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Panorama of Paris: Selections from "Tableau de Paris"Panorama of Paris offers English-language readers an introduction to one of the forgotten masterpieces of French literature, Louis-Sébastien Mercier's twelve-volume Le Tableau de Paris (published from 1781 to 1788), an important and original work that helped shape many kinds of French writing. Colorfully written,...
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The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942Entering the vigorous debate about the nature of the American welfare state, The Wages of Motherhood illuminates ways in which a "maternalist" social policy emerged from the crucible of gender and racial politics between the world wars. Gwendolyn Mink here examines the cultural dynamics...
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Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American EnvironmentalismFor those who eagerly awaited its periodic appearance, it was more than a publication: it was a way of life. The Whole Earth Catalog billed itself as "Access to Tools," and it grew from a Bay Area blip to a national phenomenon catering to...
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Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict Over Land in the American West, 1840-1900When American settlers arrived in the southwestern borderlands, they assumed that the land was unencumbered by property claims. But, as María Montoya shows, the Southwest was no empty quarter simply waiting to be parceled up. Although Anglo farmers claimed absolute rights under the Homestead...
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Land Deed Genealogy of Cannon County, Tennessee, 1836-1857.By: Thomas E. Partlow, Pub. 2001, reprinted 2020, 274 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-714-9. Cannon County was carved-out of Coffee, Rutherford, Warren, and Wilson counties in 1836. This book is an abstract of the deeds for this middle Tennessee County. Deeds are one...
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St. Joseph Catholic Church, Galveston, Texas, Baptismal, Confirmation, Marriage and Death Records, 1860-1952By: Galveston County Gen'l Society, Pub. 1984, Reprinted 2018, 272 pages, INDEX, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-344-5.If you have German ancestors that came to Texas or through Texas to the midwest, in the mid-1800's, this book is a MUST. Many Germans came to the Republic...
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Trails (PB): Toward a New Western HistoryThis is the new story of the Old West, told by ten historians who dare to reenvision the American West and knock the field of Western history on its ear. Some historians call it a revolution. The Trails Conference in Santa Fe, a 1989...
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10,600 Marriages from Ninety-Six and Abbeville District, South CarolinaThis volume is a BRAND-NEW-NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED book. These 10,600 marriages have been consolidated by the author from over 160 unique sources into one volume arranged alphabetically by groom with a brides name index. These marriages cover the years 1734-1898. Considering South Carolina did not keep...
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Soldiering on in a Dying War: The True Story of the Firebase Pace Incidents and the Vietnam DrawdownBy the autumn of 1971 a war-weary American public had endured a steady stream of bad news about the conduct of its soldiers in Vietnam. It included reports of fraggings, massacres, and cover-ups, mutinies, increased racial tensions, and soaring drug abuse. Then six soldiers...
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The Property of the Nation: George Washington's Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First PresidentFinalist: George Washington Prize George Washington was an affluent slave owner who believed that republicanism and social hierarchy were vital to the young country's survival. And yet, he remains largely free of the "elitist" label affixed to his contemporaries, as Washington evolved in public...
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Native Activism in Cold War America: The Struggle for SovereigntyWinner: Labriola Center Book Award The heyday of American Indian activism is generally seen as bracketed by the occupation of Alcatraz in 1969 and the Longest Walk in 1978; yet Native Americans had long struggled against federal policies that threatened to undermine tribal sovereignty...
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Genealogies of West Virginia FamiliesWise's Eastern Shore of Virginia is a history of the counties of Accomack and Northampton; however, genealogists will be drawn to the book's numerous references to families prominent on the Eastern Shore and to the extensive lists of early settlers and patentees of land.Author:...
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Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans. an Authorized Facsimile Reproduction of Records Published Serially 1901-1935 in the Mayflower DesceIn 1899 the Society of Mayflower Descendants inaugurated a series of transcriptions of the birth, marriage, and death records in its quarterly, "The Mayflower Descendant." In 1976 Col. and Mrs. Leonard H. Smith Jr., with the consent of the Society of Mayflower Descendants, published...
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Families of Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Excerpted from History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (1888)"Families of Beaver County, Pennsylvania," extracted from pages 609-908 of Richard's "History of Beaver County," consists solely of detailed genealogical and biographical sketches of several hundred Beaver County families. In general, the essays indicate the principal subject's date and place of birth, occupation, military...
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Place ApartThe Williamson Road area, which was annexed by the city of Roanoke in 1949, was originally a part of Botetourt County and thereafter of the northern part of Roanoke County. "A Place Apart" traces the history, places, and families of the Williamson Road. The...
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RoAne County, West Virginia FamiliesBishop's "History of Roane County" is the standard work on its subject, but its chief appeal to the genealogist can be found in the hundreds of genealogical and historical essays of pioneer families of Roane County that comprise the second half of the work....
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JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral BiographyThe first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate, comprehensive look at the real man behind the myth. Sharing never-before-told stories and insights, his closest friends, confidantes, lovers, classmates, teachers, and colleagues paint a vivid portrait of one of the...
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of SpaceFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting--a riveting history that reads like a thriller.On January 28, 1986, just seventy-three seconds into...
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President Garfield: From Radical to UnifierThe first comprehensive biography in decades of the extraordinary, tragic life of America's twentieth president--James Garfield.In this magisterial biography, C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans ever to win the Presidency. Progressive firebrand and conservative compromiser; Union...
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Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship That Saved YosemiteThe dramatic and uplifting story of legendary outdoorsman and conservationist John Muir's journey to become the man who saved Yosemite--from the author of the bestselling Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival.In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir--iconic environmentalist, writer,...
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