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"From the bestselling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time"--
Rose Pastor arrived in New York City in 1903, a Jewish refugee from Russia who had worked in cigar factories since the age of eleven. Two years later, she captured headlines across...
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Abbott's book deals with the Freedmen's Bureau, the agency that faced the main challenge of defining the meaning of freedom for four million slaves after the Civil War. He records the difficulties that resulted from the urgency of the needs the bureau sought to remedy and the issue of whether the bureau may have used its position to further the cause of Radical Republicanism.
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German Chicago Revisited follows the photographic study which began in German Chicago: The Danube Swabians and the American Aid Societies. With this latest title in the Images of America series, historian and photographer Raymond Lohne crafts another volume about a group of American citizens who preserve their rich heritage with unwavering effort. This book will give readers a glimpse into the life of a close-knit and highly active community, revealing...
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"The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis. Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II, along with some less famous perpetrators who managed to sneak in and who eventually were exposed by Nazi hunters. But the truth is much worse, and has been covered up for decades: the CIA and FBI brought thousands of perpetrators to America as possible...
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The custom of Indian enslavement during colonial times came from the necessity of disposing of war captives, from the greed of traders, and from the demand for labour.
In his 1913 book "Indian Slavery in Colonial Times," Almon Wheeler Lauber broadly defines "slave" as a "prisoner held by his captor as an inferior and forced to labor for him, or sold into servitude or freedom for the financial benefit of his captor." His book describes four kinds...
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In the spring of 1980, the port at Mariel Harbor was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American Dream. One of them found it on the sun-washed avenues of Miami; wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams. He was Tony Montana. The world will remember him by another name. Starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana, this film has become a cultural phenomenon brilliantly directed by Brian De Palma and written...
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First settled by non-Native Americans in 1732, what is the history of the Shenandoah Valley?
In 1833, the Samuel Kercheval (1767-1845), the first major historian of the Shenandoah Valley, published "A History of the Valley of Virginia."
Topics covered by Kercheval include Indian wars, Indian settlements, first settlement of the valley, customs of the settlers, attacks on settlers, Dunmore's war with the Indians, War of the Revolution, life of settlers,...
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What caused Germans from the Palatinates region of Germany to first flee to America in the early 1700s, and why did they flee from New York for Pennsylvania?
In 1897, Rev Sanford Hoadley Cobb (1838-1910) published "The Story of the Palatines: An Episode in Colonial History," answering these questions and more regarding this unique group of early American pioneers.
The German Palatines were early 18th century emigrants from the Middle Rhine region...
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Is it a fact that African-Americans owned slaves in the South before the Civil War, but few people seem to know it?
If what Calvin Dill Wilson states in his short 19-page book "Black Masters," is true, wealthy free African-Americans bought and sold members of their own race just as did the Southern white planter, and African-Americans, once slaves and freed by their white masters, became slave-owners, themselves.
"To judge from all that is known...
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The last celebrated captivity of white women, taken by Utes after an uprising at the White River Acency.-The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West (1981)
"Josephine Meeker and Flora Price were held captive by a group of White River Utes after the Indians killed 10 men at the Indian Agency."-Worth Their Salt: Notable but Often Unnoted Women of Utah (1996)
"Twelve Utes, led by Quinkent, then kidnapped 63-year-old Arvilla and daughter Josephine Meeker...
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"Wells...provided damning descriptions of the melee that claimed one too many black lives." -Concrete Demands: The Search for Black Power in the 20th Century (2014)
"To Wells...the events at East St. Louis combined some of the worst racist elements...in three days of rioting, 39 African Americans were killed." -Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform (2003)
"Her account of the riot which included interviews with riot victims documenting the violent...
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What part of the U.S. did most of the pioneer families originate from when they moved West into Missouri when that section of the country opened up for homesteads?
William Bryan's 1876 book "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri" was written as after his travel by horse with his associate Robert Rose across five counties in Missouri where they interviewed local residents for much of the history found in his book. The counties included were:...
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"The bravery of the early United States marshals in Oklahoma will be remembered by...Mrs. Zoe Tilghman, wife of Bill Tilghman, former U.S. marshal who was killed several years ago in a gun battle...Mrs. Tilghman is the author of...Outlaw Days." -The Oklahoma Daily, March 15, 1939
"Outlaw Days by Zoe Tilghman, Bill's widow...the Bill Tilghman legend was kept alive...by Zoe Tilghman, his early days in Dodge City...capturing Bill Doolin." -Tulsa World,...
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In 1867, when celebrated Sioux Chief "Squatting Bear" was visiting "The Great White Father" in Washington, D.C., 19-year-old Mary Barber (born 1848) would propose to and marry the great Brule warrior, who then promptly set out with her across the country to his Sioux village near Yankton, Dakota.
The marriage had created a major sensation in newspapers of that time. Barber notes that "along the route we were greeted either with cheers, or shouts...
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"Memoirs of a Southern Woman Within the Lines...by Mary Polk Branch...relates the experiences of a southern woman during the Civil War...goes on to describe the South in ante-bellum days. The author is a relative of President Polk." -Boston Globe, November 12, 1927
"Full of interesting narrative regarding the author's experiences in the Civil War." - The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, 1916
"The coexistence of brutal oppression and genuine...
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How did this heroic Pennsylvania "rebel" manage to survive nearly a year of captivity by British-allied hostile tribes during the Revolutionary War, enduring both a brutal capture and numerous failed escapes.
In 1780, Luke Swetland (1729-1823) would publish a short 27-page narrative of his brutal capture and life as a captive under the lengthy title "A Very Remarkable Narrative of Luke Swetland: Who Was Taken Captive Four Times in the Space of Fifteen...
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The stories of those pioneers who have survived captivity among Native American tribes during hostile outbreaks along frontier settlements are full of harrowing interest. Of particular interest is that told by Mary Schwandt (1848-1939) in her 1894 narrative, "The Story of Mary Schwandt: Her Captivity During the Sioux Outbreak of 1862."
On the morning of the 18th of August, 1862, at about 6 o'clock, John Moore, a "half-breed trader," residing near...
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