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  • My Good Fortune:

    Memoir of A Chinese Orphan's Success in America

    de Lu Chi Fa, Dr. Lorin Lee Cary ...
    Orphaned as a child, Lu Chi Fa survived brutality and starvation in China during and after World War II. Once sold for two sacks of rice, in 1951 he fled to Hong Kong and Taiwan for a better life and immigrated to the United States in 1969. He and Becky White told that story in Double Luck: Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan; in 2001 it won the Parents’ Choice Foundation Gold Award.This book adds details ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775

    de Marvin L. Michael Kay, Lorin Lee Cary ...
    Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina’s fast-growing slave population, increasingly bound on large plantations, included many slaves born in Africa who ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • The Texas Rangers

    A Century of Frontier Defense

    de Walter Prescott Webb ...
    Series series Texas Classics
    The renowned historian's classic study of the Texas Ranger Division, presented with its original illustrations and a foreword by Lyndon B. Johnson.Texas Rangers tells the story of this unique law enforcement agency from its origin in 1823, when it was formed by "Father of Texas" Stephen F. Austin, to the 1930s, when legendary lawman Frank Hamer tracked down the infamous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Banned in Boston

    The Watch and Ward Society's Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil

    de Neil Miller ...
    “I want to be intelligent, even if I do live in Boston.”—an anonymous Bostonian, 1929In this spectacular romp through the Puritan City, Neil Miller relates the scintillating story of how a powerful band of Brahmin moral crusaders helped make Boston the most straitlaced city in America, forever linked with the infamous catchphrase “Banned in Boston.”Bankrolled by society’s upper crust, the New ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • BART

    The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System

    de Michael C. Healy ...
    An insider's "indispensible" behind-the-scenes history of the transit system of San Francisco and surrounding counties ( Houston Chronicle).In the first-ever history book about BART, longtime agency spokesman Michael C. Healy gives an insider's account of the rapid transit system's inception, hard-won approval, construction, and operations, warts and all.With a master storyteller's wit and sharp ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Historic Walks in San Francisco

    18 Trails Through the City's Past

    de Rand Richards ...
    Eighteen self-guided walking tours down city streets that will take you back in time, with colorful stories about the buildings along the way and the people associated with them. Easy-to-follow maps, and dozens of historic photographs.You will read tales about such well-known figures as Jack London, Mark Twain, Ulysses S. Grant, the Emperor Norton, Lenny Bruce, and Janis Joplin, all of who played ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Development Arrested

    The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta

    de Clyde Woods ...
    Explore the riveting history of the 200-year-old conflict between the planter elite and African Americans of the Mississippi River Delta.“A stunning and fresh analysis of the political economy of white supremacy and the redemptive power of the blues.” —Darlene Clark Hine, co-author of The African American OdysseyDevelopment Arrested is a major reinterpretation of centuries-old conflict between ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Kentucky Moonshine

    de David W. Maurer ...
    A concise, lively history of how the Bluegrass State became famous for illicit distilleries, by the author of The Big Con.When the first American tax on distilled spirits was established in 1791, violence broke out in Pennsylvania. The resulting Whiskey Rebellion sent hundreds of families down the Ohio River by flatboat, stills on board, to settle anew in the fertile bottomlands of Kentucky.Once ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Iosco County, Michigan: Family History

    de Iosco County Historical Society ...
    Limited Edition, Iosco County, Michigan, some Early History of the area, with some family histories and including those of some local businesses and facilities. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • CHANT OF AGES; CRY OF COTTON

    THE BIOGRAPHY OF A SOUTH GEORGIA JEWISH COMMUNITY'S BEGINNINGS, 1865-1908

    de Louis Schmier ...
    The beginnings of the contemporary Jewish community in Valdosta starts with the arrival of two Jewish confederate veterans, Abraham Ehrlich and Benjamin Kaul, in 1866 and ends with the formal establishment of the present-day congregation in 1908.  It is a very warm, personal tale of real people that fleshes out  the sterile charts, statistics, and sweeping generalizations found in history books. ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • The Paradox of Jamestown

    1585–1700

    de Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier ...
    Series Libro 1997 - The Drama of American History Series
    History is dramatic—and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes, and ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

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  • Bridges to Statehood, the Alaska-Yugoslav Connection

    de Judy Ferguson ...
    Celebrating Alaska’s 50-year statehood anniversary, Bridges to Statehood features the last territorial governor, Mike Stepovich. Over the Chilkoot Trail’s icy steps, these immigrants came—Stepovich, Butrovich, Dapcevich, Begich, Paskvan, and Peratrovich—to guide Alaska from a raw land to statehood, from southeast to the arctic, from gold camps to the forty-ninth star! Names so Alaskan that their ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD