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by Johnny Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
On Gay Pride Day in 1973, someone set the entrance to a French Quarter gay bar on fire. In the terrible inferno that followed, thirty-two people lost their lives, including a third of the local congregation of the Metropolitan Community Church, their pastor burning to death halfway out a second-story...
Galveston and the 1900 Storm
Catastrophe and Catalyst
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
The Galveston storm of 1900 reduced a cosmopolitan and economically vibrant city to a wreckage-strewn wasteland where survivors struggled without shelter, power, potable water, or even the means to summon help. At least 6,000 of the city's 38,000 residents died in the hurricane. Many observers predicted...
The Life of Kings
The Baltimore Sun and the Golden Age of the American Newspaper
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
In an age when local daily papers with formerly robust reporting are cutting sections and even closing their doors, the contributors to The Life of Kings celebrate the heyday of one such paper, the Baltimore Sun, when it set the agenda for Baltimore, was a force in Washington, and extended its reach...
Banned in Boston
The Watch and Ward Society's Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
“I want to be intelligent, even if I do live in Boston.”
—an anonymous Bostonian, 1929
In this spectacular romp through the Puritan City, Neil Miller relates the scintillating story of how a powerful band of Brahmin moral crusaders helped make Boston the most straitlaced city in America,...
Boardwalk Empire
The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, HBO Series Tie-In Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE HBO SERIES
Through most of the 20th century, Atlantic City was controlled by a powerful partnership of local politicians and racketeers. Funded by payoffs from gambling rooms, bars, and brothels, this corrupt alliance reached full bloom during the reign of Enoch...
What's Good for Business
Business and American Politics since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
This volume showcases the most exciting new voices in the fields of business and political history. While the media frequently warns of the newfound power of business in the world of politics, the authors in this book demonstrate that business has mobilized to shape public policy and government institutions,...
Lost Revolutions
The South in the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
This sweeping work of cultural history explores a time of startling turbulence and change in the South, years that have often been dismissed as placid and dull. In the wake of World War II, southerners anticipated a peaceful and prosperous future, but as Pete Daniel demonstrates, the road into the...
New Jersey 9/11 Memorials
A Photographic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
New Jersey 9/11 Memorials: A Photographic Guide brings September 11 memorials and monuments from New Jersey communities large and small, together in one beautiful and informative photo book. Share the memories, history, and heart-felt tributes in this respectful photographic guide. Includes the National...
by Franklin Hichborn
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS
I. The Union Labor Party Movement
II. The Ruef Board of Supervisors
III. The San Francisco Ruef Ruled
IV. San Francisco After the Fire of 1906
V. Graft Prosecution Opens
VI. Ruef’s Fight to Take the District Attorney’s...
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...
by Iosco County Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Limited Edition, Iosco County, Michigan, some Early History of the area, with some family histories and including those of some local businesses and facilities.
by RJ Parker
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2014
When a Serial Killer is active in a community it is extremely scary for everyone. This book focuses on Serial Killers who have been captured and some of the most notorious and ruthless killers in history.
Serial killers stay close to home and their victims are random. Dennis Rader found all...
by Chuck D'Imperio
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2009
The hundreds of rural cemeteries in Upstate New York are the bucolic final resting places of a plethora of legendary Americans from the recent and distant past. For over a decade, Chuck DImperio traveled to research the beautiful and historic region in search of some of the most famous (and infamous)...
by James Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Many people in Brazoria County, Texas, are unaware that a lumbering industry exists or has ever existed in the county. Books and other publications have written about the countys other industries and enterprises such as chemicals, sulfur, oil, rice, cattle, and shrimping.
A History of Logging...