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Book The Eagle s History of Poughkeepsie

Download or read book The Eagle s History of Poughkeepsie written by Edmund Platt and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Year Book of the Dutchess County Historical Society

Download or read book Year Book of the Dutchess County Historical Society written by Dutchess County Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Fire Bell in the Past

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  • Author : Jeffrey L. Pasley
  • Publisher : University of Missouri Press
  • Release : 2021-06-25
  • ISBN : 0826274587
  • Pages : 441 pages

Download or read book A Fire Bell in the Past written by Jeffrey L. Pasley and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many new states entered the United States around 200 years ago, but only Missouri almost killed the nation it was trying to join. When the House of Representatives passed the Tallmadge Amendment banning slavery from the prospective new state in February 1819, it set off a two-year political crisis in which growing northern antislavery sentiment confronted the southern whites’ aggressive calls for slavery’s westward expansion. The Missouri Crisis divided the U.S. into slave and free states for the first time and crystallized many of the arguments and conflicts that would later be settled violently during the Civil War. The episode was, as Thomas Jefferson put it, “a fire bell in the night” that terrified him as the possible “knell of the Union.” Drawing on the participants in two landmark conferences held at the University of Missouri and the City University of New York, this first of two volumes finds myriad new perspectives on the Missouri Crisis. Celebrating Missouri’s bicentennial the scholarly way, with fresh research and unsparing analysis, this eloquent collection of essays from distinguished historians gives the epochal struggle over Missouri statehood its due as a major turning point in American history. Contributors include the editors, Christa Dierksheide, David N. Gellman, Sarah L. H. Gronningsater, Robert Lee, Donald Ratcliffe, Andrew Shankman, Anne Twitty, John R. Van Atta, and David Waldstreicher.

Book The History of Dutchess County  New York

Download or read book The History of Dutchess County New York written by Frank Hasbrouck and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History and Present Condition of the Newspaper and Periodical Press of the United States

Download or read book History and Present Condition of the Newspaper and Periodical Press of the United States written by Simon Newton Dexter North and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History and present condition of the newspaper and periodical press of the United States  with a catalogue of the publications of the census year  by S N D  North

Download or read book History and present condition of the newspaper and periodical press of the United States with a catalogue of the publications of the census year by S N D North written by United States census office and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lost Eagles

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  • Author : Blaine Pardoe
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2011-02-16
  • ISBN : 0472027875
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Lost Eagles written by Blaine Pardoe and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Lost Eagles "The pilot and observer stories selected have not previously seen much exposure. Not only are they interesting, but I found myself relishing getting to the next chapter to find out what Frederick Zinn was doing during the next stage of his life." ---Alan Roesler, founding member, League of World War I Aviation Historians, and former Managing Editor, Over the Front Praise for Blaine Pardoe's previous military histories (which average 4.5-star customer reviews on Amazon.com): Terror of the Autumn Skies: The True Story of Frank Luke, America's Rogue Ace of World War I "This painstaking biography of World War I ace Frank Luke will earn Pardoe kudos . . . Pardoe has flown a very straight course in researching and recounting Luke's myth-ridden life. . . . Thorough annotation makes the book that much more valuable to WWI aviation scholars as well as for more casual air-combat buffs." ---Booklist The Cruise of the Sea Eagle: The Amazing True Story of Imperial Germany's Gentleman Pirate "This is a gem of a story, well told, and nicely laid out with photos, maps, and charts that cleverly illuminate the lost era of ‘gentlemen pirates' at sea . . . [German commerce raider Felix von Luckner's] legend lives on in this lively and readable biography." ---Admiral James Stavridis, U.S. Navy, Naval History Few people have ever heard of Frederick Zinn, yet even today airmen's families are touched by this man and the work he performed in both world wars. Zinn created the techniques still in use to determine the final fate of airmen missing in action. The last line of the Air Force Creed reads, "We will leave no airman behind." Zinn made that promise possible. Blaine Pardoe weaves together the complex story of a man who brought peace and closure to countless families who lost airmen during both world wars. His lasting contribution to warfare was a combination of his methodology for locating the remains of missing pilots (known as the Zinn system) and his innovation of imprinting all aircraft parts with the same serial number so that if a wreck was located, the crewman could be identified. The tradition he established for seeking and recovering airmen is carried on to this day. Blaine Pardoe is an accomplished author who has published dozens of military fiction novels and other books, including the widely acclaimed Cubicle Warfare: Self-Defense Tactics for Today's Hypercompetitive Workplace; Terror of the Autumn Skies: The True Story of Frank Luke, America's Rogue Ace of World War I; and The Cruise of the Sea Eagle: The Amazing True Story of Imperial Germany's Gentleman Pirate. Jacket photo: Frederick Zinn's Sopwith aircraft, which crashed during World War I. National Museum of the United States Air Force Archives.

Book The Eagle s History of Poughkeepsie

Download or read book The Eagle s History of Poughkeepsie written by Edmund Platt and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eagle s History of Poughkeepsie

Download or read book Eagle s History of Poughkeepsie written by Edmund Platt and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Natives and Newcomers

Download or read book Natives and Newcomers written by Clyde Griffen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important contribution to the literature on mobility in nineteenth-century America examines with a fine microscope the world of work in Poughkeepsie, New York. The careers of all workers in each occupation--the entire labor force in this city with an 1870 population of 20,000--are traced over three decades. The book clarifies for the first time in any mobility study the meaning of shifts in employment through detailed examination of individual occupations. It shows concretely how industrialization altered the structure of opportunity; it specifies how the change affected the occupational niches and paths of mobility found by Irish, German, and British newcomers compared to white and black natives. By reassessing the significance of achieving particular occupations such as clerking and craft proprietorships, the book poses important questions for historical interpretations of gross indices of mobility such as shift from blue-collar to white-collar status. The authors favor comparability in their general analysis of mobility from federal census rolls and city directories, but they refine it through a broad research base, including tax rolls, local newspapers, and voluntary association records. Their study is one of the first to make systematic use of the credit reports on every business in one city from the R. G. Dun & Co. manuscripts. It also provides the first full description of the employment of women, permitting comparison with the opportunities for men. Other distinctive aspects include treatment of the crucial dimension of wealth and income, close attention to shifts in occupations produced by transformations in technology, marketing, and finance, and some disentangling of the influence of religion and nationality upon achievement. The fine lens of this microscopic study has enabled Clyde Griffen and Sally Griffen to describe geographic, occupational, and property mobility in a small city with statistical precision, to illuminate the larger social processes which shaped that mobility, and, simultaneously, to vivify the working lives of anonymous American men and women.

Book Main Street to Mainframes

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  • Author : Harvey K. Flad
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2010-03-25
  • ISBN : 1438426364
  • Pages : 469 pages

Download or read book Main Street to Mainframes written by Harvey K. Flad and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Poughkeepsie’s transformation from small city to urban region.

Book EAGLE S HISTORY OF POUGHKEEPSIE

Download or read book EAGLE S HISTORY OF POUGHKEEPSIE written by EDMUND. PLATT and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens

Download or read book The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens written by Linda A. Chisholm and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Rich with photographs and descriptions of how landscape design has shaped and reflected culture over time.” —The American Gardener The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens explores the defining moments in garden design. Through profiles of 100 of the most influential gardens, Linda Chisholm explores how social, political, and economic influences shaped garden design principles. The book is organized chronologically and by theme, starting with the medieval garden Alhambra and ending with the modern naturalism of the Lurie Garden. Sumptuously illustrated, The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens is a comprehensive resource for garden designers and landscape architects, design students, and garden history enthusiasts.

Book Secretary s Report

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  • Author : Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1888
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1909
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book Secretary s Report written by Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1888 and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gazetteer of the State of New York

Download or read book Gazetteer of the State of New York written by John Homer French and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prophet with Honor

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  • Author : George B. Tatum
  • Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Prophet with Honor written by George B. Tatum and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 1989 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: