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You Will Dye at Midnight: Victorian Threatening LettersVictorian Ireland was global champion of threatening letters. This book reveals the murky world where tens of thousands of these letters and notices were nailed to barn doors or sent by penny post, intimidating, giving 'fair warning' and terrorizing the recipients. These victims were...
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Kenmare - History and Survival: Fr John O'Sullivan and the Famine PoorThis is the story of a remarkable man's efforts to help starving people during the Irish Great Famine. It reveals their terrible experiences inside and outside one of the national 'workhouses' and throws new light on the relationship between class, religion, and poverty in...
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The Politics of Change: The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party: A Case Study of the Rise (and Fall) of InsurgencyThe Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)...gives us some of our most inspiring examples of grassroots leaders and some profound lessons about the limits of mid-twentieth-century liberalism.-Prof. Charles M. Payne, author I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition in the Mississippi Civil Rights...
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The Capture and Escape from the Sioux: The Ordeals of an American Pioneer Woman Captured by Indians in 1864A famous account of abduction and escape from hostile Indians in the old West In July, 1864 hostile Oglala Sioux Indians attacked the wagon train of the pioneering Kelly and Larimer families approximately 80 miles west of Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Several people were killed...
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Selections From The National Prospector's Gazette Volume 1: Exanimo Looks at BooksSelections From The National Prospector's Gazette VOLUME I EXANIMO LOOKS AT BOOKSFamed treasure hunter, author and publisher Karl von Mueller reintroduced the treasure hunting community to the "National Prospector's Gazette" in 1969. For nearly 15 years, the NPG provided a constant source of education...
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Rendezvous in Dallas: The Assasination of John F. Kennedy"Rendezvous in Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy" was orginally published in 2009. Since that time, a number of readers have inquired about the publication of a second edition, with additional details about the characters and events in this real life drama. With...
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The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas JeffersonAmericans did not at first cherish the idea of political severance from their mother country. In just a few years, however, they came to desire indepen-dence above all else. What brought about this change of feeling and how did it affect the lives of...
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Hazard Powder: The Powder Hollow Explosion of 1913Enter a world where honest work makes fatherless families, business agreements become tools of corruption, toxic plagues devastate cities, indigenous policies create profitable opportunities, partnerships devolve into rivalries, racism influences company payrolls, humans become expendable chaff, and haves and have-nots are defined by the...
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Selected Sketches of Dodge County, Georgia HistoryThe Selected Sketches contains essays, stories, photographs and related material on the rich history of Dodge County, Georgia. Dodge County is situated in south Georgia in the Wiregrass area of the state. Founded in 1870, the County was opened up by the coming of...
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Mi Vieja MecedoraEn su novela Mi Vieja Mecedora, Jonathan, con magistral narrativa, nos lleva en el tiempo varias d cadas atr s. Lo hace con tanto acierto que no hay forma en que no te imagines vivir en esa maravillosa poca. Pinta sus palabras, domina el...
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The White River Ute War Colorado, 1879: The Ute War: A History of the White River Massacre by Thomas F. Dawson and F. J. V. Skiff, Besieged by the UteThe last war cry of the Utes of Colorado The conflict between the White River Ute Indians of Colorado and the United States Army was the last Indian conflict in the region. In 1879, the Utes were already living on a reservation managed by...
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Scribblin' for a Livin': Mark Twain's Pivotal Period in Buffalo: Expanded EditionIn August 1869, thirty-three-year-old journalist Samuel Clemens-better known as Mark Twain-moved to Buffalo, New York. At the time, he had high hopes of establishing himself as a successful newspaper editor in the thriving metropolis at the western end of the Erie Canal. In this...
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To Set the Captives Free: Reverend Jermain Wesley Loguen and the struggle for freedom in central New York 1835-1872Reverend Jermain Wesley Loguen was one of the most fervent and dedicated abolitionists of his day. An ex-slave, he brazenly printed in Syracuse newspapers his address and invitations to other runaways seeking freedom. He became infamous for his leadership in the "Jerry rescue"- one...
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A Little War of Destiny: The Yakima/Walla Walla Indian War of 1855-56In August 1854, a minor incident along the overland trail led to the deaths of an impetuous young army officer and twenty-nine soldiers, the first casualties of the sometimes glamorized Indian Wars of the Great Plains. Next year a large military force was still...
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Fist in the WildernessThe story of the American fur trade has been told many times from different viewpoints, but David Lavender was the first to place it within the overall contest for empire between Britain and the United States. Rather than offering a simple hagiography of men...
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Chardon's Journal at Fort Clark, 1834-1839Thirty years after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark passed through the Mandan villages in present-day North Dakota, the Upper Missouri River region was being plied by fur traders. In 1834 Francis A. Chardon, a Philadelphian of French extraction, took charge of Fort Clark, a...
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Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against FearIn 1962, James Meredith became a civil rights hero when he enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. Four years later, he would make the news again when he reentered Mississippi, on foot. His plan was to walk from...
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Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War StalemateA leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics ● A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 and winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize "Sarotte has the receipts, as it were: her authoritative tale draws on...
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The Accidental City: Improvising New OrleansThis is the story of a city that shouldn't exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America's most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, battered by hurricanes. But through the intense imperial rivalries of Spain,...
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Hölderlin's Madness: Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806-1843One of Europe's greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe's greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin. What does it mean to inhabit a place or a self? What is a habit? And, for human beings, doesn't living mean--first and...
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