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The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty-seven people—men, women, and children—set out for California and were persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across the desert, losing many oxen, and nearly dying of thirst, they reached the very summit of the Sierras only to be trapped by blinding snow and bitter ... En savoir plus

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Clawback

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Just a few decades ago, as recently as the Clinton years, we had a vibrant nation that inspired the rest of the world. But then a new religion called Secular Humanism took hold. It saw wrongs that needed to be righted, but went overboard as its revolutionary zeal carried it to excesses that plague our nation today. Clawback proposes a roadmap to get back to the nation we once had when common sense ... En savoir plus

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Stockholms hemligheter - Norr om Gamla stan

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Stockholmiana! Följ med på en lärorik promenad genom Gamla stan och vidare till stadskärnans norra delar tillsammans med Stockholmskännaren och journalisten Martin Stugart. Varför är texten på Birger jarls staty felstavad? Och vad döljer sig bakom mysteriet med Stockholms minsta monument, Järnpojken? Genom roande anekdoter och spännande kuriosa, flätar Stugart samman trådarna där historia och ... En savoir plus

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Stickeen

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Dawn of an Empire

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Before Jamestown. Before Plymouth. There was St. Augustine.In 1565—fifty-five years before the Pilgrims set foot at Plymouth Rock—Spanish ships slipped along the Florida coast and anchored in a shallow inlet guarded by marsh and sand. What they built there would become the oldest continuously occupied European-founded city in the continental United ... En savoir plus

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From Barbycu to Barbecue

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An award-winning barbecue cook boldly asserts that barbecuing is a unique American tradition that was not imported.The origin story of barbecue is a popular topic with a ravenous audience, but commonly held understandings of barbecue are often plagued by half-truths and misconceptions. From Barbycu to Barbecue offers a fresh new look at the story of southern barbecuing. Award winning barbecue cook ... En savoir plus

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They Should Stay There

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What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia

par Elizabeth Catte ...

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In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America's "forgotten tribe" of white working class voters. Journalists flocked to the region to extract sympathetic profiles of families devastated by poverty, abandoned by establishment politics, and eager to consume cheap campaign promises. What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia is a frank assessment of America's recent fascination with ... En savoir plus

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The Hatfields and The McCoys

par Otis K. Rice ...

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The Hatfield-McCoy feud has long been the most famous vendetta of the southern Appalachians. Over the years it has become encrusted with myth and error. Scores of writers have produced accounts of it, but few have made any real effort to separate fact from fiction. Novelists, motion picture producers, television script writers, and others have sensationalized events that needed no embellishment ... En savoir plus

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par Kurt C. Schlichting ...

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For hundreds of years, the shorefront of Manhattan Island served as the country's center of trade, shipping, and commerce. With its maritime links across the oceans, along the Atlantic coast, and inland to the Midwest and New England, Manhattan became a global city and home to the world's busiest port. It was a world of docks, ships, tugboats, and ferries, filled with cargo and freight, a place ... En savoir plus

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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman

Witchcraft in Colonial New England

par Carol F. Karlsen ...

Lu par Jo Anna Perrin ...

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Confessing to "familiarity with the devils," Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. The case of Ann Cole, who was "taken with very strange Fits," fueled an outbreak of witchcraft accusations in Hartford a generation before the notorious events at Salem.More than three ... En savoir plus

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Confessing to "familiarity with the devils," Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. The case of Ann Cole, who was "taken with very strange Fits," fueled an outbreak of witchcraft accusations in Hartford a generation before the notorious events at Salem.More than three
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You Talkin' To Me?

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par E.J. White ...

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From paddy wagon to rush hour, New York City has given us a number of our popular words and phrases, along the way fashioning a recognizable dialect all its own. Often imitated and just as often ridiculed, New York English has its own identity, imbued with the rich cultural history of (as New Yorkers tell it) the greatest city in the world. How did this unique language community develop, and how ... En savoir plus

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They Were Her Property

White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

par Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers ...

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10 heure 26 min

A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy.Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who ... En savoir plus

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A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy.Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who
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Reconstruction

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par Allen C. Guelzo ...

Lu par Bob Souer ...

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The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Conflict shifted from the battlefield to the Capitol as Congress warred with President Andrew Johnson over just what to do with the South. Johnson's plan of Presidential Reconstruction, which was sympathetic to the former ... En savoir plus

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Swallowed by the Great Land

And Other Dispatches From Alaska's Frontier

par Seth Kantner ...

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6 heure 46 min

"Seth Kantner illuminates an Alaska most of us will never know." —Andrea Barrett, author of Ship FeverWhen Seth Kantner's Ordinary Wolves was published it was a literary revelation of sorts. In a raw, stylized voice it told the story of a white boy growing up with homesteading parents in Arctic Alaska and trying to reconcile his largely subsistence and Native-style upbringing with the expectations ... En savoir plus

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On to Petersburg

Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864

par Gordon C. Rhea ...

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With On to Petersburg, Gordon C. Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in southeastern Virginia in the spring of 1864.On to Petersburg follows the Union army's movement to the James River, the military response from the Confederates, and the initial assault on Petersburg, which Rhea
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Damnation Island

Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York

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Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse. Stacy Horn has crafted a compelling and chilling narrative told through the stories of the poor souls sent to ... En savoir plus

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Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse. Stacy Horn has crafted a compelling and chilling narrative told through the stories of the poor souls sent to
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Been There, Done That

par Greg Jackson ...

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Professor Greg Jackson, podcast host of History That Doesn’t Suck, proves that while today’s political climate may be dark, these aren’t as unprecedented times as we may think.Our nation’s past is full of massive upheaval, disagreement, and departures from the moral high ground. The political gentlemanly conduct of yesteryear is no more than a myth. But that reality never allowed our worst ... En savoir plus

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True West

Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America

par Betsy Gaines Quammen ...

Lu par Rebecca Gallagher ...

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Alabama

The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition

par William Warren Rogers, Robert David Ward, Leah Rawls Atkins, Wayne Flynt ...

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30 heure 50 min

Alabama: The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition is a comprehensive narrative account of the state from its earliest days to the present. This edition, updated to celebrate the state's bicentennial year, offers a detailed survey of the colorful, dramatic, and often controversial turns in Alabama's evolution.Once the home of aboriginal inhabitants, Alabama was claimed and occupied ... En savoir plus

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NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement

Lu par Diana Blue ...

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American Astronautical Society Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature AwardAs NASA prepared for the launch of Apollo 11 in July 1969, many African American leaders protested the billions of dollars used to fund "space joyrides" rather than help tackle poverty, inequality, and discrimination at home. This volume examines such tensions as well as the ways in which NASA's goal of space exploration ... En savoir plus

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Michigan's Haunted Lighthouses

par Dianna Higgs Stampfler ...

Lu par Linda Jones ...

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3 heure 51 min

Michigan has more lighthouses than any other state, with more than 120 dotting its expansive Great Lakes shoreline. Many of these lighthouses lay claim to haunted happenings.Former keepers like Captain Townshend at Seul Choix Point and prankster John Herman at Waugoshance Shoal maintain their watch long after death. At White River Light Station in Whitehall, Sarah Robinson still keeps a clean and ... En savoir plus

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Welcome to Capitol Hill

Fifty Years of Scandal in Tennessee Politics

par Erik Schelzig, Joel Ebert ...

Lu par Chris Abernathy ...

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Although Tennessee has a rich history of political scandals dating back to the founding of the state, the last fifty years have been a confusing, confounding, and sometimes ludicrous period of ne'er-do-welling. Welcome to Capitol Hill is a guide to the state's modern history of corruption. From Governor Ray Blanton's pardon scandals to the FBI investigation that started with now lieutenant ... En savoir plus

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They Should Stay There

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