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  • The Juniata, Illustrated

    A trip along the Juniata in mostly rural Pennsylvania during the mid nineteenth century, prior to the American Civil War. Digitally restored illustrations. ... Leer más

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  • Tara Revisited: Women, War, & the Plantation Legend

    Cutting through romantic myth, this captivating volume combines period photographs and illustrations with new documentary sources to tell the real story of southern women during the Civil War.Drawing from a wealth of poignant letters, diaries, slave narratives, and other accounts, Catherine Clinton provides a vivid social and cultural history of the diverse communities of Southern women during the ... Leer más

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  • Murders, Mysteries and History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania 1800 – 1956

    de Don Hilton ...
    Who doesnt love a good homicide? Murders, Mysteries and History pulls 150 years of forgotten crimes straight from the pages of yesterdays news and stirs them in a historical mix to produce a book like no other. Get the scoop on more than a hundred real-life murders and unsolved killings. Vics, suspects, perps. Judges and juries. Jails and penitentiaries. Hangings, electrocutions and nothing less ... Leer más

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  • Inventing the Dream

    California through the Progressive Era

    de Kevin Starr ...
    Series series Americans and the California Dream
    This second volume in Kevin Starr's passionate and ambitious cultural history of the Golden State focuses on the turn-of-the-century years and the emergence of Southern California as a regional culture in its own right. "How hauntingly beautiful, how replete with lost possibilities, seems that Southern California of two and three generations ago, now that a dramatically diferent society has ... Leer más

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  • City

    Urbanism and Its End

    Series series The Institution for Social and Policy St
    How did neighborhood groceries, parish halls, factories, and even saloons contribute more to urban vitality than did the fiscal might of postwar urban renewal? With a novelist’s eye for telling detail, Douglas Rae depicts the features that contributed most to city life in the early urbanist” decades of the twentieth century. Rae’s subject is New Haven, Connecticut, but the lessons he draws apply ... Leer más

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  • Hope in Hard Times

    New Deal Photographs of Montana, 1936–1942

    de Mary Murphy ...
    Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee, John Vachon, and Marion Post Wolcott became some of the United States’ best-known photographers through their pictures of Depression-era America. Taken between 1936 and 1942, their pictures of Montana captured the dignity of its people as they struggled to scratch out livings from dried-up fields, nurture families in the shadows of Butte head frames, and foster ... Leer más

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  • Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices

    Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940

    Series series Studies in Rural Culture
    Rural women comprised the largest part of the adult population of Texas until 1940 and in the American South until 1960. On the cotton farms of Central Texas, women's labor was essential. In addition to working untold hours in the fields, women shouldered most family responsibilities: keeping house, sewing clothing, cultivating and cooking food, and bearing and raising children. But despite their ... Leer más

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  • In the Shadow of Kinzua

    The Seneca Nation of Indians since World War II

    Series series The Iroquois and Their Neighbors
    The Kinzua Dam has cast a long shadow on Seneca life since World War II. The project, formally dedicated in 1966, broke the Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794, flooded approximately 10,000 acres of Seneca lands in New York and Pennsylvania, and forced the relocation of hundreds of tribal members. Hauptman offers both a policy study, detailing how and why Washington, Harrisburg, and Albany came up with ... Leer más

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  • Silver Mining in 19th Century Nevada: Reese River Country, Illustrated.

    A contemporaneous account of the silver mining boom in the ghost town of Austin Nevada during the mid nineteenth century. ... Leer más

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  • Public vs. Private

    The Early History of School Choice in America

    Americans today choose from a dizzying array of schools, loosely lumped into categories of "public" and "private." How did these distinctions emerge in the first place, and what do they tell us about the more general relationship in the United States between public authority and private enterprise? In Public vs. Private, Robert N. Gross describes how, more than a century ago, public policies ... Leer más

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  • After the Doors Were Locked

    A History of Youth Corrections in California and the Origins of Twenty-First Century Reform

    The California youth corrections system is undergoing the most sweeping transformation in its 154-year history. The extraordinary nature of this change is revealed by the striking decline in the state’s youth incarceration rate. In 1996, with 10,000 youth confined in 11 state-run correctional facilities, California boasted the nation’s third highest youth incarceration rate. Now, with only 800 ... Leer más

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