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Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
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Under the guidance of Leslie Heaphy and an editorial board of leading historians, this peer-reviewed, annual book series offers new, authoritative research on all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, teams, and players; pre–Negro League organization...
by Arvis Locklear Boughman, Loretta O. Oxendine
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2003
“There’s nothing happens to a person that can’t be cured if you get what it takes to do it. We come out of the earth, and there’s something in the earth to cure everything … I don’t fix a tonic until I’m sure what’s wrong with a person. I don’t make guesses. I have to be sure, because...
Language in the Visual Arts
The Interplay of Text and Imagery
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
This book discusses text and image relationships in the history of art from ancient times to the contemporary period across a diversity of cultures and geographic areas. Focusing on the use of words in art and words as art forms, thematic chapters include “Pictures in Words/Words in Pictures,”...
The Flame Within
Memoir of a Firefighter
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
A former City of Milwaukee firefighter, the author writes his memoir with candor, depth, spice and emotional insight. He lays out the tumultuous events that led him as a youth into the profession, and the wealth of eye-opening experiences along the way. He plumbs the character of the firefighters...
African American Doctors of World War I
The Lives of 104 Volunteers
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
In World War I, 104 African American doctors joined the United States Army to care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions, the Army’s only black combat units. The infantry regiments of the 93rd arrived first and were turned over to the French to fill gaps in their decimated lines. The...
CCSVI as the Cause of Multiple Sclerosis
The Science Behind the Controversial Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Changes are occurring in the multiple sclerosis community. The disease, which has always been considered autoimmune, may be related to vascular problems, in which circulation in the cerebrospinal system is impaired, thereby preventing the proper drainage of venous blood from the brain. This timely...
Mammography and Early Breast Cancer Detection
How Screening Saves Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Early detection of breast cancer is critical. Yet efforts to cut back on mammography or even stop screening altogether have been gaining ground in the medical community’s decades-long debate over testing and treatment. It is not a purely scientific debate—back-room politics and hidden agendas...
Southeast Missouri from Swampland to Farmland
The Transformation of the Lowlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
As the 20th century began, swamps with immense timber resources covered much of the Missouri Bootheel. After investors harvested the timber, the landscape became overgrown. The conversion of swampland to farmland began with small drainage projects but complete reclamation was made possible by a system...
African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia
A History, 1900-1965
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Few career opportunities were available to minority women in Appalachia in the first half of the 20th century. Nursing offered them a respected, relatively well paid profession and—as few physicians or hospitals would treat people of color—their work was important in challenging health care inequities...
North Carolina Civil War Obituaries, Regiments 1 through 46
A Collection of Tributes to the War Dead and Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
North Carolina sent more than 125,000 men and boys to fight the Civil War. It is estimated that about 40,000 lost their lives on the battlefield or by disease. Most were sent home for burial in family plots or community churchyards but thousands could not be identified or could not be transported...
American Jewish Films
The Search for Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
This is a thematic survey of American films with significant Jewish content that made an important statement about America. Both familiar and lesser known films are included. An introduction discusses why American Jews were attracted to films as audiences, performers and business people, and evaluates...
Dead on a High Hill
Essays on War, Literature and Living, 2002-2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
A new collection of Bill Ehrhart’s essays—25 of them, written between 2002 and 2012 on subjects ranging from the Vietnam War failures of American policy-makers to life in 21st century Vietnam; the trenches of the Western Front, the mountains of Korea, the sands of Iraq; from the value of one’s...
The Ugandan Morality Crusade
The Brutal Campaign Against Homosexuality and Pornography Under Yoweri Museveni
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
In 1999, General Museveni, Uganda’s autocratic leader, ordered police to arrest homosexuals for engaging in behavior that he characterized as “un–African” and against Biblical teaching. A state-sanctioned campaign of harassment of LGBT people followed. With the approval of sections of Uganda’s...
Death of an Altar Boy
The Unsolved Murder of Danny Croteau and the Culture of Abuse in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
The tragic death of 13-year-old Danny Croteau in 1972 faded from headlines and memories for 20 years until the Boston abuse scandal—a string of assaults within the Catholic Church—exploded in the early 2000s. Despite numerous indications—including 40 claims of sexual misconduct with minors—pointing...