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Innovators in Battery Technology
Profiles of 95 Influential Electrochemists
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
As the world’s demand for electrical energy increases, it will be the ingenuity and skill of brilliant electrochemists that enable us to utilize the planet’s mineral reserves responsibly. This biographical dictionary profiles 95 electrochemists from 19 nations who during the past 270 years have...
The Electric Chair
An Unnatural American History
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This book provides a history of the electric chair and analyzes its features, its development, and the manner of its use. Chapters cover the early conceptual stages as a humane alternative to hanging, and the rivalry between Edison and Westinghouse that was one of the main forces in the chair’s...
Child Labor in America
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
At the close of the 19th century, more than 2 million American children under age 16—some as young as 4 or 5—were employed on farms, in mills, canneries, factories, mines and offices, or selling newspapers and fruits and vegetables on the streets. The crusaders of the Progressive Era believed...
by Brian Temple
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
The Quakers came to America in the 17th century to seek religious freedom. After years of struggle, they achieved success in various endeavors and, like many wealthy colonists of the time, bought and sold slaves. But a movement to remove slavery from their midst, sparked by their religious beliefs,...
Henry Alsberg
The Driving Force of the New Deal Federal Writers' Project
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
During the Great Depression, Henry Alsberg, a journalist with a passion for social justice, directed the Federal Writers' Project, a New Deal program of the Works Progress Administration. Under his guidance, thousands of unemployed writers were hired. Despite attacks from the House Committee on Un-American...
Culture War
How the '90s Made Us Who We Are Today (Whether We Like It or Not)
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
What didn’t you like about the 1990s—the peace or the prosperity? Setting aside nostalgia for the end of the 20th century, this book takes a candid look at the decade after the Cold War and before 9/11, when America’s culture war began with the election of a media-savvy, Baby Boomer president...
The Rwandan Genocide on Film
Critical Essays and Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
The Rwandan genocide was one of the most shameful events of the 20th century. Many Westerners’ understanding of it is based upon the Oscar-winning film Hotel Rwanda and the critically acclaimed Shooting Dogs. Yet how accurately do these films depict events in Rwanda in 1994? Drawing on new scholarship,...
The Survival Hypothesis
Essays on Mediumship
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Contemporary parapsychology tends to be preoccupied with ESP (telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition) and psychokinesis. In contrast, this cutting-edge anthology assembles an international team of experts from the fields of psychology, parapsychology, philosophy, anthropology and neuroscience to examine...
The Blue Ridge Parkway by Foot
A Park Ranger's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
One of the premier tourist attractions of the eastern United States, the Blue Ridge Parkway stretches from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in western North Carolina. This volume relates the author’s one-of-a-kind backpacking trip along the 469-mile...
by Frank E. Wrenick, Elaine V. Wrenick
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This comprehensive look at the heyday of automobile manufacturing in Ohio chronicles the region's early prominence in an industry that was inventing itself. More than 550 Ohio manufacturers are covered, from Abbott to Zent. There are familiar marques, such as Jordan, Baker, Peerless, and White of...
The Indianapolis Automobile Industry
A History, 1893-1939
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
In 1893, Indianapolis carriage maker Charles Black created a rudimentary car—perhaps the first designed and built in America. Within 15 years, Indianapolis was a major automobile industry center rivaling Detroit, and known for quality manufacturing and innovation—the aluminum engine, disc brakes,...
The Executioner's Toll, 2010
The Crimes, Arrests, Trials, Appeals, Last Meals, Final Words and Executions of 46 Persons in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The Executioner’s Toll, 2010 is a meticulous examination of every execution (and the details surrounding the execution) carried out in a single year—and a thought-provoking exploration into the minds of 46 killers as each plays the role of predator, quarry and condemned. The unsettling narratives...
Bloodstained Louisiana
Twelve Murder Cases, 1896-1934
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Historian Alan G. Gauthreaux chronicles 12 homicide cases from late 1800s and early 1900s Louisiana—where “unwritten law” justified jilted women who killed their paramours, and police took measures to protect defendants from lynch mobs. Stories include the 1907 kidnapping of seven-year-old Walter...
Parole, Pardon, Pass and Amnesty Documents of the Civil War
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
This book presents the little-studied story of the history and documents of the pardons, passes, paroles and promises of loyalty used by both North and South. The words of the loyalty oaths required for passes, paroles and pardons grew over time from a few simple lines to several paragraphs. Conditions...