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Jolly Della Pringle
Star of the Western Stage
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
The story of American repertory theatre actress Jolly Della Pringle (1870–1952) is an odyssey of travel, adventure, drama, romance and many changes in fortune. Pringle was a major star to the people in the gold fields, cow towns, logging camps, military forts and rural communities of the West and...
Brown & Sharpe and the Measure of American Industry
Making the Precision Machine Tools That Enabled Manufacturing, 1833-2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Joseph Brown, founder of Brown & Sharpe, was a skilled clockmaker who invented new machines, and new ways to make things. Samuel Darling, an eccentric inventor from Maine, joined up and brought with him his engine for marking precise graduations on measuring instruments. Lucian Sharpe, with his...
Black Stereotypes in Popular Series Fiction, 1851-1955
Jim Crow Era Authors and Their Characters
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Even well-meaning fiction writers of the late Jim Crow era (1900–1955) perpetuated racial stereotypes in their depiction of black characters. From 1918 to 1952, Octavus Roy Cohen turned out a remarkable 360 short stories featuring Florian Slappey and the schemers, romancers and ditzes of Birmingham’s...
Larry Semon, Daredevil Comedian of the Silent Screen
A Biography and Filmography
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Prior to his premature death from tuberculosis in 1928, Larry Semon was one of the most popular comics on the silent screen. For a time he rivaled comedy legends Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton for fame and fortune. The son of magician Professor Zera the Great, Semon participated in...
Doctor Danger Forward
A World War II Memoir of a Combat Medical Aidman, First Infantry Division
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
As a combat medical aidman of Company B, 1st Medical Battalion, First Infantry Division, Allen N. Towne experienced some of the pivotal events of World War II. “Doctor B,” as his unit was known, was attached to the 18th Regimental Combat Team and moved with them, providing continuous close medical...
Flying Tigers Over Cambodia
An American Pilot’s Memoir of the 1975 Phnom Penh Airlift
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
At the end of World War II, a number of former American military pilots formed the “Flying Tiger Line,” which soon became the world’s leading airfreight company. Its motto of “Anything, anytime, anywhere” was especially applicable in its humanitarian projects. In 1975, the Flying Tigers...
"Death does seem to have all he can attend to"
The Civil War Diary of an Andersonville Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
On August 7, 1862, George Alfred Hitchcock (born in Massachusetts in 1844) was mustered into Company A, 21st Massachusetts Infantry. From this date until January 1, 1865, he kept a meticulous daily diary. His first experience in battle was at Fox’s Gap on South Mountain, and then an attack across...
Mad Minutes and Vietnam Months
A Soldier's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This thoughtful memoir recounts one man’s transformation from a glory-seeking, gung-ho Kansas teenager to a weary, twice-wounded grunt who had volunteered for a second tour of duty. Enlisting in the Army in June 1964 at age 17, Micheal Clodfelter was assigned to an artillery battalion of the 101st...
The Civil War in North Carolina, Volume 1: The Piedmont
Soldiers' and Civilians' Letters and Diaries, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
“I think that we can hold our position here against any force that the enemy can bring against us, as we have an admirable position & are all ready. I can give you no idea when the general attack will take place. It may be this evening, tomorrow or at any moment as both parties are apparently...
The Civil War in North Carolina, Volume 2: The Mountains
Soldiers' and Civilians' Letters and Diaries, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
“You will perceive by this I am at least in the Confederate service…. Since I have been here I have had a severe sickness but am glad to say at present I am well though I fear my sickness would have incapacitated me for active service…. In all probability our regiment will be stationed here...
Mustang Genesis
The Creation of the Pony Car
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
When Lee Iacocca brought his Fairlane Committee together in 1962 to explore the possibilities of a new kind of car for young, forward-thinking families, no one could have predicted quite how successful this car would eventually be. Finding a styling void in the swiftly growing baby boomer market,...
The Culture of Al Jazeera
Inside an Arab Media Giant
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
In the mid 1990s, the emir of Qatar conceived the idea of a satellite channel that would further the progressive image he hoped to establish for his small Arabian/Persian Gulf state. At the same time, a short-lived partnership between the BBC and a Saudi company had left a handful of BBC-trained Arab...
The Age of Netflix
Critical Essays on Streaming Media, Digital Delivery and Instant Access
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
In 2016, Netflix—with an already enormous footprint in the United States—expanded its online streaming video service to 130 new countries, adding more than 12 million subscribers in nine months and bringing its total to 87 million. The effectiveness of Netflix’s content management lies in its...
by Jason S. Martinko
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
The XXX Filmography, 1968–1988 features more than 3,000 A to Z entries, covering the historic, artistic, and technical aspects of adult cinema from those years, including 35mm features, 16mm storefront features, and 8mm loops. It provides director, producer, cast, screenwriter, cinematographer,...