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Detroit Fire Historical Record 1825-1977
ISBN: 9781681621913 / Angielski / Miękka / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of the Detroit Fire Department. Includes many fascinating photos.
The history of the Detroit Fire Department. Includes many fascinating photos.
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One Furrow at a Time: The Missouri Saxons of 1839
ISBN: 9781519110824 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In One Furrow at a Time, the author recounts the German Saxon immigration to East Perry County, Missouri, in straightforward terms. Approachable and clear-cut, this book is a history that can be enjoyed by lay people and historians alike. The story of the Saxons of Perry County is important to the developing history of Lutheranism in America, as well as for the self-understanding of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod. The author tells the story of the struggles, sacrifices, and triumphs of these hardy Lutheran immigrants (both lay and clergy) and he does so with a fresh perspective that will...
In One Furrow at a Time, the author recounts the German Saxon immigration to East Perry County, Missouri, in straightforward terms. Approachable and c...
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The Lynchings in Duluth: Second Edition
ISBN: 9781681340135 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the evening of June 15, 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, three young black men, accused of the rape of a white woman, were pulled from their jail cells and lynched by a mob numbering in the thousands. Yet for years the incident was nearly forgotten. This updated, second edition of The Lynchings in Duluth includes a new preface by the author, additional research and notes, and suggestions for further reading.
"This account of racial violence in the early twentieth century is a genuinely startling and illuminating contribution to our understanding of racial justice in the United States... On the evening of June 15, 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, three young black men, accused of the rape of a white woman, were pulled from their jail cells ...
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Scandinavians in the State House: How Nordic Immigrants Shaped Minnesota Politics
ISBN: 9781681340302 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning in the 1850s, thousands of immigrants from Nordic countries settled in Minnesota and quickly established themselves in the political life of their new home. These Norwegians, Swedes, Danes, Finns, and Icelanders first sowed their political seeds at the local level as town clerks, city councilmen, county commissioners, sheriffs and then broadened their sights to the state and national realm. Nordic immigrants served as governors, as Minnesota state senators and representatives, as U.S. congressmen, and as vice presidents of the United States. Many came to this country for political...
Beginning in the 1850s, thousands of immigrants from Nordic countries settled in Minnesota and quickly established themselves in the political life of...
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From Seven Rivers to Ten Thousand Lakes: Minnesota's Indian American Community
ISBN: 9781681341149 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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A Woman's War, Too: Women at Work During World War II
ISBN: 9781681341514 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes: Tragedies and Legacies from the Inland Seas
ISBN: 9781493058556 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Wisconsin Myths & Legends: The True Stories Behind History's Mysteries
ISBN: 9781493067473 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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U.P. Reader -- Volume #6: Bringing Upper Michigan Literature to the World
ISBN: 9781615996605 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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From Pie Stand to Icon: The 100-Year History of The Cherry Hut
ISBN: 9781954786974 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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To Banish Forever: A Secret Society, the Ho-Chunk, and Ethnic Cleansing in Minnesota
ISBN: 9781681342559 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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An Alternative History of Cleveland
ISBN: 9781953368799 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Gateway to the Hills: Rapid City and the Central Black Hills
ISBN: 9781941813584 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Uncle: My Journey with John Purdue
ISBN: 9781557534583 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the most comprehensive biographical study of John Purdue (c. 1802-1876) to date, Purdue's great-great-grandniece describes her travels to the diverse places where Purdue had lived in order to learn about the mysterious relative known in her family as Uncle. Using fresh, unpublished source materials-including Purdue's personal correspondence, business ledgers, and the family oral histories-the author examines Purdue's beginning among illiterate, immigrant, Pennsylvania mountain-hollow folks. Uncle challenges a commonly held belief that Purdue was a cold-hearted business mogul. Instead the...
In the most comprehensive biographical study of John Purdue (c. 1802-1876) to date, Purdue's great-great-grandniece describes her travels to the diver...
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Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief and a Native Culture in Motion
ISBN: 9780873516419 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries evangelical hymns into the Ojibwe language, regarding this music not only as a shared form of worship but also as a tool for rooting out native cultural identity. But for many Minnesota Ojibwe today, the hymns emerged from this history of material and cultural dispossession to become emblematic of their identity as a distinct native people.
Author Michael McNally uses hymn singing as a lens to view culture in motion--to consider the broader cultural processes through which Native American peoples have creatively drawn on the... In the early nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries evangelical hymns into the Ojibwe language, regarding this music not only as a shared form of...
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Rockne: The Coach, the Man, the Legend
ISBN: 9780803226791 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On April 1, 1931, newspapers in all parts of the country announced in giant headlines that Knute Rockne had died in a plane crash in Kansas. Who was Rockne, age forty-three, to receive all this attention? As head coach of the Notre Dame football team, he was a celebrity whose face and voice were familiar to millions through magazines, newspapers, and radio. At Notre Dame, he himself had been a great football player. After graduation, he remained to teach chemistry and coach track and football. At thirty, he was named head football coach for the Fighting Irish, and over the next thirteen...
On April 1, 1931, newspapers in all parts of the country announced in giant headlines that Knute Rockne had died in a plane crash in Kansas. Who was R...
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Michigan: A State of Environmental Justice?
ISBN: 9781614480297 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The goal of this book is to free the state from an economic growth and development paradigm that threatens its social and physical well-being. While citizens accumulate wealth, they also accumulate harmful pollution and environmental waste. The challenge is to implement a new economic growth and development paradigm that is more environmentally benign, socially responsible, and economically productive. 246 pp.
The goal of this book is to free the state from an economic growth and development paradigm that threatens its social and physical well-being. While c...
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Haunted Wisconsin
ISBN: 9780299285944 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Grab a cozy blanket, light a few flickering candles, and enjoy the unnerving tales of Haunted Wisconsin. Gathered from personal interviews with credible eyewitnesses, on-site explorations, historical archives, newspaper reports, and other sources, these scores of reports date from Wisconsin's early settlement days to recent inexplicable events. Grab a cozy blanket, light a few flickering candles, and enjoy the unnerving tales of Haunted Wisconsin. Gathered from personal interviews w... |
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George Norris, Going Home: Reflections of a Progressive Statesman
ISBN: 9780803271876 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After forty years of congressional service, five terms in the House and five in the Senate, George William Norris (1861 1944) was going home to Nebraska. Norris had lost the 1942 Senate race and felt the defeat keenly. But as his train rolled westward, he was forcefully reminded of what his legislative efforts had wrought, from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to the Rural Electrification Act (REA), which brought power to the land unfolding before him. It is here that authors Gene A. Budig and Don Walton begin their journey with this great statesman, perhaps the last progressive... After forty years of congressional service, five terms in the House and five in the Senate, George William Norris (1861 1944) was going home to Neb... |
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Prairie Forge: The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II
ISBN: 9780803248786 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the wake of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt called for the largest arms buildup in our nation's history. A shortage of steel, however, quickly slowed the program s momentum, and arms production fell dangerously behind schedule. The country needed scrap metal.Henry Doorly, publisher of the Omaha World-Herald, had the solution. Prairie Forge tells the story of the great Nebraska scrap drive of 1942 a campaign that swept the nation and yielded five million tons of scrap metal, literally salvaging the war effort itself.
James J. Kimble chronicles Doorly s conception... In the wake of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt called for the largest arms buildup in our nation's history. A shortage of steel, however, quickly sl...
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