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Anyone who enjoys reading about "the good old days" will appreciate this highly entertaining collection of the best stories of the Burrillville News-Gazette and the Pascoag Herald from 1880 through 1917. Burrillville, Rhode Island, was a lively town whose journalists reported with humor as well as accuracy. While the News-Gazette leaned toward the sensational and dramatic events of the day, the Herald presented factual information regarding census records, town meetings, expenditures, and histories of the various churches, mills, etc. Here is an excerpt, taken from "Two Questionable Women...

In 1966, a project to create a national honour for Canadians was begun. The order recognizes individuals for their outstanding achievements, dedication, and service to the country. It is a product of national identity, politics, and history, and includes such individuals as Atom Egoyan, Joseph Boyden, and Louise Arbour.

The second edition of The Order of Canada continues the celebration of the order. Christopher McCreery sheds new light on the development of Canadian honours in the early 1930s, the imposed prohibition on honours from 1946 to 1967, and new details on those who...

This work is not intended as a complete history of New York, but rather a description and explanation of Dutch life concentrated in a small area of Manhattan Island below Trinity Church, the principal points of interest of which were the Fort, including the Church and windmill, the Strand, and the City Tavern at the Ferry. The author describes life, hardships, struggles, manners, customs, joys, sorrows, beliefs, superstitions, and worldly possessions of the first white settlers in New Netherland.

La familia alemana Lísperguer, protegida de Carlos V, y de gran éxito en el Chile y Perú colonial de los siglos XVI y XVII, ha despertado un enorme interés mediático, convirtiéndose en un verdadero fenómeno social. De ella y su célebre tópico literario “la Quintrala” (el Quijote chileno) se han hecho un sinfín de estudios desde vertientes tan dispares como la sociológica, psicológica, criminalista, etnográfica, genealógica, literaria, feminista… exteriorizados a su vez en...

Mississippi's Civil War Generals covers the lives of the forty-six Mississippians who reached the rank of general during the four-year struggle that divided the nation. Extensive primary source documents are used in conjunction with post-war documents to provide insight into the contributions of each man in his respective battlefields and associated locations. Each biography is accompanied with a photograph of the individual being discussed.

Mississippi's Civil War Generals covers the lives of the forty-six Mississippians who reached the rank of general during the four-year struggle that divided the nation. Extensive primary source documents are used in conjunction with post-war documents to provide insight into the contributions of each man in his respective battlefields and associated locations. Each biography is accompanied with a photograph of the individual being discussed.

This book documents the name, rank, unit, and commission date of men who served as officers in the Georgia Militia from 1798 to 1818. It is an invaluable resource to anyone conducting research on the people who lived in the state of Georgia during that period, whether or not they were officers in the militia. Beyond documenting military service, the names of local officers are the key to correctly interpreting many historical documents.

More than thirty-eight thousand men served as officers in the Georgia Militia between January 1798 and April 1860. This book contains...