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Remembering Dixie by Susan T. Falck
epub |eng | 2019-08-23 | Author:Susan T. Falck [Falck, Susan T.]

A PASSION FOR LOCAL HISTORY Natchez Garden Club members shared a keen reverence for local history that became apparent not only in their club work but also in other leisure ...
( Category: Women in History April 28,2022 )
Fremont by Ferol Egan
epub |eng | 2012-08-01 | Author:Ferol Egan [Egan, Ferol]

XIV Following the Winds of Summer THEODORE TALBOT found St. Louis a hurry-up, get-on-your-way exciting place, a westward-facing city filled with people on the move in that May of 1845. ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries April 27,2022 )
Witness to the Storm by Werner T. Angress
epub |eng | 2019-05-01 | Author:Werner T. Angress [Angress, Werner T.]

Werner Angress, on the day after emigrating to Amsterdam, October 31, 1937. Now at least I knew that Papa had gotten out of Germany, and I knew approximately where he ...
( Category: Holocaust April 27,2022 )
The Orient Strikes Back by Joy Hendry
epub |eng | 2000-10-01 | Author:Joy Hendry [Hendry, Joy]

Summary and Theoretical Implications The examples of cultural display considered in this chapter have ranged from a self-professed museum to an out-and-out theme park. They have expressed national themes from ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture April 26,2022 )
Breaking Seas, Broken Ships by Ian Friel
epub |eng | 2021-05-12 | Author:Ian Friel [Friel, Ian]

Dive-bombing imposed huge strains on an airframe, so specialized aircraft were needed to cope with them. In the early 1940s, Japan’s principal dive-bomber was the Aichi D3A, commonly known as ...
( Category: Maritime History & Piracy April 26,2022 )
Essays on Islamic Piety and Mysticism by Fritz Meier John O'Kane
pdf |en | | Author: Fritz Meier, John O'Kane

( Category: World April 25,2022 )
Revisiting the Religious Life of Palmyra: 9 by Rubina Raja (editor)
pdf |en | | Author: Rubina Raja (editor)

( Category: General April 25,2022 )
Pulpit, Mosque and Nation: Turkish Friday Sermons as Text and Ritual by Elisabeth Özdalga
pdf |en | | Author: Elisabeth Özdalga

( Category: World April 25,2022 )
Black Ghost of Empire by Kris Manjapra
epub |eng | 2022-04-19 | Author:Kris Manjapra

A WARRING KIND OF FREEDOM As W. E. B Du Bois once said, the “North was not Abolitionist.”21 The Civil War did not begin as a war over the abolition ...
( Category: Slavery & Emancipation April 20,2022 )
Carved in Stone, Etched in Memory by Amila Buturovic
epub |eng | 2016-03-03 | Author:Amila Buturovic [Buturovic, Amila]

Chapter 3 Converting the Stone: Text and Images in Early Ottoman Bosnia The previous chapters situated various forms of Bosnian Muslims’ commemoration of the dead – ritual, official and non-official, ...
( Category: World April 19,2022 )
The 1933 Chicago World's Fair by Cheryl R. Ganz
epub |eng | 2012-01-06 | Author:Cheryl R. Ganz [Ganz, Cheryl R.]

6 African Americans and the Du Sable Legacy The Century of Progress should and must also show the progress we have made. … Black citizens are advised to go wherever ...
( Category: Women in History April 19,2022 )
A Cultural History of Hair in the Renaissance by Edith Snook;
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Snook;

FIGURE 6.2 Woodcut illustrating “The perfite woman” from Thomas Hill, The Contemplation of Mankinde (1571), op. p. 148. This item is reproduced by permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, ...
( Category: Ethnic & Tribal April 19,2022 )
A Cultural History of Hair in Antiquity by Mary Harlow;
epub |eng | | Author:Mary Harlow;

FIGURE 7.2 Figure of a Celtic warrior, early Roman period, terracotta. © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. HAIR AS A RACIAL SIGNIFIER—AFROED ETHIOPIANS AND REDHEADED GAULS Hair was, and remains ...
( Category: Ethnic & Tribal April 19,2022 )
First Films of the Holocaust by Jeremy Hicks
epub |eng | 2012-11-20 | Author:Jeremy Hicks [Hicks, Jeremy]

6 Liberation of the Camps On 24 July 1944 the Red Army liberated the Majdanek death camp, near Lublin, Poland. Despite the catalog of appalling Nazi crimes already uncovered by ...
( Category: Holocaust April 19,2022 )
Messengers of Disaster: Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski, and Twentieth-Century Genocides by Annette Becker Käthe Roth
pdf |en | | Author: Annette Becker, Käthe Roth

( Category: Holocaust April 18,2022 )

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