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Baseball Prodigies
Best Major League Seasons by Players Under 21
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
This is a book about baseball players who performed in the major leagues before the age of 21. For years the dream of many boys has been to enter the world of professional sports. Out of millions of boys who have played baseball, more than 17,000 have appeared in major league contests. Among them...
Pennant Hopes Dashed by the Homer in the Gloamin'
The Story of How the 1938 Pittsburgh Pirates Blew the National League Pennant
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
After many disappointing seasons during the 1930s, the 1938 Pittsburgh Pirates looked like they were finally poised to claim their first National League pennant since 1927. A hot streak during June and July propelled manager Pie Traynor’s squad into first place. Yet after commanding the top spot...
Wisconsin's 37
The Lives of Those Missing in Action in the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
The signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 signified the end of the Vietnam War. American personnel returned home and the 591 American prisoners held captive in North Vietnam were released. Still, 2,646 individuals did not come home. Thirty-seven of those missing in action were from Wisconsin....
by Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This dictionary gives an enormous amount of basic information on the Third Reich era by listing, and often depicting, German terms connected to Nazism and the Germany of World War II. It includes ranks, badges, insignia, regalia, medals, flags and banners, weapons, uniforms, equipment, vehicles, fortifications,...
The Video Games Guide
1,000+ Arcade, Console and Computer Games, 1962-2012, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The Video Games Guide is the world’s most comprehensive reference book on computer and video games. Presented in an A to Z format, this greatly expanded new edition spans fifty years of game design—from the very earliest (1962’s Spacewar) through the present day releases on the PlayStation 3,...
The Freckleton, England, Air Disaster
The B-24 Crash That Killed 38 Preschoolers and 23 Adults, August 23, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
The Freckleton catastrophe of August 23, 1944, occurred when an American B-24 Liberator crashed into the small village of Freckleton in northwest England. The plane was on a test flight when it encountered a rare and severe summer thunderstorm. Air traffic control at the American air base Warton recalled...
Governor's Houses and State Houses of British Colonial America, 1607-1783
An Historical, Architectural and Archaeological Survey
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
This comprehensive survey of British colonial governors’ houses and buildings used as state houses or capitols in the North American colonies begins with the founding of the Virginia Colony and ends with American independence. In addition to the 13 colonies that became the United States in 1783,...
General E.A. Paine in Western Kentucky
Assessing the "Reign of Terror" of the Summer of 1864
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
When General E. A. Paine assumed command of the U.S. Army’s District of Western Kentucky at Paducah in the summer of 1864, he faced a defiant populace, a thriving black market and undisciplined troops plagued by low morale. Guerrillas pillaged towns and murdered the vocal few that supported the...
by Robert C. Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Civil War histories typically center on the deeds of generals and sweeping depictions of battle. This unique study of one Southern county’s war experience tells of ordinary soldiers and their wives, mothers and children, slaves, farmers, merchants, Unionists and deserters—through an examination...
African American Hospitals in North Carolina
39 Institutional Histories, 1880-1967
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Untold thousands of black North Carolinians suffered or died during the Jim Crow era because they were denied admittance to white-only hospitals. With little money, scant opportunities for professional education and few white allies, African American physicians, nurses and other community leaders...
Middle Georgia and the Approach of Modernity
Essays on Race, Culture and Daily Life, 1885-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
By the eve of the 20th century, Middle Georgia was a rural region transitioning from the aftermath of the Reconstruction Era into the modern age. This collection of new essays describes the lives of the common people of the day. A grisly mass murder underscored issues of race, class and poverty. African...
Legal Executions in Georgia
A Comprehensive Registry, 1866-1964
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
In the state of Georgia, 1025 men and women are known to have been hanged or electrocuted for capital crimes in the century after the Civil War. Based on more than twenty years of investigative research, this chronological record of these legal executions was pieced together from diverse sources in...
Cholera in Detroit
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
During the mid– to late 19th century, Detroit and the American Midwest were the sites of five major cholera epidemics. The first of these, the 1832 outbreak, was of particular significance—an unexpected consequence of the Black Hawk War. In order to suppress the Native American uprising then taking...
Remaking the City Street Grid
A Model for Urban and Suburban Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Of all the elements of a neighborhood, the pattern of streets and their infrastructure is the most enduring. Given the 20th century’s additions to the range of transportation means—trains, subways, buses, trucks, bicycles, motorbikes and cars—all vying for space and effectiveness, a fresh look...