James R. Cothran;Erica Danylchak;James R. Cothran;Erica Danylchak
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Growing urban populations prompted major changes in graveyard location, design, and us...
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2018
Growing urban populations prompted major changes in graveyard location, design, and useDuring the Industrial Revolution people flocked to American cities. Overcrowding in these areas led to packed urban graveyards that were not only unsightly, but were also a source of public health fears. The solution was a revolutionary new type of American burial ground located in the countryside just beyond the city. This rural cemetery movement, which featured beautifully landscaped grounds and sculptural monuments, is documented by James R. Cothran and Erica Danylchak in Grave Landscapes: The Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemetery Movement.The movement began in Boston, where a group of reformers that included members of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society were grappling with the city's mounting burial crisis. Inspired by the naturalistic garden style and melancholy-infused commemorative landscapes that had emerged in Europe, the group established a burial ground outside of Boston on an expansive tract of undulating, wooded land and added meandering roadways, picturesque ponds, ornamental trees and shrubs, and consoling memorials. They named it Mount Auburn and officially dedicated it as a rural cemetery.This groundbreaking endeavor set a powerful precedent that prompted the creation of similarly landscaped rural cemeteries outside of growing cities first in the Northeast, then in the Midwest and South, and later in the West. These burial landscapes became a cultural phenomenon attracting not only mourners seeking solace, but also urbanites seeking relief from the frenetic confines of the city. Rural cemeteries predated America's public parks, and their popularity as picturesque retreats helped propel America's public parks movement.This beautifully illustrated volume features more than 150 historic photographs, stereographs, postcards, engravings, maps, and contemporary images that illuminate the inspiration for rural cemeteries, their physical evolution, and the nature of the landscapes they inspired. Extended profiles of twenty-four rural cemeteries reveal the cursive design features of this distinctive landscape type prior to the American Civil War and its evolution afterward. Grave Landscapes details rural cemetery design characteristics to facilitate their identification and preservation and places rural cemeteries into the broader context of American landscape design to encourage appreciation of their broader influence on the design of public spaces.
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Cemeteries--Landscape architecture--United States--History--19th century - Landscape architecture--United StatesContent provider:
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Encyclopedia of Local History
Amy H. Wilson;Amy H. Wilson
The Encyclopedia of Local History addresses nearly every aspect of local history, incl...
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Encyclopedia of Local History
2017
The Encyclopedia of Local History addresses nearly every aspect of local history, including everyday issues, theoretical approaches, and trends in the field. This encyclopedia provides both the casual browser and the dedicated historian with adept commentary by bringing the voices of over one hundred experts together in one place.Entries include:·Terms specifically related to the everyday practice of interpreting local history in the United States, such as “African American History,” “City Directories,” and “Latter-Day Saints.”·Historical and documentary terms applied to local history such as “Abstract,” “Culinary History,” and “Diaries.”·Detailed entries for major associations and institutions that specifically focus on their usage in local history projects, such as “Library of Congress” and “Society of American Archivists”·Entries for every state and Canadian province covering major informational sources critical to understanding local history in that region.·Entries for every major immigrant group and ethnicity.Brand-new to this edition are critical topics covering both the practice of and major current areas of research in local history such as “Digitization,” “LGBT History,” museum theater,” and “STEM education.” Also new to this edition are graphics, including 48 photographs.Overseen by a blue-ribbon Editorial Advisory Board (Anne W. Ackerson, James D. Folts, Tim Grove, Carol Kammen, and Max A. van Balgooy) this essential reference will be frequently consulted in academic libraries with American and Canadian history programs, public libraries supporting local history, museums, historic sites and houses, and local archives in the U.S. and Canada.This third edition is the first to include photographs.
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Herman B Wells : The Promise of the American University
James H. Capshew;James H. Capshew
Energetic, shrewd, and charming, Herman B Wells was the driving force behind the trans...
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Herman B Wells : The Promise of the American University
2012
Energetic, shrewd, and charming, Herman B Wells was the driving force behind the transformation of Indiana University—which became a model for American public higher education in the 20th century. A person of unusual sensitivity and a skilled and empathetic communicator, his character and vision shaped the structure, ethos, and spirit of the institution in countless ways. Wells articulated a persuasive vision of the place of the university in the modern world. Under his leadership, Indiana University would grow in size and stature, establishing strong connections to the state, the nation, and the world. His dedication to the arts, to academic freedom, and to international education remained hallmarks of his 63-year tenure as President and University Chancellor. Wells lavished particular attention on the flagship campus at Bloomington, expanding its footprint tenfold in size and maintaining its woodland landscape as new buildings and facilities were constructed. Gracefully aging in place, he became a beloved paterfamilias to the IU clan. Wells built an institution, and, in the process, became one himself.
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College presidents--Indiana--BiographyContent provider:
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Historical Dictionary of American Theater : Modernism
James Fisher;Felicia Hardison Londré;James Fisher;Felicia Hardison Londré
This book covers the history of theater as well as the literature of America from 1880...
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Historical Dictionary of American Theater : Modernism
2017
This book covers the history of theater as well as the literature of America from 1880-1930. The years covered by this volume features the rise of the popular stage in America from the years following the end of the Civil War to the Golden Age of Broadway, with an emphasis on its practitioners, including such diverse figures as William Gillette, Mrs. Fiske, George M. Cohan, Maude Adams, David Belasco, George Abbott, Clyde Fitch, Eugene O'Neill, Texas Guinan, Robert Edmond Jones, Jeanne Eagels, Susan Glaspell, The Adlers and the Barrymores, Tallulah Bankhead, Philip Barry, Maxwell Anderson, Mae West, Elmer Rice, Laurette Taylor, Eva Le Gallienne, and a score of others. Entries abound on plays of all kinds, from melodrama to the newly-embraced realistic style, ethnic works (Irish, Yiddish, etc.), and such diverse forms as vaudeville, circus, minstrel shows, temperance plays, etc. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism covers the history of modernist American Theatre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 2,000 cross-referenced entries on actors and actresses, directors, playwrights, producers, genres, notable plays and theatres. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the American Theater in its greatest era.
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Theater--United States--History--20th century--Dictionaries - Theater--United States--History--19th century--Dictionaries - American drama--20th century--Dictionaries - American drama--19th century--DictionariesContent provider:
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Encyclopedia of the American Novel
Werlock, James P.;Werlock, Abby H. P.;Werlock, James P.;Werlock, Abby H. P.
Provides a comprehensive reference to the novel in American literature with over 900 e...
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Encyclopedia of the American Novel
2013
Provides a comprehensive reference to the novel in American literature with over 900 entries containing critical analyses and synopses of individual novels, novelist biographies, essays on fiction genres, and more.
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American fiction--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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Raising the White Flag : How Surrender Defined the American Civil War
David Silkenat;David Silkenat
The American Civil War began with a laying down of arms by Union troops at Fort Sumter...
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Raising the White Flag : How Surrender Defined the American Civil War
2019
The American Civil War began with a laying down of arms by Union troops at Fort Sumter, and it ended with a series of surrenders, most famously at Appomattox Courthouse. But in the intervening four years, both Union and Confederate forces surrendered en masse on scores of other occasions. Indeed, roughly one out of every four soldiers surrendered at some point during the conflict. In no other American war did surrender happen so frequently. David Silkenat here provides the first comprehensive study of Civil War surrender, focusing on the conflicting social, political, and cultural meanings of the action. Looking at the conflict from the perspective of men who surrendered, Silkenat creates new avenues to understand prisoners of war, fighting by Confederate guerillas, the role of southern Unionists, and the experiences of African American soldiers. The experience of surrender also sheds valuable light on the culture of honor, the experience of combat, and the laws of war.
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Capitulations, Military--Social aspects - Capitulations, Military--United States--History--19th century - Capitulations, Military--Confederate States of America--HistoryContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Almanac of American Politics 2016 : Members of Congress and Governors: Their Profiles and Election Results, Their States and Districts
Cohen, Richard E.;Barone, Michael;Jacobson, Louis;Peck, Louis;Barnes, James...
The Almanac of American Politics uniquely combines the best journalistic coverage of C...
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The Almanac of American Politics 2016 : Members of Congress and Governors: Their Profiles and Election Results, Their States and Districts
2015
The Almanac of American Politics uniquely combines the best journalistic coverage of Congress and the states, with new content and data that respond to the political insiders'need for rapid and reliable information. This indispensable and iconic book, published every two years since 1972, is the only source that profiles every member of Congress, every governor, plus the 50 states and 435 House districts.
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Election districts--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etcContent provider:
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Defining Documents in American History: Civil War (1860-1865)
James M. McPherson, PhD;James M. McPherson, PhD
Edited by James M. McPherson, PhD a preeminent civil war scholar and historian, George...
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Defining Documents in American History: Civil War (1860-1865)
2014
Edited by James M. McPherson, PhD a preeminent civil war scholar and historian, George Henry Davis 1886 Professor Emeritus of United States History, Princeton University and Pulitzer Prize winner in History for Battle Cry Freedom, Defining Documents in American History: Civil War (1860-1865) surveys key documents produced during the Civil War with special attention devoted to the war-time policies of President Abraham Lincoln and the 37th US Congress. A special feature of the volumes is the inclusion of letters and diaries by soldiers and civilians writing about their experiences. The two volumes are organized into several chapters that cover the progress of the war beginning with early debates on secession, through wartime events on the political and battle fronts and concludes with a look toward the issues of race and reconstruction.
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Speeches, addresses, etc., AmericanContent provider:
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Green Gold : Alabama's Forests and Forest Industries
James E. Fickle;James E. Fickle
Green Gold is a thorough and valuable compilation of information on Alabama's timber a...
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Green Gold : Alabama's Forests and Forest Industries
2014
Green Gold is a thorough and valuable compilation of information on Alabama's timber and forest products industry, the largest manufacturing industry in the state. Alabama has the third-largest commercial forest in the nation, after only Georgia and Oregon. Fully two-thirds of the state's land supports the growth of over fifteen billion trees on twenty-two million acres, which explains why Alabama looks entirely green from space. Green Gold presents the story of human use of and impact on Alabama's forests from pioneer days to the present, as James E. Fickle chronicles the history of the industry from unbridled greed and exploitation through virtual abandonment to revival, restoration, and enlightened stewardship. As the state's largest manufacturing industry, forest products have traditionally included naval stores such as tar, pitch, and turpentine, especially in the southern longleaf stands; sawmill lumber, both hardwood and pine; and pulp and paper milling. Green Gold documents all aspects of the industry, including the advent of “scientific forestry” and the development of reforestation practices with sustained yields. Also addressed are the historical impacts of Native Americans and of early settlers who used axes, saws, and water- and steam-powered sawmills to clear and utilize forests. Along with an account of railroad logging and the big mills of the lumber bonanza days of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the book also chronicles the arrival of professional foresters to the state, who began to deal with the devastating legacy of “cut out and get out” logging and to fight the perennial curse of woods arson. Finally, Green Gold examines the rise of the tree farm movement, the rebirth of large-scale lumbering, the advent of modern environmental concerns, and the movement toward the “Fourth Forest” in Alabama. A Copublication with the Alabama Forestry Foundation
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Forests and forestry--Alabama--History - Forest products industry--Alabama--History - Timber--Alabama--HistoryContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Life of Mark Twain : The Final Years, 1891–1910
Gary Scharnhorst;Gary Scharnhorst
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2023 In the final volume of his three-volume bio...
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The Life of Mark Twain : The Final Years, 1891–1910
2022
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2023 In the final volume of his three-volume biography, Gary Scharnhorst chronicles the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens from his family's extended trip to Europe in 1891 to his death in 1910 at age 74. During these years Clemens grapples with bankruptcy, returns to the lecture circuit, and endures the loss of two daughters and his wife. It is also during this time that he writes some of his darkest, most critical works; among these include Pudd'nhead Wilson; Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc; Tom Sawyer Abroad; Tom Sawyer, Detective; Following the Equator; No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger; and portions of his Autobiography.
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Authors, American--19th century--Biography - Humorists, American--19th century--BiographyContent provider:
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Why Britain Rocked : How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World
Elizabeth Sharkey;Elizabeth Sharkey
The story goes that under the influence of blues and rock and roll, Britain suddenly s...
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Why Britain Rocked : How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World
2022
The story goes that under the influence of blues and rock and roll, Britain suddenly started making spectacularly great music in the 1960s like some clever, quick learning cultural satellite of America. But Britain's mid twentieth-century pop music explosion didn't happen from a standing start. The reasons something so dazzling and multifaceted appeared lie deeper than those legendary deliveries of blues records to Liverpool's port and the legacy of music halls. Featuring new discoveries and original insights, Why Britain Rocked: How Rock became Roll and Took over the World argues the Beatles'arrival, which stunned the world, really shouldn't have been surprising at all. From theCelts, Henry VIII, and the Quakers to Ira Aldridge and Paul Robeson, Why Britain Rocked uncovers the unique events and unexpected influences that encouraged British pop to be glorious, crazy, luminous, joyous, profound, melancholic, ferocious, anarchic, witty, smart and wonderful in all its ways.
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Popular music--Great Britain--History and criticismContent provider:
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The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else
William Hartston;William Hartston
A delightful and witty treasure trove of utterly useless information by the author of ...
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The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else
2022
A delightful and witty treasure trove of utterly useless information by the author of The Things That Nobody Knows.Most encyclopaedias are boring. They are so packed with worthy but dull facts that a great deal of weird and wonderful material is squeezed out. The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else takes the opposite approach and leaves out all the dreary stuff you can find elsewhere.The result is the most fascinating, astonishing, varied and utterly useless collection of information ever assembled and organized between two covers. From aardvark tooth bracelets to the genus of tropical weevils known as Zyzzyva, via Mark Twain's views about cabbages, this is a quarter of a million words of sublime pointlessness.
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Curiosities and wonders - Encyclopedias and dictionariesContent provider:
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost)
Grain and Fire : A History of Baking in the American South
Rebecca Sharpless;Rebecca Sharpless
While a luscious layer cake may exemplify the towering glory of southern baking, like ...
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Grain and Fire : A History of Baking in the American South
2022
While a luscious layer cake may exemplify the towering glory of southern baking, like everything about the American South, baking is far more complicated than it seems. Rebecca Sharpless here weaves a brilliant chronicle, vast in perspective and entertaining in detail, revealing how three global food traditions—Indigenous American, European, and African—collided with and merged in the economies, cultures, and foodways of the South to create what we know as the southern baking tradition.Recognizing that sentiments around southern baking run deep, Sharpless takes delight in deflating stereotypes as she delves into the surprising realities underlying the creation and consumption of baked goods. People who controlled the food supply in the South used baking to reinforce their power and make social distinctions. Who used white cornmeal and who used yellow, who put sugar in their cornbread and who did not had traditional meanings for southerners, as did the proportions of flour, fat, and liquid in biscuits. By the twentieth century, however, the popularity of convenience foods and mixes exploded in the region, as it did nationwide. Still, while some regional distinctions have waned, baking in the South continues to be a remarkable, and remarkably tasty, source of identity and entrepreneurship.
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Cooking, American--Southern style - Food habits--Social aspects--Southern States--History - Cultural fusion--Southern States--History - Baking--Southern States--HistoryContent provider:
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American Civil War : Interpreting Conflict Through Primary Documents [2 Volumes]
Justin D. Murphy;Justin D. Murphy
By providing detailed analyses of Civil War primary sources, this book will help reade...
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American Civil War : Interpreting Conflict Through Primary Documents [2 Volumes]
2019; Vol. 00001
By providing detailed analyses of Civil War primary sources, this book will help readers to understand the history of the bloodiest of all American conflicts.This meticulously curated collection of primary source documents covers every aspect of the American Civil War, from its origins to its bloody engagements, all the way through the Reconstruction period. With approximately 300 primary sources, this comprehensive set includes orders and reports of significant battles, political debates and speeches, legislation, court cases, and literary works from the Civil War era. The documents provide insight into the thinking of all participants, drawing upon a vast range of sources that offer both a Northern and Southern perspective.The book gives equal treatment to the Eastern and Western Theaters and to Union and Confederate sources, and the primary sources are presented in chronological order, making it easy for readers to compare and contrast documents as the key events of the conflict unfold. Each primary source begins with an introduction that sets the document in its proper context and concludes with an analysis of the document that will help students to understand the document's significance.
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Boggy Slough : A Forest, a Family, and a Foundation for Land Conservation
Jonathan K. Gerland;Jonathan K. Gerland
Boggy Slough Conservation Area is a 19,000-acre unbroken tract of pine and bottomland ...
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Boggy Slough : A Forest, a Family, and a Foundation for Land Conservation
2022
Boggy Slough Conservation Area is a 19,000-acre unbroken tract of pine and bottomland hardwood forest situated in East Texas'Trinity and Houston counties. More than twenty miles of the Neches River, one of the last free-flowing rivers in the state, serves as the eastern boundary, and for more than a century the land has been one of the state's leading game and industrial forest management areas.A unique blend of natural, cultural, and business history, Boggy Slough presents a highly illustrated narrative of the land, people, and evolving purpose, from time of European contact to the present. Gerland traces the many phases of land use in this forest as it transitioned from hunting, gathering, fishing, and subsistence farming to an experimental mix of stock raising and large-scale commercial forestry, eventually becoming important conservation land along the Neches River Corridor. Gerland explores the natural features and adaptive land use practices of the region as well as the environmental history of railroads and logging camps, barbed wire fences and company cattle ranches, and exclusive hunting clubs.The underlying story is the evolution and environmental impact of Southern Pine Lumber Company, founded in 1893 by T. L. L. Temple. Now owned and maintained by the fifth generation of the Temple family, the Boggy Slough lands are the last remnants of what was once a 1.2 million–acre forest empire. Gerland examines the family's and the lumber company's struggles to grow and manage a second-, third-, and fourth-generation forest, ultimately achieving sustainability while managing changing environmental concerns and attitudes.
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Natural history--Texas--Boggy Slough Conservation Area - Natural resources conservation areas--TexasContent provider:
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History of Nebraska
James C. Olson;Ronald C. Naugle;John J. Montag;James C. Olson;Ronald C. Nau...
History of Nebraska was originally created to mark the territorial centennial of Nebra...
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History of Nebraska
2014
History of Nebraska was originally created to mark the territorial centennial of Nebraska and then revised to coincide with the statehood centennial. This one-volume history quickly became the standard text for the college student and reference for the general reader, unmatched for generations as the only comprehensive history of the state. This fourth edition, revised and updated, preserves the spirit and intelligence of the original. Incorporating the results of years of scholarship and research, this edition gives fuller attention to such topics as the Native American experience in Nebraska and the accomplishments and circumstances of the state's women and minorities. It also provides a historical analysis of the state's dramatic changes in the past two decades.
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The Mountains That Remade America : How Sierra Nevada Geology Impacts Modern Life
Craig H. Jones;Craig H. Jones
From ski towns to national parks, fresh fruit to environmental lawsuits, the Sierra Ne...
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The Mountains That Remade America : How Sierra Nevada Geology Impacts Modern Life
2017
From ski towns to national parks, fresh fruit to environmental lawsuits, the Sierra Nevada has changed the way Americans live. Whether and where there was gold to be mined redefined land, mineral, and water laws. Where rain falls (and where it doesn't) determines whose fruit grows on trees and whose appears on slot machines. All this emerges from the geology of the range and how it changed history, and in so doing, changed the country. The Mountains That Remade America combines geology with history to show how the particular forces and conditions that created the Sierra Nevada have effected broad outcomes and influenced daily life in the United States in the past and how they continue to do so today. Drawing connections between events in historical geology and contemporary society, Craig H . Jones makes geological science accessible and shows the vast impact this mountain range has had on the American West.
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Human geography--Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) - Geology--Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--History - Gold mines and mining--Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) - Mountains--Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--HistoryContent provider:
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A Guidebook to South Carolina Historical Markers
Edwin Breeden;Edwin Breeden
The South Carolina Historical Marker Program, established in 1936, has approved the in...
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A Guidebook to South Carolina Historical Markers
2021
The South Carolina Historical Marker Program, established in 1936, has approved the installation of more than 1,700 interpretive plaques, each highlighting how places both grand and unassuming have played important roles in the history of the Palmetto State. These roadside markers identify and interpret places valuable for understanding South Carolina's past, including sites of consequential events and buildings, structures, or other resources significant for their design or their association with institutions or individuals prominent in local, state, or national history.This volume includes a concise history of the South Carolina Historical Marker Program and an overview of the marker application process. For those interested in specific historic periods or themes, the volume features condensed lists of markers associated with broader topics such as the American Revolution, African American history, women's history, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.While the program is administered by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, most markers are proposed by local organizations that serve as a marker's official sponsor, paying its cost and assuming responsibility for its upkeep. In that sense, this inventory is a record not just of places and subjects that the state has deemed worthy of acknowledgment, but of those that South Carolinians themselves have worked to enshrine.
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Historical markers--South Carolina--GuidebooksContent provider:
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Taste the State : South Carolina's Signature Foods, Recipes, and Their Stories
Kevin Mitchell;David S. Shields;Kevin Mitchell;David S. Shields
Bitter Southerner 2022 Summer Reading pick • Garden & Gun Best Southern Cookbooks pick...
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Taste the State : South Carolina's Signature Foods, Recipes, and Their Stories
2021
Bitter Southerner 2022 Summer Reading pick • Garden & Gun Best Southern Cookbooks pick • Forbes Best New Cookbooks For Travelers pick • 2021 Gourmand International Cookbook Award Finalist • A vivid cultural history of South Carolina's most distinctive ingredients and signature dishesFrom the influence of 1920 fashion on asparagus growers to an heirloom watermelon lost and found, Taste the State abounds with surprising stories from South Carolina's singularly rich food tradition. Here, Kevin Mitchell and David S. Shields present engaging profiles of eighty-two of the state's most distinctive ingredients, such as Carolina Gold rice, Sea Island White Flint corn, and the cone-shaped Charleston Wakefield cabbage, and signature dishes, such as shrimp and grits, chicken bog, okra soup, Frogmore stew, and crab rice. These portraits, illustrated with original photographs and historical drawings, provide origin stories and tales of kitchen creativity and agricultural innovation; historical'receipts'and modern recipes, including Chef Mitchell's distillation of traditions in Hoppin'John fritters, okra and crab stew, and more.Because Carolina cookery combines ingredients and cooking techniques of three greatly divergent cultural traditions, there is more than a little novelty and variety in the food. In Taste the State Mitchell and Shields celebrate the contributions of Native Americans (hominy grits, squashes, and beans), the Gullah Geechee (field peas, okra, guinea squash, rice, and sorghum), and European settlers (garden vegetables, grains, pigs, and cattle) in the mixture of ingredients and techniques that would become Carolina cooking. They also explore the specialties of every region—the famous rice and seafood dishes of the lowcountry; the Pee Dee's catfish and pinebark stews; the smothered cabbage, pumpkin chips, and mustard-based barbecue of the Dutch Fork and Orangeburg; the red chicken stew of the midlands; and the chestnuts, chinquapins, and corn bread recipes of mountain upstate.Taste the State presents the cultural histories of native ingredients and showcases the evolution of the dishes and the variety of preparations that have emerged. Here you will find true Carolina cooking in all of its cultural depth, historical vividness, and sumptuous splendor—from the plain home cooking of sweet potato pone to Lady Baltimore cake worthy of a Charleston society banquet.
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Cooking, American--Southern style - Cooking--South CarolinaContent provider:
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
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Dictionary of World Biography
2021
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post-industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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Biography--DictionariesContent provider:
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The Indians’ New World : Catawbas and Their Neighbors From European Contact Through the Era of Removal
James H. Merrell;James H. Merrell
This eloquent, pathbreaking account follows the Catawbas from their first contact with...
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The Indians’ New World : Catawbas and Their Neighbors From European Contact Through the Era of Removal
2009
This eloquent, pathbreaking account follows the Catawbas from their first contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century until they carved out a place in the American republic three centuries later. It is a story of Native agency, creativity, resilience, and endurance. Upon its original publication in 1989, James Merrell's definitive history of Catawbas and their neighbors in the southern piedmont helped signal a new direction in the study of Native Americans, serving as a model for their reintegration into American history. In an introduction written for this twentieth anniversary edition, Merrell recalls the book's origins and considers its place in the field of early American history in general and Native American history in particular, both at the time it was first published and two decades later.
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Indians of North America--South Carolina--History - Catawba Indians--Social conditions - Catawba Indians--History - Indians of North America--North Carolina--Social conditions - Indians of North America--South Carolina--Social conditions - Indians of North America--North Carolina--HistoryContent provider:
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Nineteenth Century Detective Fiction : An Analytical History
LeRoy Lad Panek;LeRoy Lad Panek
In English and American cultures, detective fiction has a long and illustrious history...
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Nineteenth Century Detective Fiction : An Analytical History
2021
In English and American cultures, detective fiction has a long and illustrious history. Its origins can be traced back to major developments in Anglo-American law, like the concept of circumstantial evidence and the rise of lawyers as heroic figures. Edgar Allen Poe's writings further fueled this cultural phenomenon, with the use of enigmas and conundrums in his detective stories, as well as the hunt-and-chase action of early police detective novels. Poe was only one staple of the genre, with detective fiction contributing to a thriving literary market that later influenced Arthur Conan Doyle's work. This text examines the emergence of short detective fiction in the nineteenth century, as well as the appearance of detectives in Victorian novels. It explores how the genre has captivated readers for centuries, with the chapters providing a framework for a more complete understanding of nineteenth-century detective fiction.
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Detective and mystery stories, Commonwealth (Engli--History and criticism - Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism - Detective and mystery stories--History and criticism - English fiction--19th century--History and criticism - Commonwealth fiction (English)--History and criticism - American fiction--19th century--History and criticismContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
The First Reconstruction : Black Politics in America From the Revolution to the Civil War
Van Gosse;Van Gosse
It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential black electoral politics evolved i...
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The First Reconstruction : Black Politics in America From the Revolution to the Civil War
2021
It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential black electoral politics evolved in the United States before the Civil War, for as of 1860, the overwhelming majority of African Americans remained in bondage. Yet free black men, many of them escaped slaves, steadily increased their influence in electoral politics over the course of the early American republic. Despite efforts to disfranchise them, black men voted across much of the North, sometimes in numbers sufficient to swing elections. In this meticulously-researched book, Van Gosse offers a sweeping reappraisal of the formative era of American democracy from the Constitution's ratification through Abraham Lincoln's election, chronicling the rise of an organized, visible black politics focused on the quest for citizenship, the vote, and power within the free states. Full of untold stories and thorough examinations of political battles, this book traces a First Reconstruction of black political activism following emancipation in the North. From Portland, Maine and New Bedford, Massachusetts to Brooklyn and Cleveland, black men operated as voting blocs, denouncing the notion that skin color could define citizenship.
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African Americans--History--To 1863 - African Americans--Politics and government--19th century - African Americans--Politics and government--18th centuryContent provider:
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From the Halls of the Montezumas: Mexican War Dispatches From James L. Freaner, Writing Under the Pen Name “Mustang”
Gaff, Alan D;Gaff, Donald H.;Gaff, Alan D;Gaff, Donald H.
James L. Freaner is one of the most important unknown Americans in our nation's histor...
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From the Halls of the Montezumas: Mexican War Dispatches From James L. Freaner, Writing Under the Pen Name “Mustang”
James L. Freaner is one of the most important unknown Americans in our nation's history. Freaner gained fame throughout the country during the Mexican War while covering General Winfield Scott's campaign. As one of America's first war correspondents, Freaner's letters appeared in newspapers under the byline “Mustang,” and his reports from the front included information unavailable elsewhere. Among Freaner's scoops were the publication of complete casualty lists (long before official reports became public), detailed battle descriptions, and observations on postwar Mexico. Despite his widespread fame as a reporter, Freaner's greatest contribution to the United States came during a conversation with Nicholas P. Trist, negotiator of the peace treaty with Mexico. After Trist had passed along an outrageous proposal from the Mexican commissioners , he was recalled, but Freaner convinced Trist to ignore the order and begin a new round of negotiations. Trist resumed, concluded the war, and added California, Nevada, Utah, and other territory to a growing country. This acquisition was second in size only to the Louisiana Purchase and was a direct result of James Freaner persuading Trist to brazenly conclude a treaty when he had no authority to do so. From the Halls of the Montezumas is a complete compilation of Freaner's Mexican War reporting. Editors Alan D. Gaff and Donald H . Gaff have annotated the text with footnotes identifying people, places, and events, and also have added illustrations of key figures and maps. They supplement Freaner's dispatches with biographical information that ranges from his early career to his journey to the gold fields of California and his untimely death at the hands of Indians in California in 1852.
2019; Vol. 00014
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Mexican War, 1846-1848--Journalists--Biography - Mexican War, 1846-1848--Journalism, Military - Mexican War, 1846-1848--Campaigns--Mexico - Chapultepec, Battle of, Mexico City, Mexico, 1847--Personal narratives, American - Mexican War, 1846-1848--Personal narratives, AmericanContent provider:
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Illusions of Emancipation : The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
Joseph P. Reidy;Joseph P. Reidy
As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of...
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Illusions of Emancipation : The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
2019
As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 1865. It was a process that required more than legal or military action. With enslaved people fully engaged as actors, emancipation necessitated a fundamental reordering of a way of life whose implications stretched well beyond the former slave states. Slavery did not die quietly or quickly, nor did freedom fulfill every dream of the enslaved or their allies. The process unfolded unevenly.In this sweeping reappraisal of slavery's end during the Civil War era, Joseph P. Reidy employs the lenses of time, space, and individuals'sense of personal and social belonging to understand how participants and witnesses coped with drastic change, its erratic pace, and its unforeseeable consequences. Emancipation disrupted everyday habits, causing sensations of disorientation that sometimes intensified the experience of reality and sometimes muddled it. While these illusions of emancipation often mixed disappointment with hope, through periods of even intense frustration they sustained the promise that the struggle for freedom would result in victory.
