment would you make to the Constitution if you were President of the United States? The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z
And in the United States, my team and I had helped more young people sign up for federal student aid, supported school counselors, and elevated College Signing Day to a national level. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Thousands of miles across the Atlantic, the United States was still trying hard to stay out of the war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
In the United States, football and basketball don’t select, stream, and differentiate quite as dramatically. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
Unlike previous treaties, these would be ratified by the new Congress of the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
On the plane back to the United States, Salva replayed in his mind every moment of his visit with his father. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
As a prisoner of war, he was sent first to the United States and then to England. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
Liyana’s eyes fell upon a small, shapely green lamp, exactly the color of the green grass she missed back home in the United States—who ever thought about grass when you had it? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
She had performed before appreciative audiences in concert halls across the United States. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z
The other people he knows are doing well in the United States. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
Initiated in the United States, the program was intended to stop the Viet Cong who infiltrated farming villages at night and forced villagers to side with the Communists. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
Poverty existed in the United States, but even most of the poorest people had access to food. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
He was also happy to learn that Regina had passed the examination that would allow her to practice medicine in the United States, and he was hoping that she would consider moving back from Europe. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Boats arrived from Canada and from points around the United States, bringing in goods of all kinds. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
The United States and Soviet Union had never been friendly, and nothing had really changed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
El Tirindaro is a subspecies of coyote known as a patero, because he smuggles people into the United States by pushing them across the river on inner tubes while paddling like a pato, or duck. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
About six percent of the country’s gross domestic product is spent on education, more than double the percentage of comparable spending in the United States, Japan, or Britain. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
And every drug war that has ever been waged in the United States—including alcohol prohibition—has been tainted or driven by racial bias. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
In February, they shared the message with the United States. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
In the early nineteenth century, a group of reformers set out to establish a system of public education in the United States. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
Now, by offering Booth his hospitality, he had unknowingly made himself an accomplice in the most shocking crime in all of American history—the murder of the president of the United States! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
“But it wasn’t another country, Daddy. It was the same country. There wasn’t even such a thing as the United States then.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
Shortly thereafter, a New York Times/CBS News Poll reported that 64 percent of those polled—the highest percentage ever recorded—now thought that drugs were the most significant problem in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
His ability to live in the United States depended on our ability to live here. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Then he told the crowd that he had already contacted the White House for permission to fly the United States flag at half-staff for a period of mourning. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
Anyhow, that last day on the Island, we were in our side-by-side bedrooms, the four girls, setting out our clothes for going to the United States. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
Then the United States intercepted a sudden burst of Purple messages. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
After his election to the White House, President Trump limited the influx of refugees, increased immigration arrests, and pressed to build a wall along the United States’ border with Mexico. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
Not even Papi was the first Puerto Rican president of the United States. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
The significance of Tuve’s claim was not lost on any physicist who recalled Marie Curie’s 1921 voyage to the United States for her single gram of radium, valued at $100,000. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
These stories showed her exactly what the new law meant to runaway slaves living anywhere in the United States, and that, of course, included her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
Joan had been collecting Regina’s checks and then banking them for her so that she’d have a small nest egg when she returned to the United States. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
In late 1941, as the United States teetered on the edge of joining World War II, code breakers were in huge demand—especially top talent like Elizebeth. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Washington is the capital of the United States of America, or 1 centimetre equals approximately 0.39 inches. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Mexicans along the border, he notices, are quick to proclaim their right to immigrate to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
When people are released from Illinois prisons, they are given as little as $10 in “gate money” and a bus ticket to anywhere in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Everyone at the foundation, including me, was waiting for Candace to qualify for the United States National Team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
In fact, law and order rhetoric—first employed by segregationists—would eventually contribute to a major realignment of political parties in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
They were addressed to government officials: the attorney general and the secretary of labor of the United States; a Supreme Court justice; and two of the nation’s leading financiers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
I haven’t seen her reading the Learn About the United States booklet in months. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
The subjects were the same as at a good high school in the United States, although the curriculum was different. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
The hub of code breaking in the United States was a tiny office in Arlington Hall, formerly a private school for girls in Virginia, not far from Washington, DC. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
We decided to publish a report to draw attention to the plight of children in the United States who had been sentenced to die in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
No one stood between him and the president of the United States! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
The United States provided massive amounts of aid to reconstruct West Germany and to assist other war-devastated countries. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
But among intelligence circles, Riverbank was becoming famous, not only in the United States, but also farther afield. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Anderson and Witzke no longer had the crater that killed the dinosaurs, "but we still had the largest and most perfectly preserved impact crater in the mainland United States," Anderson said. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
“Do you have a mom or dad in the United States?” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which runs the United States planetary space program, is subject to frequent and unpredictable budget cuts. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
While the United States is on the Gregorian calendar, Iran uses the Solar Hijri calendar. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
By the end of the Olympics, the Soviet Union, which had fielded one of the strongest teams ever, came in first and the United States eased into second. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Cherrie not only respected Roosevelt as the former president of the United States, but he genuinely cared about him, like a brother. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z
For well over a decade, his spies had been infiltrating the United States, burrowing their way into private companies, schools, laboratories, and even government offices. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Her Pakistani accent is thick, even though she’s lived in the United States for almost three decades. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
I had been preoccupied with getting us to the United States because I wanted it to make her whole again. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
In the United States, the only way to enforce research ethics was in the civil courts. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
A lot of those people were suffering from asthma, because Chicago has one of the worst asthma problems in the United States. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z
The fat samples were taken from people who had left their native villages to enter the United States Public Health Service Hospital in Anchorage for surgery. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
He’s been stalling, too: he wants to learn English and get his vices totally under control before bringing her to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
Nearly one-third of young black men in the United States today are out of work. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Five years after my family moved to America, we had a major milestone: We were allowed to apply for United States citizenship. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
The Confederate states chose to secede from the United States rather than let the federal government, led by Lincoln, limit slavery. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
This book takes the view that settler colonialism was key to building the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
Growing up in the United States meant we, unlike our parents, had the privilege of exploring what, if anything, we were passionate about. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Once a lonely outpost, Sing Sing now occupies fifty-five acres of prime real estate in suburban Westchester, one of the priciest counties in the United States. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
When my grandparents moved to the United States, in the 1950s, the South Bronx had already begun its transformation from a majority Jewish borough to one dominated by blacks and Latinos. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
The founding document of the United States proclaims all men to be created equal. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
I was two when we moved to the United States, and at the age of twenty-six, I was finally an American citizen. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
I studied the bright illustrations and learned the words for the unfamiliar objects of our new life in the United States: A for Apple, B for Bear, C for Cabbage. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z
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