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Confederate Home Front
Montgomery during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
With this superbly written, meticulously researched, and concisely argued study, Rogers has helped deepen our understanding of the Confederate civilian experience.
Drawing from a wealth of historic documents and personal papers, William Warren Rogers, Jr., provides a fascinating and detailed...
The Francklyn Land & Cattle Company
A Panhandle Enterprise, 1882-1957
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
An intensive study of a large Texas ranch, particularly of its business and financial aspects, in which the author has utilized many company records and firsthand accounts by the men who were engaged in the difficult task of establishing and maintaining a major cattle and land operation in wild, relatively isolated, semidesert country.
Flavors of Empire
Food and the Making of Thai America
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
With a uniquely balanced combination of salty, sweet, sour, and spicy flavors, Thai food burst onto Los Angeles’s and America’s culinary scene in the 1980s. Flavors of Empire examines the rise of Thai food and the way it shaped the racial and ethnic contours of Thai American identity and community....
The Alamo
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
After two short weeks under siege, the climactic battle of the Alamo lasted under an hour, but its aftermath spawned a legend. The Alamo: A Cultural History explores the transformation of the fort from its 1718 inception as a Franciscan mission to its current status as a tourist attraction, historical monument, and international symbol of freedom.
by Francis M. Thompson, Kenneth N. Owens
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Frank Thompson’s lively memoir details his experiences in the upper Missouri country at the beginning of the Montana gold rush. A young man at the outset of the Civil War, Thompson supported the Union cause but realized that military life was not for him. Turning to the frontier, he headed west...
Sierra Nevada Place Names
From Abbot to Zumwalt
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
The origin of geographic names in the Sierra Nevada from the Lake Tahoe basin south to Walker Pass, excluding Yosemite. Pedro Font, viewing the range from a hilltop near the present city of Antioch on an April day in 1776, described it as "una gran sierra nevada"—a grand snowy mountain range—and...
The Moundville Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore
Clarence Bloomfield Moore
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 1996
The two works reprinted in this volume represent the pinnacle of the career of one of the most remarkable American archaeologists of the early 20th century, Clarence Bloomfield Moore.
Moore's Certain Aboriginal Remains of the Black Warrior River (1905) and Moundville Revisited (1907) brought...
Border Renaissance
The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Texas Centennial of 1936, commemorated by statewide celebrations of independence from Mexico, proved to be a powerful catalyst for the formation of a distinctly Mexican American identity. Confronted by a media frenzy that vilified "Meskins" as the antithesis of Texan liberty, Mexican...
Long Dark Road
Bill King and Murder in Jasper, Texas
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
On a long dark road in deep East Texas, James Byrd Jr. was dragged to his death behind a pickup truck one summer night in 1998. The brutal modern-day lynching stunned people across America and left everyone at a loss to explain how such a heinous crime could possibly happen in our more racially enlightened...
20th Century American History Book 1
The United States Studies for English Learners, Children(Kids) and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
20th Century American History tells about the ideas and issues that have shaped the United States in the 20th century from the bottom up. You can think of it not just as a series of history of America and its people, but a series of lessons. The subjects include exploration, revolution, social...
20th Century American History Book 3
The United States Studies for English Learners, Children(Kids) and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
20th Century American History tells about the ideas and issues that have shaped the United States in the 20th century from the bottom up. You can think of it not just as a series of history of America and its people, but a series of lessons. The subjects include exploration, revolution, social...
Recollections of the Orlando, Florida, Civil Rights Movement: A Companion Book to: the Orlando, Florida, Civil Rights Movement
a Case Study in Cooperation and Communication, 1951-1971
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
This work is designed to be a companion piece to The Orlando, Florida, Civil Rights Movement: A Case Study in Communication and Cooperation, 1951-1971. It is the author's hope that these works together will assist the scholar and layperson alike in developing a better understanding of the Orlando,...
Along the Wharves, Illustrated
The New York Waterfront 1860
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
A humorous narrated walk along the Manhattan waterfront during the year 1860.
Honor and Defiance
A History of the Las Vegas Land Grant in New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
In 1835, a petition for land far from Santa Fe, New Mexico was awarded to pobladores (settlers) willing to relocate to the eastern edge of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Founded along the Gallinas River, the settlement became the Las Vegas Land Grant. The history of this grant is the history of New...