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“phyllis a morse”

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  • Towns and Temples Along the Mississippi

    by Phyllis A. Morse, Ian W. Brown, Dan F. Morse, Charles Hudson, R. Barry Lewis, James B. Griffin, Chester B. DePratter, Michael P. Hoffman, George J. Armelagos, Cassandra M. Hill, James F. Price, Cynthia R. Price, Gerald Smith, George Fielder, Mary Lucas Powell, Dr. Marvin T. Smith, Professor Stephen Williams ...
    A Dan Josselyn Memorial PublicationDiscover the stories, structures, and spirit that shaped life along America’s greatest river.Specialists from archaeology, ethnohistory, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology bring their varied points of view to this subject in an attempt to answer basic questions about the nature and extent of social change within the time period. The scholars' ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Watergate: The Hidden History

    Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA

    by Lamar Waldron ...
    A groundbreaking investigation into the events of the Watergate Scandal, complete with fascinating new material, all “exhaustively researched” in the author’s customary style (The New York Observer)While Richard Nixon's culpability for Watergate has long been established, what's truly remarkable is that after almost fifty years, conventional accounts of the scandal still don't address Nixon's ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Dead End

    Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism

    by Benjamin Ross ...
    More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for a reason. As an activist and a scholar, Benjamin Ross is uniquely placed to diagnose why this is so. Dead End traces ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Pictured Rocks, Lake Superior, 1860

    by A L Rawson ...
    Much of the shoreline of Lake Superior was still wilderness when the author made this journey to the rocks of the Lake that were named for the objects men could see in them. Hunting, fishing and exploration with local guides to add color to the story. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • San Diego

    Another HarborTown History

    by Gayle Baker ...
     This concise, but comprehensive, story of San Diego is the sisth in the HarborTown History series. From its early history as a tribal homeland and its days of Mexican ranchos through the parade of entrepreneurs who transformed it into the lovely city it is today, its history is one of dreams, failures, trials, triumphs. <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font:... ... Read more

    $2.94 USD

  • Breaking Loose Together

    The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina

    by Marjoleine Kars ...
    Ten years before the start of the American Revolution, backcountry settlers in the North Carolina Piedmont launched their own defiant bid for economic independence and political liberty. The Regulator Rebellion of 1766–71 pitted thousands of farmers, many of them religious radicals inspired by the Great Awakening, against political and economic elites who opposed the Regulators' proposed reforms. ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Soapy

    A Biography of G. Mennen Williams

    by Thomas J. Noer ...
    "This is an important book about an important public official, G. Mennen 'Soapy' Williams---an unabashed liberal, a true humanitarian, and a great patriot."---George McGovern"Soapy Williams had a deep talent not only to compel but on occasion to repel."---John Kenneth Galbraith"Thomas Noer has written a model biography of a fascinating political figure. He brings Williams to life with all his ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Work-House

    by W H Davenport ...
    This short piece is a look inside working and some of the inmates of the Work-House on Blackwell's Island in New York City during the Mid 19th century. The work-house was filled with the poor and the petty criminals. The Penitentiary was filled with the big time criminals. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Death and Life of Main Street

    Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community

    by Miles Orvell ...
    For more than a century, the term “Main Street” has conjured up nostalgic images of American small-town life. Representations exist all around us, from fiction and film to the architecture of shopping malls and Disneyland. All the while, the nation has become increasingly diverse, exposing tensions within this ideal. In The Death and Life of Main Street, Miles Orvell wrestles with the mythic ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Cracker Culture

    Celtic Ways in the Old South

    by Forrest McDonald, Dr. Grady McWhiney ...
    Cracker Culture is a provocative study of social life in the Old South that probes the origin of cultural differences between the South and the North throughout American history.Among Scotch-Irish settlers the term “Cracker” initially designated a person who boasted, but in American usage the word has come to designate poor whites. McWhiney uses the term to define culture rather than to signify an ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Twentieth-Century Sprawl

    Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape

    by Owen D. Gutfreund ...
    Owen Gutfreund's Twentieth-Century Sprawl explains important--and largely unexamined--changes in the American landscape. He offers an illuminating look at how highways have dramatically transformed American communities, aiding growth and development in unsettled areas and undermining existing urban centers. Gutfreund takes a "follow the money" approach to show how government policies--from as ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • They Called Me Chocolate Rocket

    The Life and Times of John Paris, Jr., Hockey's First Black Professional Coach

    by John Paris, Jr. ...
    In the ultra-competitive junior hockey leagues in the early 1960s, a young man could tolerate nearly anything that helped him stand out from the hordes of other prospects, so John Paris, Jr. did just that. The African-Canadian from Nova Scotia dazzled and dominated on the ice -- often facing racism on and off the ice. It took courage.They Called Me Chocolate Rocket is the story of Johns life from ... Read more

    $16.99 USD