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La Mirada: A Brief HistoryLa Mirada began with a vision. Andrew McNally, of the mapmakers Rand McNally and Company, saw the beautiful rolling hills as the perfect place to grow olives and lemons and purchased 2,600 acres of land that would become the modern city it is today....
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Georgia's Civilian Conservation CorpsAt a time when our country struggled with a deep financial depression, the United States began to see incredible numbers of men and women who could not find work. During the first days of his administration, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to create opportunities...
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St. Augustine in the Gilded AgeSt. Augustine was more than three centuries old when tourism awakened the sleepy Spanish village.Soon after Standard Oil's Henry Flagler brought the railroad to town in the 1880s, well-heeled visitors began flocking to Flagler's luxury hotels as St. Augustine became known as the American...
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Detroit's Wartime Industry: Arsenal of DemocracyFrom automobiles to tanks, planes, and ammunition, author Michael W.R. Davis captures a visual history of Detroit's industrial conversion guaranteeing victory at home and abroad.Gentlemen, we must out-build Hitler, proclaimed General Motors President William Knudson. Through the course of the World War II years,...
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The Great Dayton Flood of 1913Beginning on Easter Sunday, March 23, 1913, torrential rains across the Midwest dropped a record three months of rainfall in four days.Floodwaters funneled down Ohio's Miami Valley into the heart of the vibrant industrial city of Dayton. Levees burst, houses were swept away, and...
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Delaware in the Great DepressionThe Great Depression transformed Delaware more than any other event in the modern history of the state. Through vintage photographs, this volume records both the gentle philanthropy of the people and the crushing poverty experienced by 11,000 citizens left chronically unemployed for more than...
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Boston & Maine in the 20th CenturyThe history of railroads in America is not complete without a pictorial history of the Boston & Maine.As the twentieth century dawned, the Boston & Maine Railroad Company controlled virtually all of the rail lines in New Hampshire, as well as much of the...
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DelawareAfrican-American life in Delaware from the late 1800s to the 1960s was characterized by a struggle for equity in a time when there was none. This vigorous community set about developing its own institutions and activities, and what emerged was a rich cultural life...
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Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis"William C. Davis's Three Roads to the Alamo is far and away the best account of the Alamo I have ever read. The portraits of Crockett, Bowie, and Travis are brilliantly sketched in a fast-moving story that keeps the reader riveted to the very...
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General Patton: A Soldier's Life"The most complete biography of Patton] yet produced." -Chicago TribuneUtilizing untapped archival materials from the United States and England, Stanley P. Hirshson creates the most balanced portrait of Patton ever written. General Patton: A Soldier's Life reveals Patton as a complex soldier capable of...
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Edenton and Chowan County, North CarolinaEdenton and Chowan County, North Carolina is a pictorial history that celebrates early 20th-century lifestyles enjoyed by citizensof the first unofficial colonial capital.Conveniently located between three important waterways in Eastern North Carolina, Chowan County, along with its county seat of Edenton, is a remarkable...
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The Robber BaronsPrize-winning historian and biographer Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons is the story of the Gilded Age's giant American capitalists who seized economic power after the Civil War and altered the shape of American life forever.The definitive book on the rise and power of early...
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Letter from Birmingham Jail Lib/EAuthor: Martin Luther KingPublisher: Mission AudioPublished: 04/15/2013Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200521883About the AuthorKing, Martin Luther: - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), Nobel Peace Prize laureate and architect of the nonviolent civil rights movement, was among the twentieth century's most influential figures. One of the...
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Death Along the Natchez TraceThe Natchez Trace is the Path of Nations, a 450-mile-long game trail stamped into the earth by primeval bison. Once the domain of the Natchez, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Cherokee tribes, the Trace nurtured these groups, but it was also watered with the blood...
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Chicago Catholic Churches: A SketchbookIt began as the hobby of a lifelong Chicagoan. Twenty-five years and more than three hundred freehand church sketches later, it acts as an archive for centuries of architectural and religious history. The pen-and-ink drawings meticulously capture the details of each individual church down...
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Jazz Age Chicago: Crucible of Modern AmericaWhen people imagine 1920s Chicago, they usually (and justifiably) think of Al Capone, speakeasies, gang wars, flappers and flivvers. Yet this narrative overlooks the crucial role the Windy City played in the modernization of America. The city's incredible ethnic variety and massive building boom...
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New Mexico Ghost TownsPromises of riches from gold, silver, copper and zinc ores attracted thousands of treasure seekers to the Land of Enchantment. Boomtowns blossomed across the rugged wilderness until the trifecta of the Silver Panic of 1893, World War I and the Great Depression collapsed the...
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Wicked Western KentuckyWestern Kentucky has always had a dark side, despite being the Birthplace of Bluegrass Music. Mary James Trotter, an arrested moonshine-selling grandma, remarked to a judge that she simply had to sell a little liquor now and then to take care of my four...
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Historic Movie Theaters of Columbia, MissouriFrom converted saloons and warehouses to movie palaces and multiplexes, for more than one hundred years, Columbia's movie theaters have reflected the changes around them. In 1928, the Hall Theatre showed its first talkie, the third debut of talkies in Missouri. America fell in...
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Memories of the Currituck Outer Banks: As Told by Ernie BowdenPainfully remote in the time of the Wright brothers, today the Outer Banks famously welcomes millions of visitors each year. The journey from early isolation to popularity is recalled with remarkable insight by Ernie Bowden, a sixth-generation Outer Banker. On any given day, Ernie...
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