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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 €

  • Tahoe Tales of Historic Times & Unforgettable People

    Of Historic Times & Unforgettable People

    par Don Lane ...
    This manuscript is a collection of short stories that were originally prepared as part of a radio program that began in the early 1980s as a summer informational and educational program for Tahoe area residents and visitors. Between 1982 and 1985, the author presented over a hundred live radio features about Tahoes history and the environment over Tahoe radio station KTHO. Lane returned to the ... En savoir plus

    8,44 €

  • Phenix City

    par John Lyles ...
    Collection series Images of America
    From settling the Southern Frontier to its reputation as "wickedest city in America," the history of Phenix City is detailed through vintage images. Phenix City, Alabama, on the western bank of the Chattahoochee River across from Columbus, Georgia, was officially incorporated as Brownville in 1883. However, its history can be traced through Girard, Knights Station, Summerville, Fort Mitchell, the ... En savoir plus

    11,07 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Priest, a Prostitute, and Some Other Early Texans

    The Lives Of Fourteen Lone Star State Pioneers

    par Don Blevins ...
    This unique collection of short biographies of the Lone Star State’s most colorful characters includes headliners Father Miguel Muldoon, the Irish-Spanish Catholic priest and diplomat who helped convert Protestants in order to settle Austin, and six-foot-two prostitute and hotelkeeper Sarah Bowman, who fought as bravely as a man among the Rangers and was buried with full military honors. These are ... En savoir plus

    14,05 €

  • The Dance of Freedom

    Texas African Americans during Reconstruction

    par Barry A. Crouch ...
    Collection series Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    This anthology brings together the late Barry A. Crouch's most important articles on the African American experience in Texas during Reconstruction. Grouped topically, the essays explore what freedom meant to the newly emancipated, how white Texans reacted to the freed slaves, and how Freedmen's Bureau agents and African American politicians worked to improve the lot of ordinary African American ... En savoir plus

    25,64 €

  • Metairie

    Collection series Images of America
    Metairie was the first suburb of New Orleans; an outgrowth to the west by young families seeking larger lots, open air, and affordable new housing. Those suburbanites shared much in common with previous generations of New Orleanians who had migrated westward from the original town (now the French Quarter) to high land along the Mississippi River and the Metairie Ridge. When Jefferson Parish was ... En savoir plus

    11,16 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Boone's Wilderness Road

    Collection Livre 6 - Historic Highways
    Volume 6 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

  • Unbroken and Unbowed

    A History of Black Protest in America

    In this compelling and informative volume, Jimmie R. Hawkins walks the reader through the many forms of Black protest in American history, from pre-colonial times through the George Floyd protests of 2020. Hawkins breaks American history into five sections, with subsections highlighting how Black identity helped to shape protest during that period. These protests include slave ship mutinies, the ... En savoir plus

    17,19 €

  • Crucible of Reconstruction

    War, Radicalism, and Race in Louisiana, 1862–1877

    par Ted Tunnell ...
    In late April, 1862, Union warships slipped past the Confederate river forts below New Orleans and blasted the Rebel fleet guarding the city. Advancing overland, General Benjamin F. Butler occupied New Orleans on May Day, and for the duration of the war the Stars and Stripes waved over the Confederacy's largest city. The reconstruction of Louisiana began almost immediately.In Crucible of ... En savoir plus

    16,68 €

  • Family Stories from the Attic

    Bringing letters and archives alive through creative nonfiction, flash narratives, and poetry

    Modifié par Christi Craig, Lisa Rivero ...
    FAMILY STORIES FROM THE ATTIC is an anthology of essays, creative nonfiction, and poetry inspired by family letters, objects, and archives. Nearly two dozen contributors from the United States and Australia tell stories of immigration and migration, loss, discovery, secrets, questions, love, and the search for meaning and identity. Editors Christi Craig and Lisa Rivero bring together both ... En savoir plus

    8,95 €

  • Western New York Lodge of Research

    Books of Transactions 1983-2013

    Produced by the Western New York Lodge of Research No.9007 under the Grand Lodge F&AM of the State of New York, this composite tome contains all the previously published papers and lectures presented at meetings over the organization's first 30 years. It covers history, esoteric topics, commentaries, and research on Masonic-related subjects from numerous local authors. ... En savoir plus

    4,41 €

  • Northern Kentucky University

    A Panoramic History

    Northern Kentucky University's evolution from an educational branch of the University of Kentucky into a major university in its own right is a tale of promise and humble beginnings. Could the handful of students and instructors attending classes in a Covington bus station in 1946 have ever imagined what the next six and a half decades would bring? Today, NKU serves more than 15,000 students, ... En savoir plus

    23,06 €

  • The Wrecking of La Salle's Ship Aimable and the Trial of Claude Aigron

    Traduit par François Lagarde ...
    Collection series Charles N. Prothro Texana Series
    When Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, landed on the Texas coast in 1685, bent on founding a French colony, his enterprise was doomed to failure. Not only was he hundreds of miles from his intended landfall—the mouth of the Mississippi—but his supply ship, Aimable, was wrecked at the mouth of Matagorda Bay, leaving the colonists with scant provisions and little protection against local Indian ... En savoir plus

    14,20 €

  • Notorious Two-Bit Street

    2nd Edition

    par Lyle, Jean Barnes ...
    Madams of brothels, houses of gambling, rampant government corruption—all these were found in a late 1800s Mormon community. This is the fascinating, well-researched, true history of Two-Bit Street—a street that became known throughout the world for its ladies of the evening and saloons that never closed. The American West’s wildest poured into this small Utah town after it was chosen to be the ... En savoir plus

    8,44 €

  • Voices from an Early American Convent

    Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727–1760

    Modifié par Emily Clark ...
    In 1727, twelve nuns left France to establish a community of Ursuline nuns in New Orleans, the capital of the French colony of Louisiana. Notable for founding a school that educated all free girls, regardless of social rank, the Ursulines also ran an orphanage, administered the colony's military hospital, and sustained an aggressive program of catechesis among the enslaved population of colonial ... En savoir plus

    15,95 €

  • Varieties of Southern Religious Experiences

    Modifié par Samuel S. Hill ...
    Over the past twenty years there has been a dramatic increase in the number, scope, and quality of studies of religion in the American South. This new work has been inspired and furthered by a growing acknowledgment of the importance of religious studies in general, by the conviction that religion has always been basic to popular discourse in the South, and by an awareness of the bearing of ... En savoir plus

    15,95 €

  • Indiana’s Timeless Tales - 1805 - 1811

    Indiana History Time Line, #6

    Collection Livre 6 - Indiana History Time Line
    The conflict between the American Indian tribes in the Indiana Territory increased in the years leading up to the War of 1812. The three dominant personalities, William Henry Harrison, Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa, the Prophet, came to a head at the November 7, 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe.TenskwatawaAlso called the Prophet, Tenskwatawa's vision while awakening from a drunken stupor foretold two paths ... En savoir plus

    5,99 €

  • Battle at Alcatraz

    A Desperate Attempt to Escape the Rock

    One of the bloddiest battles in the history of American prisons occurred at Alcatraz in May 1946, when prisoners staged a breakout, obtaining guns from the gun gallery and taking nine guards hostage. The escape attempt was the cumination of months of methodical planning. But, when a last-minute glitch foiled their escape, inmates shot the hostages in effort to leave no witnesses. Before order was ... En savoir plus

    8,45 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Syracuse and Lake Wawasee

    Collection series Images of America
    A vibrant community of artists, watermen, entrepreneurs, educators, and spiritual leaders left a legacy well worth preserving. Nestled in northeastern Indiana's Kosciusko County, Syracuse and its two lakes, Lake Wawasee and Syracuse Lake, became a popular area both for industry and tourism following the completion of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1874. What had been a quiet fisherman's paradise ... En savoir plus

    11,07 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Theatre in Early Kentucky

    1790-1820

    This comprehensive study shows that the stage was active in Kentucky long before the first professional troupe toured in 1815. During the period covered, 1790–1820, Lexington, Frankfort, and Louisville became the major theatrical centers in the West. Performances on Kentucky stages far outnumbered those in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Nashville, or New Orleans. Drawing upon accounts in ... En savoir plus

    33,36 €

  • Alabama

    A History

    Alabama's is a story, believes author Virginia V. Hamilton, that bears scrutiny by Alabamians and outsiders alike if they would understand the present.Pause for a moment before a gallery of fading portraits, and you will sense the beginnings of Alabama's troubled history--homespun pioneers gripped by "Alabama fever," chained and manacled black people quietly awaiting a slave trader's order to move ... En savoir plus

    13,38 €

  • A Right to Read

    Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama's Public Libraries, 1900–1965

    This original and significant contribution to the historiography of the civil rights movement and education in the South details a dramatic and disturbing chapter in American cultural history.The tradition of American public libraries is closely tied to the perception that these institutions are open to all without regard to social background. Such was not the case in the segregated South, however ... En savoir plus

    18,53 €

  • Writings of an American Mother in 2010: Principles of the Founding Fathers and Current Issues

    ...Planting the Seeds of Leadership

    par Mary E. Ali ...
    As I progressed on my leadership training through Lamp: The Institute for Leadership in Physical Therapy, . . . I ran into some resistance in completing my I ILP project . . . there must be something about leadership that I was not getting. So, I went to my plan B. What Leader or Leaders would I like to have dinner with and get into their brains and hearts? Humm. . . . the Founding Fathers of the ... En savoir plus

    8,44 €

  • Keys Desert Queen Ranch: A Visual & Historical Tour

    Joshua Tree National Park

    From an early American Indian site, to a cow camp, to a mill site, to a family ranch; Desert Queen Ranch was the home of Bill and Frances Keys. Together, they made a life and raised their children in this remote desert location. Through their hard work, they built one of the largest, most self-sustaining ranches of its kind in the area.This book will take you on a tour of the ranch, telling you of ... En savoir plus

    4,41 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus