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Book Mound City Chronicles

Download or read book Mound City Chronicles written by William Stage and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mound City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patricia Cleary
  • Publisher : University of Missouri Press
  • Release : 2024-06-07
  • ISBN : 0826274994
  • Pages : 463 pages

Download or read book Mound City written by Patricia Cleary and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly one thousand years ago, Native peoples built a satellite suburb of America's great metropolis on the site that later became St. Louis. At its height, as many as 30,000 people lived in and around present-day Cahokia, Illinois. While the mounds around Cahokia survive today (as part of a state historic site and UNESCO world heritage site), the monumental earthworks that stood on the western shore of the Mississippi were razed in the 1800s. But before and after they fell, the mounds held an important place in St. Louis history, earning it the nickname “Mound City.” For decades, the city had an Indigenous reputation. Tourists came to marvel at the mounds and to see tribal delegations in town for trade and diplomacy. As the city grew, St. Louisans repurposed the mounds—for a reservoir, a restaurant, and railroad landfill—in the process destroying cultural artifacts and sacred burial sites. Despite evidence to the contrary, some white Americans declared the mounds natural features, not built ones, and cheered their leveling. Others espoused far-fetched theories about a lost race of Mound Builders killed by the ancestors of contemporary tribes. Ignoring Indigenous people's connections to the mounds, white Americans positioned themselves as the legitimate inheritors of the land and asserted that modern Native peoples were destined to vanish. Such views underpinned coerced treaties and forced removals, and—when Indigenous peoples resisted—military action. The idea of the “Vanishing Indian” also fueled the erasure of Indigenous peoples’ histories, a practice that continued in the 1900s in civic celebrations that featured white St. Louisans “playing Indian” and heritage groups claiming the mounds as part of their own history. Yet Native peoples endured and in recent years, have successfully begun to reclaim the sole monumental mound remaining within city limits. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Patricia Cleary explores the layers of St. Louis’s Indigenous history. Along with the first in-depth overview of the life, death, and afterlife of the mounds, Mound City offers a gripping account of how Indigenous histories have shaped the city’s growth, landscape, and civic culture.

Book The CCC Chronicles

Download or read book The CCC Chronicles written by Alfred Emile Cornebise and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-04-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Franklin Delano Roosevelt founded the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933, newspapers relating to the organization were launched almost immediately. Happy Days, the semi-official newspaper of the CCC, and other such publications served as soundings boards for opinions among the CCC enrollees, encouraged and instructed the men as they assumed their new roles, and generally supported the aims of Roosevelt's New Deal program. Happy Days also encouraged and instructed editors in the production of camp newspapers--well over 5,000 were published by almost 3,000 of the CCC companies from 1933 to 1942. This book considers all phases of life in the CCC throughout its existence from various perspectives, and analyzes the history of CCC camp journalism. As the author points out, the CCC newspapers were and still are significant because they provide readers with a look at American life--socially, politically, culturally and militarily--during the Great Depression. It also focuses on how Happy Days and other newspapers were created and distributed, who wrote for them, and what they contained.

Book Chronicle of the Mound Builders

Download or read book Chronicle of the Mound Builders written by Elle Marie and published by Ellen Meyer. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologist Angela Hunter unearths an ancient codex from a Native American burial mound. But how could an illiterate society have produced the complex writing? Seven hundred years ago, a thriving civilization suddenly vanished. As Angela deciphers the mysterious codex symbols, she begins to unravel one of archaeology's greatest mysteries. Despite forces trying to stop her from learning the chronicle's secrets, Angela discovers the horrifying truth. Can she prevent the tragedies of the past from happening again today?

Book The Chronicle

Download or read book The Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Saddle and Show Horse Chronicle

Download or read book The Saddle and Show Horse Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Commercial   Financial Chronicle

Download or read book The Commercial Financial Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

Download or read book The Commercial and Financial Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cream City Chronicles

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  • Author : John Gurda
  • Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
  • Release : 2014-03-07
  • ISBN : 0870205234
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book Cream City Chronicles written by John Gurda and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cream City Chronicles is a collection of lively stories about the people, the events, the landmarks, and the institutions that have made Milwaukee a unique American community. These stories represent the best of historian John Gurda’s popular Sunday columns that have appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel since 1994. Find yourself transported back to another time, when the village of Milwaukee was home to fur trappers and traders. Follow the development of Milwaukee’s distinctive neighborhoods, its rise as a port city and industrial center, and its changing political climate. From singing mayors to summer festivals, from blueblood weddings to bloody labor disturbances, the collection offers a generous sampling of tales that express the true character of a hometown metropolis.

Book Fading Ads of St  Louis

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  • Author : Wm. Stage
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2013-09-24
  • ISBN : 1625847114
  • Pages : 183 pages

Download or read book Fading Ads of St Louis written by Wm. Stage and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the billboard, radio or television commercial, there was the painted ad. Today, these aging ads capture the imagination, harkening back to a bygone era. Vanishing paint on brick walls speaks to a time when commerce was much simpler and much more direct. Few cities in America have produced as many intriguing fading ads as St. Louis. Fewer still are home to such an expert on the subject as author Wm. Stage. For decades, Stage has studied and researched the lost art form of the painted ad, carefully tracking the history of this hands-on approach to advertising from its lustrous heyday to its disappearing present. Join Stage on a tour through St. Louis's fading ads hidden in plain sight.

Book Philatelic Chronicle and Michigan Philatelist

Download or read book Philatelic Chronicle and Michigan Philatelist written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commercial and Financial Chronicle

Download or read book Commercial and Financial Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lost City Chronicles

Download or read book The Lost City Chronicles written by Daniel Blackaby and published by Elevate Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The complete trilogy, including the new, never-before-released adventure, Return to a Lost City."

Book The World s Chronicle

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  • Author : Eleanor Atkinson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1908
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book The World s Chronicle written by Eleanor Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: