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  • O X de Malcolm e a questão racial norte-americana

    Esta obra aborda duas formas de representação da história de Malcolm Little (1925–1965) ou Al Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz, conhecido como Malcolm X. O autor compara duas biografias do ativista – o livro Autobiografia de Malcolm X, de 1965, do escritor e jornalista Alex Haley, e Malcolm X, filme de 1992 dirigido por Spike Lee –, apontando as aproximações e distanciamentos entre as produções literária e ... Leer más

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  • Decatur

    de Joe Earle ...
    Series series Images of America
    Join author Joe Earle as he recounts the history of Decatur, Georgia's rich and storied past using 200 vintage images. Decatur proudly proclaims itself a city of "homes, schools, and places of worship." While that motto might seem to describe any number of small towns, the words accurately capture the essence of Decatur, a place of fine and humble homes, well-regarded schools, and large, active ... Leer más

    $12,744 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Spanish Flu 1918 History of The Deadliest: Lessons to Learn and Global Consequences. Comparison with The Pandemic Of 2020 and How to Prevent New Ones in The Future

    de Mariah Khan ...
    Did you know?During the flu pandemic of 1918, the New York City health commissioner tried to slow the transmission of the flu by ordering businesses to open and close on staggered shifts to avoid overcrowding on the subways.The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, the deadliest in history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide—about one-third of the planet's population—and killed an ... Leer más

    $4,495 CLP

  • Women in Texas History

    Series series Women in Texas History Series, sponsored by the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation
    Winner, 2019 Liz Carpenter Award, sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)In recent decades, a small but growing number of historians have dedicated their tireless attention to analyzing the role of women in Texas history. Each contribution—and there have been many—represents a brick in the wall of new Texas history. From early Native societies to astronauts, Women in Texas ... Leer más

    $9,315 CLP

  • The Complete Works of Lemuel Abijah Abbott

    The Complete Works of Lemuel Abijah AbbottAmerican author of different books amonge them Descendants of George AbbottThis collection includes the following:Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary, 1864 ... Leer más

    $1,072 CLP

  • Portage Paths

    Series Libro 7 - Historic Highways
    Volume 7 of the series "Historic Highways of America". According to Wikipedia: "Archer Butler Hulbert (26 Jan 1873 – 24 Dec 1933), historical geographer, writer, and professor of American history... He was Vice-Principal of the Putnam Military Academy, Zanesville, Ohio, until 1897. Hulbert then did newspaper work in Korea in 1897 and '98: he was editor of the Korean Independent (Seoul) and edited ... Leer más

    $1,066 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland

    Tennessee History Book Award Finalist The Upper Cumberland region of Kentucky and Tennessee, often regarded as isolated and out of pace with the rest of the country, has a far richer history and culture than has been documented. The contributors to Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland discuss an extensive array of subjects, including popular music, movies, architecture, folklore, ... Leer más

    $30,760 CLP

  • Fitz H. Lane

    An Artist's Voyage through Nineteenth-Century America

    Fitz H. Lane�s maritime masterpieces are known throughout the world, but the man himself has eluded both historians and art critics for over a century.The Luminist painter�s successful career began in his early childhood in picturesque Gloucester, Massachusetts and his talents developed and matured over time, making him one of the nation�s premier nineteenth-century artists.Throughout his career, ... Leer más

    $14,796 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • New York's World War II Aircraft

    New York State was a center of industry during World War II. New York aviation companies designed many of the greatest combat aircraft of the era, and bustling armies of women and men helped quickly churn them out by the thousands. More than one fourth of all US warplanes came from New York drawing boards during the war. These planes saw combat service everywhere, holding the line in the deserts ... Leer más

    $14,848 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Historic Crimes & Justice in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

    The first courts handled crimes like lying, idleness and card playing with punishments that ranged from fines to public whipping to death by hanging. Constables kept order until Portsmouth's first police officer took up the shield in 1800. But no force could keep all crime at bay. The court sentenced the beautiful, educated Ruth Blay to hanging on shaky evidence that she might have killed her baby ... Leer más

    $13,194 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Wicked Greensboro

    de Alice E. Sink ...
    In a town where ladies of the evening walked the streets (but were legally bound to hide their ankles) and trouble rolled through town on the famous railways, this Piedmont city has seen its fair share of iniquity. From Frank Lucas, the drug lord whose childhood in Greensboro served as the catalyst for a life of crime, to the teacher who ruled his students with a switch and a pocketknife, the ... Leer más

    $14,796 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Chronicle of Civil War Hampton, Virginia

    Struggle and Rebirth on the Homefront

    From its beginning as a Tidewater town in the 1600s, Hampton, Virginia, has weathered many storms, including the disastrous effects of the Civil War and the difficulties of Reconstruction. The city's picturesque harbors have witnessed the rise of a thriving seafood industry, the growth of educational opportunity and the plight of Hampton's African American community. Author Alice Erickson uses her ... Leer más

    $14,796 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Virginia's Civil Rights Hero Curtis W. Harris Sr.

    In 1924, the Virginia State Legislature passed the Racial Integrity Act. The act banned interracial marriage down to "a single drop" of African blood. Just three months later, Curtis W. Harris was born in Dendron, Virginia. Harris was the sixth child of impoverished sharecroppers, living in a desolate outpost of the Commonwealth, but in time he would lead the fight against the Racial Integrity Act ... Leer más

    $14,796 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Struggle for the City

    Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement

    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    The urban renewal policies stemming from the 1954 Housing Act and 1956 Highway Act destroyed the economic centers of many Black neighborhoods in the United States. Struggle for the City recovers the agency and solidarity of African American residents confronting this diagnosis of “blight” in northern cities in the 1950s and 1960s.Examining Black newspapers, archival documents from Black ... Leer más

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  • Embattled Memories

    Contested Meanings in Korean War Memorials

    de Suhi Choi ...
    The Korean War has been called the “forgotten war,” not as studied as World War II or Vietnam. Choi examines the collective memory of the Korean War through five discrete memory sites in the United States and South Korea, including the PBS documentary Battle for Korea, the Korean War Memorial in Salt Lake City, and the statue of General Douglas MacArthur in Incheon, South Korea. She contends that ... Leer más

    $33,144 CLP

  • Bluegrass Cavalcade

    Kentucky history centers on the Bluegrass; this is not to say that the rest of Kentucky does not have a rich story, but chronologically, the beginning was here. Too, Bluegrass history can scarcely be separated from the rest of the state. Boonesboro and Harrodsburg, Henry Clay and Elizabeth Madox Roberts are the cherished possessions of all Kentuckians. Jane Todd Crawford and Dr. Ephraim McDowell ... Leer más

    $38,583 CLP

  • Street Talk

    The Great Flood and Other Stories from a River City

    Street Talk, (The Great Flood and Other Stories from a River City), is a collection of columns and stories written in the early 1980s by author and investigative journalist Dan Luzadder, a columnist for the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. Included are his reflections and reporting on life in the city, including columns he wrote for the newspaper's Pulitzer-winning coverage of The Great Flood. This ... Leer más

    $24,427 CLP

  • Barn Dances Jamborees Across Kentucky

    de J.D. Wilkes ...
    Kentuckians have been wearing out shoe leather at informal jamborees since the state was settled over two hundred years ago. Tadpole's Dew Drop Inn played host to some fifteen hundred musical shindigs in its time as a mecca of Marshall County music. A Rosine barn dance gave bluegrass founder Bill Monroe his start, and another fosters new musical talent at its weekly get-togethers. Clawhammer banjo ... Leer más

    $13,664 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Hattiesburg, Mississippi

    A History of the Hub City

    This narrative history of Hattiesburg, MS illustrates the people, places, and events that have shaped its cultural and natural history. Founded by William Hardy at the confluence of rivers and rail lines, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is today a capital of education, healthcare, commerce and the armed forces in the Gulf South. In this new biography of the Hub City, experience its story as you never ... Leer más

    $13,916 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Pennsylvania's Coal and Iron Police

    Series series Images of America
    A fascinating history of law and power, Pennsylvania's Coal and Iron Police documents the law enforcement group which ruled these communities from 1865 to 1931. Pennsylvania's Coal and Iron Police ruled small patch towns and industrial cities for their coal and iron company bosses from 1865 to 1931. Armed with a gun and badge and backed by state legislation, the members of the private police force ... Leer más

    $14,325 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Main Streets of Oklahoma

    Okie Stories from Every County

    de Kristi Eaton ...
    It's the heart of every community in the Sooner State. It's where people go to eat, shop and socialize. It's where Woods County reenacts the Freedom Bank Robbery and Shootout and where Grant County displays "Twister" memorabilia. Oklahoma residents are embracing Main Street, celebrating and revitalizing local history. Author Kristi Eaton crisscrosses the state, exploring each of the seventy-seven ... Leer más

    $12,759 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Italians of Newark

    A History

    Faith, family and food. Between 1880 and 1924, more than four million Italians immigrated to the United States. Tens of thousands flocked to Newark and reshaped a city. Many settled in the Old First Ward, which once claimed the title of largest Little Italy in New Jersey. Clubs like the Spilingese Social Club sprang up to provide support and camaraderie and dishes like giambotta made their way ... Leer más

    $14,808 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Memphis in the Jazz Age

    The Jazz Age was a boom time in the Bluff City. Murder was rampant, and politics were rough-and-tumble. First, Mayor Rowlett Paine and Boss E.H. Crump joined forces to fight the local Ku Klux Klan (and nearly lost). Then they turned on each other, and the political battle ensued. Other colorful characters weaving in and out of the story include Black political leader "Bob" Church, millionaire ... Leer más

    $14,796 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Original Battle Creek Crime King

    Adam "Pump" Arnold's Vile Reign

    Adam "Pump" Arnold was both feared and regaled in Victorian- era Battle Creek. He was a bootlegger and a pimp, a robber and a con artist, an arsonist and a loan shark and even an assassin. Arnold faced off with the city over illegal liquor sales and flaunted his victory with a life-size statue of the mayor dressed as a hobo. Called the "greatest criminal in the history of Battle Creek," Arnold was ... Leer más

    $13,357 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus