ilość książek w kategorii: 5817
Haskell Institute: 19th Century Stories of Sacrifice and Survival
ISBN: 9780976177388 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Milk presents American Indian/Alaskan Native student stories from early days of Haskell, a federal boarding school founded in 1884. Their stories reveal the ordeals and successes of Native students as they struggle within a military, assimilationist educational environment.
Milk presents American Indian/Alaskan Native student stories from early days of Haskell, a federal boarding school founded in 1884. Their stories reve...
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82,11 zł |
The Sioux in South Dakota History: A Twentieth-Century Reader
ISBN: 9780977795543 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taken from the pages of South Dakota History, these essays explore modern American Indian life. The political and social ramifications of land heirship, the damming of the Missouri River, and shifting federal politices are among the topics discussed.
Taken from the pages of South Dakota History, these essays explore modern American Indian life. The political and social ramifications of land heirshi...
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94,22 zł |
Louise Pound: The 19th Century Iconoclast Who Forever Changed America's Views about Women, Academics and Sports
ISBN: 9780979689628 / Angielski / Miękka / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging the social norms of the Victorian age, iconoclast Louise Pound defied Americas prevailing views on female roles, academic sexism, and women in sports. This meticulously researched biography is almost a decade in the making, and will establish Pound among the most influential women pioneers.
Challenging the social norms of the Victorian age, iconoclast Louise Pound defied Americas prevailing views on female roles, academic sexism, and wome...
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115,22 zł |
The Fighting 10th: The History of the 10th Missouri Cavalry US
ISBN: 9781414016443 / Angielski / Miękka / 636 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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136,55 zł |
The Fighting 10th: The History of the 10th Missouri Cavalry US
ISBN: 9781414032962 / Angielski / Twarda / 652 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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195,17 zł |
One Zero Charlie
ISBN: 9781416576419 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Galt Airport in northern Illinois is known to the people who fly out of it as "One-Zero-Charlie" (for its FAA designation as Airport 10C). This evocative excursion into a little-known part of the heart of America takes us to a place where a love of flying draws people together, and a fascination with its sheer exhilaration keeps them that way.
Galt Airport in northern Illinois is known to the people who fly out of it as "One-Zero-Charlie" (for its FAA designation as Airport 10C). This evocat...
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77,79 zł |
On the Street Doing Life
ISBN: 9781425989767 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,28 zł |
Notable American Indians: Indiana & Adjacent States
ISBN: 9781425998899 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,58 zł |
Journeys To The Past: A Traveler's Guide to Indiana State Historical Markers
ISBN: 9781434316448 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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117,20 zł |
Indiana Slave Narratives: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938
ISBN: 9781557090140 / 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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64,45 zł |
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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64,45 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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64,45 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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81,90 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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90,11 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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81,90 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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53,16 zł |
A Dictionary of Iowa Place-Names
ISBN: 9781587295317 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lourdes and Churchtown, Woden and Clio, Emerson and Sigourney, Tripoli and Waterloo, Prairie City and Prairieburg, Tama and Swedesburg, What Cheer and Coin. Iowa s place-names reflect the religions, myths, cultures, families, heroes, whimsies, and misspellings of the Hawkeye State s inhabitants. Tom Savage spent four years corresponding with librarians, city and county officials, and local historians, reading newspaper archives, and exploring local websites in an effort to find out why these communities received their particular names, when they were established, and when they were...
Lourdes and Churchtown, Woden and Clio, Emerson and Sigourney, Tripoli and Waterloo, Prairie City and Prairieburg, Tama and Swedesburg, What Cheer and...
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92,73 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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131,33 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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65,48 zł |
Corpse in the Cellar
ISBN: 9781886228337 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Bellamy writes with razor-edged wit and his own particular brand of charm." -- Medina County Gazette The third book in this popular series delivers 25 more incredible but true stories of Cleveland crime and disaster, including: - Crotchety old vigilante Jarvis Meach, who shot down robbers in cold blood with his beloved shotguns, "Old Bunty" and "Little Pet." - Medina's Wickedest Stepmother, Mary Garrett, who locked her stepdaughters in their bedroom, set fire to the house, and did all she could to get the furniture out unharmed. - The horrible Ashtabula Bridge Disaster, which... "Bellamy writes with razor-edged wit and his own particular brand of charm." -- Medina County Gazette The third book in this popular series deliv... |
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57,27 zł |