Download or read book Oral History Interview with George W McDaniel written by George W. McDaniel and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interview with George McDaniel, a draftsman and a Marine Corps veteran, concerning his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. McDaniel worked at camps in Duncan, Arizona (Company 2850).
Download or read book Oral History Interview written by George W. Coleman and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victory in Defeat written by Gregory Urwin and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told here for the first time in vivid detail is the story of the defenders of Wake Island following their surrender to the Japanese on December 23, 1941. The highly regarded military historian Gregory Urwin spent decades researching what happened and now offers a revealing look at the U.S. Marines, sailors, soldiers, and civilian volunteers in captivity. In addition to exhaustive archival research, he interviewed dozens of POWs and even some of their Japanese captors. He also had access to diaries secretly kept by the prisoners. This information has allowed Urwin to provide a nuanced look at the Japanese guards and how the Americans survived three-and-a-half years in captivity and emerged with a much lower death rate than most other Allies captured in the Pacific. In part, Urwin says, the answer lies in the Wake Islanders’ establishment of life-saving communities that kept their dignity intact. Their mutual-help networks encouraged those who faltered under the physical and psychological torture, including what is today called water boarding. The book notes that the Japanese camp official responsible for that war crime was sentenced to life imprisonment by an American military tribunal. Most spent the war at a camp just outside Shanghai, one of the few places where Japanese authorities permitted the Red Cross to aid prisoners of war. The author also calls attention to the generosity of civilians in Shanghai, including Swiss diplomats and the American and British residents of the fabled International Settlement, who provided food and clothing to the prisoners. In addition, some of the guards proved to be less vicious than those stationed at other POW camps and occasionally went out of their way to aid the men. As the first historical work to fully explore the captivity of Wake Island’s defenders, the book offers information not found in other World War II historie
Download or read book Oral History Interview with Major George E Watkins written by George E. Watkins and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oral History Interviews written by George William Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George W. Andrews was a page in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1961-1964. He is the son of Representatives George and Elizabeth Andrews of Alabama.
Download or read book A Directory of Oral History Interviews Related to the Federal Courts written by United States. Federal Judicial History Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work was produced in furtherance of the Center's statutory mandate to conduct, coordinate, and encourage programs relating to the history of the judicial branch ...
Download or read book Hollybush written by Charles E. Martin and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1993-08-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Appalachian community of Hollybush, first settled in 1881, grew to a population of some 150 people on thirty farm sites. Charles Martin shows that its abandonment in 1960 resulted from technological change, which brought social upheaval manifested in the region's now-vanished architecture." "Martin's analysis makes innovative use of the techniques of oral history and material culture. The essential data incorporated within the building survey document the physical displacement that occurred in the community as it attempted to switch from an agrarian to an industrial system. The author assesses the resulting social conflict, showing how coal provided the catalyst for change to which residents so profoundly reacted. In the experience of Hollybush the author discovers a paradigm of the social changes wrought by industrialism elsewhere in America."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Hearth Home Preserving a People s Culture written by George W. McDaniel and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oral History Interview with George L McColm written by George L. McColm and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interview with George McColm, a Navy veteran and an agricultural expert, concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. McColm discusses his education at Kansas State College, his experiences in agricultural marketing research, his employment with the Production Marketing Administration of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, his employment at Topaz Relocation Center for Japanese Americans (1942-1944), his induction into the U.S. Navy (1944), his role in planning for the invasion of the Japanese home islands (1945), and his role in writing Japanese land reform laws during postwar American occupation. Appendix includes photocopies of various biographical documents concerning George McComb and his career in the U.S. Navy and in agriculture.
Download or read book Oral History Index written by Meckler Publishing and published by Westport : Meckler. This book was released on 1990 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oral History Program written by University of North Texas. Oral History Collection and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primarily a catalog of transcripts of recorded interviews in the Oral History Collection and the Business Archives which are available for research in the University Archives. Includes also a brief description of the Oral History Program.
Download or read book George W Carroll written by Terry Lee Rioux and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern capitalist and dedicated Beaumont Baptist
Download or read book Drayton Hall Stories written by George McDaniel and published by . This book was released on 2022-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new portrayal of this 18th-century icon among America's historic sites, Drayton Hall Stories: A Place and Its People is the first book in the nation to focus on a site's recent history using interviews with descendants (both White and Black), board members, staff, donors, architects, historians, preservationists, tourism leaders, and more. Like different pieces of a mosaic, each interview combines with others to create an engaging picture of this one place, revealing never-before-shared family moments, major decisions in preservation and site stewardship, and pioneering efforts to transform a Southern plantation into a site for racial conciliation. Readers will come to see Drayton Hall's people not as stereotypes, but as the real people they were-and are. Maps, photographs, lines of descent, interview questions, a how-to guide, and related website, all provide blueprints for readers who wish to undertake similar endeavors to build community in today's world.
Download or read book The President s Book of Secrets written by David Priess and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every president has had a unique and complicated relationship with the intelligence community. While some have been coolly distant, even adversarial, others have found their intelligence agencies to be among the most valuable instruments of policy and power. Since John F. Kennedy's presidency, this relationship has been distilled into a personalized daily report: a short summary of what the intelligence apparatus considers the most crucial information for the president to know that day about global threats and opportunities. This top-secret document is known as the President's Daily Brief, or, within national security circles, simply "the Book." Presidents have spent anywhere from a few moments (Richard Nixon) to a healthy part of their day (George W. Bush) consumed by its contents; some (Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush) consider it far and away the most important document they saw on a regular basis while commander in chief. The details of most PDBs are highly classified, and will remain so for many years. But the process by which the intelligence community develops and presents the Book is a fascinating look into the operation of power at the highest levels. David Priess, a former intelligence officer and daily briefer, has interviewed every living president and vice president as well as more than one hundred others intimately involved with the production and delivery of the president's book of secrets. He offers an unprecedented window into the decision making of every president from Kennedy to Obama, with many character-rich stories revealed here for the first time.
Download or read book Historical Archaeology written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oral History Interview with William C Friday December 3 1990 written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William C. Friday served as the president of the University of North Carolina system for nearly three decades, from 1957 to 1986. This interview is part of a longer, multi-part interview conducted with Friday in 1990. Here, Friday focuses primarily on his interactions with United States presidents from Herbert Hoover to George H.W. Bush. Friday begins by describing his first meeting with a United States president, Herbert Hoover, when he attended the dedication of a battlefield during his childhood. He goes on to describe how the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was particularly influential and prompted him to become a lifelong Democrat. Friday had somewhat limited interaction with presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. The bulk of the interview, however, is devoted to a discussion of his work with the federal government from the 1960s into the 1980s. In his capacity as the president of the University of North Carolina System, Friday developed ties with the Kennedy administration. He assumed an increasingly prominent role under the administration of Lyndon Johnson, during which time he helped to form the White House Fellows Commission and the White House Task Force on Education. Friday continued his work on similar task forces and commissions under Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter. Additionally, Friday offers his thoughts on how educational issues were dealt with under Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Finally, Friday briefly outlines his work with such organizations as the Southern Regional Education Board and the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, as well as his interactions with the Office for Civil Rights, primarily during the 1970s.
Download or read book The History Teacher written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
