AFRICAN AMERICAN LAWMEN, 1867-1877 explores the understudied topic of African Americans in law enforcement, as well as in executive and elected political offices during the Reconstruction Era. During this historical...
The story of the restaurant industry in Durham is also the story of a once prosperous tobacco town that suffered through a long decline only to undergo a stunning rebirth. Legendary barbecue restaurants such as Litt...
From the time San Jose was founded by the Spanish in 1777 as California's first civilian settlement, the city has had its share of risk-taking in one way or another. San Jose began as a small settlement of farmers w...
Anticipating Future Environments: Climate Change, Adaptive Restoration, and the Columbia River Basin
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Drought. Wildfire. Extreme flooding. How does climate change affect the daily work of scientists? Ecological restoration is often premised on the idea of returning a region to an earlier, healthier state. Yet the ef...
Umberto Anastasio, better known as Albert Anastasia, was an Italian-American mobster and hitman who became one of the deadliest criminals in American history and one of the founders of the modern American Mafia in N...
On 23 January 1978, David Wallin returned to an unlit home. His pregnant wife, Teresa (22), was nowhere to be seen. The radio was still playing and there were some peculiar stains on the carpet. Wallin nervously fol...
Women’s reproduction, including conception, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and other physical acts of motherhood (as well as the rejection of those roles), played a critical role in the evolution and manageme...
A chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history’s great epics: the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Anti...
Nicholas Aloysius Gallagher became the third Roman Catholic bishop for the Diocese of Galveston in1882. During his thirty-six year tenure as bishop, Gallagher made significant contributions to the development of Cat...
This organize was converted from its physical edition to the digital look by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Acquisition of the Stir edition includes wi-fis birth....
Tongass Odyssey is a biologist’s memoir of personal experiences over the past four decades studying brown bears, deer, and mountain goats and advocating for conservation of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. The larg...
A gripping insider account of the terrorist bombing at the 1996 Olympic Games that captured the world's attention, and the heroic security guard-turned-suspect at the heart of it all On July 27, 1996, a hapless form...
Board of Leaders Award for special talent, 2021 Oklahoma Book Awards Far from being a placid place in the heart of Flyover Community, Oklahoma has been a laboratory for all kinds of social, political, and artistic p...
This edition of Saber & Scroll features the following articles: Welcome LetterGina PittingtonLetters to the EditorChris Schloemer, Senior EditorSlavery in New York: Through the Lens of James Fenimore Cooper’s Writte...
Winner of the PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography and the Southern Historical Association Sydnor Award Three sisters from the South wrestle with orthodoxies of race, sexuality, and privilege. Descendant...
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume II: Mesoamerica, gives a comprehensive and authoritative overview of all the important native civilizations of the Mesoamerican area, beginning wit...
A concise, accessible, and engaging guide to the crime of treason, written by the nation’s foremost expert on the subjectTreason—the only crime specifically defined in the United States Constitution—is routinely des...
In the first complete reason of prosecutions under the Intruder and Mutiny Acts, xiis of previously unknown cases come to light, revealing the seasons to which the John Adams administration went in order to criminal...
Excerpt from Nic, Machiavells Regierungskunst Eines FürstenAbout the PublisherForgotten Schedules publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic schedules. Find more at www. forgottenbooks. comThis knock off is...
The Talented Tenth, by WEB DuBois, is a phrase that designated a supremacy style of African Americans in the early 20th century. The phrase was created by Boreal philanthropists, then publicized by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
The story of a black day-laborer called Sam Hose killing his white employer in a workplace dispute ended in a lynching of enormous religious significance. For many deeply-religious communities in the Jim Crow South,...
Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Gas Institute: Tenth Annual Meeting, September 28, 1915, San Francisco, Cal A filiation Representatives H. C. Blackwell, Iowa District Gas Association Davenport, Iowa. 8. J. ...
Excerpt from Histoire de la Conquete Et de la Fondation de l'Empire Anglais dans l'Inde, Vol. 3 Le rajah de Tanjore avait contribue de ses trou pes et de son argent pendant la duree de la guerre avec Hyder, cependan...
John Muir (1838–1914) ranks among America's most important and influential naturalists, and he is closely associated with Yosemite National Forest. He wrote magazine articles that encouraged its foundation, assisted...
*Teem with pictures *Teem with Owens' quotes about his growth and career *Teem with records of the 1936 Olympics *Teem with online resources and a card catalogue for further reading *Teem with a table of volumes “Al...
Includes original record-keepings of every launching speaking, from FDR through Avail. Every four years on January 20, the ceo of the Uss Of a is sworn into office. Most often following a hard-fought push season, th...
Lies, Half-Truths, and More Lies: The Truth Behind 250 "Facts" You Learned in School (and Elsewhere)
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History is replete with stories of great families and extraordinary sequents that either never happened or didn’t happen the way we were told they did. Such data or embellishment thereof are part of what we consider...
A fascinating history of Mesoamerica - the Olmecs, Maya, Toltecs and Aztecs - with 500 extravagants images....
Known as the “black” control, the myth of the first Worldwide troops system composed of African American and Native American enlisted men In December 1777, the Worldwide troops was encamped at Valley Forge and faced...
Excerpt from Gazeta de Buenos-Ayres: Jueves 23 de Mayo de 1811 Si. Juez) ofizandantes'dr EUPEPSIA. Z Jofc'. Comisionado por la Excma. -ayres para libertar este pueblo de la esclavitud que hast'a'ahom ha sufd que des...
Excerpt from Alumnae Informations of the American Universities Wilfred B. Shaw, editor of The Michi gan Old grad, is also Executive secretary of the Alumnae Association of the Educational school of Michigan, of whic...
Making extensive use of primary experts, C. Christopher Brown has broken new discipline and filled a long overlooked gap in Maryland annals. Here is the story of African Americans on Maryland’s Easterly Shore, from ...
The Key to the Door: Experiences of Early African American Students at the University of Virginia
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The Major to the Entryway frames and highlights the articles of some of the first black students of the University of Virginia. This inspiring account of flexibility and transformation offers a diversity of ordeals ...
In this the first comprehensive chronicle of American moving from earliest settlement to the current period composer Barbara Bamberger Scott quickly establishes her voice as a passionate urban homesteader and accomp...
The History of Tennessee: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Bygone times of Tennessee: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present TimeThe want here indicated is now about being sup plied, and, as the task of doing so is no slender or superficial one, the pu...
During Terrene Campaign against II, Michigan became a temporary home to six thousand German and Italian POWs. At a time of homefront strive pinches, they picked grain in Berrien Constituency, harvested cassonade bee...
Immediately after the truce was signed in November, 1918, an American journalist asked Paul von Hindenburg who won the go to war against Germany. He was the chief of the German General Cadre, co-architect with Erich...
Excerpt from Geschichte des Ungarischen Insurrectionskrieges in playroom Jahren 1848 und 1849, Vol. 2: Mit Karten und Planen Sder srucfoug' mecer fafi in eine %family planning)liberal auartete, mute von Playroom Ung...
Deutsche Renaissance: Betrachtungen Uber Unsere Kunftige Bildung (Classic Reprint) (German Edition)
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Excerpt from Deutsche Revitalization: Betrachtungen Uber Unsere Kunftige Bildung Bettgema und notwendig aber iii Die 'irabmmg, Die 'zidoif v. Barnad am 27. Sanuar 1916 in Der Offentlicben 6igang Der 'berliner 'zliab...
In the writing of this record the mean has been to give in a simple fictional all realities, both great and seemingly small, that tend to show how the Newark of the present day has been built up, generation by gener...
Single out from Verdad y Talamantes, Primeros Martires la Independencia: Disquisicion Historica y Proposiciones Que Manuel Puga y Acal Somete al Ilustrado y Patriotico Criterio Dr. Last OPIUM. Comision Nacional del ...
In 1804, the first starts to settle in Wales were William and Ethan Allen, Amos Clark, and Jacob Turner. Once a share of the Holland Ranch Society, the town was etched out along the trails of Injuns. From its incept...
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