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  • Monongah

    The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster

    par DAVITT MCATEER ...
    Collections Livre 6 - WEST VIRGINIA & APPALACHIA
    New paperback edition with an introduction by Robert B. ReichMonongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster documents the events and conditions that led to the worst industrial accident in the history of the United States. This mining accident claimed hundreds of lives on the morning of December 6, 1907 and McAteer, an expert on mine and workplace health and safety, delves deeply ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Rising Tide

    The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

    par John M. Barry ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of almost one million people, helped elect Huey Long ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Devil Is Here in These Hills

    West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom

    par James Green ...
    "The most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I've ever read." —John Sayles, writer and director of MatewanOn September 1, 1912, the largest, most protracted, and deadliest working-class uprising in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were ... En savoir plus

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  • The Company Town

    The Industrial Eden's and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy

    par Hardy Green ...
    Company town: The very phrase sounds un-American. Yet company towns are the essence of America. Hershey bars, Corning glassware, Kohler bathroom fixtures, Maytag washers, Spam -- each is the signature product of a company town in which one business, for better or worse, exercises a grip over the population. In The Company Town, Hardy Green, who has covered American business for over a decade, ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Great Pierpont Morgan

    A Biography

    A revealing biography of J. P. Morgan, one of the most powerful and enigmatic financiers in history, from bestselling author Frederick Lewis Allen.Celebrated as a titan of industry by some and decried as a monopolizing robber baron by others, John Pierpont Morgan was without a doubt a dominant player in American finance at the turn of the twentieth century. He founded U.S. Steel, a conglomeration ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • How to Build a Museum

    Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture

    par Tonya Bolden ...
    Collections series Smithsonian
    Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is truly groundbreaking!The first national museum whose mission is to illuminate for all people, the rich, diverse, complicated, and important experiences and contributions of African Americans in America is opening.And the history of NMAAHC--the last museum to be built on the National Mall--is the history of America.The ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Glastenbury

    The History of a Vermont Ghost Town

    par Tyler Resch ...
    The curious history of a tiny town that all but disappeared . . . Includes photos!Founded by a famously scheming New Hampshire governor, Glastenbury struggled for over a century to break triple digits in population. A small charcoal-making industry briefly flourished after the Civil War, yet by 1920 Glastenbury counted fewer than twenty inhabitants.The end came officially in 1937, when the state, ... En savoir plus

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  • Gowanus

    Brooklyn’s Curious Canal

    par Joseph Alexiou ...
    The surprising history of the Gowanus Canal and its role in the building of BrooklynFor more than 150 years, Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal has been called a cesspool, an industrial dumping ground, and a blemish on the face of the populous borough—as well as one of the most important waterways in the history of New York harbor. Yet its true origins, man-made character, and importance to the city have ... En savoir plus

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  • Edison

    par Stacy E. Spies ...
    Collections series Images of America
    Edison, named for its most famous resident, inventor Thomas Alva Edison, can be called the birthplace of modern life as we know it. It was here at his Menlo Park complex that Thomas Edison created the incandescent electric lightbulb and 300 other inventions, providing residents with not only a place of employment but also a source of national pride. Known as Raritan Township until 1954, Edison was ... En savoir plus

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  • The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton

    A High Flying Life from Tennessee to Timbuktu

    A biography of the charismatic world traveler whose daredevil exploits thrilled millions in the early twentieth century.Born in 1900, Richard Halliburton ran away from his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, at the age of nineteen to lead an extraordinary and dramatic life of adventure. Against the backdrop of the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression, Halliburton's exploits around the globe made ... En savoir plus

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  • Galveston and the 1900 Storm

    Catastrophe and Catalyst

    Spur Award Nominee: How Galveston, Texas, reinvented itself after historic disaster: "A riveting narrative . . . Absorbing [and] well-illustrated." — Library JournalThe Galveston storm of 1900 reduced a cosmopolitan and economically vibrant city to a wreckage-strewn wasteland where survivors struggled without shelter, power, potable water, or even the means to summon help. At least 6,000 of the ... En savoir plus

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  • Jonesboro and Arkansas's Historic Northeast Corner

    Collections series Images of America
    Join Ray and Diane Hadley as they retell the history of the communities that make up Jonesboro and Arkansas's Northeast Corner in vintage images. When Union soldiers returned North after the Civil War, they brought home stories of a sparsely populated area with bountiful timber and potential for homes and farms. Over the next 50 years, first by wagon train and then by railroads, settlers came to ... En savoir plus

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