Local History – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 5

Jack Mccarthy, The Mann Center for the Performing Arts
A Century of Music Under the Stars

Everyone has a memorable story about attending a performance at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts or the Robin Hood Dell---"the Mann" and "the Dell" to their many patrons. Lavish…

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James B Mills
In the Days of Billy the Kid

The legend of Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War remains prominent in the annals of American frontier history, but for men like JosÉ ChÁvez y ChÁvez, Juan PatrÓn, MartÍn ChÁvez, and Yginio Salazar, …

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Gregg Andrews
Shoe Workers in Hannibal, Missouri

In Shoe Workers in Hannibal, Missouri, Gregg Andrews examines the history of factory laborers in a celebrated Mississippi River town. In the late 1890s, shoe manufacturing transformed Mark Twain's boyhood…

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Deserter Declarations

Deserter Declarations explores nearly two hundred letters from Confederate deserters to Governor Zebulon B. Vance from 1861 to 1865. It shares the voices of deserters or friends and family petitioning on …

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New Jersey's Natures

New Jersey's Natures takes up the challenge of expanding academic and popular conceptions of New Jersey and its landscapes through the lens of environmental history. Scholars' essays showcase the ways in …

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Gay Salisbury, Laney Salisbury
The Cruelest Miles

When a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles away…

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Dane Huckelbridge
Queen of All Mayhem

A riveting, deeply researched, blood-on-the-spurs biography of Belle Starr, the most legendary female outlaw of the American West.

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Don Romesburg
Contested Curriculum

Contested Curriculum recounts the fight for LGBTQ-inclusive K-12 history education in the United States. Historian Don Romesburg makes a powerful case for why teaching about LGBTQ lives in schools can hel…

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Don Romesburg
Contested Curriculum

Contested Curriculum recounts the fight for LGBTQ-inclusive K-12 history education in the United States. Historian Don Romesburg makes a powerful case for why teaching about LGBTQ lives in schools can hel…

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Stephen Doster,
Palms, Priests, and Pirates

In Palms, Priests, Pirates: The Epic History of Amelia Island, Florida, Stephen Doster offers the first comprehensive examination of the rich and captivating history of this unique barrier island off the …

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James K Nelsen
Milwaukee Through History

New perspectives on state and national history through the lens of Wisconsin's oldest cityThis richly illustrated book for middle grade and high school learners uses primary sources and archival photos to…

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Dana Berry Frazee
Beyond the Bataan Death March

K. L. (Kearie Lee) Berry was a star athlete at the University of Texas at Austin from 1912 to 1916, playing on the undefeated national championship football team of 1914. Upon graduation, he began his mil…

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Murder of the Jujube Candy Heiress

One candy heiress, two bullets and three suspects.The small Southern California island of Coronado rarely makes news for violent crime. But in the spring of 1975, World War II widow and retired librarian …

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David Brown Morris
Ten Thousand Central Parks

A visionary look at Central Park's creation as an urban success story inspiring bold climate actionClimate change is the existential crisis of our time. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, and …

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New Jersey's Natures

New Jersey's Natures takes up the challenge of expanding academic and popular conceptions of New Jersey and its landscapes through the lens of environmental history. Scholars' essays showcase the ways in …

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Beau Cleland
Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria

Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria recenters our understanding of the Civil War by framing it as a hemispheric affair, deeply influenced by the actions of a network of private parties and minor offici…

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Marion Ransell Dobbins
The Lost Black Communities of Merrifield, the Pines and Williamstown

After the Civil War, Black landownership in Fairfax County increased by leaps and bounds.By the 1870s, retired Union officers were purchasing land that they sold to African Americans like Joshua Ball, Jos…

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Ernesto Sagás
Latino Colorado

Mexican Americans and other Latinos make up more than 22 percent of Colorado's population, play a vital role in its major economic sectors, and are becoming a political force to be reckoned with. Yet most…

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Scott L Mingus, David Schultz
The Second Day at Gettysburg

On July 2, 1863, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet struck the Union left flank with a blow that collapsed Sickles' advanced position in the Peach Orchard and rolled northward, tearing open a gap in the center of …

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Julia Flint
We Were Promised

"Karen "Momma K" Gorrell did not consider herself to be an activist. But when those she cared about were wronged, she refused to remain silent. With the economy still reeling from the Great…

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