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  • Murder & Mayhem in Southwestern Illinois

    par John J. Dunphy ...
    Southwestern Illinois experienced a plethora of violence during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Settlers and Native Americans clashed at the Wood River Settlement, while Abraham Lincoln dueled on a Mississippi River island. Racial strife led to the lynching of a Black schoolteacher in Belleville in 1903 and a deadly riot in East St. Louis fourteen years later. Benbow City was a latter-day ... En savoir plus

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  • From Christmas to Twelfth Night in Southern Illinois

    par John J. Dunphy ...
    Journey to a region where all the perennials are said to bloom at midnight on Christmas Eve and where a family's luck is determined by the first person to walk through their door on New Year's Day. Spend a literary Christmas in Herrin, listen to the twelve bells of Belleville ring out the coming year and greet the Three Kings of Germantown at Epiphany. Whether you are a newcomer to southern ... En savoir plus

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  • The Last Full Measure

    The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers

    par Richard Moe ...
    Since its publication, Richard Moe's The Last Full Measure has garnered a reputation as the definitive history of the First Minnesota Regiment and one of a handful of classic regimental histories of the Civil War.The First Minnesota Volunteers, the first regiment offered to President Lincoln after the fall of Fort Sumter, served in virtually every major battle fought in the eastern theater during ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • November's Fury

    The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913

    par Michael Schumacher ...
    On Thursday, November 6, the Detroit News forecasted “moderate to brisk” winds for the Great Lakes. On Friday, the Port Huron Times-Herald predicted a “moderately severe” storm. Hourly the warnings became more and more dire. Weather forecasting was in its infancy, however, and radio communication was not much better; by the time it became clear that a freshwater hurricane of epic proportions was ... En savoir plus

    $18.69 CAD

  • We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down

    Memoir of a Gravedigger’s Daughter

    par Rachael Hanel ...
    Rachael Hanel’s name was inscribed on a gravestone when she was eleven years old. Yet this wasn’t at all unusual in her world: her father was a gravedigger in the small Minnesota town of Waseca, and death was her family’s business. Her parents were forty-two years old and in good health when they erected their gravestone—Rachael’s name was simply a branch on the sprawling family tree etched on the ... En savoir plus

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  • Remaking the Heartland

    Middle America since the 1950s

    par Robert Wuthnow ...
    The social transformation of the American Midwest in the postwar eraFor many Americans, the Midwest is a vast unknown. In Remaking the Heartland, Robert Wuthnow sets out to rectify this. He shows how the region has undergone extraordinary social transformations over the past half-century and proven itself surprisingly resilient in the face of such hardships as the Great Depression and the movement ... En savoir plus

    $42.89 CAD

  • The WPA Guide to Missouri

    The Show-Me State

    par Federal Writers' Project ...
    During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors-many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures-were ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Poles in Wisconsin

    par Susan Gibson Mikos ...
    Collections series People of Wisconsin
    In this all-new addition to the People of Wisconsin series, author Susan Mikos traces the history of Polish immigrants as they settled in America’s northern heartland. The second largest immigrant population after Germans, Poles put down roots in all corners of the state, from the industrial center of Milwaukee to the farmland around Stevens Point, in the Cutover, and beyond. In each locale, they ... En savoir plus

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  • Elk Grove Village

    par Nancy Colby, Kelly Behnke ...
    Collections series Images of America
    Prior to 1956, the area now known as Elk Grove Village was a massive cornfield. On July 17, 1956, Elk Grove Village was incorporated as a village, with a population of 116. Since that time, the growth of the village can only be described as phenomenal. Over 50 years, the village has dramatically changed since those early days of cornfields. The name Elk Grove Village was adopted from the great ... En savoir plus

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  • Scattering the Seeds of Knowledge

    The Words and Works of Indiana's Pioneer County Extension Agents

    par Frederick Whitford ...
    Collections series The Founders Series
    Today, Purdue Extension delivers practical, research-based information that transforms lives and livelihoods. Tailored to the needs of Indiana, its current programs include Agriculture and Natural Resources, Health and Human Sciences, Economic and Community Development, and 4-H Youth Development. However, today's success is built on over a century of visionary hard work and outreach. Scattering ... En savoir plus

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  • Akron Churches

    Early Architecture

    par Kally Mavromatis ...
    Collections series Images of America
    The history of Akron begins with the building of the great Ohio and Erie Canal. The financial incentives offered to workers building the canal brought men from all over to build the great �ditch,� and as they and their families settled in Akron, they also began to build magnificent churches and cathedrals that became the heart of their communities. With roots stretching back to the early 1800s, ... En savoir plus

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  • Hawthorne Works

    par Dennis Schlagheck, Catherine Lantz ...
    Collections series Images of America
    Discover the maufacturing plant that typifies the era when American industrial giants dominated the global economy and generations of blue-collar workers strived for a fair share of the "American Dream." A burgeoning town on the fringes of Chicago rose and fell with the successes of the Western Electric Company. For almost 90 years, the Hawthorne Works plant employed, educated, entertained, and ... En savoir plus

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