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Strike! by Jeremy Brecher
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-07-11 | Author:Jeremy Brecher

Mounted police clashing with strikers outside an electrical plant in Philadelphia, 1946. U.S. postal worker on strike, 1970. Chapter 7 The Unknown Labor Dimension of the Vietnam War Era Revolt ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 12,2018 )
Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class by Tye Larry
epub |eng | 2005-05-31 | Author:Tye, Larry [Tye, Larry]

5 Behind the Mask IT WAS THE only baseball they had. And now it was gone. It was their only ball because in Freeport, Maine, of 1918, where boys gathered ...
( Category: Economics July 12,2018 )
Gay New York by George Chauncey
epub |eng | | Author:George Chauncey [Chauncey, George]

Figure 9.2 Harlem’s leading newspaper, the Amsterdam News, regularly carried pictures of the winning contestants in the costume competition at the Hamilton Lodge ball, New York’s biggest drag ball. In ...
( Category: Social Sciences July 12,2018 )
A Pickpocket's Tale by Timothy J. Gilfoyle
epub |eng | 2011-11-09 | Author:Timothy J. Gilfoyle

Michael Riordan’s attack on George Appo made the headlines of the New York Tribune. Lexow Committee investigators quickly determined that this version of the events was fabricated. For the first ...
( Category: Historical July 12,2018 )
Savoring Gotham by Smith Andrew F. & Oliver Garrett
epub |eng | 2015-10-13 | Author:Smith, Andrew F. & Oliver, Garrett

Cindy R. Lobel Loubat, Alphonse See wine and wine-making. Lower East Side The Lower East Side is a neighborhood in Manhattan that runs from Houston Street to Canal Street, from ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides July 12,2018 )
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair by Bill Cotter
epub |eng | 2014-07-11 | Author:Bill Cotter

A Sikorsky helicopter of New York Airways arrives on the rooftop heliport of the Port Authority building. The pavilion featured one of the fair’s most exclusive restaurants. Just below rooftop ...
( Category: Americas July 12,2018 )
The Ancient World in Minutes by Phillips Charles
azw3 |eng | 2018-06-04 | Author:Phillips, Charles [Phillips, Charles]

Tibet 224 INDIA Tibet was unified in the 7th century under King Srong-brtsan-sgampo (c.617–650), who married Buddhist wives from Nepal and China and established Buddhism in his country. Under their ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations July 12,2018 )
The New York Times The Times of the Seventies by Clyde Haberman
epub |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:Clyde Haberman

ALL ABOUT: Sneakers Sneaker selection a few years ago rarely troubled anyone. Girls got white sneakers, boys got black, and both usually bought the cheapest in the store. These days, ...
( Category: Social Sciences July 11,2018 )
Broadway by Fran Leadon
epub |eng | | Author:Fran Leadon

THE SEEDS OF Konkle’s notion had been sown almost a century earlier, when the Broadway Tabernacle opened a few blocks north of City Hall Park, on the east side of ...
( Category: Americas July 11,2018 )
The New York Times: The Times of the Eighties by William Grimes
epub |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:William Grimes

APRIL 16, 1989 If Fashion Is Changing, it Must Be Almost 1990 Bernadine Morris Working on the collections introduced in Europe last month and in New York last week, fashion ...
( Category: Social Sciences July 11,2018 )
Queen of Thieves by J. North Conway
epub |eng | 2014-07-10 | Author:J. North Conway

By the 1880s, things were changing, both for Mandelbaum as well as society in general. Many of her contemporaries were either dead or in prison. George Leslie was dead. Many ...
( Category: Americas July 11,2018 )
The 50 Greatest Players in New York Yankees History by Robert W. Cohen
epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Robert W. Cohen [Cohen, Robert W.]

26 Herb Pennock A couple of Hall of Fame pitchers take up the next two spots in the rankings, with Herb Pennock and Waite Hoyt compiling numbers so similar during ...
( Category: Baseball July 11,2018 )
Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City by Sanderson Eric W
epub |eng | 2013-11-26 | Author:Sanderson, Eric W. [Sanderson, Eric W.]

Skyscrapers, like everything else in our landscapes, are not permanent. Over the next four hundred years, nearly all the buildings on Manhattan will be torn down and rebuilt, not through ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology July 11,2018 )
Field Guide to the Street Trees of New York City by Leslie Day
epub |eng | 2011-07-10 | Author:Leslie Day

Spring leaves of the American linden about to emerge from their buds Creamy yellow American linden flowers are attached to bracts American linden nutlets attached to their bracts Soaring trunk ...
( Category: Biological Sciences July 11,2018 )
Do's & Don'ts of Hypoglycemia by Roberta Ruggerio
epub |eng | 2008-07-10 | Author:Roberta Ruggerio [Ruggiero, Roberta]

Do……… see if you can develop a rapport with the therapist. A trusting relationship between patient and therapist is crucial to the healing process. Ask yourself, “Do I like this ...
( Category: Diseases & Physical Ailments July 11,2018 )

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