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Pigeon River Country
A Michigan Forest
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
The long awaited new edition of a classic offers memories, myths, and meanings of the largest contiguous piece of wild land in Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
This updated edition explores more deeply why and how the outdoors moves and compels us. It’s a book about mice who sing, elk who wear...
The Dance of Freedom
Texas African Americans during Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
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...
Absolutely Not New York
Finding a Home for the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, the newly-created United Nations needed a meeting place, a central place for global diplomacy. But what would it look like, and where would it be? At times it seemed the world’s diplomats could agree on only one...
Soldiers of Misfortune
The Somervell and Mier Expeditions
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The Somervell and Mier Expeditions of 1842, culminating in the famous "black bean episode" in which Texas prisoners drew white or black beans to determine who would be executed by their Mexican captors, still capture the public imagination in Texas. But were the Texans really martyrs in...
by Tim Blevins, Dennis Daily, Sydne Dean
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Each killing event was unique, but all were fueled by forces that seemed to guide the hands of the perpetrators: alcohol, fear, greed, hate, ignorance, revenge, passion, self-righteousness. Often the murderers were disenfranchised, disassociated, or disgruntled. . . .Since the September 11,...
More Than a Game
A History of the African American Experience in Sport
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the United States more generally. Recognizing the complicated history of race in America and how sport can both divide and bring...
Court That Tamed the West, The
From the Gold Rush to the Tech Boom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
From the gold rush to the Internet boom, the US District Court for the Northern District of California has played a major role in how business is done and life is lived on the Pacific Coast. When California was first admitted to the Union, pioneers were busy prospecting for new fortunes, building...
Capital of the World
The Race to Host the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, Americans in more than two hundred cities and towns mobilized to chase an implausible dream. The newly-created United Nations needed a meeting place, a central place for global diplomacy—a Capital of the World....
Birmingham's Rabbi
Morris Newfield and Alabama, 1895-1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
American Jewish history has been criticized for its parochial nature because it has consisted largely of chronicles of American Jewish life and has often failed to explore the relationship between Jews and other ethnic groups in America.
Rabbi Morris Newfield led Temple Emanu-El...
by B. Kim Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
The Great New York City Trivia and Fact Book is a celebration of the people and institutions that have given New York it's unique character among the great cities of the world
Pennsylvania Disasters
True Stories of Tragedy and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
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...
by Nick Gallicchio
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Author’s Note This story may appear repugnant, perhaps ludicrous, and even extremely odious, but it happened just as sure as the sky is blue and the sun shines bright. Many strong and mighty cities eventually were defeated by invading armies, by ruthless dictators, Kings and blood thirsty maniacs....
by Otis K. Rice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
The Hatfield-McCoy feud has long been the most famous vendetta of the southern Appalachians. Over the years it has become encrusted with myth and error. Scores of writers have produced accounts of it, but few have made any real effort to separate fact from fiction. Novelists, motion picture producers,...
Frontier Manhattan
Yankee Settlement to Kansas Town, 1854-1894
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
When Isaac Goodnow and five fellow New Englanders arrived at the junction of the Kansas and Big Blue rivers in March of 1855, they pitched a tent and launched a town. Harassment and homesickness almost drove them back east, but they held their ground to establish an anti-slavery and educational stronghold:...