Download or read book The Sons of Guadalupe written by Michael Raúl Ornelas and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Guadalupe, California, a town of 2,500 residents in 1965 contributed 228 Vietnam era veterans during the 1960s and early 1970s, at a ratio 300% above the national average. Of these men, 148 were Chicanos, 34 were Anglo Americans, 34 were Filipino Americans and 12 were of Japanese descent. There were also 56 sets of brothers which included at least 116 of the men. Read of their life in small-town America before the war, their war experiences and how the war continues to influence their lives today. Read the transcripts of over 25 word-for-word interviews that cover topics like their Vietnam War experiences and their town when they were growing up and their difficult transitions to civilian life since, photos during their war experiences and the multi-cultural history of their town. Read of the history of the town, from the filming of the first Ten Commandments movie at the local dunes to the return by the veterans to the town to form the Central Coast Chapter of the Vietnam Veterans of America. Read of the war exploits of men like Ernie Serrano, recipient of 12 medals for valor and other stories of struggle and triumph."--Description from www.amazon.com
Download or read book The Columbia Gazetteer of the World A to G written by Saul Bernard Cohen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 4454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A geographical encyclopedia of world place names contains alphabetized entries with detailed statistics on location, name pronunciation, topography, history, and economic and cultural points of interest.
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Download or read book Wide Open Town written by Diane Mutti Burke and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kansas City is often seen as a mild-mannered metropolis in the heart of flyover country. But a closer look tells a different story, one with roots in the city’s complicated and colorful past. The decades between World Wars I and II were a time of intense political, social, and economic change—for Kansas City, as for the nation as a whole. In exploring this city at the literal and cultural crossroads of America, Wide-Open Town maps the myriad ways in which Kansas City reflected and helped shape the narrative of a nation undergoing an epochal transformation. During the interwar period, political boss Tom Pendergast reigned, and Kansas City was said to be “wide open.” Prohibition was rarely enforced, the mob was ascendant, and urban vice was rampant. But in a community divided by the hard lines of race and class, this “openness” also allowed many of the city’s residents to challenge conventional social boundaries—and it is this intersection and disruption of cultural norms that interests the authors of Wide-Open Town. Writing from a variety of disciplines and viewpoints, the contributors take up topics ranging from the 1928 Republican National Convention to organizing the garment industry, from the stockyards to health care, drag shows, Thomas Hart Benton, and, of course, jazz. Their essays bring to light the diverse histories of the city—among, for instance, Mexican immigrants, African Americans, the working class, and the LGBT community before the advent of “LGBT.” Wide-Open Town captures the defining moments of a society rocked by World War I, the mass migration of people of color into cities, the entrance of women into the labor force and politics, Prohibition, economic collapse, and a revolution in social mores. Revealing how these changes influenced Kansas City—and how the city responded—this volume helps us understand nothing less than how citizens of the age adapted to the rise of modern America.
Download or read book A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World written by Joseph Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 2906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book La Flor De Capomo written by Maria Victoria Murua and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demi is a beautiful, young , intelligent Yaqui Indian girl, living the carefree life of a teenager. She is blessed with wonderful parents, a wise and loving grandmother; and a supportive extended family. All of a sudden it seems, her carefree world begins to fall apart; first with her beloved’s cousin ingression into the community’s street gangs, then his violent death. His death signals the emergence of the family’s ghosts and past; revealing terrible acts of violence, revenge and horror – while at the same time demonstrating the valor, strength and unity of a family, a town, and a people. A brief history of the Town of Guadalupe, Arizona is included in this story as a necessary backdrop to Demi’s story. Guadalupe’s history, like La Flor de Capomo, is a history of courage, hope, faith, strength and hard-won unity, without which our Town would be history, and our people scattered to the winds.
