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Book The Cedar County Historical Review

Download or read book The Cedar County Historical Review written by Cedar County Historical Society (Cedar County, Iowa) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cedar County Historical Review

Download or read book The Cedar County Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cedar County Historical Review Index

Download or read book Cedar County Historical Review Index written by Jean Wareham Owens and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cedar County  Iowa Marriages

Download or read book Cedar County Iowa Marriages written by Jean Wareham Owens and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Marriage Records  1839 1860  from Cedar County  Iowa

Download or read book Marriage Records 1839 1860 from Cedar County Iowa written by Cedar County (Iowa). Clerk's Office and published by . This book was released on with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lost Black Hawk County

Download or read book Lost Black Hawk County written by Linda McCann and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the lost communities of Black Hawk County, Iowa.

Book Cedar County Cemetery Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cedar County Historical Society (Stockton, Missouri)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 597 pages

Download or read book Cedar County Cemetery Book written by Cedar County Historical Society (Stockton, Missouri) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sheboygan County Historical Review

Download or read book Sheboygan County Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mississippi Valley Historical Review

Download or read book The Mississippi Valley Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1958-06 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hoover

Download or read book Hoover written by Kenneth Whyte and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exemplary biography—exhaustively researched, fair-minded and easy to read. It can nestle on the same shelf as David McCullough’s Truman, a high compliment indeed." —The Wall Street Journal The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century—a wholly original account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man, his presidency, his battle against the Great Depression, and their own history. An impoverished orphan who built a fortune. A great humanitarian. A president elected in a landslide and then resoundingly defeated four years later. Arguably the father of both New Deal liberalism and modern conservatism, Herbert Hoover lived one of the most extraordinary American lives of the twentieth century. Yet however astonishing, his accomplishments are often eclipsed by the perception that Hoover was inept and heartless in the face of the Great Depression. Now, Kenneth Whyte vividly recreates Hoover’s rich and dramatic life in all its complex glory. He follows Hoover through his Iowa boyhood, his cutthroat business career, his brilliant rescue of millions of lives during World War I and the 1927 Mississippi floods, his misconstrued presidency, his defeat at the hands of a ruthless Franklin Roosevelt, his devastating years in the political wilderness, his return to grace as Truman's emissary to help European refugees after World War II, and his final vindication in the days of Kennedy's "New Frontier." Ultimately, Whyte brings to light Hoover’s complexities and contradictions—his modesty and ambition, his ruthlessness and extreme generosity—as well as his profound political legacy. Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times is the epic, poignant story of the deprived boy who, through force of will, made himself the most accomplished figure in the land, and who experienced a range of achievements and failures unmatched by any American of his, or perhaps any, era. Here, for the first time, is the definitive biography that fully captures the colossal scale of Hoover’s momentous life and volatile times.

Book Looking Back

Download or read book Looking Back written by West Branch times (West Branch, Iowa : 1889) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pennsylvania Barn

Download or read book The Pennsylvania Barn written by Robert F. Ensminger and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-04-28 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his widely acclaimed The Pennsylvania Barn, Robert Ensminger provided the first comprehensive study of an important piece of American vernacular architecture—the forebay bank barn, better known as the Pennsylvania barn or the Pennsylvania German barn. Now, in this revised edition, Ensminger has continued his diligent fieldwork and archival research into the origins, evolution, and distribution in North America of this significant agricultural structure. Including an entire chapter of new material, 85 new illustrations, and updates to previous chapters, this edition of Ensminger's classic work will appeal to students and scholars in cultural and historical geography, folklore and vernacular architectural history, and American studies, as well as to general readers.

Book The Roots of Rough Justice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael J. Pfeifer
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2011-04-01
  • ISBN : 0252093097
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book The Roots of Rough Justice written by Michael J. Pfeifer and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this deeply researched prequel to his 2006 study Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874–1947, Michael J. Pfeifer analyzes the foundations of lynching in American social history. Scrutinizing the vigilante movements and lynching violence that occurred in the middle decades of the nineteenth century on the Southern, Midwestern, and far Western frontiers, The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching offers new insights into collective violence in the pre-Civil War era. Pfeifer examines the antecedents of American lynching in an early modern Anglo-European folk and legal heritage. He addresses the transformation of ideas and practices of social ordering, law, and collective violence in the American colonies, the early American Republic, and especially the decades before and immediately after the American Civil War. His trenchant and concise analysis anchors the first book to consider the crucial emergence of the practice of lynching of slaves in antebellum America. Pfeifer also leads the way in analyzing the history of American lynching in a global context, from the early modern British Atlantic to the legal status of collective violence in contemporary Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. Seamlessly melding source material with apt historical examples, The Roots of Rough Justice tackles the emergence of not only the rhetoric surrounding lynching, but its practice and ideology. Arguing that the origins of lynching cannot be restricted to any particular region, Pfeifer shows how the national and transatlantic context is essential for understanding how whites used mob violence to enforce the racial and class hierarchies across the United States.

Book A Centennial History of the State Historical Society of Missouri  1898 1998

Download or read book A Centennial History of the State Historical Society of Missouri 1898 1998 written by Alan R. Havig and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Havig addresses such key topics as the growth of the society's collections; the reference library; the Western Historical Manuscript Collection; and an extensive assortment of visual art, including a famed collection of works by Thomas Hart Benton and George Caleb Bingham. Havig also examines the society's collaboration with the University of Missouri in obtaining physical space for its operations; its work with local groups in promoting special events such as Missouri's centennial in 1920-1921; the society's outstanding publications program; its role in the placement of historic markers along Missouri highways; its sponsorship of History Day; and numerous other endeavors made by the society to preserve and disseminate Missouri's rich heritage to the state's citizens. A Centennial History of the State Historical Society of Missouri, 1898-1998 will be of special value to professionals working in Missouri history and in the field of state and local history.

Book Busy in the Cause

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lowell J. Soike
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2014-06-01
  • ISBN : 0803273843
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book Busy in the Cause written by Lowell J. Soike and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the immense body of literature about the American Civil War and its causes, the nation’s western involvement in the approaching conflict often gets short shrift. Slavery was the catalyst for fiery rhetoric on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and fiery conflicts on the western edges of the nation. Driven by questions regarding the place of slavery in westward expansion and by the increasing influence of evangelical Protestant faiths that viewed the institution as inherently sinful, political debates about slavery took on a radicalized, uncompromising fervor in states and territories west of the Mississippi River. Busy in the Cause explores the role of the Midwest in shaping national politics concerning slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War. In 1856 Iowa aided parties of abolitionists desperate to reach Kansas Territory to vote against the expansion of slavery, and evangelical Iowans assisted runaway slaves through Underground Railroad routes in Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. Lowell J. Soike’s detailed and entertaining narrative illuminates Iowa’s role in the stirring western events that formed the prelude to the Civil War.

Book Missouri Historical Review

Download or read book Missouri Historical Review written by Francis Asbury Sampson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: