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Troubled Memory
Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
This powerful work tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, the Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences...
The Life of Stephen F. Austin, Founder of Texas, 1793-1836
A Chapter in the Westward Movement of the Anglo-American People
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Almost a hundred years after the death of Stephen F. Austin this first full-length biography was published. And for almost a quarter of a century—dividing his time between editing, teaching, textbook writing, and serving in various academic capacities—Eugene C. Barker pursued the study which resulted...
Floridian of His Century
The Courage of Governor LeRoy Collins
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Six years after his election as a segregationist, Florida governor LeRoy Collins denounced racial discrimination as contrary to “moral, simple justice.” In 1991, the Florida House of Representatives eulogized Collins as the “Floridian of the Twentieth Century,” and today Collins is remembered...
Frontier Soldier
An Enlisted Man's Journal of the Sioux and Nez Perce Campaigns, 1877
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
"Not many enlisted men recorded their adventures in Indian
warfare. Still fewer actually kept a journal to lend immediacy to
their observations. Frontier Soldier is such a journal, by a literate
private who left his story of plains warfare in a chronicle rich in
detail. It is the richer for the...
An American Saga
Some East Tennessee Taylors
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
The story of the Taylors of Tennessee offers a perspective that is as entertaining as it is instructive. Many of the major themes of the broader story are here in abundance, enlivened by the triumphs and travails of some of the individuals who helped to make this land ours-and yours. W. Eugene Cox...
What Clouds There Were Were White
Journals of a Brooklyn Girl, 1929-1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2003
If America had a heart, one might call it Brooklyn. This story is a small piece of that heart, told with verve by a young girl who dreams of becoming a writer. In these pages, she records her travel from fourteen through "sweet sixteen" (1929-1930), mixing the routines of her neighborhood...
by William G. Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
John T. Farnham, a sharpshooter in the Union Army, wrote a substantial diary entry nearly every day during his three-year enlistment, sent over 50 long articles to his hometown newspaper, and mailed some 600 letters home. He described training, battles, skirmishes, encampments, furloughs, marches,...
by Thomas North
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
To conceive the idea, and execute the purpose of making a book, is, to a modest man, not a little monstrous; and yet, modest or immodest, monstrous or not, the author makes his best bow to the reader, and holds himself subject to criticism for not making it better. But many are running to and fro...
In the Shadow of Wrath
A Veteran’S Journey
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
I am amazed at the story of the authors struggles and his overcoming. I was not able to put the story down.
Arnold Gomez, Friend and Business Owner
In order to escape the disaster of the 1939 Dust Bowl in Oklahoma, author Jerry Mitchells parents had to make a difficult decision that would affect...
by Everett T. Tomlinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Perhaps not unnaturally in certain details there is a slight confusion or divergence in the various works that recount the heroic deeds of Daniel Boone. The men of that day were making history rather than recording what they did. There is, however, a striking uniformity in all the records as to the...
Cambria
A HarborTown History
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
This history of Cambria, the third in the HarborTown History series, is the only comprehensive and concise story of this lovely town. From its Mexican ranchos, brief years as a boom town, and dreams of wharves and railroads to its preeminence as a dairying center, Cambria's story...
Buncombe Bob
The Life and Times of Robert Rice Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
Robert Rice Reynolds (1884-1963), U.S. senator from North Carolina from 1933 to 1945, was one of the most eccentric politicians in American history. His travels, his five marriages, his public faux pas, and his flamboyant campaigns provided years of amusement for his constituents. This political biography...
by Stuart B McIver
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Florida has been the home of many unusual characters throughout the years. Meet Ned Buntline, Laura Riding, Wilson Mizner, Sam Jones, and many others. Storytellers, lawbreakers, movers and shakers, sportsmen, moviemakers, visionaries, and mobsters all left their mark on Florida.
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Appealing for Liberty
Freedom Suits in the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Dred Scott and his landmark Supreme Court case are ingrained in the national memory, but he was just one of multitudes who appealed for their freedom in courtrooms across the country. Appealing for Liberty is the most comprehensive study to give voice to these African Americans, drawing from more...