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  • Secret Washington DC: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

    par JoAnn Hill ...
    Around the world, Washington, DC, is known for its powerful government, majestic monuments, and world-renowned museums. Secret Washington, DC: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure reminds us that the fabric of the city isn’t solely embedded in its callous political parties, exhausting lawmaking policies, and rampant tourism. Rather, it’s woven through its rich and complex history, ... En savoir plus

    11,48 €

  • Galena

    par Diann Marsh ...
    Collection series Images of America
    Meet the pioneer residents, stroll the historic business district and discover the unique architecture of Galena, Illinois! Galena, IL, nestled in the bluffs of the Mississippi River in northwest Illinois, is one of the most historic communities in the region. The townspeople take pride in the rich history of their town, dedicating their time to restoration projects and the booming industry of ... En savoir plus

    11,16 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • How the Suburbs Were Segregated

    Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890–1960

    par Paige Glotzer ...
    Collection series Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
    The story of the rise of the segregated suburb often begins during the New Deal and the Second World War, when sweeping federal policies hollowed out cities, pushed rapid suburbanization, and created a white homeowner class intent on defending racial barriers. Paige Glotzer offers a new understanding of the deeper roots of suburban segregation. The mid-twentieth-century policies that favored ... En savoir plus

    22,34 €

  • Historia de las Indias (vol. 3 de 5)

    Descubre el relato que cambió la percepción del Nuevo Mundo para siempre.En el tercer volumen de su monumental obra, "Historia de las Indias", Bartolomé de las Casas nos sumerge en un relato fascinante y revelador sobre la colonización de América. Con una prosa apasionada y detallada, Las Casas ofrece una visión única de los eventos que marcaron el destino de un continente y sus habitantes.Este ... En savoir plus

    9,99 €

  • Zen and the Art of Local History

    Modifié par Carol Kammen, Bob Beatty ...
    Collection series American Association for State and Local History
    Zen and the Art of Local History is an engaging, interactive conversation that conveys the exciting nature of local history.Divided into six major themes the book covers the scope and breadth of local history:• Being a Local Historian• Topics and Sources• Staying Relevant• Getting it Right• Writing History• History OrganizationsEach chapter features one of Carol Kammen’s memorable editorials from ... En savoir plus

    56,02 €

  • A Tapestry of Vivid Strands

    Hungarian Roots in American Soil

    par Lou Varga ...
    A Tapestry of Vivid Strands traces a life shaped by curiosity, perseverance, and the quiet pursuit of understanding. Born into a world newly delivered from war, the author recalls growing up in a 1950s working-class neighborhood on the South End of Columbus, Ohio—a time remembered through its people, sounds, and experiences. Death visited both his maternal and paternal grandparents whose ... En savoir plus

    4,41 €

  • Portage Paths

    Collection Livre 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 ... En savoir plus

    0,99 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Women in Texas History

    par Angela Boswell ...
    Collection 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 ... En savoir plus

    7,30 €

  • 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 ... En savoir plus

    1,03 €

  • Oldest Cincinnati

    par Rick Pender ...
    Late in the 18th-century, people began to head west in America in search of new frontiers and new lives. Many of them, including immigrants, found their way down the Ohio River to Cincinnati, Ohio, the “Queen City of the West.” In Oldest Cincinnati, follow their journey and learn the story of the city as you’ve never heard it before. Read about a ferry that helped early settlers cross the Ohio ... En savoir plus

    11,48 €

  • Earning Power

    Women and Work in Los Angeles, 1880-1930

    par Eileen Wallis ...
    Collection series The Urban West Series
    The half-century between 1880 and 1930 saw rampant growth in many American cities and an equally rapid movement of women into the work force. In Los Angeles, the city not only grew from a dusty cow town to a major American metropolis but also offered its residents myriad new opportunities and challenges.Earning Power examines the role that women played in this growth as they attempted to make ... En savoir plus

    25,43 €

  • Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War 2

    The United States History for English Learners, Children(Kids) and Young Adults

    Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War tells stories about the ideas and issues that have shaped the United States in the era of Abraham Lincoln’s presidential term and the Civil War. You can think of it not just as a series of history of America and its people, but a series of lessons.Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving ... En savoir plus

    3,53 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Galveston Era

    The Texas Crescent on the Eve of Secession

    The "Queen City" of Texas they called her—or the "Octopus of the Gulf." Galveston from 1845 to 1860 was the center of culture in Texas—or the monster with an economic strangle hold on all Texas trade. It was a gracious city with wide paved streets, impressive buildings, and neat gardens; yet it was also a pestilence-ridden place where no sanitary code was ever enforced and where one in every two ... En savoir plus

    19,15 €

  • New Brunswick and the Civil War

    The Brunswick Boys in the Great Rebellion

    At the beginning of the Civil War, New Brunswick was positioned at the transportation and manufacturing hub of New Jersey. Many of the city's young men exchanged manufacturing equipment for rifles, and those whom they left behind witnessed the war through letters from their sons, brothers and husbands. Patriotism, a longing to earn more money and adventure lured these "Brunswick Boys"--close ... En savoir plus

    12,25 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Cape Cod Wildlife

    A History of Untamed Forests, Seas and Shores

    For hundreds of years, before English settlers permanently colonized what is now Cape Cod, bears and wolves were the top predators on this peninsula of Massachusetts. The Cape actually became an island when the Bourne and Sagamore Bridges were completed. This book details the history of wildlife on Cape Cod, at near shore, such as whaling and whale migration, and inland, like bears and wolves. It ... En savoir plus

    12,25 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • North Dakota Beer

    A Heady History

    Before North Dakota obtained statehood and entered the Union as a dry state, the region's commercial beer industry thrived. A lengthy era of temperance forced locals to find clever ways to get a beer, such as crossing the Montana and Minnesota borders for a pint, smuggling beer over the rails and brewing at home. After Prohibition, the state's farmers became national leaders in malting barley ... En savoir plus

    12,25 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Chicago Marching

    A History of Protest, Authority & Violence

    Examine the inflection points in Chicago's history of protest. A word packed with meaning and emotion, "protest" can be synonymous with both free speech and rioting. Chicago's citizens and city officials have a long and reactive relationship based on the tension between those differences of perspective, from the 1855 Lager Beer Riot to the conversation surrounding Black Lives Matter and the ... En savoir plus

    12,25 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Lost Restaurants of Grand Rapids

    par Norma Lewis ...
    Grand Rapids restaurants have served up meals and memories since the city's earliest days. At Bentham's, one of the first downtown restaurants, customers without money to eat could trade an animal pelt for supper. John Sebaitis trained his German shepherd, Spooky, to serve beer to the patrons at his tavern. And a seventeen-year-old Gerald R. Ford worked part time as a server and dish washer at ... En savoir plus

    12,25 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Down East

    An Illustrated History of Maritime Maine

    par Lincoln Paine ...
    This engaging overview of Maine's maritime history ranges from early Native American travel and fishing to pre-Plymouth European settlements, wars, international trade, shipbuilding, boom-and-bust fisheries, immigrant quarrymen, quick-lime production, yachting, and modern port facilities, all unfolding against one of the most dramatic seascapes on the planet. Down East can be read in an evening ... En savoir plus

    18,37 €

  • Brieven uit en over Amerika

    Ontdek de wereld door de ogen van pioniers!Stap in de fascinerende wereld van de late 19e eeuw met "Brieven uit en over Amerika" van C. V. Gerritsen en Aletta H. Jacobs. Dit meeslepende boek neemt je mee op een reis door het Amerika van toen, gezien door de ogen van twee vooruitstrevende denkers.Unieke thema’s zoals emancipatie, sociale hervormingen en culturele ontdekkingen worden op een ... En savoir plus

    9,99 €

  • De Soto, Coronado, Cabrillo Explorers of the Northern Mystery of David Lavender (Illustrated)

    par David Lavender ...
    American history begins not with the English at Jamestown or the Pilgrims at Plymouth but with Spanish exploration of the border country from Florida to California in the 16th century. This handbook describes the expeditions of three intrepid explorers—De Soto, Coronado, and Cabrillo—their adventures, their encounters with native inhabitants, and the consequences, good and ill, of their journeys. ... En savoir plus

    5,30 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Secret Tampa Bay: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

    par Joshua Ginsberg ...
    Where can you join in a pirate parade, see live mermaids, and catch a flamenco dance performance at the oldest and largest Spanish restaurant in America? Where does the spirit of an ancient Tocobaga shaman allegedly continue to protect the area from the forces of nature? Where can you wander through secret gardens, listen to bagpipe music, take a class in fire spinning, and sample a seemingly ... En savoir plus

    11,48 €

  • Leesburg

    par Mary Fishback ...
    Collection series Images of America
    Once serving as the capital of the United States for three days, the town of Leesburg, Virginia stands at the crossroads of American history. As a rural hinterland of the Washington, D.C. area and situated on the northern fringe of the old Confederacy, Leesburg has seen troops and generals, travelers and settlers, and politicians and presidents walk its streets, and opposing political views tear ... En savoir plus

    11,07 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Pennsylvania Disasters

    True Stories of Tragedy and Survival

    par Karen Ivory ...
    Collection series Disasters Series
    True accounts of major disasters in Pennsylvania history are retold in this engagingly written collection. From the Johnstown floods of 1889 to the heroic actions on United Flight 193 on 9/11, Pennsylvania has been home to some of the nation's most dramatic moments. Each story reveals not only the circumstances surrounding the disaster and the magnitude of the devastation but also the courage and ... En savoir plus

    16,21 €