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Book The American Catholic Historical Researches

Download or read book The American Catholic Historical Researches written by Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jews in Early Mississippi

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leo Turitz
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN : 9780878051786
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book Jews in Early Mississippi written by Leo Turitz and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1983 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were the Jews who came to Mississippi in the early years of statehood? Why did they come? What endowment did they leave as they contributed to the enrichment of Mississippi life? Answers to these and many other questions are given in this collection of vintage photographs and commentaries compiled and written by Rabbi and Mrs. Turitz. Their collection of more than 400 photographs depicting the history of Mississippi Jewry between the 1840s and 1900 is organized geographically, beginning in southwest Mississippi. Here Jewish influence was perhaps strongest in early times. From these communities Jews followed trade routes upriver through Natchez, Vicksburg, and the Delta, and throughout the state. These Jews left a heritage of major business concerns, including nationally known hotels and department stores. Their interest in religion, education, and the arts enriched towns and communities with schools, temples, and opera houses. In the Turitzes' account of Mississippi Jewry there are individual stories about remarkable Jewish families. The lasting influence of these men and women remains indelibly in the towns where they lived and worked.

Book The Papers of Jefferson Davis

Download or read book The Papers of Jefferson Davis written by Jefferson Davis and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1975-02-01 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five-year period from 1841 to 1846 saw the beginning of Jefferson Davis’ political career. In this, the second volume of The Papers of Jefferson Davis, the documents cover Davis’ unsuccessful race for the state legislature, his selection as a Democratic state elector, his marriage to Varina Howell, his election to the U.S. House of Representatives, and his departure therefrom to assume command of the First Mississippi Regiment in the Mexican War. In the congressional documents Davis emerges as a hardworking freshman representative who quickly won for himself the respect and esteem of his fellow congressmen. There were, however, notable exceptions. One such exception was Andrew Johnson, a tailor by trade, who strongly resented Davis’ remark on the floor of the House that a “blacksmith or tailor” could not be expected to achieve the same results in battle as a trained military man. In the somewhat bitter exchange that followed, some have professed to see the beginnings of the long-standing animosity between Johnson and Davis. The 255 documents in this volume (two appendixes contain undated and late-arriving items) provide a clear picture of Jefferson Davis, the man and the politician, and give an intimate view of Mississippi in the 1840s. Throughout the volume are rumblings of the then distant storm that was to break so disastrously over the nation in the 1860s.

Book The Devil s Punchbowl

    Book Details:
  • Author : Greg Iles
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2011-12-06
  • ISBN : 1451668708
  • Pages : 594 pages

Download or read book The Devil s Punchbowl written by Greg Iles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawyer Penn Cage goes up against a mix of murder, racial tension, double-crosses, illicit sex ... and all of the ensuing violent consequences in the kudzu-strangled, snake- rat- and armadillo-infested hole of the Devil's Punchbowl.

Book Engendering African American Archaeology

Download or read book Engendering African American Archaeology written by Jillian E. Galle and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first multiauthor collection to focus on archaeology and the construction of gender in an African American context.

Book Waldie s Select Circulating Library

Download or read book Waldie s Select Circulating Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Genealogical Helper

Download or read book The Genealogical Helper written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-07 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Allen County Lines

Download or read book Allen County Lines written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Recollections of the Last Ten Years in the Valley of the Mississippi

Download or read book Recollections of the Last Ten Years in the Valley of the Mississippi written by Timothy Flint and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Frank Leslie s Illustrated Newspaper

Download or read book Frank Leslie s Illustrated Newspaper written by John Albert Sleicher and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pearl s Secret

Download or read book Pearl s Secret written by Neil Henry and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearl's Secret is a remarkable autobiography and family story that combines elements of history, investigative reporting, and personal narrative in a riveting, true-to-life mystery. In it, Neil Henry—a black professor of journalism and former award-winning correspondent for the Washington Post—sets out to piece together the murky details of his family's past. His search for the white branch of his family becomes a deeply personal odyssey, one in which Henry deploys all of his journalistic skills to uncover the paper trail that leads to blood relations who have lived for more than a century on the opposite side of the color line. At the same time Henry gives a powerful and vivid account of his black family's rise to success over the twentieth century. Throughout the course of this gripping story the author reflects on the part that racism and racial ignorance have played in his daily life—from his boyhood in largely white Seattle to his current role as a parent and educator in California. The contemporary debate over the significance of Thomas Jefferson's longtime romantic relationship with his slave, Sally Hemings, and recent DNA evidence that points to his role as the father of black descendants, have revealed the importance and volatility of the issue of dual-race legacies in American society. As Henry uncovers the dramatic history of his great-great-grandfather—a white English immigrant who fought as a Confederate officer in the Civil War, found success during Reconstruction as a Louisiana plantation owner, and enjoyed a long love affair with Henry's great-great-grandmother, a freed black slave—he grapples with an unsettling ambivalence about what he is trying to do. His straightforward, honest voice conveys both the pain and the exhilaration that his revelations bring him about himself, his family, and our society. In the book's stunning climax, the author finally meets his white kin, hears their own remarkable story of survival in America, and discovers a great deal about both the sting of racial prejudice as it is woven into the fabric of the nation, and his own proud identity as a teacher, father, and black American.

Book Journal of Human Relations

Download or read book Journal of Human Relations written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Jewish Encyclopedia  Leon Moravia

Download or read book The Jewish Encyclopedia Leon Moravia written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Jewish Encyclopedia

Download or read book The Jewish Encyclopedia written by Cyrus Adler and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Waldie s Select Circulating Library

Download or read book Waldie s Select Circulating Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: