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Freedom at Risk: The Kidnapping of Free Blacks in America, 1780-1865 by Carol Wilson
pdf |en | | Author: Carol Wilson

( Category: Abolition September 30,2022 )
Louisville Murder & Mayhem by Keven McQueen
epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Keven McQueen

Henry Zink. From the Louisville Courier-Journal of March 2, 1894. Reprinted courtesy of the Courier-Journal. Zink was gone from Louisville, but in the meantime the identity of his partner, the ...
( Category: South September 30,2022 )
Milwaukee Ghosts and Legends by Anna Lardinois
epub |eng | 2018-09-15 | Author:Anna Lardinois

A Gothic-style doorway leading to Johnston Hall. Author’s collection. CARPENTER TOWER, the Art Deco gem of the campus, was opened in 1930 under the name of Catholic Knights Insurance Society ...
( Category: Midwest September 30,2022 )
Burning the Breeze by Lisa Hendrickson
epub |eng | | Author:Lisa Hendrickson [Hendrickson, Lisa]

* * * * Julia knew there were no business opportunities for a woman living in Toston, so she sold the house and bought herself a Ford coupe. She applied ...
( Category: Women September 30,2022 )
Orange County Pioneers by Charles Epting
epub |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Charles Epting

Judge Ord Judge Ord of Seal Beach also recalls this trench and says that they used fresnos (a wide scoop scraper) to fill it in. That it also seemed poor ...
( Category: West September 30,2022 )
Huntington Beach Chronicles by Chris Epting
epub |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Chris Epting

Leroy Jauman poses next to the house when he was born, in front of which stand the special palm trees. For that, he’d pocket fifteen cents—a Depression-era bounty for an ...
( Category: State & Local September 30,2022 )
Wanted in Indiana by Andrew E. Stoner
epub |eng | 2021-09-15 | Author:Andrew E. Stoner

A TWO-FOR-ONE CAPTURE FOR THE FBI Fugitive(s): Ernest Tait and Raymond “Red” Duvall Wanted For: Tait, December 1958, burglary, bail skipping, Crawfordsville, Indiana Duvall, July 29, 1959, escape, State Prison, ...
( Category: Midwest September 30,2022 )
Cattle Towns by Robert Dykstra
epub |eng | 2013-04-10 | Author:Robert Dykstra [Dykstra, Robert]

Murphy visited Dodge City in January and told the Globe’s editor that a great number in his area desperately needed aid. Returning home from the flesh pots of Dodge he ...
( Category: State & Local September 30,2022 )
Massachusetts Book of the Dead by Roxie J. Zwicker
epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Roxie J. Zwicker

Mount Auburn Cemetery remains one of the most visited cemeteries in the world. Before the establishment of Mount Auburn Cemetery, people’s beliefs about death were dark and gloomy; the grim ...
( Category: New England September 30,2022 )
A History of the American Revolution by John R. Alden
epub |eng | 2013-04-10 | Author:John R. Alden [Alden, John]

PLATE I GEORGE III, by Gilbert Stuart. (illustrations credit c18.1) PLATE II QUEEN CHARLOTTE, by Gilbert Stuart. (illustrations credit c18.2) PLATE III A nineteenth-century American conception of GEORGE WASHINGTON in ...
( Category: Colonial Period September 30,2022 )
The Founding Conservatives by David Lefer
epub |eng | 2013-05-15 | Author:David Lefer

( Category: Revolution & Founding September 30,2022 )
The Gettysburg Address and Other Writings by Abraham Lincoln
epub |eng | 2011-06-22 | Author:Abraham Lincoln

LECTURE ON DISCOVERIES, INVENTIONS, AND IMPROVEMENTS Jacksonville, Illinois WE HAVE ALL HEARD OF YOUNG AMERICA. HE IS THE MOST CURRENT youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; ...
( Category: Gettysburg September 30,2022 )
The Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939 by Robert L Harris Jr
epub |eng | 2006-06-06 | Author:Robert L Harris Jr.

1965 Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem Alex Haley publishes The Autobiography of Malcolm X The Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights is staged The ...
( Category: 21st Century September 30,2022 )
Curiosities of Central New York by Melanie Zimmer
epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Melanie Zimmer

NON-IROQUOIS LITTLE PEOPLE Native Americans were not the only groups to report sightings of Little People in this region. Aaron S. Popple told me a story of a sighting he ...
( Category: State & Local September 29,2022 )
Black Montana by Anthony W. Wood
epub |eng | | Author:Anthony W. Wood [Wood, Anthony W.]

Such lines hearken back to the language of liberty employed by Du Bois, realizing his hope that African Americans might convene with Nature, “thinking, dreaming, and working in a kingdom ...
( Category: Reconstruction September 29,2022 )

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