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A lifelong affair: my passion for people and politics
Par Bethine C Church. 2003
Bethine Church, wife of Idaho senator Frank Church, had been her husband's political partner since their earliest days together. In…
her own winsome words this is the story of the woman people called "The Third Senator from Idaho". Critical chapters of our history, from civil rights battles and the Vietnam War to Senator Church's chairmanship of the Senate Intelligence Committee, come vividly to life here, as does the idealism and love of people that animate Bethine Church's entire career in politicsA culinary history of Missouri: foodways & iconic dishes from the show-me state
Par Suzanne Corbett. 2021
Topgun: an American story
Par Dan Pedersen. 2019
The founder of the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons program, aka "TOPGUN," shares the untold story of how he and eight…
other young pilots revolutionized the art of aerial combat and created the center for excellence and incubator of leadership that thrives to this day. Provided by publisher. Adult. UnratedThe wreck of the Old 97
Par Larry G Aaron. 2011
"With Fast Mail train No. 97 an hour behind schedule, locomotive engineer Steve Broady, according to legend, swore to "put…
her in Spencer on time" or "put her in Hell." Through eyewitness reports and court testimonies, historian Larry Aaron expertly pieces together the events of September 27, 1903, at Danville, Virginia, when the Old 97 plummeted off a forty-five-foot trestle into the ravine below. With more twists and turns than the railroad tracks on which the Old 97 ran, this book chronicles the story of one of the most famous train wrecks in American history, as well as the controversy surrounding "The Wreck of the Old 97," that most famous ballad, which secured the Old 97 a place within the annals of American folklore." -- Provided by publisherWhiteness in plain view: a history of racial exclusion in Minnesota
Par Chad Montrie. 2022
Whiteness in Plain View examines the ways White residents across Minnesota acted to intimidate, control, remove, and keep out African…
Americans over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their methods ranged from anonymous threats, vandalism, and mob violence to restrictive housing covenants, realtor deceit, and mortgage discrimination, and they were aided by local, state, and federal government agencies as well as openly complicit public officials. What they did was not an anomaly or aberration, in some particular place or passing moment, but rather common and continuous. Chapter by chapter, the book shows that Minnesota's overwhelming Whiteness is neither accidental nor incidental, and that racial exclusion's legacy is very much woven into the state's contemporary politics, economy, and culture. Provided by publisher Adult. UnratedThank you for shopping: the golden age of Minnesota department stores
Par Kristal Leebrick. 2018
In Thank You for Shopping, author Kristal Leebrick presents the history and stories behind Minnesota's great department stores, offering a…
lively trip back to the glory days. The book also includes a chapter dedicated to the signature dishes with recipes, menus, and photos of the stores' esteemed dining establishmentsWolf and the winds
Par Frank Bird Linderman. 1986
A fictionalized biography of Wolf, a Gros Ventre leader in the late 1800s. Sustained by the medicine dreams of his…
youth and his "heart woman," Wolf had to witness the destruction of his people and to endure exile from his family. The story of Wolf is based on a person known and admired by LindermanThe steamboat era: a history of Fulton's Folly on American rivers, 1807-1860
Par S. L Kotar. 2020
The deadliest fires then and now (Deadliest #03)
Par Deborah Hopkinson. 2022
"As the sun sank over the town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, one warm October night in 1871, a smoky haze hung…
in the dry air. There had been little rain, and small fires had been rolling through town continuously since the summer. For weeks the people had tried to protect their homes and businesses from fire. But they could not protect themselves from what would culminate in the deadliest fire in American history. As industrialization surged across the country, and Westward colonization leveled forests to build cities, fires became a mainstay in American life. And as populations grew, so too did the human toll that fire could exact. Through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Americans searched for new and innovative ways to combat the threat of fire. And with climate change threatening to set the whole world aflame, we are once again in a fight for our planet's future. Through the eyes of scientists, witnesses, and survivors of terrible fires alike, Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson brings the horrific history of deadly fires to life, tracing a line from the Peshtigo and Great Chicago fires of 1871 to the wildfires raging in the western United States today." -- Provided by publisherHistoric tales of Utah (American chronicles)
Par Eileen Hallet Stone. 2016
Danny and the boys: being some legends of Hungry Hollow (Great Lakes books)
Par Robert Traver. 1951
Anatomy of a Murder author, Robert Traver, tells tales full of mischief and pranks pulled by Danny an his four…
friends who live in Hungry Hollow, deep in the backwoods of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. AdultGreen metropolis: the extraordinary landscapes of New York City as nature, history, and design
Par Elizabeth Barlow Rogers. 2016
People think of New York City as the land of skyscrapers, but the parks and green spaces are remarkable. They…
include nature refuges and bird sanctuaries as well as the celebrated Central Park. AdultPosterity: letters of great Americans to their children
Par Dorie McCullough Lawson. 2004
Presents parental messages of advice, wisdom, humor, and affection from authors, explorers, presidents, inventors, and soldiers. Includes Carl Sandburg, Theodore…
Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, George Patton, Woody Guthrie, Abigail Adams, and Eleanor Roosevelt among others. Grouped by general theme, the selections span four centuries and are introduced with contextual commentary. 2004Steamboats on the Green: and the colorful men who operated them
Par Agnes S Harralson. 1981
A history of the old paddle wheelers of yester-year. A delightful narrative of the colorful men and women connected with…
Kentucky's Green River and its boats. For high school and adult readers. 1981William Goebel: the politics of wrath
Par James C Klotter. 1977
William Goebel was sworn in as the 34th Governor of Kentucky after being shot in an assassination attempt. He died…
in January 1900 after only 4 days in office. This study of his turbulent career examines his place in Kentucky politics during a crucial time and the atmosphere that resulted in his murder. 1977. For junior and senior high readersBlack skin, white masks (Get political)
Par Frantz Fanon. 2008
"Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon,…
and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon's masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today from one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history." -- Provided by publisherJack Knight's brave flight: how one gutsy pilot saved the U.S. Air Mail Service
Par Jill Esbaum. 2022
"When Jack Knight takes off in his biplane from North Platte, Nebraska, in 1921, hundreds of people crowd the airstrip.…
Is Jack transporting a famous passenger? Is he ferrying medicine for a sick child? Nope--Jack has six sacks of mail. For the past few years, biplanes like Jack's have been flying the mail only during daylight hours. Flying after dark is risky and crashes are too common, so lawmakers decide to cut funding for the US Air Mail Service. Outraged officials and pilots want to prove that flying the mail is best, so they concoct a plan--a coast-to-coast race. But when a crash, exhaustion, and a snowstorm ground three of the planes, Jack Knight becomes the race's only hope. All he has to do is fly all night long, leaning out of the plane to see, and navigate a blizzard over land he's never covered with an empty fuel tank. Will Jack pull it off and save the Air Mail Service?" -- Provided by publisherA history of the Ozarks: Volume 3, The Ozarkers
Par Brooks Blevins. 2021
"Between the world wars, America embraced an image of the Ozarks as a remote land of hills and hollers. The…
popular imagination stereotyped Ozarkers as ridge runners, hillbillies, and pioneers-a cast of colorful throwbacks hostile to change. But the real Ozarks reflected a more complex reality. Brooks Blevins tells the cultural history of the Ozarks as a regional variation of an American story. As he shows, the experiences of the Ozarkers have not diverged from the currents of mainstream life as sharply or consistently as the mythmakers would have it. If much of the region seemed to trail behind by a generation, the time lag was rooted more in poverty and geographic barriers than a conscious rejection of the modern world and its progressive spirit. In fact, the minority who clung to the old days seemed exotic largely because their anachronistic ways clashed against the backdrop of the evolving region around them. Blevins explores how these people's disproportionate influence affected the creation of the idea of the Ozarks, and reveals the truer idea that exists at the intersection of myth and reality. The conclusion to the acclaimed trilogy, The History of the Ozarks, Volume 3: The Ozarkers offers an authoritative appraisal of the modern Ozarks and its people." -- Provided by publisherA history of the Ozarks: Volume 1, The old Ozarks
Par Brooks Blevins. 2018
"Geologic forces raised the Ozarks. Myth enshrouds these hills. Human beings shaped them and were shaped by them. The Ozarks…
reflect the epic tableau of the American people-the native Osage and would-be colonial conquerors, the determined settlers and on-the-make speculators, the endless labors of hardscrabble farmers and capitalism of visionary entrepreneurs. The Old Ozarks is the first volume of a monumental three-part history of the region and its inhabitants. Brooks Blevins begins in deep prehistory, charting how these highlands of granite, dolomite, and limestone came to exist. From there he turns to the political and economic motivations behind the eagerness of many peoples to possess the Ozarks. Blevins places these early proto-Ozarkers within the context of larger American history and the economic, social, and political forces that drove it forward. But he also tells the varied and colorful human stories that fill the region's storied past-and contribute to the powerful myths and misunderstandings that even today distort our views of the Ozarks' places and people. A sweeping history in the grand tradition, A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks is essential reading for anyone who cares about the highland heart of America." -- Provided by publisherGerman settlement in Missouri: new land, old ways (Missouri heritage readers #1)
Par Robyn Burnett. 1996
Detailed account of the role that German immigrants and their descendants played in the settlement and development of Missouri. Through…
unpublished memoirs, letters, diaries, and official records, the authors provide important new narratives and firsthand commentary from the immigrants themselves. Adult