Instead, a recording came on the line, saying, “This is a collect call from an inmate at the Massachusetts State Penitentiary...,” before another person chimed in. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

The scene in the Tennessee State Capitol as the clerk tallied the votes on the suffrage question. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

Class is a potent force in health and longevity in the United States. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

Is this what school was like in the United States? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, very few people showed up to support the State. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Soraya joined me at San Jose State the following year and enrolled, to her father’s chagrin, in the teaching track. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He intended these items to go to the State Department’s library. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

The forty-piece Iowa State Marching Band already had boarded one of the cars and now played “My Country ’Tis of Thee.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

Dedicated her life so fully, in fact, that when my dad’s work in Congo ended and he had to go back to the States, she’d stayed on and they’d divorced. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“During your sojourn in the United States did you ever come across the deceased?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

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

We’ve had running water longer than the United States has existed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

After graduate work at Penn State and the University of Chicago, he was hired as a Harvard professor at age twenty-five. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer complained that Secretary of State Byrnes didn’t seem to understand the implications of the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“The Empire State Building has been the location of dozens of movies, the reception site of foreign dignitaries, and even had a World War Two bomber crash into the seventy-ninth floor in 1945.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I said, bonding with the new girl over our Buckeye State connection. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

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

She absorbs everything she can about Mexico and about Mexicans in the United States. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He moved his business to larger towns, first in Massachusetts, then in New York State, always looking for the best market. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

The United States had intervened so many times without making lasting, positive changes. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

They started a blog called 50 Homes in 50 States and chronicled their moving adventures. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

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

Earlier, the Klavern had been upset by the shocking news that Secretary of State Dean Rusk’s daughter had married a black man. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

This map shows the boundaries of the original homelands of the Cherokee Nation, which included large parts of what are currently several states of the southeastern United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Before my despair could deepen, the OIC started calling the pro-gram runs over the PA system—chapel run, school run, commissary run, State Shop run. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Exhibit A, star of the show. Can’t have you run down by one of these motorized Chicago cowboys or mugged and rolled on State Street?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

As far as I knew, there were only a hundred and two floors in the Empire State Building, but I decided not to point that out. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

From there he attended Alabama State Teachers College in Montgomery and earned his bachelor of science degree. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

He convinced C.P. to sign on as a state organizer for the National States’ Rights Party, but the busy EC had no time to recruit members for the neo-Nazi group. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

During the Depression, he had served as an official in the New Deal's Agricultural Adjustment Administration, and he later moved on to a senior post at the US State Department. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

For that, my father came back to the United States and died. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

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

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

The trick in killing Secretary of State Seward, Booth reminds Powell, isn’t the actual murder. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

The older you are, the younger you get when you move to the United States. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t going to go to Alabama State College, where they taught you how to teach school but didn’t teach you how to get your freedom. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

There she would meet the North Star, the ship that brings supplies from the States to the towns on the Arctic Ocean in August when the ice pack breaks up. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

It is nearly the last significant undammed river in the United States. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“We kept getting different stories from the State Department. Somebody said your appendix ruptured. Somebody else said it was a bar fight.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

In 1999, she began serving in the State Duma, Russia's parliament, which is similar to the US House of Representatives. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

The first thing she saw was one of the books they’d been searching for all day long: True Crime Ohio: The Buckeye State’s Most Notorious Brigands, Burglars, and Bandits by Clare Taylor-Winters. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The United States embraced democracy, while the Soviet Union was ruled by communism. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

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 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

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

She grew up in Montgomery and went to Alabama State College, but she had a master’s degree in education from Columbia University in New York City. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

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

When I returned to the States, I interned in Washington, D.C., focusing on homeland security issues. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We flew southeast, over the dry, flat plains of the Orange Free State and the green and mountainous Cape peninsula. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the United States they include major corporations famous for their homey domestic manufactures. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even within the United States, the fate of those principles was still problematic. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

State and county officials are under no compulsion to follow the federal pesticides tolerances unless local laws happen to conform — and they seldom do. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

United States established precedent for relocation of citizens during times of war. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

While I was driving back to Johannesburg, the Free State scenery did not have quite the same elevating effect on me as before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The effects are felt throughout the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“In the future, the defendant should be designated by the name under which the indictment was drawn. Mr. Max, I think you should allow the State’s Attorney to continue.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I began in Natal in November, and then went to the PWV area, the northern Transvaal, and the Orange Free State. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

"Here's how. I rather think so, you know. Deserves to be, anyhow. Knows hell's own amount about people. Don't know where he got it all. Owns a chain of sweetshops in the States." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

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

So, in May 1956, he placed an ad in the Ohio State Penitentiary newsletter: Physician seeks 25 volunteers for cancer research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

Mami had a maid from the Island who lived with us in the States. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

"State religion and imperial ideology,” Kolata argued, "performed much the same work as military conquest, but at significantly lower cost.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

Japan and the United States declare war on North Korea. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The summer I turned twelve, Dad and I took a shuttle from Santa Fe to Rockhound State Park, which was exactly what its name suggested, and also Dad’s version of heaven. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

Black children today can even dream of being president of the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

During the most recent hearing in Baldwin County the State's local supporters walked out of the courtroom rather than hear the evidence that supported Walter's innocence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After a month or two, my dad returned to the States, and my mom and I settled into life in Congo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We traverse fields and forests, walk through barren lands where quails and woodcocks fly up at our feet, and, after twelve miles of bushwhacking, enter the Plattekill State Forest. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

White supremacy was also a significant factor in what happened to Native peoples in what came to be called the United States of America. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

They signed it “From three of your former scientific colleagues during your stay in the United States.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“All right. I’ll take him over to Herman tonight and maybe tomorrow we’ll find out about getting him into the Warren State Home.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, on March 12, the Utah State Senate passed legislation to ban texting and driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The men—it was always only men—were mostly friends of his from college now come to the States on matters of business. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mopping sweat from his face, Buckley said, “The State rests, Your Honor!” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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 gypsy moth, a native of Europe, has been in the United States for nearly a hundred years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

After surviving his tour in Vietnam, he had returned to the States and found work as a newspaper reporter in Chicago. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

States are slaves, looked upon as property, as nothing but property. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Skeeter gone carry a copy up to the State Pen to Yule May. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

The State Bank of Sequim was still afloat but would fail within months. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

The comparable disparity for whites in the United States is 8 percent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Thirty years after the original Mercury broadcast, it happened again in western New York State. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

When he found out that he was going to the United States as a saboteur, he didn't like the idea at all. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Julia took some more pictures at the open doorway before following us into Aberdeen Lake State Penitentiary. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

After graduating from Oklahoma State University as the Flying Aggies' top female pilot, Wally had gotten a job teaching military men how to fly. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

They have sent six of their sons into the United States Army. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the United States you are innocent until they prove you guilty. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It reads, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He says his mother has gone to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

That same year, 1827, Henry Clay, who was still Secretary of State, appealed to the Canadian Government again. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And she got results: the Maryland State Senate sent a resolution on fancy paper, saying, “Be it hereby known to all that The Senate of Maryland offers its sincerest congratulations to Henrietta Lacks.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

We get to the corner of State Street where we usually turn to go to the fish market, but Daddy nods his head in the other direction. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

Then Mr. Keller shape-shifted into Mr. Rodrigo, who pounded an auction gavel, and the dream ended with Mom and me skydiving into Washington State. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

“We’re heading for the First Illinois Bank over on State Street.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Amaka used to write the office of the Head of State, even the Nigerian Ambassador in America, to complain about the poor state of Nigeria’s justice system. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

State the reasons for your preference: She didn’t hesitate. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Now and again, I met other Schindlerjuden in the United States. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

From campus visits to conference keynotes, I was getting invitations from all across the United States. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

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

In every other class at Camillo Junior High, the last half-hour after a day of the New York State Standardized Achievement Tests was Free Reading Time or Snacks or Story Hour or something. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

He no longer had a reason to visit the White House and State Department. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Scott was the new local agent for the Utah State Bureau of Investigation, assigned to the northernmost counties. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He took her decision to stay in the States as a slap in the face. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

It seems just another fair-sized town in the middle—almost the exact middle—of the continental United States. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, over 50 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States have a diagnosed mental illness, a rate nearly five times greater than that of the general adult population. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone at the foundation, including me, was waiting for Candace to qualify for the United States National Team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Many listeners became afraid when they thought that the United States had been invaded. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

But the United States differs from Europe in ways that can gum up the mobility machine. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

State supporters began to leave the courtroom as the day went on, and the number of black people who were let into the room grew. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Among them were suits brought by beekeepers in several areas of New York State. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

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

Khrushchev had masterfully withheld the news until now, expecting that the United States would be caught out in a lie. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was American, so my mother was able to bring our family to the United States. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For my final round of commencements as First Lady, I spoke at Jackson State University in Mississippi, another historically black school, using the opportunity to talk about striving for excellence. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There, the State acknowledged that Seger was an imposter but wouldn't agree that George was entitled to a new trial. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday, April 5, 1892, at 6:50 A.M., a sudden windstorm demolished the fair’s just-finished pumping station and tore down sixty-five feet of the Illinois State Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

What amendment would you make to the Constitution if you were President of the United States? The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

So we spent that day in the cheery grove, with the vivid light of later afternoon falling on the grasses; we spent it bumbling about in the Blissful State of Mammalian Repose. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

Fischer: The United States is based on lies. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

We would love it if she could come to our facility here in Mumbai and give a talk on her experiences being a young Indian-American filmmaker in the States. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After falling apart, turning hysterical, when the officers first told her in the classroom at Utah State, she recovered her outward composure. 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 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

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

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

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

So serious has this situation become that Boston has established the first hospital in the United States devoted exclusively to the treatment of children with cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

The author was Jo Ann Robinson, who had been up all night with two student assistants at Alabama State, feverishly running the flyers off on the college’s mimeograph machine and bundling them into packages. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Then reluctantly I turned and headed back toward the Empire State Building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“The State may call its witnesses,” the judge said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

“A long time ago, the United States government—” “The united what?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

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

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

Mr. Lincoln was not a faraway man like General McClellan or Senator Sumner or Secretary of State Seward. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Launching a satellite was something the United States had been working on without much success. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I came to the United States to earn more money for my children. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

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

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 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

“You can see the Empire State Building from here!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“We’re going all the way to State this year if Ben keeps up the good work,” Philip Turner said, sitting directly in front of Ben. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The main space was one huge chamber with a circular rotunda, sort of like a capitol building back in the States. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It’s like Springfield back in the United States: There is one in every province. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Therefore I have told the head of the Transportation Department of the State of New York to work on Bridge 92 at Gilboa until the little family is on wing. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

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 1962, when I had attended the mostly white San Francisco State University for two years, I found myself living among an enclave of students where I was the only person of color. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

"Sickness was the physical manifestation of the will of God," Robert Crease, a philosopher of science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, told me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When he returned to the States, schools all over the country tried to hire him. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

If his plea is simply guilty, then the State demands the death penalty for these black crimes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Because it’s the way the State gets its money.” Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost beyond belief, we really were going to the United States of America! The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Now this is where the stories offered by the boy and the State begin to diverge slightly. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt, the thirty-second President of the United States, had polio. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Technicians could even pick up telephone conversations between US government limousines' car phones and offices in the State Department and the Pentagon. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Here in the United States this treat is called “popcorn.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

This was where the new arrivals had come in to Aberdeen Lake State Penitentiary. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

A farmer in upper New York State painted the word cow in big black letters on both sides of his white bossy, but the hunters shot it anyway. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, DuPont began work on the next stage of the manufacturing cycle: a full-scale production plant located on a bend of the Columbia River in central Washington State, near the little town of Hanford. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Five kids from New York State had been chosen to be honored at this ceremony at the University of Chicago, all based on one math test they had taken at the end of last year. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Kira says, “Well, I’m still in college, actually. This is my last year at Portland State.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There was a line for the Ping-Pong table, so we watched the news from the States. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Even if it didn’t crash, the gods of the air would probably swat it out of the sky for coming near the Empire State Building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“How do we get to the United States?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

He was very cheerful and said the States were wonderful. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It is the contention of the State that no one has the right to deprive us of the precious gift of life. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kansas State University is in Manhattan, and the two girls planned to enroll there as art students, and to room together. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Secretary of State Blaine sent Arthur telegrams every few hours with updates on the president's health. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I am the future of the United States of America. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

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

During a state visit to Washington early in the new year, British prime minister Anthony Eden proposed that the United States and Great Britain unilaterally suspend testing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The judge jumped in with, "Well, it does sound like you're trying to retry the case, Mr. Stevenson, so I'm going to allow the State to keep the crime investigators in the courtroom." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You are a human map of the United States,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

He even told them that he arrived in the United States on a submarine. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Because he was still serving a sentence at Kansas State Penitentiary, and therefore was in danger of retaliation from other inmates, Wells had never been publicly identified as the informer. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

“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

On the wall are topographical maps: the world; the United States; the oceans, Earth, and moon. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

They got back in the truck and drove the few miles to Fort Robinson State Park. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

Mulberry trees were planted all over the United States. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

Shortly before the State of Emergency, Oliver left South Africa on the instructions of the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For those looking for a good time, the State Street “Stroll,” between Twenty-Sixth and Thirty-Ninth Streets, offered a lively place to listen to the jazz greats and exchange the latest gossip. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On June 12,1986, the government imposed a State of Emergency in an attempt to keep a lid on protest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remember, it was the State that proved that the drugstore wasn't clear. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Garfield had intended Secretary of State Blaine to deal with any other pressing government problems that summer during his planned presidential vacation. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

An enormous cyclonic windstorm—a storm that made the previous fall’s windstorm look almost like a spring breeze— slammed into Washington State. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When visitors come from the United States, I draw up little itineraries. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

As they both ate, she asked, “How far is it to the United States?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

She is heading north to find work in the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Back in their adolescent days during summer visits, the four girls used to shock their Island cousins with stories of their escapades in the States. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

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

“All these people, in conjunction with the State Department of Education in Tallahassee, have helped to devise this emergency relocation plan.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never gone to the Empire State Building, though. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

After landing, we grabbed Myron’s car from long-term parking and started up the Garden State Parkway. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“There are churches all across the States, though,” said Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

State bureaucrats are not selected mainly on the basis of kinship, as in chiefdoms, but are professionals selected at least partly on the basis of training and ability. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Supreme Court precedent, that Hooks had charges against him dismissed in exchange for cooperation with authorities was information that the State was obligated to reveal to the defense. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

Unlike in Honduras, in the United States beer is cheap. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Colbey rejected the State's offer of a plea agreement, pursuant to which she would have gone to prison for eighteen years, because she was adamant that she had done nothing wrong. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They spent hours questioning Pearl Young, who had left the agency in the late 1940s for a job teaching physics at Penn State. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She looked up at the Empire State Building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A bright child, and driven, he won an academic scholarship to Colorado State University in nearby Fort Collins. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The California, Oregon, and Washington State kids weren’t pros, but they were definitely the best library-cart handlers in the building. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The State has not been looking for a third person, a ringleader for this crime, because I think they recognize that this person doesn't exist.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her nine-year-old daughter, Diana, who was born in the United States, offers comfort. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

My brother, Conrad, is the first and only black captain of the Arkansas State Troopers—the same troopers that held me at bay as a teenager when I tried to enter Central. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I applied for a job at school and was told there were none available but was also given the address of the New York State employment service. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

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

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

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 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

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

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

States organized by or modeled on that Zhou Dynasty of North China spread to South China during the first millennium B.C., culminating in China’s political unification under the Qin Dynasty in 221 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“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

And then on to the shoreline, past Two Lights State Park, a golf course, and a jetport. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

State Street was much busier than the side street where they lived. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

Everyone in California, the United States, on Earth, breathes in dramatically. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

You’d have thought he was the President of the United States or something. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He snapped his fingers and informed me that the top of the Empire State Building was now lit up blue. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The acting vice president of the United States, Thomas W. Ferry, stood at the podium. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Proceed in a fashion more in keeping with the dignity of your office and this Court, Mr. State’s Attorney.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So the United States has declared war on Japan?” asked Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Foreigners who traveled to the United States often experienced the caste system firsthand. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But before I could pump Maurice we had to board, and I joined my sister, Elizabeth, who had just come in from the States. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

State solicitor W. H. Murdock advised store owners to order demonstrators to leave, and when they didn’t, have them arrested for trespassing, invoking the Royal Ice Cream case as a precedent. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Following Kennedy’s assassination, President Lyndon Johnson embraced the antipoverty rhetoric with great passion, calling for an “unconditional war on poverty,” in his State of the Union Address in January 1964. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

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

Convinced that such a ceremony would be the outcome of any trial—certainly any trial held in the State of Kansas—he had decided to “bust jail. Grab a car and raise dust.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

State law in Delaware once had explicitly restricted jury service to white men, and “no colored citizen had ever been summoned as a juror.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

New York State Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz learned about Southam’s research through the media as well, and immediately launched his own investigation. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Not content with their names, they take descriptive titles also—the Empire State, the Garden State, the Granite State—titles proudly borne and little given to understatement. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer knew that this was a duel the United States could not afford to lose. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up the instruction booklet for the New York State Standardized Achievement Tests. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The Yellowstone eruption of two million years ago put out enough ash to bury New York State to a depth of sixty-seven feet or California to a depth of twenty. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Every time the United States launched a satellite, the Russians launched one bigger and better. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

"Judge Ford has just been appointed to the United States Supreme Court." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

In 1789, just as George Washington was sworn into office in the newly founded United States, the French Revolution began. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

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

Be-fore I could explain, Phoebe started telling me about the time that she and her mother, father, and sister, Prudence, had gone to the State Fair. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

No one stood between him and the president of the United States! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He invited a group of influential nuns from the Catholic group Pax Christi to Haiti, hoping when they returned to the States they would spread the truth about the junta’s abuses. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

"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

“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

The others were graduate students from Peru and the United States. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Malcolm X testified at the office of the Attorney General of the State of Illinois which had been investigating the Nation of Islam. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weapons establishments in the Soviet Union, the United States and other nations are large and powerful. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Meanwhile our allies had retreated to the doors of the Empire State Building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He tells her he wants to bring her to the United States in a year. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They have watched and worried as their own children struggled to reach the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The State did not produce one witness to the murder. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the wall behind me a faded felt banner proclaimed: “1955 State Field Hockey Champions.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

‘I just know. The Empire State Building. The Chrysler. Salim adores big buildings. He wants to be an architect one day. Isn’t that right, love?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She won the United States Feminine Aerobatic Championship three years in a row. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ultimately it would open the door to "vitalize a real Fifth Column movement in the United States." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Ohio State had a box on page 1. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In a way, I am living on standby. If Nikki dies, I’ll have to return to the States for the trial.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was necessary to demonstrate his loyalty to the United States: his country. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

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

The author writes that he is a Boricua living in the United States. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

His father hopes that bringing him to the United States will straighten out the teenager. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“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

State affairs went slowly, but, still, he had authority. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Rachel got a scholarship to Washington State, and Rebecca married a Samoan surfer — she lives in Hawaii now.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

The State Department did not want troublemakers like Pauling wandering about the globe saying nasty things about the politics of its onetime investment bankers who held back the hordes of godless Reds. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

They’d go to the Utah State football games and travel to Las Vegas for the regional basketball conference championships. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Now employed by the State Department, he was part of a team working to find non-military ways to defeat the Communists. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

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

In the coastal waters between Washington State and British Columbia. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Except for the fact that the colors were inverted, they looked exactly like the elevators in the Empire State Building, the entrance to Olympus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

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

Mother was frying hamburgers on the stove when she said to Daddy, “States do have rights, you know Those politicians in Washington can’t be telling us how to run our schools.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the death of Hollywood the Lone Star State has taken its place at the top for being interviewed, inspected, and discussed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

States found countless ways for individual victims in particular crimes to become decision makers and participants. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

For the United States, it was a complete screwup. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Secretary of State Dulles fretted that it would prompt objections from Great Britain and France. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When I was fourteen years old, I was sent to spend ten days with my maternal grandmother in western New York State. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

As mentioned in Chapter 1, education assessment for all subjects and the arts has undergone significant change over the past 30 years, from No Child Left Behind to the Common Core State Standards Initiative. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

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

I explained to Joe how disappointed we were that the State had destroyed the biological evidence that might have allowed us to prove he was innocent through DNA testing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

Langan talks about dealing with Reed and Montana State as if they were some kind of vast and unyielding government bureaucracy. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

By the end of 1989, the number of people executed by the State of Alabama would double. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

One day, he asks his grandmother, “How did my mom get to the United States?” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

She toured the room, carefully examining the photographs of Klansmen saluting flaming crosses, a display of Nazi armbands, and a pile of hate literature published by the National States’ Rights Party. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

But if the State Department and American chess organizations couldn’t help, Regina Fischer thought she could. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

Immigrant kids often feel like their parents will never understand what it's like to be a teenager in the States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

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 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

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

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

“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

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

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

Mr. King's attorney wants to distance Mr. King from the murder by attacking the character of the State's witnesses. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

State law required credible corroboration of accomplice testimony in a murder case, and there simply wasn't any in Walter's case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

It was the first national women’s political organization in the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Not one of them dared to accept the challenge in the gaze of the Chief of State. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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 United States accounted for 125 of these; the Russians, 44; and Great Britain, 21. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

These types of desktops have only recently started shipping in the States, and they’re, of course, way out of my price range. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once, at a dance party, he began talking about how Germany was superior to the United States. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Is that about a guy jumping off the Empire State Building?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

My brother and Kelly met at a restaurant called Ye Olde College Inn or something like that at Penn State. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

During the spring of nineteen fifty-two I joyously wrote Elijah Muhammad and my family that the Massachusetts State Parole Board had voted that I should be released. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

We run down the clean, even sidewalks on Madison Avenue, passing State Street, toward Michigan Avenue. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Minus the fact that there had been no progress in our immigration status, my parents finally felt settled in the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

If not, she will continue on to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

The British preference, have woken, was once considered obsolete in the United States. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

Was Haupt willing to go to war for the United States? Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I knew that important places moved around with Western Civilization, like Mount Olympus being over the Empire State Building, and the Underworld entrance being in Los Angeles. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Amidst all the good news, however, the ANC objected to the fact that Mr. de Klerk had not completely lifted the State of Emergency or ordered the troops out of the townships. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The defense has just given you its version of the facts in this case, and now it is the State's turn. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were frisky, eager and exuberant, and they had all been friends in the States. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I was going to the United States to harvest chiles,” he says. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

Then the United States intercepted a sudden burst of Purple messages. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Once she identified the problem, Anthony knew what to do: She would go to the New York State Legislature and change the law. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Since the Mujahideen takeover in April 1992, Afghanistan’s name had been changed to the Islamic State of Afghanistan. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

It was late afternoon when the taxi dropped me at the Empire State Building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

"Any agreement would hinge on the Americans reimbursing us for the booster," Zhu Tao said, "and the State Council would likely want political favors from the US government." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 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

“There were two of them. At first I was rather anxious—I thought they were from the State Department, or worse. You've heard of my problems with the Isrami government?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

The rogue commander was getting more and more belligerent, the United States more and more concerned. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

"What part of the States you boys from?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“And you gotta pass a test—about the Constitution of the United States.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

State troopers were watching on the highways and even the main back roads. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The work was completed by prisoners from Dixon Correctional Institute in Jackson, Louisiana, and from the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

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

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

His ability to live in the United States depended on our ability to live here. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I wondered what they would hear in the States. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

Svetlana's second mission allowed the Soviet Union to best the United States yet again. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

My travels on the speaking circuit took me to different corners of the United States. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

At Baxter State Park in Maine, the Journal reported, one hiker called up a National Guard Unit and asked them to send a helicopter to airlift him off Mount Katahdin because he was tired. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

It wasn’t necessary for the Federal Government to become involved in any of those States. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

Less than a mile away, near the White House, all was quiet at the home of Secretary of State William H. Seward. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, on the phone with a State Department official named Mike Forrestal, Ellsberg quoted from a cable that had just come in from the American embassy in Saigon. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

Then the journey to the United States would become an adventure. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

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

We set up a two-block perimeter, with a command tent at the Empire State Building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Two months later, on February 2, 1982, Alaska State Troopers came across his camp, looked inside the tent, and discovered the emaciated corpse frozen hard as stone. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“But now everybody but us left for the United States of America,” I say sadly. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

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

So, in 1959, when Hawaii finally became a state, it was more like the multicultural land the United States was becoming than the sugar Hells that were so much a part of its history. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Some carried badges as deputies of the Louisiana State Police. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Without realizing the danger of contact with radium, Kelly brought some back to the United States in his pockets and regularly traveled the world collecting more. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

Mahler himself was forced out of his post at the Vienna State Opera, notwithstanding his world-class artistic success there, as a result of anti-Semitism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Continental drift was not entirely without support in the United States. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Through inside contacts I have with the State Animal Husbandry Board. Don’t you remember last week when their inspector was out here examining Judy? They’re eager to have her foal; she’s an unmatched superior.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

It stood for “IN,” the official post office abbreviation for the Hoosier State. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

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

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

She smiles down at her husband, adds in a lower tone, “And don’t forget, voters. Holbrook for State Senate.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

A letter went off saying that I found Cambridge intellectually very exciting and so did not plan to be in the States by June. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The salient policy question was clear: Should the United States declare war on France or seek a diplomatic solution? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Led by South Carolina, a total of eleven slaveholding states in the South have left the Union and formed a separate nation, the Confederate States of America. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

He also wrote to Secretary of State Colin Powell to enlist his help in allowing him to renounce his citizenship. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My first day of school in the United States was very hard. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

My brother is busy being a football player at Penn State. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He told me that his father’s dream was to build a University of Islam in the United States. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or about how Zimbabwe was not the United States. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“State your name and rank. Who gave you my medal?” snapped the owl in a flat hard voice. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

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

The State decided to invoke an unprecedented theory of “transferred intent” to make the crime eligible for the death penalty. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

States, though—especially so-called empires formed by amalgamation or conquest of states—are regularly multiethnic and multilingual. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were only aware that this was where they either went to State, or turned into has-beens as quickly as the golden coach turned into a pumpkin. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 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

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

The United States is feeding the beast, man. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

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

"How do you do. My name is Officer Martha Pagett, and I'm from the school and truancy division of the State Department of Children and Family Services. May I come in?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Fifi was given the choice of either staying on the Island for a year at Tía Carmen's or going back to the States, but not to her boarding school. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In American History they’ve been studying how the United States was founded on indentured servitude. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

With no credible scientific evidence that a crime had occurred, the State introduced inflammatory evidence that Marsha was poor, a prior drug user, and obviously a bad mother for not seeking prenatal care. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

The Orangeburg massacre did not generate the same national outrage and agonizing self-examination as would the killings of four white students at Kent State University two years later. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

In reality, the United States wasn’t as gullible as it had been portrayed. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

Prince Faisal impatiently gestured when I began stumbling for words trying to express my gratitude for the great honor he had paid me in making me a guest of the State. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

They already knew that her mother and father were not part of the elite social set that revolved around Alabama State College and the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

There are ten times more astrologers in the United States than astronomers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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 traveling foursome of lifers from Raford State Prison had come to address us regarding the perils of criminal behavior. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

By the time I was back in Copenhagen, the journal containing Linus’ article had arrived from the States. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I shake my head, and I wonder what kinds of places in the Lost States have horses amongst so many shamblers. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She tells them she wants to be with them in the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

I looked at a map of the United States at school. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

They capped off their tour of New York that evening with a trip to Loew’s State Theatre, where Duke Ellington and his orchestra were finishing up a weeklong engagement. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

Now America waited to see if the rough-and- tumble western boys from Washington State would write another chapter in the story. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Horan finished his tour of duty in Vietnam and returned to the States with a plan. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There were local newspapers that she had sent him and a Alumnus Bulletin from Emporia State College. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In early 2012, I was ranked number two in the United States and thirteenth in the world. 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

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

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

Secretary of State William H. Seward did not file the pardon but instead gave it to a friend as a souvenir. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

In 2012, the United States saw the first decline in its prison population in decades. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

He says he lives in a small town in the States but spends his summers in a town called Culebra in Puerto Rico. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

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

He could see the Empire State Building in the distance, and it reassured him to know it was still there. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Possibly because there had been considerable newspaper play on the withdrawal of his passport, the State Department reversed itself and allowed Linus to show off the a-helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Or maybe Ben’s going for more of a classic rom-com feel, like a trip to the top of the Empire State Building. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

They don’t get a huge number of visitors to Ashfall Fossil Beds State Park–it’s slightly in the middle of nowhere–and Voorhies seemed pleased to show me around. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

"And the American people may be sentimental, but their government is not. The US State Department won't trade anything major for one man's life." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

From there, we moved on to a Home States Ball and after that to the Commander in Chief Ball, then onward to the Youth Ball, and six more beyond that. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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

No one in the United States, or in the world, had ever ascended so quickly. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“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

When the United States entered World War II, he tried to enlist as a navy pilot. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It had been twelve years since we moved to the States, and now the government finally knew I existed. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He spoke of sociological trends in Chamisa County, in the entire United States. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“ICE will drop the charges and release your mother into the United States.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

During the State of Emergency, she collected goods which she brought to the accused. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s got to be sent away. I don’t want him in the house any more with her. Call Dr. Portman and tell him we want to send Charlie to the Warren State Home.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of the usual sounds that brought the city to life, it was woken that morning by gunshots erupting around the State House and the House of Parliament. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

It meant that he, like everyone else, had come too far and been through too much not to win it all, not to go to State. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

New York State shouts at you the whole time. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Because of the PAC’s anticommunism, they became the darlings of the Western press and the American State Department, which hailed its birth as a dagger to the heart of the African left. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nobody runs around with Empire State. He’s a nut. He just stands around with a broom, dribbling spit. He can’t even talk.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

If Tate was a state officer, Monroe County would have no liability for his misconduct and no recovery would be possible from the State of Alabama. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After their arrival in New York City, the “Mount-Pleasant State Prison,” informally known as Sing Sing, was their first stop. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

I never went to find him on the observation deck of the Empire State Building, because I was happier believing he was there than finding out for sure. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, the thrill of opening night on Broadway with my favorite musicomedy stars. Gab sessions in the Village over espresso with challenging, contemporary minds.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 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

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

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

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

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

My heart beat loudly at the words United States of America. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court The heirs watched the jaunty doorman pull out a chair for the judge. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

I represent the State of New York and I am part of that system, as are the judge and all the participants in this trial. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

Though he’d only been gone from the United States two months, Bobby had taken from his competitive experiences more than just bragging rights. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

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

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

Don Francisco’s show is widely watched in the United States and throughout Latin America. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The job of murdering Secretary of State Seward will be a two-man affair, with Lewis Powell and David Herold working together. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then the State of Maine * Department of Health and Human Services delivered their news: Joseph and his father would begin receiving monthly visits and evaluations. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The following morning she woke Alisha at seven A.M. so they could get a head start on the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

After we were fixed with beds in the high- ceilinged rooms of the partially restored Cistercian monastery, I began talking with some friends I had not seen since leaving the States. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Calling the president of the United States a “kaiser” was an outrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Another clue that mass incarceration, as we know it, would not exist but for the race of the imagined enemy can be found in the history of drug-law enforcement in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

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

I have forty-seven in my State Quarters Map because Illinois and Florida and Iowa fell out and are under my bed somewhere I think. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Were we supposed to come here, to the United States? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The country that scores highest on the individualism end of that scale is the United States. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

“What would have happened to the United States if George Washington had left his country? Or if Abraham Lincoln had said, ‘I’ve had enough’? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“That’s what the State Police did when a man got stuck in a cave.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

They had been sent down from Auburn, New York State’s famous second prison, to construct Sing Sing, its third. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

When a crime is committed, it is the State that must apply the law in a manner that offers redress and that brings the guilty parties to justice. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Category 5 hurricanes had only struck the United States mainland three times before, and never New Orleans. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The sorority had been a constant in her life since her days as a fifteen-year-old freshman at West Virginia State; she had spent more weekends than she could remember attending sorority activities or meetings. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Yellin did not nod quickly enough, so the Prince said, “State your problem.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

Her face looks worried. 0'BRIEN The State correctly says that the laws of a society provide protection for its citizens. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some countries, like the United States, had strict immigration quotas. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

"This is not the States," Tía Flor says, with a knowing smile. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In another letter to Anthony, Stanton confessed that she often wished she “were as free” as her unmarried friend so that she could “stump the State in a twinkling.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

He knew that every year the team had a chance of going to State and had won the whole shooting match four times since 1964. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the United States would have less jurisdiction over him. 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

Code breaking even helped drag the United States into the war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

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

Similar criticisms apply to many of the new scholarly claims about Indians, according to Dean R. Snow, an anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My mom first said that to me when I was in the second grade and my best friend won the Mini Princess Contest at the New York State Fair. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Washburn will request a special visa from the foreign ministry to send Lucinda to the States to help out his friend. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

All the junior players I talked to, from as far away as Natal, the Orange Free State and Cape Province, echoed the same problems: poor facilities, lack of tennis equipment, sponsorship or qualified coaches. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It only really got going—in the United States and Europe—in 1993. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Judge Rumpff expressed irritation with the explanation and said he did not see why the State of Emergency should stand in the way of his trial. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

If all goes well, then you finally become a legal resident of the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Dr. Fine wasn’t playing for the United States because he had retired from play in 1951. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

In recent years the State of California has reported an average of more than 200 cases of accidental parathion poisoning annually. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

If it doesn't work out, we can always return to the United States. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

With trumpets blowing in the courtyard, the dignitaries of Church and State began to filter up the stairs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Other than that, the FBI eventually considered Regina Fischer harmless to the security of the United States. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Colony. State. Who knows what we will be next?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

We kept insisting on obtaining all files and evidence the State had in its possession. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In point of fact, the little town of Milagro had one of the highest death ratios in the United States of America. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A crack spread in both directions, circling the Empire State Building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

She remembered that Mol- lie was going to lead the Grand March at the Fourth of July picnic with no less than Harry Forbes, State Senator. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Someone from the United States Department of State was calling and wanted to speak with me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

That’s how we spent our day preparing for the New York State Standardized Achievement Tests. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

I whisper to Christina, when we’re on State Street and far enough away from Erudite headquarters that it’s safe to talk. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Throughout his long career in the United States and Europe, Welles worked in stage, radio, film, and television. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

My first morning back in the States, I woke up to a tweet storm. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Hudson was sympathetic and agreed to bring the accident report to Jackie’s office at Utah State. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

Lourdes hears he has again left Honduras headed for the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

I pull up to a light on State Street across from the paper company. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

“Found him and jailed him. Took his government work papers. They were going to send him to the Creek Nation in Oklahoma. State capital is Oklahoma City.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“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

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

At present he is a resident of the Mississippi State Prison in Parchman, Mississippi, where he is serving a thirty-year sentence for armed robbery. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s one of those college football fans who chant “We are...Penn State.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The State's lawyer argued that this was a routine capital murder case and that the death penalty had been appropriately imposed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After your father came back from college in the States, Mami explained, he got so busy working and raising his own family that he didn’t pay much attention to politics. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

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

He concluded in his memo: “This might be an important issue in any trial conducted in State v. Reggie Shaw and how we choose the jury and approach the issue.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

High above the Empire State Building, Olympus was its own island of light, a floating mountain ablaze with torches and braziers, white marble palaces gleaming in the early morning air. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

It wasn't until adulthood that several family members would become regular fixtures in my life, some of them finally moving to the States and others traveling here more frequently. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

“It’s still true in the States. I mean, most women I know, their husband gets a job in Texas, say, well, Texas it’s going to be.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, and when she returns to the States, she'll find herself suddenly going blank over some word in English or, like her mother, mixing up some common phrase. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

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

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 State of Alabama had argued that procedural rules barred Mr. Nelson from challenging the constitutionality of the protocol. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Dasch started at the beginning, revealing that he came to the United States from Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

She was from Tanzania but had managed to assimilate into American culture, as she had been in the States for about three years. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

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

I was going to be on the United States Olympic Team in the 2016 summer games. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

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

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

These are some of its characteristics: Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the President of the United States, and he always has been. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

He was going to the United States to find work. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

On the bright side, my sister and I were now legally allowed to work in the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The serpent could have swallowed the Empire State Building sideways. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

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

Both sides invited the legislators to receptions and dinners at the fashionable Hermitage, which was just down the street from the Tennessee State Capitol. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

In an extremely bold statement, it also warned that the women of the United States “will watch your administration with an intense interest such as has never before been focused on any of your predecessors.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Miss Anderson is a widow, and even though her husband died in the War between the States—fighting for the Confederacy, no doubt—she still wears her widows weeds. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It would have many more contestants, including some of the best players in the United States and Canada. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

She was just beginning further education in music at the Moscow State Conservatory, one of the most respected music schools in the entire world. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was a bother to be stopped on the road in a Free State when the lost property turned out to have a silver tongue. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

In 1847, he became an associate justice of the New York State Supreme Court for the Fourth District and served until he was eighty-two years old. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He wants to be in films, he wants to direct, in the United States. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a requirement, Guo Ming noted to himself, that did not apply to the United States. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

On the wall of his classroom hung two flags for the Utah State University Aggies. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

Islamophobia was on the rise in the United States, perpetuated by violent stereotypes and religious extremism portrayed in the media. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

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

Gentle, genially dignified, a scholar with work-calloused hands and sunburned neck, he’d been a classmate of Herb’s at Kansas State University. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farther beyond the tourist shops are newly built condos that no one but celebrities from the States are rich enough to use. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

She really wanted to fly Zlata over to the United States to meet our class! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s from a city called Pittsburgh, far, far down in the United States. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But in the end you will have the opportunity to judge the State's key witnesses and to deliver a just verdict. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

State and federal agriculture officials characteristically shrugged off individual complaints as unimportant. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

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

Sesotho is the language of the Sotho people as well as the Tswana, a large number of whom live in the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

“But I’m shipping out for the States and. ...” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third was etched with the design of a maze, and the last had an image of a building —maybe the Empire State Building?—with names Percy didn’t recognize engraved around it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

It was the 1922 treaty, leading to the formation of the Free State, that pushed us out of Kinvara, she said. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

I knew that P. W. Botha had created something called the State Security Council, a shadowy secretariat of security experts and intelligence officials. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In the distance, every side of the Empire State Building is lit up and displaying enormous Warcross images. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

Over in Indiana, the young Klan leader D. C. “Steve” Stephenson was the government, ruling the Hoosier State from his plush offices in Indianapolis. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was written in red-blooded English, from New York, the United States of America. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Have you ever been in contact with him since coming to the United States?” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toño wants to teach me all there is about the United States in one gulp, fast fast. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

A month previously Elizabeth had arrived for an indefinite stay on her way back to the States. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“Are you looking forward to the State Quiz Bowl competition?” asked the interviewer. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

It was the deadliest shooting by a lone gunman in United States history. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Walking back home an hour late because of the New York State Standardized Achievement Tests. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

“That’s amazing, Luce. Maybe you could go to NC State. That’s where I would have gone if I was smart like you.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I’m from the Buckeye State. We are serious about our tailgating parties. I can turn anything into a grill.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I signed petitions and wrote letters to United States senators. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has tried to enter the United States three times. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Because the case was now pending on direct appeal, the State had no obligation to let us see those records and files. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After high school, Gray worked his way rapidly through Alabama State College and then went off to law school in Ohio. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

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

Black professionals constituted the bulk of the residents, many of them graduates of the universities that sat on its borders, Loyola College and Morgan State University. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

After the Gatumba massacre, he went to the State Department to propose that the survivors be resettled. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This is a history of the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Fairfax’s plan fleshed out the sketchy outline that Jefferson had provided in Notes on the State of Virginia. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

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

The similarities in their lives became good omens: that they were both only children, their birthdays two days apart, and their hometowns in Anambra State. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“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

As the newly reigning United States Open Champion, and a participant in the Rosenwald the previous year, Bobby had anticipated getting this invitation for the 1957 tournament. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“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

The first of these campaigns was the First Transvaal and Orange Free State Peoples Assembly for Votes for All, a campaign for the extension of the franchise to all black South Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“The day after tomorrow at the latest. Sí, you must go to the United States.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Immediately, he looked up his old classmate Mundo, who comes from one of those old wealthy families who send their kids to the States to prep school, and the boys on to college. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Potato insects are escaping chemical control in many sections of the United States. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

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

“Anita”—she points at me—“I want you to say, ‘Welcome to the United States.’” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

He was finishing his undergraduate degree in chemistry at Idaho State. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Just for the hell of it, we drove by the State Liquor Store. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Hitler responded by declaring war on the United States. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took her to the State Mental Hospital at Kalamazoo. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Standing here in the quiet, she believes she has never felt at home in the States, never. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Carmencita's quip in English is the product of her two or three years away in boarding school in the States. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

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

A magazine advertisement with a picture of the Empire State Building. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Is the State prepared to present its evidence and witnesses?” the judge asked. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

One half set off for Canada and the United States. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

State guardsmen were pelted with rocks, bottles, and bricks as they patrolled the streets. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

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

Yes, she said, he had been transferred somewhere in the Southwest United States. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Our strategy was simple and defensive in nature: to drag out the case until the State of Emergency was lifted and our lawyers could return. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

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

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

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

And New York State today has a most impressive record of containing and suppressing the disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

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

Several months earlier, Kennedy had given the green light to the top secret Cable 24.3, sent by the US State Department to the American ambassador stationed in Saigon, South Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the same year the State of Alabama, alarmed and angry at the damage done by the chemicals, refused to appropriate any further funds for the project. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

We spent the night at Bernice State Park stretched out atop our sleeping bags in the mess of Cade’s camper shell. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Periodically, family stops by to say goodbye to our parents and deliver the packets of letters and bills they want mailed in the States. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

The rooftop of the State House, where the Congress met, was visible, but the August haze and dust from the street made it impossible to see farther than that. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The Canadian Government stated that the request of the American Secretary of State had been received. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

“North America is exactly like that. There are countless tribal nations throughout this land. In Washington State alone, there are more than thirty tribes.” I Can Make This Promise 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 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

Once solved, the message could be forwarded to the Army, the Navy, the State Department, or the FBI, which could then act on it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I’ve already sent an email to PAWS, a group in Washington State that runs a similar program. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Below it he read a line that said: Issued by the Communist Party of the United States. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their goal at the beginning of the fall had been to make the State Cup—a tournament for the area’s best teams. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Secretary of State William H. Seward, whose oppressive policies toward the South have long made him a target of Confederate anger, is on Booth’s list as well. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The New Jersey State Police sent a squad of troopers with gas masks to Grovers Mill. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The State doesn’t bear the burden of presenting a case in these proceedings, Your Honor; we do. This isn't a criminal trial but a postconviction evidentiary hearing." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“What if we baked small cakes and delivered them to the State House with a handbill advertising our new wares?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he sailed back to the United States, his fondness for the Filipino people had intensified. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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 president of the United States could not die in a theater. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in favor of this dramatic gesture, for it highlighted the iniquities of the State of Emergency. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hungry Mother State Park in nearby Virginia was a popular destination for miners and their families, and also the Smoky Mountains farther south in Tennessee. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I argued that there was no credible corroboration of Myers's testimony and that under Alabama law the State couldn't rely exclusively on the testimony of an accomplice. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Pat, a vivacious college beauty queen just two months graduated from Virginia State College, was marrying her college sweetheart, a young army corporal named Walter Kane. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

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 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

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

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

I have forty-six quarters in my State Quarters Map now because Virginia is coming out to cut the oak tree. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two years after the recording of ‘Strange Fruit’, Meeropol was summoned to appear before New York State’s Rapp-Coudert committee investigating alleged Communist infiltration of the state’s high schools. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“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

He refused to go back to the States—at least, that’s what he told an American public health expert who visited him in the hospital—but he was thinking, “Please take me home.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Win the Hamilton lottery. And I kind of want to see another show on my birthday. Visit Lady Liberty, maybe? Going to the top of the Empire State Building could be interesting.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

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

I stepped into some clean State of California underwear and pulled on another pair of Burnt Mill Creek Pioneers basketball shorts. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

After a few years, Koch returned to the United States, but his film career had been damaged. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

“I have a mom in the United States,” Enrique tells a guard. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

On May 2, 2002, the Circuit Court of Jefferson County served me with a witness subpoena in the State of Alabama v. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A textbook example occurred after the eruption in 1980 of Mount St. Helens, in southern Washington State, which inundated more than two hundred square miles with magma, volcanic ash, and mud. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

Lewis Powell forced his way into the home of Secretary of State William Seward, slashing him in his bed. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You act like Maleeka is working for the president of the United States. Man.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I had no idea that anything was going on in regard to atomic energy in the United States.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In this respect, the United States was way behind the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want some State Department or other roadblocks put in my path at the last minute. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katie Gardner reported that she’d seen Rachel Elizabeth Dare nm out of the Empire State Building at the end of the battle. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

"I was in Memphis last year when NC State whooped Georgia fourteen to seven in the Liberty Bowl," she said. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Daniel Ellsberg, a former State Department and Pentagon planner, and of late something of a phantom figure, agreed today to be interviewed at a secret location.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“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

She played violin with the Fargo Symphony Orchestra and taught at North Dakota State University until her retirement several years ago. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

The same fate might have awaited Enrique without the money that arrived from the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

State, local, and national media outlets were crowded outside the courthouse when I arrived the next morning. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

Dad told Coach Warner the thing about Ohio State—how he regretted that he hadn’t been big enough to play football there. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Nearly half a century ago, a professor of entomology at Washington State College, A. L. Melander, asked the now purely rhetorical question, “Can insects become resistant to sprays?” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

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

She graduated from high school at fourteen and enrolled at West Virginia State Institute, a black college located just outside of Charleston, the state capital. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

"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

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

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

Springer Mountain, the launching-off point in the south, is seven miles from the nearest highway, at a place called Amicalola Falls State Park, which in turn is a good way from anywhere. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

It rained in New York State, the Empire State, rained cold and pitiless, as the highway-sign writers would put it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks over his shoulder again at the tall doors across the State Dining Room. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I step quick past Binga State Bank, the Jackson Funeral Home, and Saul’s Butcher Shop with rows of baloney lined up in the window like a curtain. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

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

The area known today as the southwestern United States was once the northern periphery of the Aztec empire. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Reaching the State Floor, we made our way toward the tall set of doors leading to the North Portico, when we heard a voice. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

Army bomber accidentally flew into the seventy-ninth floor of the Empire State Building and killed fourteen people. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

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 turned out that the Soviet team would be playing for the first time on United States soil. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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 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

As usual, the State Department would not come clean about what it considered dirt. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Nothing definite had come up regarding the scholarship, except Stan’s promise to pursue the matter diligently upon arrival in the States. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Migrants deported by the United States often return to the San Jose church. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

State Department showed up at our house and told my parents that Grandpa Bobby was dead and buried near some little village in Colombia. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

In November 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

So when it came to college, they had assumed she would go somewhere practical, like Pitt or perhaps Penn State, to study something like business or hotel management. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We climb the sheer, high walls of Empire Quarry, where they got the 18,630 tons of stone needed to build the Empire State Building. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Terman believed that his Termites were destined to be the future elite of the United States. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

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

Old buddy introduced him around till he knew every firebrand among the upper-class fellas the State Department wanted him to groom for revolution. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Like us. Join us. Be our pal. Say nice things about us here and back in the States. Become one of the boys. Now, that isn’t asking too much, is it?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

Would the United States be more likely to use atomic bombs, knowing no one else could strike back? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Asked by the agent which team I supported, I took my cue from her red turtleneck and told her that I was for State. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

“That's where it's all going down this year. I swear were making it to States.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

It was a tumultuous time in American politics—sixteen months earlier, the Ohio National Guard had killed four students at an antiwar rally at Kent State University. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

I bet you a lot of them ain’t never been to the Empire State Building or even Harlem. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She was a former homecoming queen from Kansas— Miss Agriculture, Kansas State. The Hot Zone 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

“This is the United States of America,” he said. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

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 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

I know what things were like before the War between the States, and even though the years after were chaotic, at least colored folks like me were free. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

To sweeten the deal, they also secretly agreed to divide up parts of Poland, the Baltic States, Finland, and Romania, as if European nations were a box of candy. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

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

“At the offices of the State Quiz Bowl Alliance. They’re the ones in charge of organizing the event.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed for the first time. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He would know the ways of the United States. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Alice Paul received a call telling her to go to the State Department. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

Neither of these terminal narratives explains why conflict between the colonizers and the Indigenous peoples continued for three hundred years before the United States was formed. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, the United States was helping the Soviet Union—but not out of the kindness of its heart. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A few blocks away, detectives question Secretary of State Seward’s household staff and add two more nameless individuals to the list: the man who attacked Seward and his accomplice, who was seen waiting outside. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The oldest of the prisons is the Kansas State Penitentiary for Men, a turreted black-and-white palace that visually distinguishes an otherwise ordinary rural town, Lansing. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

He had attempted several careers, as soldier, ranch hand, mechanic, thief, the last of which had earned him a sentence of three to five years in Kansas State Penitentiary. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

At twenty-three years old, he was elected to the New York State Assembly. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

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 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

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

Bernard Silverman at Michigan State University obtained the records of 3,000 married couples in Michigan and found no correlation between their signs and astrologers’ predictions about compatible pairs of signs. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He resigned his post at the State Department. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

But we’re all citizens of the United States, forced on a dead-end journey into the desert. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

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

The United States has always been a multicultural nation. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

If Permian was to go to State, they would have to perform in ways that no one had ever imagined, rise to heights beyond even the expectations of the fans. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the highway, trucks hiss their brakes, stopping at the border before entering the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Two months later, he flew back to the United States. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The next day, the United States went to war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

In 2019, the United States Senate passed a resolution in her honor. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“A flickertail is a squirrel. There are lots of them in North Dakota. That’s why it’s called the Flickertail State. What is Pennsylvania called?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Sole administrator must go. He doesn’t wear pant oh! Head of State must go. He doesn’t wear pant oh! Where is running water? Where is light? Where is petrol?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There are now only two or three dozen robins to be found each spring on the entire 185-acre campus of Michigan State University, compared with a conservatively estimated 370 adults in this area before spraying. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

Monclova looked as beautiful and as cultured as any large city in the United States. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Many doctors on the island have left to the States for better reimbursements from insura—” He stops, leans against the stairs, and rubs his side. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

I found myself just as indifferent to nucleic-acid chemistry in his lab as I had been in the States. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Of these, five became well established in the eastern United States. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

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

Even making it to State would be huge: a message that girls like us do belong on the field. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Although I did reach a representative, little information was given over the telephone so I scheduled a subsequent call following my return to the States. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

We stopped on the New York State Thruway for gas, within sight of a number of large tractor-trailer rigs. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best article was written by a New York State officer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Just like Dad promised me about our new tradition of trips to Rockhound State Park. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Many letters came into the mission from children in the States who wanted to write letters. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1917, just before Christmas, she was invited to take part in a gala concert at the Georgia State Industrial College, a black college in Savannah. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

A few miles down the road he came to the small community of Healy, where the Alaska State Troopers maintain a post. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The British had no way of knowing it, but the candles and the soap were made from the fat of rendered Jews and Gypsies and fairies and communists, and other enemies of the State. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shut up, I’m trying to pick something to watch. Ew, you have Garden State on your watch list? Wow, how’s film school in 2005 going?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

“State trooper pulled him over out on Deep Kill Road,” said the gray-haired policeman. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Copies were passed around of the virulently racist Fiery Cross and the even more explicitly anti-Semitic Thunderbolt, the organ of the neo-Nazi National States’ Rights Party. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

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 iron was contorting, twisting itself out of the abstract curls and coils into a frightening face, which spoke in a clanging, echoing voice: “State your purpose!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“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

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

I rode down the Dan Ryan with friends and beheld, for the first time, the State Street Corridor—a four- mile stretch of dilapidated public housing. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

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

They stamped a paper, and I was approved for entry into the United States. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad was a twenty-eight-year-old mechanical engineering student at Louisiana State University. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Once elected, Clinton endorsed the idea of a federal “three strikes and you’re out” law, which he advocated in his 1994 State of the Union address to enthusiastic applause on both sides of the aisle. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

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

Kent Ford, Dickinson State University I am sure you will receive many letters from high school and college students. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We live in New York State,” adds George. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

State Department so they could be shared with Brazil’s officials. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m calling a cabinet meeting this afternoon at four o’clock and you, as Secretary of State, must be there.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Name the attorney general of the United States. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

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 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

Fortunately, he did not, and Brereton dropped us off at the State Shop, where Toussaint’s belongings were to be inventoried before he was shipped out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Soros wanted to involve the international community, particularly the United States. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

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

I was standing outside the United Nations, about a mile northeast of the Empire State Building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Next was the family cleanup and a lesson of one kind or another—the alphabet, math, poems, or memorizing the sequence of the presidents of the United States in the order they served. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

We quickly filed a response opposing the State's motion. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The Court will hear the State,” the judge said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Until this one night my dad threw a big map on the kitchen table and ironed the creases from the Eastern States with his palm. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

The United States cut off oil exports to Japan. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lemoncello whipped off the beret and tugged on an Ohio State Buckeyes baseball cap. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The dream of an independent Confederate States of America had long since died. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

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

Every racial caste system in the United States has produced racial stigma. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

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

Every old prison I’ve seen since, from the Tower of London to Philadelphia’s massive and abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary, has inspired a similar fascination. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1958 he was convicted of house burglary in a Johnson County court and sentenced to five years in Kansas State Penitentiary. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In 1992, the year before Walter’s release, thirty-eight people were executed in the United States. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m just going for the nearby Buchanan State Forest, home of old-growth hemlocks.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

Those who did attend were the accused whom the police had failed to pick up under the State of Emergency. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted a full scholarship to Georgetown and summer internships with United States senators. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

Barack’s announcement had inadvertently been scheduled for the same day as the State of the Black Union, a forum organized each year by the public-broadcasting personality Tavis Smiley, who was evidently angry about it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, for your information, Dr. Henry Kissinger himself says that Neto and them are followers of Karl Marx, and the other ones are pro-United States.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

We parked in front of the Ben Franklin store and walked up Main Street toward the State Theater. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“We are the United States Immigration Service. Stay where you are. Do not run. No corres.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Ten days hence she was sailing to the States on her way to Japan to marry an American she had known in college. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

I gave a brief history of the case and informed the court that both the defendant and the State were moving the court to dismiss all charges. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

Consider: The United States has been instrumental in the overthrow of truly genocidal dictatorships. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like the United States, Russia is also looking at its next step in space exploration. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

On Fifth Avenue that summer, demolition was soon to begin on the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, clearing the way for a skyscraper of unprecedented proportions, the Empire State Building. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was reinforced with every witness the State brought to the stand. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Name the eleventh President of the United States and his entire cabinet.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mami was the leader now that they lived in the States. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But this latest transfer hadn’t been scheduled to happen until after I went back to the States. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A few months later, Sarah published An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

Bayona had had the girl’s sputum cultured and sent everything to the Massachusetts State Lab, quietly bypassing the Peruvian national lab in order to protect his friend from scrutiny. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

State and federal courts have persistently insulated prosecutors from accountability for egregious misconduct that results in innocent people being sent to death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

As Pirow put it, the accused knew that the achievement of the goals of the Freedom Charter would “necessarily involve the overthrow of the State by violence.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Boy or girl, it doesn’t matter in the United States. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that the State Department’s G. Mermen Williams was officially visiting in Africa. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His uncle bought it illegally in South America. He snuck it back to the States when it was a baby. You know what it eats?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I tried the City of Cleveland, then Cuyahoga County, then the State of Ohio, and finally the U.S. government. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d only been there once before, traveling by elevator up to the secret six hundredth floor of the Empire State Building. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

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

“You do realize you’re talking to a United States senator,” he says placidly. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

“Puerto Rico is part of the United States, you ignoramus!” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I rose and approached the president of the United States of America. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Of course, there are also the famous differences between the productivities of the economies of whole countries, such as Japan, the United States, France, and Germany. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

A lot of the workers were from the States and one of the perks of the job was that they were given hotel rooms to live in. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

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

The State doesn't even suggest that he was in the store during the robbery. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

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

“It is now, but it will be part of the United States eventually, just like Maryland or Pennsylvania.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Neighbors, soldiers, State Department employees, and even some reporters tried to enter the Seward house. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The Seattle Strike, the first general strike in the United States, takes place. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

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

“Just remember,” Andrea went on, “when you start school in the States next fall, you’ll be in eighth grade. Nobody in the eighth grade is going to be singing ‘Swa- nee River.’” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I walked all the way from the entrance of the State Park; pretty good, eh?” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Empire State himself was a good example of one. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to focus on the State Quiz Bowl competition!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“State your name, where you are from, and what you would like to say about these two projects.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

In the earliest account of her, the Iliad, she is a fierce and ruthless battle-goddess, but elsewhere she is warlike only to defend the State and the home from outside enemies. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feebleminded women were sent to the Virginia State Colony for confinement to ensure that they would not continue breeding and thereby contaminate the population with further morons or idiots. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

From here I can see the United States. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

First, the First Son of the United States didn't actually do anything wrong. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded was an ideal experiment in genetic cleansing, they noted. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Rosaleen came home, a bona fide registered voter in the United States of America. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent eight hours a day on a computer, feeding my stories back to the States. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

A 1905 State Prison Improvement Commission found the cells damp, too small, and badly ventilated, concluding, “verily, this is far worse than living in a sewer.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government declared a State of Emergency, suspending habeas corpus and assuming sweeping powers to act against all forms of subversion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Now even his grandmother wishes he would go to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It came one night in Saigon, when they went to a party thrown for Sheehan, who was heading back to the States. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And suddenly—there was the giant peach, caught and spiked upon the very pinnacle of the Empire State Building. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

But he had come to believe such things in the United States. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

State Department sent her as a goodwill ambassador on a ten-week tour of India and Anderson’s 1957 goodwill tour for the U.S. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

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

I’m in business—I’m a representative of the government of the United States. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the State Council insisted all launches be shrouded in secrecy. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys found a spot under a bridge near the Morgan State University campus. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

We parked by the waterfront shops and hiked to Liberty State Park. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

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

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

Was it a letter from the Illinois State Bar Association? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They started a blog called 50 Homes in 50 States and chronicled their moving adventures. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

New York was a Free State, they argued, and any colored person became magically free once they stepped over the border. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Luckily, I was allowed to visit a smaller mill at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Shortly after that, he traveled west to the State of North Dakota, and he settled there and raised a family. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“As city magistrate, I demand you hand over the children to the custody of the State of New York.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Truman wanted to know that the United States had a working atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Only a handful of hospitals in the States had the right equipment and experience to deal with cancer. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Even when lower courts granted a stay, the State would appeal, so the Supreme Court would almost always make the final decision to permit an execution to proceed or not. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

If they had been sensible and kept running, she and Caesar would be in the Free States. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A giant map of the United States made of pickles. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The State usually wouldn't bring inmates from Angola to New Orleans for hearings but instead had them view proceedings on a video hookup at the prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

States all over the nation were relegalizing racing under the pari-mutuel system, resulting in a 70 percent increase in the number of tracks. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that the United States had entered the war, Hitler wanted fast action on Kappe's plan. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She could’ve just as easily been killed by some random shambler in a swamp down south in the Lost States, for all we really know. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

To get a license, one had to know somebody in the State Liquor Authority, and Jews working with Jews seemed to have the best S.L.A. contacts. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Castro took power in 1959, the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

At last, they asked the United States Customs Bureau for help. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

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

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 2005, members of the Native American Havasupai Tribe sued Arizona State University after scientists took tissue samples the tribe donated for diabetes research and used them without consent to study schizophrenia and inbreeding. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The State will contend that the other man who entered the store at that time, and who participated in the robbery and the murder, was James King. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I know I need to go home and work on the stories, but I turn onto the wide lanes of State Street and just drive. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Secretary of State William H. Seward and his sons survived their wounds. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I’m going to the States. You will stay with your grandma.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

I’d heard that there was a British commissary in White Plains, which was about twenty-five miles southwest across the New York State line. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the 1990s, Mexico and the United States have tried to thwart them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ever since Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States had been demanding unconditional surrender. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

One of New York State’s biggest recent scandals has been the exposure of wholesale S.L.A. graft and corruption. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, the United States rigidly enforced its refugee quotas. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had the most refined voice in the Middle Atlantic States. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the United States, football and basketball don’t select, stream, and differentiate quite as dramatically. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

The United States obliterates Moscow and urges all patriotic Americans to boycott vodka. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

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

At this point, the United States was politically motivated to back Iraq in the war. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"We’ll go there tomorrow,” she decided quickly, pointing her finger at a green square labeled "State Park.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I was a vision that publicly counterbalanced the negativity surrounding Muslim identity in the United States. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

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

State Department, and every morning a black sedan carried him off to the embassy. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Aberdeen Lake State Penitentiary was shut down in 1981 after a riot that lasted for three weeks.Three weeks is about thirty-six million miles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The State Department representative informed me that I didn’t have to give her an answer right away and could get back to them in a couple of days. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It is the contention of the State and it is also the law of the land. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two men with State Athletic Commission badges on their jackets were staring up at the ceiling. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The State will submit witnesses and evidence to establish the legal sanity of the defendant,” Buckley said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was true that Purple had warned that Japan might attack the United States. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Hotels filled up with Seabiscuit fans hailing from all over the United States. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not much is known about life in the Lost States. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

They abandoned the car and flagged down a crowded State Transport bus. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He was a fit companion for Empire State. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

On September 10, again urged by Priddy, the Board of the Virginia State Colony reviewed Buck’s case during a routine meeting. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

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

“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

It put the world on notice that North Korea was moving ever closer to having the ability to strike the continental United States with a nuclear-armed ballistic missile. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

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

“The ten empty seats became an obsession to weary workers,” wrote Jo Ann Robinson, an English professor at Alabama State College at the time. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Senate is in session, and she meets her senators from Washington, who invite Annabelle to the State of the Union address in February. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

There were press reports that Bobby might be indicted and extradited back to the United States. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She went to med school at Louisiana State University. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Hickock’s attorney was also angry; once more he traveled to Larned State Hospital, where he appealed for the unpaid services of a psychiatrist willing to go to Garden City and interview the defendants. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

They took Shorty and me, handcuffed together, to the Charlestown State Prison. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“Bigger, the State’s Attorney gave me a copy of your confession. Now, tell me, did you tell him the truth?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

New York State, for instance, has not as of this writing executed a single criminal since reinstituting its death penalty in 1995. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Down a dogleg corridor from the SHU was the State Shop, where inmates on their way in or out of the prison were processed and given clothes and bedding. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She graduated four years ago. And now she’s a graduate of Portland State University. You remind me so much of her,” she says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

They did not accuse him of plotting against the United States. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

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

“By the time I was enrolled at The Evergreen State College, I was no longer sure about what I wanted. Then I met your dad while he was stationed at JBLM, and...” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“What if they don’t let me come back to the United States?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

One federal prosecutor demanded that no copy of his report be “handed to any representative of the State of Oklahoma.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

In 1919, Chicago was regarded as the crime capital of the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“That’s the body your daddy’s been writing letters to Washington about. The coffin never got dug up and shipped back to the States because I paid off a police captain to make sure it wouldn’t.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The ANC thoroughly dominated the northern and eastern Transvaal, the northwest, the eastern Cape and the Free State. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

For a second he looked familiar, and I wondered if he was the person I had seen from the Empire State Building through the binocular machine. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“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

The State did elicit from Steve that he spoke to Mr. King about basketball. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

The top three boxes on page 1 were set up for the University of Florida, Florida State University, and the University of Miami. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

He had taught for years in the Orange Free State, learned Afrikaans, and came to see Afrikaner nationalism as a prototype of African nationalism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

He had left a message that over at the Roseland State Ballroom, the shoeshine boy was quitting that night, and Shorty had told him to hold the job for me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Too many other countries, especially the United States, got involved with money, guns, and bossing around. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

In February 2011, days after his break with LiNK, Shin flew up the West Coast to Washington State. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

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

The province of the Orange Free State has always had a magical effect on me, though some of the most racist elements of the white population call the Free State their home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

So I pledge to you, we shall have order in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

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

On April 3, 1865, Richmond, Virginia, capital city of the Confederate States of America, fell to Union forces. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of his last acts as president was to place on file in the State Department his rejoinder to Bache’s accusations, which historians have long since discovered were based on forged English documents. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

A patron of young Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he held other state appointive offices before getting himself named chairman of the new State Commission on Prison Reform. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few days the State submitted a peculiar pleading to the Court of Criminal Appeals. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“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

Despite myself, I thought about my bank account in the States. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

As the United States continued to apply pressure, South America tilted toward the Allies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Hands up, he says, who is the President of the United States of America? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She was a judge on the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things that are the norm in the States, like tampons, were new to my mom. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Matehuala is on a principal route for truckers headed to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

It was the first national women’s newspaper in the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z