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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “barry a crouch”
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  • The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans

    by Barry A. Crouch ...
    A look at the agency's attempts to deliver justice to the Texas black community following the Civil War.Drawing on a wealth of previously unused documentation in the National Archives, this book offers new insights into the workings of the Freedmen's Bureau and the difficulties faced by Texas Bureau officials, who served in a remote and somewhat isolated area with little support from headquarters. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dance of Freedom

    Texas African Americans during Reconstruction

    by Barry A. Crouch ...
    Series series Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    This anthology brings together the late Barry A. Crouch's most important articles on the African American experience in Texas during Reconstruction. Grouped topically, the essays explore what freedom meant to the newly emancipated, how white Texans reacted to the freed slaves, and how Freedmen's Bureau agents and African American politicians worked to improve the lot of ordinary African American ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • The Governor's Hounds

    The Texas State Police, 1870–1873

    by Barry A. Crouch, Donaly E. Brice ...
    Series series Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    In the tumultuous years following the Civil War, violence and lawlessness plagued the state of Texas, often overwhelming the ability of local law enforcement to maintain order. In response, Reconstruction-era governor Edmund J. Davis created a statewide police force that could be mobilized whenever and wherever local authorities were unable or unwilling to control lawlessness. During its three ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • 97 Orchard

    An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement

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    A "highly entertaining" culinary and social history of five immigrant families living in a turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York City tenement house ( New York Times )."A unique and aromatic narrative of New York's immigrant culture: with bread in the oven, steam rising from pots, and the family gathering round." —Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World</... ... Read more

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  • Honeymoon With A Killer

    by Don Lasseter, Ronald E. Bowers ...
    The shocking true crime story of a California bride who took her wealthy husband for everything he had—including his life.Everything She Wanted . . .Rebecca Salcedo had an easy smile, a sexy body, and strong appetites—she wanted the world. Bruce Cleland, she decided, would buy it for her. The shy engineer quickly fell victim to her charms, getting her whatever she wanted. A new car. A boat. A ... Read more

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  • Let It Burn

    MOVE, the Philadelphia Police Department, and the Confrontation that Changed a City

    by Michael Boyette, Randi Boyette ...
    On a narrow street in a working-class neighborhood, the police are held at bay by a small band of armed radicals. Two assaults have already failed. After a morning-long battle involving machine guns, explosives, and tear gas, the radicals remain defiant. In a command post across the street from the boarded-up row house that serves as the militants’ headquarters, the beleaguered police commissioner ... Read more

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  • Ghosts of 42nd Street

    A History of America's Most Infamous Block

    by Anthony Bianco ...
    Imagine shuffling down Broadway through the hustle and bustle right into the nonstop, neon heart of New York City: 42nd Street.Once a quiet neighborhood of brownstones and churches, the area wastransformed in the early 1900s into an entertainment hub unlike any in theworld. No place has ever evoked the glamour and romantic possibility of bigcity nightlife as vividly as did 42nd Street. It was the ... Read more

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  • American Radical

    Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent

    by Tamer Elnoury, Kevin Maurer ...
    The explosive New York Times bestselling memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the inside.A longtime undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joined an elite counterterrorism unit after September 11, 2001. Its express purpose was to gain the trust of terrorists whose goals were to take out as many Americans in as public and devastating a way as possible. It was a furious race against ... Read more

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  • Charcoal and Blood

    Italian Immigrants in Eureka, Nevada, and the Fish Creek Massacre

    by Silvio Manno ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    Charcoal and Blood is a detailed account of a heinous crime perpetrated on Italian immigrants engaged in the production of charcoal on Nevada’s mining frontier at the close of the nineteenth century. On August 18, 1879, in a canyon near Fish Creek, outside Eureka, Nevada, five Italian charcoal burners were slain and six more were wounded, while fourteen were taken prisoner by a sheriff’s posse ... Read more

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  • Chronicles of the Revolutionary War

    by Geoffrey A. Todd ...
    Chronicles of the Revolutionary War organizes the events of the tumultuous birth of the United States into easily read, short chapters.These chapters enliven the story of the American Revolution and capture the spirit of Americas patriot forebears with a balanced account that also respects their British and Tory antagonists.Ideal for students, or even for reading aloud at meetings of historical ... Read more

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  • Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy

    by J. Eric Oliver ...
    Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and its decisions have an enormous impact on Americans' daily lives. Yet political scientists have few explanations for how people vote in local elections, particularly in the smaller cities, towns, and suburbs where ... Read more

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