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America Votes!
A Guide to Modern Election Law and Voting Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Updated and expanded to include the most current issues in this area, America Votes! Second Edition provides key information and important perspectives on election law questions which the courts are currently addressing or about to address. The chapters run the gamut from nuts-and-bolts questions about...
by Russ Mead
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2018
Passing animal legislation can improve the lives of thousands, or even tens of thousands, of animals. In Grass Roots, Animal Legislation author Russ Mead looks at over 20 different types of state and local animal welfare laws. These are laws that are having a real impact on animals somewhere in the...
by Adam Sol
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Washington (i/ˈwɒʃɪŋtən/) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States located north of Oregon, west of Idaho and south of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which...
by Noah Smithwick
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
"I was but a boy in my nineteenth year, and in for adventure when I started out from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, with all my worldly possessions, consisting of a few dollars in money, a change of clothes, and a gun, of course, to seek my fortune in this lazy man's paradise." Noah Smithwick was an old man,...
MICHIGAN'S CROSSROADS TO FREEDOM
The Underground Railroad in Jackson County
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
In the early to mid-1800s, Jackson County was home to two branches of the Underground Railroad, a secret network that funneled fugitives from slavery in the South to freedom in the North. Many Jacksonians participated in this network, risking their lives to feed, lodge and transport fugitives...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Thomas Jefferson’s only book, Notes on the State of Virginia, is a rich and revealing compendium of information and opinion on the largest and most important state in the union at the end of the American Revolution. Presented in the scientific spirit of the Enlightenment as an encyclopedia of useful...
by A. Ward Burian
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
The fascinating story of how and why all fifty American states were formed—and how they became a part of history’s greatest social experiment.
Every US state has a unique history that deserves a separate book. The Creation of the American States provides readers with essential information...
After the Doors Were Locked
A History of Youth Corrections in California and the Origins of Twenty-First Century Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The California youth corrections system is undergoing the most sweeping transformation in its 154-year history. The extraordinary nature of this change is revealed by the striking decline in the state’s youth incarceration rate. In 1996, with 10,000 youth confined in 11 state-run correctional facilities,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
In this landmark guide, nearly two dozen essays by scholars, educators, and museum leaders suggest the next steps in the interpretation of African American history and culture from the colonial period to the twentieth century at history museums and historic sites. This diverse anthology addresses...
Lost States
True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made It
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Everyone knows the fifty nifty united states—but what about the hundreds of other statehood proposals that never came to pass? Lost States is a tribute to such great unrealized dreams as West Florida, Texlahoma, Montezuma, Rough and Ready, and Yazoo. Some of these states came remarkably close to...
Mule and Wagon to Automobile
Social Change in North Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
For north Georgian farmers in 1870, the cost of traveling over rough paths from farm to market by mule and wagon was prohibitive. Local farm households produced most of their own food, clothing and other essential needs. When the railroads were built, the cost of transporting goods fell sharply. Local...
My Shenandoah, 1966
Recollections of a 9-Year Old Along with the Ramblings of a 59-Year Old. a Nostalgic Look Back to the 60’S in a Small Coal Region Town.
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
My Shenandoah, 1966 was originally planned to merely record an objective local history, but its enthusiastic fans will assure you the book developed well beyond that into a highly readable, engrossing work for everyone. Its ample supply of endearing personal anecdotes and historical peculiarities...
It Happened in Louisiana
Remarkable Events that Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
True Tales from the Pelican State—from the longest Civil War battle to one of history’s worst man-made disasters
Louisiana is well known for its spicy gumbo, Cajun music, and horrific hurricanes, but few may know why Tarzan once swung through the piney woods, how an entrepreneur used a...
Death Underground
The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
* Death Underground:* The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters examines two of the most devastating coal mine disasters in United States history since 1928. In two southern Illinois towns only forty miles apart, explosions killed 111 men at the Centralia No. 5 mine in 1947 and 119...