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  • Turning South Again

    Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T.

    In Turning South Again the distinguished and award-winning essayist, poet, and scholar of African American literature Houston A. Baker, Jr. offers a revisionist account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. With a take on the work of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute surprisingly different from that in his earlier book Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, Baker ... もっと見る

    3,896 円

  • American Political History

    A Very Short Introduction

    シリーズ series Very Short Introductions
    The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country's national politics have historically included all those features. In American Political History: A Very Short Introduction, Donald Critchlow takes on this contradiction between original theory and actual ... もっと見る

    1,143 円

  • Winemaking in California in the 1860's, Illustrated.

    A. Haraszthy ...
    A description of wine making in California during the 1860's, when the industry was in it's infancy. ... もっと見る

    166 円

  • 13 Days In October: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    Howard Brinkley ...
    Never has the world come as close to the catastrophic destruction that nearly came to pass in October 1962. The United States and the Soviet Union, uneasy allies in World War II but Cold War rivals after the defeat of Germany, squared off over the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. This launched 13 days of tense negotiations between the two nations, as both President John F. Kennedy and ... もっと見る

    1,008 円

  • Roanoke Locomotive Shops and the Norfolk & Western Railroad

    Wayne McKinney ...
    シリーズ series Images of Rail
    In the history of the steam locomotive Roanoke Machine Works played a key part. Take a look at this important economic center of the New South. Roanoke Shops has been an indispensable part of the Roanoke Valley and the "Magic City" for more than 125 years. Founded in 1881 as an independent company, Roanoke Machine Works built new locomotives and cars for the Shenandoah Valley and Norfolk & Western ... もっと見る

    1,921 円

  • Fool’s Gold

    The Decline and Fall of Captain John Sutter of California

    Richard Dillon ...
    Sutter, the father of California, is one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of the West.With Fool’s Gold, famed California historian Richard Dillon (Wells, Fargo Detective, Embarcadero) brings to life the story of Swiss immigrant John A. Sutter.Via a circuitous route, John Sutter arrived in Yerba Buena—today’s San Francisco— on July 1, 1839. At the time, the territory had a population of ... もっと見る

    503 円

  • California 1865: Bodie Bluff, Mono – Dead Sea of the West, Walker River

    J. Ross Browne ...
    This short piece describes a journalists trip through California mining country during the latter days of the American Civil War, a time when more mines were failing that flourishing, and frontier life was on the verge of civilization. ... もっと見る

    503 円

  • No Small Coincidence: How Yale Alumni Made History in Minnesota

    In isolation, the fact that any prominent Minnesotan attended Yale may be purely random. But time after time, a relationship with Yale exists in the histories of so many Minnesotans, that its recurring presence soon appears to be no small coincidence. Stories abound—all around the Twin Cities, throughout the state, and beyond—that provide anecdotal evidence to substantiate this claim.This is a ... もっと見る

    1,681 円

  • The Nebraska Winter of 1948-49

    Stories of Survival

    シリーズ series Disaster
    In 1948-49, Nebraska experienced a winter like never before. Brutal cold, unbearable winds and record snowfall made roads impassable and life difficult for locals. Farmers and ranchers struggled with hunger due to a dwindling supply of coal and food. The governor requested federal aid, and the U.S. Air Force dropped bales of hay into pastures for animals. Many locals perished in the weather, and ... もっと見る

    1,474 円

  • Haunted Bartlesville, Oklahoma

    シリーズ series Haunted America
    Spirits and specters linger, haunt and taunt locals and strangers alike throughout Bartlesville. Some of the city's hottest tourist spots are host to chilling tales of otherworldly visitors. A fair share of the more than twelve thousand souls buried in White Rose Cemetery refuse to rest in peace. Gentleman diners may be distracted at Frank and Lola's by the chilling shadow of Estelle, a ghostly ... もっと見る

    1,280 円

  • Palm Coast

    Arthur E. Dycke ...
    シリーズ series Images of America
    From Swamp to Paradise, this book recounts the history of the City of Palm Coast using vintage images and illustrations. What is paradise? Before 1969, land that would eventually become the City of Palm Coast was considered by some as nothing more than a "big pine-covered swamp." But when the corporate eyes of ITT/Levitt and Sons looked upon the virtually uninhabited land, they saw 22,000 acres of ... もっと見る

    1,917 円

  • The Great Cumberland Floods

    Disaster in the Queen City

    The mountain snows melted and the rains came. In 1853, thousands fled the rising water; in 1889, two days of torrential rain ravaged the city; and in 1936, the infamous St. Patrick's Day flood saw a swell of ten feet. Perched on the banks of the Potomac River, the city of Cumberland, Maryland, has been plagued by devastating floods since its foundation. Time and again, deluges have brought the ... もっと見る

    1,440 円

  • Some Recollections of Arizona and Cochise

    Edward L. Keyes ...
    In the July 1890 issue of The United Service, a Monthly Review of Military and Naval Affairs, Edward L. Keyes published an 8-page article "Some Recollections of Arizona and Cochise."In introducing his article, the author writes: "Arizona in 1872 was quite a different place from the Arizona of 1890. It was during the first-mentioned period that 'some spirit in my feet' led me there. No railroad ... もっと見る

    166 円

  • The Yorktown Victory Monument

    Maria G. Hepner ...
    In October 1781, American independence was achieved on the battlefields of Yorktown, Virginia--a glorious event that the Continental Congress determined was worthy of a monument. Moving at the speed of government, it took one hundred years to act on this resolution. In that time, Yorktown had to come to terms with its role as a site of preservation rather than a center of industry or commerce. The ... もっと見る

    1,440 円

  • Sewickley

    シリーズ series Postcard History Series
    With its prime location along the Ohio River downstream from Pittsburgh, Sewickley was destined to become a great American town. In 1753, a young George Washington traveled through the area on his way to inform the French that the British crown would not tolerate French trespass in the Ohio Valley. Meriwether Lewis mentioned the obstacle presented by its waterfront eddies in his 1803 journal. ... もっと見る

    1,917 円

  • Urban Myths of Los Alamos

    Urban Myths of Los AlamosStories the Atomic City Told ItselfLos Alamos is where the twentieth century learned how to end the world.It is also where people learned how to live with that knowledge.Urban Myths of Los Alamos is a haunting, darkly funny, and deeply human collection of folklore born in one of the most secretive places in American history. From the earliest days of the Manhattan Project ... もっと見る

    714 円

  • Portage Paths

    シリーズ 本: 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 ... もっと見る

    165 円

  • A History of Camp Cory

    Bo Shoemaker ...
    Summertime memories of Camp Cory are awash in warm emotion. From the Reveille bugle at first light to Taps in the evening, those days were the absolute best. Skippering a K-boat on cool Keuka Lake. Silly songs and skits performed into the night. The boundless nature of genuine friendship. It is hard to explain exactly why that time is so special, how it changes lives forever. This wonderful ... もっと見る

    1,440 円

  • Remarkable Women of Stockton

    Mary Jo Gohlke ...
    Women played prominent roles during Stockton's growth from gold rush tent city to California leader in transportation, agriculture and manufacturing. Heiresses reigned in the city's nineteenth-century mansions. In the twentieth century, women fought for suffrage and helped start local colleges, run steamship lines, build food empires and break the school district's color barrier. Writers like ... もっと見る

    1,440 円

  • Detroit's Lost Poletown

    The Little Neighborhood That Touched a Nation

    Poletown was a once vibrant, ethnically diverse neighborhood in Detroit. In its prime, it had a store on every corner. Its theaters, restaurants and schools thrived, and its churches catered to a multiplicity of denominations. In 1981, General Motors announced plans for a new plant in Detroit and pointed to the 465 acres of Poletown. Using the law of eminent domain with a quick-take clause, the ... もっと見る

    1,200 円

  • Foggy Bottom and the West End

    Beginning as a small town on the banks of the Potomac, the neighborhoods of Foggy Bottom and the West End grew into the capital's industrial center at the head of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, with factories, gasworks and breweries. The amalgam of working-class row homes, stately mansions and mills largely disappeared with the coming of the twentieth century, and in their place came the federal ... もっと見る

    1,200 円

  • El corredor de la muerte

    Un mito sostenido en el siglo actual ha sido considerar a los Estados Unidos como un santuario de los derechos civiles y humanos, sin embargo, las violaciones de estos derechos en ese país son cada día más evidentes para la humanidad. Pudiera decirse que su historia es también la evolución de la discriminación despiadada hacia los indios, negros, asiáticos, hispanos y otros grupos de inmigrantes, ... もっと見る

    327 円

  • A House for All Peoples

    Ethnic Politics in Chicago 1890–1936

    This book assesses the role of urban ethnic groups, particularly in terms of the rise of the Democratic Party to national predominance between 1928 and 1932. It builds quantitative and qualitative models for the study of ethnic groups in terms of political behavior. Focusing clearly upon political change and the role of ethnicity, the work advances the hypothesis that Chicago's ethnic groups ... もっと見る

    5,006 円

  • Wicked Greenville

    Jennifer Stoy ...
    The Wild West of the Blue Ridge#YeahThatGreenville is the official slogan of a city with a Southern Charm and congenial reputation. But the beauty of the Reedy River Falls cannot cover up its secret past. Theodosia Burr Alston regularly summered in Greenville prior to being "lost at sea" in 1812. Rival newspaper editors Benjamin Perry and Turner Bynum, faced off in a fatal duel in 1832.Hugh ... もっと見る

    1,280 円