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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

    11,26 €

  • Fire Island

    Heroes & Villains on Long Island's Wild Shore

    par Jack Whitehouse ...
    Fire Island, or Great South Beach as it is also known, is a 32-mile long sliver of a barrier beach located just off the South Shore of Long Island. Always a wild, lonely and untamed wilderness, its shores, waterways and the lands surrounding it have given us innumerable stories -- some inspirational, some frightening, but all of them intriguing. The stories in this book portray people and events ... En savoir plus

    12,25 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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

    par Karyn Locke ...
    Pittsburgh, PA is affectionately known as The Steel City and The ‘Burgh to locals, but there’s so much more to the renaissance city than just nicknames—and that includes all of the weird, wonderful, and obscure locations that make it an ideal place to visit and call home. Where can you find a road paved solely with wood or public steps that have actual street names? Is there a place in The Golden ... En savoir plus

    11,26 €

  • The Tornado

    Collection Livre 83 - Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
    The Tornado gives account of one of the world’s most terrifying natural disasters. Twisters have left their wake of freakish consequences throughout the United States and the world, and The Tornado vividly describes some of the most bizarre from around the country—houseboats sailing through the air; cars flown to a landing half a cornfield away; an entire house lifted and demolished, leaving only ... En savoir plus

    7,10 €

  • 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

    15,65 €

  • Chatham

    From the Second World War to the Age of Aquarius

    par Debra Lawless ...
    Picking up where Chatham in the Jazz Age left off, this exciting new book by Debra Lawless explores the history of Chatham, from the beginning of the Second World War to the end of the 1960s. Meet a brave group of people who rationed their food and mourned the loss of their sons, including Robert Scott Brown, the only soldier from Cape Cod killed at Pearl Harbor. As the military took over the ... En savoir plus

    12,25 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Prohibition in Southwestern Michigan

    Even in law-abiding southwestern Michigan, the Eighteenth Amendment turned ordinary citizens into scofflaws and sparked unprecedented unrest. Betta Holloway reached her breaking point when her husband, a Portland cop, was shot pursuing a rumrunner. She relieved his pain with a neighbor's homebrew. As farmers across the region fermented their fruit to make a living, gangsters like Al Capone amassed ... En savoir plus

    12,25 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Lost Suwannee County

    par Eric Musgrove ...
    Suwannee County is filled with forgotten echoes of its lost past, from demolished pioneer homes to defunct railroads to lost forts from the Seminole Wars. In the 1830s, ecotourism arrived. Local sulfur springs, with their grand hotels and health resorts, drew travelers from around the world for a dip in the same healing waters of the Suwannee River traversed by steamboats. Thundering iron horses ... En savoir plus

    12,25 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Light Ahead for the Negro

    Light Ahead for the Negro written by Edward Austin Johnson who was an attorney. This book was published in 1904. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as missing pages, poor pictures or errant ... En savoir plus

    2,99 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • On Fly-Fishing the Northern Rockies

    Essays and Dubious Advice

    Anyone would be hard-pressed to find a pastime more emblematic of the western spirit than fly-fishing. Liberating, poetic, wild, soothing and inspiring, it pushes the boundaries of the mind. In essays ranging from introspective to ironic, angler authors Chadd VanZanten and Russ Beck distill the purest truths of fly-fishing into essential, often humorous rules of thumb. With kernels like "always ... En savoir plus

    12,25 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Jamaica Plain

    Collection series Images of America
    Regardless of how the name came to be, many agree that Jamaica Plain is one of the loveliest areas of New England. Stories abound as to how Jamaica Plain derived its name; some trace it to the flow of rum shipments to the port of Boston following Oliver Cromwell's seizure of Jamaica in 1660, but whatever the true origin of the name, the area has a rich and colorful history that flows from its ... En savoir plus

    11,16 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Spires Still Point to Heaven

    Cincinnati's Religious Landscape, 1788–1873

    par Matthew Smith ...
    Collection series Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
    A case study about the formation of American pluralism and religious liberty, The Spires Still Point to Heaven explores why—and more importantly how—the early growth of Cincinnati influenced the changing face of the United States. Matthew Smith deftly chronicles the urban history of this thriving metropolis in the mid-nineteenth century. As Protestants and Catholics competed, building rival ... En savoir plus

    23,06 €

  • Seattle's Music Venues

    The varieties of music venues in Seattle have been as vital and vibrant for the people of the Emerald City as the genres that have graced these famous halls. These houses of music have nurtured the entertainment legacy of this region. Each holds a beautiful, haunting, and unique history that has helped shape the Pacific Northwest�s musical culture, which, in turn, has helped shape our community. ... En savoir plus

    12,25 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Great Fire of Petersburg, Virginia

    On July 16, 1815, a fire began in a small stable in Petersburg. After only a few hours, almost two-thirds of the city lay in ruins. Citizens stood on the banks of the Appomattox River and watched as wind blew flames from one building to the next. The tragedy claimed a dozen lives and destroyed more than five hundred homes. The fire raged until it was quelled by a downpour of rain. Stories of ... En savoir plus

    12,25 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Larkin Papers, Volume V, 1846

    For the History of California

    Modifié par George P. Hammond ...
    This title was originally published in 1955.Many titles in the Voices Revived program are also newly available as ebooks, offered at a discounted price to support wider access to scholarly work. ... En savoir plus

    23,37 €

  • History of Omaha from the Pioneer Days to the Present Time

    par Alfred Sorenson ...
    "Sorenson gave Omahans a great service through his book...an interesting and humorous writer." -Historical MarkerAs a wild west frontier settlement, how does Omaha compare to other more publicized famous places such as Dodge City?The early history of Omaha is to some extent the early history of Nebraska and was often referred to, by jealous rivals in the State, as the "State of Omaha."In 1889, ... En savoir plus

    0,86 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Fifty-Year Rebellion

    How the U.S. Political Crisis Began in Detroit

    par Scott Kurashige ...
    Collection Livre 2 - American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present
    On July 23, 1967, the eyes of the world fixed on Detroit, as thousands took to the streets to vent their frustrations with white racism, police brutality, and vanishing job prospects in the place that gave rise to the American Dream. Mainstream observers contended that the “riot” brought about the ruin of a once-great city; for them, the municipal bankruptcy of 2013 served as a bailout paving the ... En savoir plus

    14,82 €

  • Turquoise and Six-Guns

    The Story of Cerrillos, New Mexico

    par Marc Simmons ...
    The rock-ribbed hills surrounding Cerrillos, New Mexico, are honeycombed with mineshafts and it is these mines that have shaped the history of the town and of the district over which it presides. The Pueblo Indians for untold ages took out turquoise; the Spaniards in their turn found gold, silver and lead; and finally, the Anglo-Americans exploited all of these in addition to copper, zinc and coal ... En savoir plus

    5,55 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Participation, Community, and Public Policy in a Virginia Suburb

    Of Our Own Making

    Participation, Community, and Public Policy in a Virginia Suburb: Of Our Own Making challenges the conventional wisdom that we can diagnose the vitality of modern American communities using just the few participation trends routinely tracked in social research, such as voting or volunteering. Through the story of Pimmit Hills, Virginia, author Patricia Donahue shows that a community is really the ... En savoir plus

    92,38 €

  • Dark Florida

    Animal Attacks, Historic Murders, Deadly Disasters and Other Calamities

    Collection series The History Press
    Author Alan Brown leads readers on a stomach-churning turn through Florida's dark side . Florida sunshine beckons, but in can be unrelenting, too. And in the shadows, tragedy strikes. Ted Bundy leads a cast of serial killers who wrought havoc on the state. Storms spin onto its shores with landscape altering fury. Sharks lurk in the sea, and snakes and alligators lie wait in the swamps. Gangsters ... En savoir plus

    8,51 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Counterrevolution of Slavery

    Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina

    par Manisha Sinha ...
    In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha offers a provocative new look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War. Challenging works that portray secession as a fight for white liberty, she argues instead that it was a conservative, antidemocratic movement to protect and perpetuate racial slavery.Sinha discusses ... En savoir plus

    23,47 €

  • Alabama Afternoons

    Profiles and Conversations

    par Roy Hoffman ...
    A collection of portraits of many remarkable Alabamians, famous and obscure, profiled by award-winning journalist and novelist Roy HoffmanAlabama Afternoons is a collection of portraits of many notable Alabamians, famous and obscure, profiled by award-winning journalist and novelist Roy Hoffman. Written as Sunday feature stories for the Mobile Press-Register with additional pieces from the New ... En savoir plus

    13,38 €

  • American Book of Golden Deeds

    par James Baldwin ...
    Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.American Book of Golden Deeds is a collection of stories of heroism. ... En savoir plus

    1,99 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Story of the Indiana Constitution

    Indiana History Series, #7

    par Paul R. Wonning ...
    Collection Livre 7 - Indiana History Series
    Composed in the summer heat in the shade of a huge elm tree in Corydon, Indiana the 1816 Constitution served Indiana's needs until replaced by a new document in 1851. The Story of the Indiana Constitution serves as a handbook and guide to the foundation of Indiana law. It includes the text of the original 1816 Constitution as well as the original text and amendments of its 1851 replacement. ... En savoir plus

    3,49 €