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Todos los colombianos tenemos en la memoria un 9 de abril de 1948. Ya sea porque lo vivimos o nos lo contaron. Este libro, publicado originalmente en 1998 por Planeta y reeditado ahora por eLibros, es eso mismo: El Bogotazo en las voces de sus protagonistas. Fueron ellas, gentes del pueblo, las que asumieron ese papel que, sin su consentimiento, les asignó la historia en un hecho de descomunal tamaño. Se calcula que ese día, solo en Bogotá, perecieron cerca de 2.500 personas. Y es que quienes cuentan aquí su particular 9 de abril fueron testigos, aunque más que eso, sobrevivientes de ...

This is the story of a young woman who leaves home under duress and joins the Union Army in Baltimore, Maryland during the American Civil War. Pretending to be a male soldier, she fights at the Battle of Gettysburg, is later discovered to be a woman, and is discharged. She is then requested by military leadership to become a spy in the Confederate Capital of Richmond. Her life path is changed forever by the challenges she faces during the war.

In Bad Medicine, Sarah A. Whitt exposes how Native American boarding schools and other settler institutions like asylums, factories, and hospitals during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries worked together as a part of an interconnected system of settler domination. In so doing, Whitt centers the experiences of Indigenous youth and adults alike at the Carlisle Indian School, Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, Ford Motor Company Factory, House of the Good Shepherd, and other Progressive Era facilities.