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Kennedy v. Nixon
The Presidential Election of 1960
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2010
Kennedy v. Nixon is a book for everyone who thinks they know what happened in the pivotal election year of 1960. For fifty years we've accepted Theodore White's premise (from The Making of the President, 1960) that Kennedy ran a brilliant campaign while Nixon committed blunder after blunder.
But...
by Stephen M. Ostrander
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County (Volume I)
At the time of his death, in 1885, Mr. Ostrander had completed considerable MS. for a history of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County; had prepared many chronological notes with a view to fuller writing, and had accumulated a mass...
by W H Davenport
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Davenport's report, like his series on the work house and the lunatic asylum on Blackwell's Island, gives a good account of how orphans and the children of the poor and the indigent were handled in mid nineteenth century America. Bits of the history of social work is revealed in all three pieces.
Gettysburg
The Turning Point in the Struggle between North and South
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In June 1863, General Robert E. Lee and the 75,000-strong Army of Northern Virginia launched a second invasion of the North, crossing into Maryland and Pennsylvania to try to win a decisive victory over Federal forces. On July 1, Lees army encountered Major General Meades 90,000 strong Army of the Potamac...
Coronado National Memorial
A History of Montezuma Canyon and the Southern Huachucas
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Coronado National Memorial explores forgotten pathways through Montezuma Canyon in southeastern Arizona, and provides an essential history of the southern Huachuca Mountains. This is a magical place that shaped the region and two countries, the United States and Mexico. Its history dates back to the...
Traveler's Guide to the Great Sioux War
The Battlefields, Forts, and Related Sites of America's Greatest Indian War
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
“The Great Sioux War was the most famous Indian war in American history but most of its sites have been known to only a few students of the conflict—until now! This invaluable guide, by one of the leading historians of the military frontier, is essential reading for anyone interested in this epic...
Chicago Death Trap
The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2006
On the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold-out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago’ s Iroquois Theatre. In the short span of twenty minutes, more than six hundred people were asphyxiated, burned, or trampled to death in a panicked mob’ s failed attempt to escape. In Chicago...
Vengeance in a Small Town
The Thorndale Lynching of 1911
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
One hundred years ago, in 1911, two young men lost their lives: one from a stab wound and the other by mob action. In an attempt to explain how such violence could take place in a prosperous and forward-looking community, the author first examines the growth of Thorndale as a small agricultural town...
by Theodore R Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Denver was a small town at the foot of the mountains when Theodore Davis took a stagecoach across the plains on the Smoky Hill Route from Atchison, Kansas. Herds of Buffalo and unfriendly Indians made the journey both exhilarating and dangerous, with a cavalry escort on parts of the trail. "...
by Gladys Hill
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
The shantyboys were important American Frontiersmen with a way of life individually their own. From all parts of the country they came to work the endless pines; from the East Coast to the rapidly advancing West they blazed the trails that led to expansion. It was their labor that birthed a giant...
An Indiana History Story a Day – December
Hoosier History Stories – 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Indiana possesses a rich history that is fun to read and learn. An Indiana History Story a Day, like the Indiana Bicentennial History Series that preceded it, presents Indiana history in an easy to read “this day in history format” The thirty-one stories in the December edition include:
December...
Big Thicket People
Larry Jene Fisher's Photographs of the Last Southern Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Living off the land—hunting, fishing, and farming, along with a range of specialized crafts that provided barter or cash income—was a way of life that persisted well into the twentieth century in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Before this way of life ended with World War II, professional...
Political Terrain
Washington, D.C., from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy once remarked, is a city of "southern efficiency and northern charm." Kennedy's quip was close to the mark. Since its creation two centuries ago, Washington has been a community with multiple personalities. Located on the regional divide between...
The Women of CourtWatch
Reforming a Corrupt Family Court System
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Houston was a terrible place to divorce or seek child custody in the 1980s and early 1990s. Family court judges routinely rendered verdicts that damaged the interests of women and children. In some especially shocking cases, they even granted custody to fathers who had been accused of molesting their...