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Blacklegs, Card Sharps, and Confidence Men
Nineteenth-Century Mississippi River Gambling Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In 1836 Benjamin Drake, a midwestern writer of popular sketches for newspapers of the day, introduced his readers to a new and distinctly American rascal who rode the steamboats up and down the Mississippi and other western waterways -- the riverboat gambler. These men, he recorded, "dress with taste...
A New Mexico Primer
For Students of All Ages
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
This book is a simple, no nonsense telling of New Mexico history and geography for those who are new to the Land of Enchantment and for those who want a quick, uncluttered story based on the theory that history should be fun. For those who want a meatier course, consider it an appetizer, a first course....
by Phyllis A. Morse, Ian W. Brown, Marvin T. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
Specialists from archaeology, ethnohistory, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology bring their varied points of view to this subject in an attempt to answer basic questions about the nature and extent of social change within the time period. The...
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How Portland Became the Best Coffee City in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In Portland, Oregon, coffee is an important part of the city’s highly regarded quality of life. Under oft-gray skies, independent roasters and cafés flourish, providing a wide array of styles and tastes for discerning Portlanders to choose from. The Portland coffee culture attracts visitors...
Behind the Backlash
White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
In this nuanced look at white working-class life and politics in twentieth-century America, Kenneth Durr takes readers into the neighborhoods, workplaces, and community institutions of blue-collar Baltimore in the decades after World War II.
Challenging notions that the "white backlash"...
Staten Island
Conservative Bastion in a Liberal City
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Staten Island is New York City’s smallest yet fastest growing borough: a conservative, suburban community of nearly a half a million on the fringe of the nation’s most liberal, global city. Staten Island: Conservative Bastion in a Liberal City chronicles how this “forgotten borough” has grappled...
by Jessica DuLong
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
“A waterborne evacuation larger than Dunkirk—in New York Harbor? How come we barely noticed this at the time, and have largely forgotten about it since? Readers of this fast-paced book will not forget it again. Jessica DuLong brings this extraordinary episode to vivid, poignant life, using both...
Deadwood
The Best Writings On The Most Notorious Town In The West
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
An anthology of the most captivating writings about the wildest town in the West, including excerpts from novels, period newspaper articles, biographies and even song lyrics.
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Contents
Life of Franklin Pierce -- Chiefly about war matters -- Alice Doane's appeal -- The ancestral footstep.
Jeannette Rankin
America's Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Suffragist, social worker, first woman elected to the United States Congress, a lifelong peace activist, and a tireless advocate for political reform, Jeannette Rankin is often remembered as the woman who voted "No." Elected to Congress from Montana on the eve of the United States' entry...
by David F. Prindle
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
The single most important domestic source of oil and gas is managed by the Texas Railroad Commission. As a result, the Commission has for decades exerted a profound influence on United States and world energy policy. This influence may even increase with the recent decision to remove price controls on...
by Mason Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
From prehistoric sabretooth fangs, across remnants of Civil War battlefields hidden in plain sight, around the hillside tombs of past presidents, past street corners where chart-toppers have had inspiration for #1s, to the cold stone heart of Music Row, Nashville is full of rich history…but it also...
The Unforgettables Ii
People and Events of Desoto Country, Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
The Unforgettables takes its readers on a journey launching on personalities and stories that have made this region so special. On your sojourn journey you will meet people who have made an enormous difference in the building of DeSoto County. Some of the people you may already know. If not, you will...
Useppa
An Ongoing Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Useppa: An Ongoing Journey provides an in-depth account of the ten-thousand-year history of a magical island off the southwest coast of Florida.
Useppa: An Ongoing Journey travels through ten thousand years of the islands inhabited history. The journey begins with the Calusa Indians, the islands...