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Eisenhower and the Mass Media
Peace, Prosperity, and Prime-time TV
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
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Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way
Smokin' Joe Butter Beans, Ol' 'Fuskie Fried Crab Rice, Sticky-Bush Blackberry Dumpling, and Other Sea Island Favorites
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
If there's one thing we learned coming up on Daufuskie," remembers Sallie Ann Robinson, "it's the importance of good, home-cooked food." In this enchanting book, Robinson presents the delicious, robust dishes of her native Sea Islands and offers readers a taste of the unique, West African-influenced...
by Federal Writers' Project, Regional Staff
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Thirty-seven life histories of real people selected from among whites and blacks in three basic fields of work in the South--farm laborers and owners, factory and mill workers, people engaged in service occupations--and those on relief.
Originally published 1939.
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The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens
Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Andrew Pickens (1739–1817), the hard-fighting South Carolina militia commander of the American Revolution, was the hero of many victories against British and Loyalist forces. In this book, Rod Andrew Jr. offers an authoritative and comprehensive biography of Pickens the man, the general, the planter,...
A Dangerous Stir
Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Reconstruction policy after the Civil War, observes Mark Wahlgren Summers, was shaped not simply by politics, principles, and prejudices. Also at work were fears--often unreasonable fears of renewed civil war and a widespread sense that four years of war had thrown the normal constitutional process...
Facing a Holocaust
The Polish Government-in-exile and the Jews, 1943-1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Engel's study will be the definitive statement on one dimension of a very complex problem: the relations between Jews and their countrymen in occupied Poland.--Central European History
"A superb piece of scholarship that is impeccably researched and most elegantly written as well.--Jan...
Captive University
The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This comparative history of the higher education systems in Poland, East Germany, and the Czech lands reveals an unexpected diversity within East European stalinism. With information gleaned from archives in each of these places, John Connelly offers a valuable case study showing how totalitarian...
The Press Gang
Newspapers and Politics, 1865-1878
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Relations between the press and politicians in modern America have always been contentious. In The Press Gang, Mark Summers tells the story of the first skirmishes in this ongoing battle. Following the Civil War, independent newspapers began to separate themselves from partisan control and assert...
Hemingway's Nonfiction
The Public Voice
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This study explores Hemingway's newspaper and magazine journalism, his introductions and prefaces to books by others, his program notes on painting and sculpture exhibitions, and his statements in self-edited interviews. In doing so, it throws a new, oblique light on what has usually been regarded...
by Sallie Ann Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Sallie Ann Robinson was born and reared on Daufuskie Island, one of the South Carolina Sea Islands well known for their Gullah culture. Although technology and development were slow in coming to Daufuskie, the island is now changing rapidly. With this book, Robinson highlights some of her favorite...
by Colin Bonwick
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Bonwick brings together related elements that have been treated separately on previous occasions--English radicals as personalities, their relations with one another, their connections with Americans; the imperial controversy between England and the colonies; the movement for parliamentary reform...
by Enrique A. Baloyra
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Baloyra argues that the deepening American involvement in what is basically a domestic conflict between Salvadorans has failed to eliminate the obstructionism and violence of the
Originally published in 1982.
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Conflicting Readings
Variety and Validity in Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Armstrong argues that conflicting readings occur because readers with opposing suppositions about language, literature, and life can generate irreconcilable hypotheses about a text. Without endorsing a particular critical methodology, the author offers a theory designed to help readers better understand...
by Craig H. Roell
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Roell uses company records and the popular press to chronicle the piano industry through changing values, business strategies, economic conditions, and technology. For Roell, as for the industry, music is a byproduct.
Originally published in 1991.
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