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by Phillip Thomas Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
For the first time, the true story of “The Yellow Rose of Texas” is told in full, revealing a host of new insights and perspectives on one of America’s most popular stories. For generations, the Yellow Rose of Texas has been one of America’s most popular western myths, growing larger over...
The Violent Pilgrimage
Christians, Muslims and Holy Conflicts, 850-1150
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The notion of Christianity as a religion of peace was severely tested during the Middle Ages, when killing in the name of God became a sanctified act. In this book, Tim Rayborn traces the development of the early Crusades, Christian views of war and violence, and its attitudes toward Islam, primarily...
A New English Music
Composers and Folk Traditions in England's Musical Renaissance from the Late 19th to the Mid-20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
The turn of the 20th century was a time of great change in Britain. The empire saw its global influence waning and its traditional social structures challenged. There was a growing weariness of industrialism and a desire to rediscover tradition and the roots of English heritage. A new interest in...
George Burns Television Productions
The Series and Pilots, 1950-1981
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
An elementary school dropout, George Burns went on to become one of America’s most beloved entertainers. This book covers a neglected part of his career—his work as a television producer. Burns was not only a behind-the-scenes producer, but also filled the role of producer in various comedies...
Rebel Guerrillas
Mosby, Quantrill and Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
From the hills and valleys of the eastern Confederate states to the sun-drenched plains of Missouri and “Bleeding Kansas,” a vicious, clandestine war was fought behind the big-battle clashes of the American Civil War. In the east, John Singleton Mosby became renowned for the daring hit-and-run...
Frontier Forts Under Fire
The Attacks on Fort William Henry (1757) and Fort Phil Kearny (1866)
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Fort William Henry and Fort Phil Kearny were both military outposts of the North American frontier. Both lasted but briefly—about two years from construction until their walls went up in flames. And both saw what were termed “massacres” by Indians outside their walls. This book reexamines the...
Benevolent Barons
American Worker-Centered Industrialists, 1850-1910
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2015
American business has always had deep roots in community. For over a century, the country looked to philanthropic industrialists to finance hospitals, parks, libraries, civic programs, community welfare and disaster aid. Worker-centered capitalists saw the workplace as an extension of the community...
The Federal Reserve System
A History
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
The Federal Reserve banking system was created in 1913 in an effort to bring coherence to nationwide banking practices and prevent crises like the financial panic of 1907. Since it began operating in 1914, the Federal Reserve has played a crucial role in determining American financial policy and practice....
Innovators in Battery Technology
Profiles of 95 Influential Electrochemists
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
As the world’s demand for electrical energy increases, it will be the ingenuity and skill of brilliant electrochemists that enable us to utilize the planet’s mineral reserves responsibly. This biographical dictionary profiles 95 electrochemists from 19 nations who during the past 270 years have...
Peddling Bicycles to America
The Rise of an Industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This economic and technical history of the early American bicycle industry focuses on the crucial period from 1876 to the beginning of World War I. It looks particularly at the life and career of the industry’s most significant personality during this era, Albert Augustus Pope. After becoming enamored...
The Electric Chair
An Unnatural American History
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This book provides a history of the electric chair and analyzes its features, its development, and the manner of its use. Chapters cover the early conceptual stages as a humane alternative to hanging, and the rivalry between Edison and Westinghouse that was one of the main forces in the chair’s...
Child Labor in America
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
At the close of the 19th century, more than 2 million American children under age 16—some as young as 4 or 5—were employed on farms, in mills, canneries, factories, mines and offices, or selling newspapers and fruits and vegetables on the streets. The crusaders of the Progressive Era believed...
by Brian Temple
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
The Quakers came to America in the 17th century to seek religious freedom. After years of struggle, they achieved success in various endeavors and, like many wealthy colonists of the time, bought and sold slaves. But a movement to remove slavery from their midst, sparked by their religious beliefs,...
Henry Alsberg
The Driving Force of the New Deal Federal Writers' Project
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
During the Great Depression, Henry Alsberg, a journalist with a passion for social justice, directed the Federal Writers' Project, a New Deal program of the Works Progress Administration. Under his guidance, thousands of unemployed writers were hired. Despite attacks from the House Committee on Un-American...