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  • Angels of Mercy

    White Women and the History of New York's Colored Orphan Asylum

    This history of the nation's first orphanage for African American children, founded in New York City nearly two centuries ago.This book uncovers the history of the Colored Orphan Asylum, founded in 1836. Through three wars, two major financial panics, a devastating fire during the 1863 Draft Riots, several epidemics, waves of racial prejudice, and severely strained budgets, it cared for orphaned, ... Leer más

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  • Mémoires de Fanny Hill

    Femme de plaisir ( Edition intégrale ) Avec des documents sur la vie à Londres au XVIII° siècle, et notamment la Vie galante d’après les SÉRAILS DE LONDRES - annoté - illustré

    Series series Oeuvres de John Cleland
    Fanny Hill est aujourd’hui considéré comme le plus grand livre érotique anglais de l’âge d’or du libertinage.Le personnage clé de Fanny Hill est en effet inspiré de Fanny Murray, prostituée de dix-sept ans qui était l’idole des aristocrates londoniens, tant son zèle au travail la consacrait de loin, chaque mois, meilleure employée de toutes les “maisons” britanniques.Sous la plume de Cleland, elle ... Leer más

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  • A Guide to Civil War Washington, D.C.

    The Capital of the Union

    An in-depth account of the Civil War people and events that left their mark on the city at the heart of the Union, shaping its historic legacy.When the first shots of the Civil War were fired in 1861, Washington, DC, was a small, essentially Southern city. The capital rapidly transformed as it prepared for invasion—army camps sprung up in Foggy Bottom, the Navy Yard on Anacostia was a beehive of ... Leer más

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  • History of the City of New York, Volume 1

    Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, formerly the editor of "The American Historical Magazine," and one of the best informed historical writers of our times, left a great legacy at her death, especially to the citizens of New York, in her masterful effort "The History of the City of New York." This work has an increasing value with each succeeding year, and, as the late Hon. Thurlow Weed wrote, "No library is ... Leer más

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  • Battle for Ground Zero

    Inside the Political Struggle to Rebuild the World Trade Center

    Elizabeth Greenspan's Battle for Ground Zero provides a revealing look at the heated politics behind the long struggle to rebuild the World Trade Center.In the aftermath of 9/11, Americans came together in a way not seen for a generation, pledging unity to rebuild after the horrific loss of the Twin Towers. People were signing up to go to war; rescue workers were laboring to clear rubble. But ... Leer más

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  • New York Times: Book of New York

    Stories of the People, the Streets, and the Life of the City Past and Present

    This unique volume uncovers the most fascinating and compelling stories from The New York Times about the city the paper calls home.More than 200 articles and an abundance of photographs, illustrations, maps, and graphs from the preeminent newspaper in the world take a look at the history and personality of the world's most influential city. Read firsthand accounts of the subway opening in 1904 ... Leer más

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  • Historically African American Leisure Destinations Around Washington, D.C.

    Series series American Heritage
    From the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, African Americans in the Washington, D.C. area sought leisure destinations where they could relax without the burden of racial oppression. Local picnic parks such as Eureka and Madre's were accessible by streetcars. Black-owned steamboats ferried passengers seeking sun and sand to places like Collingwood Beach, and African American families ... Leer más

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  • World War II and Chester County, Pennsylvania

    Regiments from Chester County fought bravely in all theaters of World War II, while locals at home took extraordinary measures to support the Allies. West Chester resident G. Raymond Rettew developed a process to mass produce vitally needed penicillin while a peaceful farm transformed into the bustling Valley Forge General Hospital in 1943. Women entered labor positions at companies, including ... Leer más

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  • Spanish Harlem's Musical Legacy

    1930-1980

    Spanish Harlem�s musical development thrived between the 1930s and 1980s in New York City. This area was called El Barrio by its inhabitants and Spanish Harlem by all others. It was a neighborhood where musicians from the Caribbean or their descendants organized musical groups, thereby adding to the diaspora that began in Africa and Spain. The music now called salsa had its roots in Cuba, Puerto ... Leer más

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  • The Goffle Road Murders of Passaic County

    The 1850 Van Winkle Killings

    "A fascinating trip back to a pastoral New Jersey where malls, gangsters and toxic waste did not exist, and violence still shocked the public."—Robert Schneck, author of The Bye Bye Man: And Other Strange-but-True TalesOn January 9, 1850, Judge John Van Winkle and his wife, Jane, were brutally stabbed to death by their former farm hand, John Jonston, in their home on Goffle Road in Hawthorne, NJ ... Leer más

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  • Curtiss-Wright

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    Series series Images of America
    The oldest names in aviation joined forces in 1929, when Wright Aeronautical and Curtiss Aeroplane formed the giant Curtiss-Wright Corporation. Curtiss airplanes were already �the best things with wings,� while Charles Lawrance had made Wright powerplants the leader in American radial engines. Aviation founding father Glenn Curtiss, along with superstars Charles A. Lindbergh, Jimmy Doolittle, ... Leer más

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  • Walking New York

    Reflections of American Writers from Walt Whitman to Teju Cole

    Walk along with New York's most celebrated writers on a tour of the city that inspired them in this "evolving portrait of New York through the centuries" ( The New York Observer).ONE OF THE NEW YORK OBSERVER'S TOP 10 BOOKS FOR FALLIt's no wonder that New York has always been a magnet city for writers. Manhattan is one of the most walkable cities in the world. But while many novelists, poets, and ... Leer más

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