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  • Schuster's & Gimbels

    Milwaukee's Beloved Department Stores

    af Paul Geenen ...
    Serier serie Landmarks
    A nostalgic journey into the life of these Wisconsin shopping meccas—including photos and illustrations.For well over a century, Milwaukee shoppers have had Gimbels or Schuster's in their lives. Even if they didn't crave sewing notions or prize-winning apple pies, they were watching holiday parades wind by, tuning in for Billie the Brownie's radio updates, or losing themselves in front of one of ... Læs mere

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  • Murder in Minnesota

    A Collection of True Cases

    "My investigation of Minnesota murders over the years revealed no new motives for killing anyone. The old ones are perfectly satisfactory. . . . I hope you will find these murders interesting. I regret that I could not report the most ingenious and remarkable ones. They looked like accidents or natural deaths and were never discovered."—Walter N. TrenerryMurder in Minnesota features some of the ... Læs mere

    108,24 kr.

  • Wabash 1791

    St Clair’s defeat

    Serier Bog 240 - Campaign
    A highly illustrated account of the first major battle of the new United States of America, a dramatic defeat at the hands of a confederation of Native American tribes.The battle of the Wabash, or St Clair's Defeat, was the greatest ever victory of American Indians over US Army forces. In 1791, Revolutionary War commander Arthur St Clair led a hastily recruited American army into Ohio in an ... Læs mere

    160,35 kr.

  • American Carnage

    Wounded Knee, 1890

    As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation to join other Lakotas seeking peace. Fearing that Big Foot’s band was headed instead to join “hostile” Lakotas, U.S. troops surrounded the group on Wounded Knee Creek. Tensions mounted, and on the morning of December 29, as the ... Læs mere

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  • Kahiki Supper Club

    A Polynesian Paradise in Columbus

    Inspired by Florida's famed Mai-Kai restaurant, Bill Sapp and Lee Henry opened the Kahiki Supper Club in 1961. Patrons lined up for hours to see the celebrities who dined there--everyone from Betty White to Raymond Burr. Sapp and Henry set out simply to build a nice Polynesian restaurant and ended up establishing the most magnificent one of them all. Outside, two giant Easter Island heads with ... Læs mere

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  • People Wasn't Made to Burn

    A True Story of Housing, Race, and Murder in Chicago

    af Joe Allen ...
    This story of a grief-stricken man's murder of a landlord is "nothing less than a reinvention of the true crime genre" ( The Nation).In 1947, James Hickman shot and killed the landlord he believed was responsible for a tragic fire that took the lives of four of his children on Chicago's West Side. But a vibrant defense campaign, exposing the working poverty and racism that led to his crime, helped ... Læs mere

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  • Living a Country Year

    Wit and Wisdom from the Good Old Days

    af Jerry Apps ...
    Jerry App’s farm stories open the barn door to understanding life in the country.“Even with the all the hard work, we had more time (perhaps we took more time) to enjoy what was all around us: nights filled with starlight, days with clear blue skies and puffy clouds. Wonderful smells everywhere—fresh mown hay, wildflowers, and apple blossoms. Interesting sounds—the rumble of distant thunder, an ... Læs mere

    98,99 kr.

  • The Great Columbus Experiment of 1908

    Waterworks that Changed the World

    After Senator Marcus Hanna, a presidential hopeful at the turn of the twentieth century, contracted typhoid from Columbus tap water and died soon after, the embarrassed city rushed into action. The Columbus Experiment was born. Scientists and a group of nationally renowned men who were taught the science of sanitary engineering at MIT by a forgotten and uncredited female chemist devised a plan and ... Læs mere

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  • James Monroe

    Oberlin's Christian Statesman and Reformer, 1821-1898

    af Rokicky ...
    Catherine M. Rokicky explores this abolitionist politician’s years at Oberlin during the antebellum period, as well as his travels that would put him in contact with important men such as Frederick Douglass; his election to the Ohio House or Representatives from 1856 to 1859 and the Ohio Senate from 1859 to 1862; his work with Jacob D. Cox and James A. Garfield on behalf of black rights (they ... Læs mere

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  • Springfield Aviation

    af Job Conger ...
    Serier serie Images of Aviation
    Citizens of Springfield first witnessed human flight, a balloon ascent, on July 5, 1858. In 1861, the capital city�s most famous resident, Abraham Lincoln, then residing in the White House, authorized the creation of the first U.S. �air force,� a balloon to observe Confederate troops. Springfield�s interface with aviation has been a steady stream of hot-and-cold-running enthusiasm since airplanes ... Læs mere

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  • St. Louis Advertising

    af Frank Absher ...
    Serier serie Images of Modern America
    Mention 'advertising,' and just about everyone thinks of New York's Madison Avenue, long the center of the nation's advertising universe. The reality is that advertising is everywhere and has been almost since the inception of the nation. In St. Louis, for example, two early advertising agencies became major players on the national scene, creating advertising for multinational corporations. ... Læs mere

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  • Wisconsin Veterans Home at King

    Serier serie Images of America
    The Wisconsin Veterans Home at King, Wisconsin, was incorporated in 1887 by the Wisconsin Department of the Grand Army of the Republic. Initially a retirement home for Civil War veterans and their spouses, the Home slowly evolved into a health care facility as the original members aged and new veterans arrived from World War I. Images within Wisconsin Veterans Home at King allow the reader to ... Læs mere

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