![]() Senator, Henry Dawes ( Aidan Quinn) favors a peaceful policy of relocating the Indians to "Reservations," government-sustained but barren lands, to be Christianized, farm-trained, and cajoled to legally sell the Black Hills. The victory is a last hurrah for the Native Americans trying to hold onto sacred Black Hills lands, in the wake of a series of peace treaties largely broken/rewritten by the Whites greedy for railroad and mining territory. The Little Big Horn massacre of General Custer (shown from a distance, in a striking, overhead shot) happens under Native American warriors led by Lakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull ( August Schellenberg). began to expand west in the 1860s and 1870s. ![]() BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE looks at the conflicts that occurred with the Native Americans when the U.S. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Walsh School of Foreign Service in Washington DC. Having studied terrorism over 30 years, Hoffman is currently the Director of the Security Studies Program and Professor of Security Studies at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. He is one of a handful of truly outstanding scholars in the field. Professor Hoffman is the author of the widely cited Inside Terrorism that has been described as the “best one volume introduction to this phenomenon” by the Washington Post, along with many other volumes and numerous articles. This general issue of whether terrorism works is one that must be confronted and understood.Īs always, we will have copies of “Anonymous Soldiers” for sale at the seminar. It specifically asks the question whether terrorism is a successful strategy and, if so, under what circumstances and conditions. The book is a case study of how Britain responded to both Arab and Jewish terrorism during the period it governed Palestine after 1917. ![]() The Struggle for Israel with Bruce Hoffmanīruce Hoffman will present from his new book, “Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947” published by Knopf. ![]() ![]() Young children today will love to hear how Milly-Molly-Mandy decides to spend her first penny, looks after a hedgehog, and spends her first night away from home. This collection of twenty-one classic tales about this resourceful and thoughtful little girl reflect with accuracy the dilemmas and challenges of a child’s world. The stories of Milly-Molly-Mandy and her family and friends have charmed generations of children since they first appeared in 1925. 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' A feat of old-school storytelling' The Observer 'A formidable, necessary voice in fiction' Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Malibu Rising 'Sometimes you just step into a book and let it wash over you, like you're swimming under a big, sparkling night sky' Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina ![]() ![]() As internal political strife and a clash of cultures lead to seemingly inevitable conflict, Blackthorne’s loyalty and strength of character are tested by both passion and loss, and he is torn between two worlds that will each be forever changed. ![]() Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. ![]() ![]() The classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James ClavellĪfter Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen-Nippon. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book can get surprisingly technical, given that it’s targeted at a general audience. 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