ilość książek w kategorii: 5581
Missouri Slave Narratives: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938
ISBN: 9781557090195 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Autobiographical accounts of former slaves compiled in the 1930s by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration.
Autobiographical accounts of former slaves compiled in the 1930s by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration.
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65,44 zł |
Ohio Slave Narratives: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938
ISBN: 9781557090218 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Autobiographical accounts of former slaves compiled in the 1930s by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration.
Autobiographical accounts of former slaves compiled in the 1930s by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration.
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65,44 zł |
Grand Dragon: D.C. Stephenson and the Ku Klux Klan
ISBN: 9781557530462 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Ku Klux Klan reached its height in the 1920s, and nowhere was it as large and politically powerful as in Indiana, where about 30 percent of the native-born white male population were Klansmen. This book explores the career of D. C. Stephenson, grand dragon of the Indiana Klan, his rise to power, and his eventual conviction for second-degree murder in 1925. Grand Dragon traces Stephenson's background, still shrouded in mystery due to Stephenson's own colorful but imaginary accounts of his early years. A political opportunist, Stephenson's rise to power in the loan was startlingly swift,...
The Ku Klux Klan reached its height in the 1920s, and nowhere was it as large and politically powerful as in Indiana, where about 30 percent of the na...
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83,16 zł |
Westward We Came: A Norwegian Immigrant's Story, 1866-1898
ISBN: 9781557534712 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. West We Came is a memoir of Harold B. Kildahl, Sr. and his family pulling up roots in Norway and immigrating to the United States in 1866. It is a vivid description of their travels and settlement in southern Minnesota. Westward We Came is an authentic depiction of difficult pioneer life-true Americana, including the hardships as well as the joys of that time and place.
West We Came is a memoir of Harold B. Kildahl, Sr. and his family pulling up roots in Norway and immigrating to the United States in 1866. It is a viv...
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91,50 zł |
The South Side: The Racial Transformation of an American Neighborhood
ISBN: 9781566632744 / Angielski / Miękka / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The South Side is a quietly powerful story of how a white, middle-class, and largely Jewish neighborhood, built from prairie on Chicago s far South Side in the optimistic years after World War II, rapidly and dramatically changed to a middle-class black community in the 1960s. It is a tale of two communities that collided almost by accident at a moment in America s history when race relations were starting to explode, and the profound impact this wrenching collision had on the lives of families and individuals on both sides of the event; a tale of how dreams were both realized and shattered...
The South Side is a quietly powerful story of how a white, middle-class, and largely Jewish neighborhood, built from prairie on Chicago s far South Si...
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83,16 zł |
Thunder from a Clear Sky: Stovepipe Johnson's Confederate Raid on Newburgh, Indiana
ISBN: 9781583483008 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This isn't an ordinary Civil War tale. It is the all-true but little-known story of Adam "Stovepipe" Johnson-Kentucky legend, Texas hero, and Confederate cavalry officer-who boldly led the first Confederate raid across the Mason-Dixon Line to capture the thriving river-port community of Newburgh, Indiana, during the American Civil War. Not a shot was fired.
With the politically divided landscape of Civil War Kentucky and the steamboat economy of the Ohio River as its backdrop, this is the historically accurate account of surprise nocturnal strikes, opportunistic military occupations, and a... This isn't an ordinary Civil War tale. It is the all-true but little-known story of Adam "Stovepipe" Johnson-Kentucky legend, Texas hero, and Confeder...
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53,98 zł |
Shipwrecks of Lake Erie: Tragedy in the Quadrangle
ISBN: 9781540210500 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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133,35 zł |
All Hell Broke Loose: Experiences of Young People During the Armistice Day 1940 Blizzard
ISBN: 9781882376964 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How young people coped with the storm of the century - 59 people died in Minnesota on November 11, 1940 when the worst blizzard ever hit Minnesota unexpectedly. Violet walked from Seven Corners in Minneapolis to 32nd street with snow over her knees, in subzero temperature, with only saddle oxfords and a light wrap. Farmers lost thousands of turkeys - Herb tells of rendering a half million frozen gobblers. Alvin in Warroad barely got his boat back to the dock. Andy and a group of Iron Rangers, preparing for deer hunting the next weekend, spent this weekend struggling through the blizzard,...
How young people coped with the storm of the century - 59 people died in Minnesota on November 11, 1940 when the worst blizzard ever hit Minnesota une...
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66,49 zł |
The Killer in the Attic: And More Tales of Crime and Disaster from Cleveland's Past
ISBN: 9781886228573 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Fascinating and yes entertaining . . . often in a bizarre way that leaves the reader feeling guilty for being so entertained." -- Medina County Gazette The fourth volume in John Stark Bellamy's classic Cleveland crime and disaster series features 26 more gruesome, horrible, tragic, and despicable--but true--tales, including: - Love-crazed Clark Hill, who warmed up his teenage girlfriend with an overdose of Spanish Fly in her milk shake; - The chilling Cuyahoga River scow disaster, in which 16 clinging, drowning men fought so desperately to stay afloat that they dragged each other... "Fascinating and yes entertaining . . . often in a bizarre way that leaves the reader feeling guilty for being so entertained." -- Medina County Ga... |
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58,15 zł |
Death Ride at Euclid Beach: And Other True Tales of Crime & Disaster from Cleveland's Past
ISBN: 9781886228856 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Has more than its fair share of violence, sex, debauchery and reversals of fortune . . . But what emerges between the lines are stories of human suffering, stories of class struggle, stories that speak as much to the criminal mind as to the crime itself." -- Sun Newspapers More true tales of woe from Cleveland's crime and disaster expert. The fifth book in John Stark Bellamy's popular series delivers 26 accounts of Cleveland-area crimes and disasters from 1900 through 1950, including: - The depression-era "Blue Book Murder," in which a swank Shaker Heights society party was... "Has more than its fair share of violence, sex, debauchery and reversals of fortune . . . But what emerges between the lines are stories of human s... |
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70,65 zł |
Uncle Henry Wallace: Letters to Farm Families
ISBN: 9781557534934 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Back in print for the first time in over a century, the real heart and soul of the eldest Henry Wallace is revealed in his open letters to America's farm families. These homespun, secular epistles show that Wallace never lost sight of his roots even as he hobnobbed with U.S. Presidents from Teddy Roosevelt to Woodrow Wilson, anchored the prestigious Country Life Commission, and edited the most famous agricultural magazine of its day, Wallaces' Farmer. Who better to yoke the sacred, agrarian arts of stewardship, husbandry, and parenting than...
Back in print for the first time in over a century, the real heart and soul of the eldest Henry Wallace is revealed in his open letters to America's f...
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83,16 zł |
Positively Main Street: Bob Dylan's Minnesota
ISBN: 9780816654451 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "That boy . . . this fellow, Toby . . . has got some lessons to learn." --Bob Dylan, Rolling Stone, November 29, 1969 "Toby Thompson was there first." --Greil Marcus "A first-rate novelistic account of Thompson's own psyche as he uncovers the Dylan few people know . . . A new look at young Dylan done with kindness, enthusiasm and superb language." --William Kennedy, Look Magazine "Essential reading. Thompson, unprecedentedly, managed to interview not only Echo Helstrom, almost certainly the 'Girl of the North Country, ' but Dylan's mother and brother, his uncle,..."That boy . . . this fellow, Toby . . . has got some lessons to learn." --Bob Dylan, Rolling Stone, November 29, 1969 "Toby Thompson was... |
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72,57 zł |
The Face of Minnesota
ISBN: 9780816654482 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Ducks in a stream, the bridge at St. Anthony Falls, streets of cities and towns, a fish in a net, the glittering lakes seen under low skies. The Face of Minnesota is a fresh, simple, unpretentious statement of a place and time by people who know what Minnesota is because they live there." --Minor White, Aperture, 1958
"John Szarkowski is the single most important curator that photography has ever had. Looking at his photographs created over the last fifty years makes me want to weep. They are truly American pictures; one feels his desire to show not just what America... "Ducks in a stream, the bridge at St. Anthony Falls, streets of cities and towns, a fish in a net, the glittering lakes seen under low skies. The F... |
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212,94 zł |
Wanted-Correspondence: Women's Letters to a Union Soldier
ISBN: 9780821418048 / Angielski / Twarda / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A unique collection of more than 150 letters written to an Ohio serviceman during the American Civil War offers glimpses of women's lives as they waited, worked, and wrote from the Ohio home front.
A unique collection of more than 150 letters written to an Ohio serviceman during the American Civil War offers glimpses of women's lives as they wait...
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280,10 zł |
Wanted-Correspondence: Women's Letters to a Union Soldier
ISBN: 9780821418055 / Angielski / Miękka / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Wanted-Correspondence" is a unique collection of more than 150 letters written to an Ohio serviceman during the American Civil War offers glimpses of women s lives as they waited, worked, and wrote from the Ohio home front. The letters reveal fascinating details of the lives of mostly young, single women friends, acquaintances, love interests, and strangers who responded to one Union soldier s advertisement for cor respondents. Almost all of the women who responded to Lieutenant Edwin Lewis Lybarger s lonely-hearts newspaper advertisement lived in Ohio and supported the Union. Lybarger...
"Wanted-Correspondence" is a unique collection of more than 150 letters written to an Ohio serviceman during the American Civil War offers glimpses of...
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130,99 zł |
Shining Big Sea Water: The Story of Lake Superior
ISBN: 9780873515900 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Shining Big Sea Water, historian Norman K. Risjord offers a grand tour of Lake Superior's remarkable history, taking readers through the centuries and into the lives of those who have traveled the lake and inhabited its shores.
Through lively, informative chapters, Risjord begins with the lake's cataclysmic geological birth, then explores the lives of native peoples along the shore before European contact and during the fur trade, showing how Superior functioned as an unusual "blue water highway" for Indians, early explorers, industries, and settlers. He outlines the development... In Shining Big Sea Water, historian Norman K. Risjord offers a grand tour of Lake Superior's remarkable history, taking readers through the centuries ...
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70,65 zł |
Railroad Depots of Michigan: 1910-1920
ISBN: 9780738551920 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michigan has a rich railroad history, which began in November 1836, when the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad initiated service between Toledo, Ohio, and Adrian, Michigan. That first Erie and Kalamazoo train consisted of stagecoach-like vehicles linked together and pulled by horses. Steam locomotive hauled trains were still eight months in the future. As these new transportation entities grew and prospered, they put in place more elaborate station buildings in the communities they served. By the end of the 19th century, some of the larger railroad stations being built in Michigan were works of art...
Michigan has a rich railroad history, which began in November 1836, when the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad initiated service between Toledo, Ohio, and A...
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104,17 zł |
Homes in the Heartland: Balloon Frame Farmhouses of the Upper Midwest
ISBN: 9780816653539 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Available for the first time in paperback and with a new preface, Homes in the Heartland offers a captivating explanation of the revolutionary balloon frame house construction that swept across Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin from 1850 to 1920, enabling the settlers of the upper Midwest to build affordable permanent structures in which to establish frontier homes.
Featuring more than 150 illustrations, including photographs and house plans, Fred W. Peterson leads readers through the technical aspects of farmhouse construction and discusses the... Available for the first time in paperback and with a new preface, Homes in the Heartland offers a captivating explanation of the revolutionary ... |
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103,69 zł |
The First Vice Lord: Big Jim Colosemo and the Ladies of the Levee
ISBN: 9781581826395 / Angielski / Twarda / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE FIRST VICE LORD is the story of the life and death of Big Jim Colosimo and Chicago's infamous segregated red-light district--the Levee. For the first time, the true story is told of the colorful characters who peopled the Levee from the time of the Columbian Exposition to the Roaring Twenties, clearly the most colorful period in Chicago's history. The product of five years of research through Chicago daily newspapers, magazines, and periodicals, and books on the city's history, it documents the story as it occurred, with all of the sights, sounds, and smells of that lusty, unruly era. THE...
THE FIRST VICE LORD is the story of the life and death of Big Jim Colosimo and Chicago's infamous segregated red-light district--the Levee. For the fi...
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141,69 zł |
The Serial Killer's Apprentice: And 12 Other True Stories of Cleveland's Most Intriguing Unsolved Crimes
ISBN: 9781598510461 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "James Renner is genuine. He cares about these victims . . . When it comes to true crime, this is the kind of writer we need." -- Crime Shadow News An investigative journalist cracks open 13 of Northeast Ohio's most intriguing unsolved crimes and attempts to crack open dark secrets that have baffled Clevelanders for years, including: - Murder--Beverly Jarosz, just 16 years old, felt a dark foreboding in the months before she was stabbed to death in her quiet Garfield Heights home in December 1964. - Stolen Identity--Joseph Newton Chandler of Eastlake... "James Renner is genuine. He cares about these victims . . . When it comes to true crime, this is the kind of writer we need." -- ... |
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70,65 zł |