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The Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, dazzled with its
new rainbow-colored electric lights. It showcased an array of
wonders, like daredevils attempting to go over Niagara Falls in a
barrel, or the "Animal King" putting the smallest woman in the
world and also terrifying animals on display. But the
thrill-seeking spectators little suspected that an assassin walked
the fairgrounds, waiting for President William McKinley to arrive.
In Margaret Creighton's hands, the result is "a persuasive case
that the fair was a microcosm of some momentous facets of the
United States, good and bad, at the onset of the American Century"
(Howard Schneider, Wall Street Journal).
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Scotlandville
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Rachel L Emanuel Phd, Ruby Jean Simms Phd, Charles Vincent Phd; Foreword by Mayor-President Melvin Holden
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Overnight settlements, better known as 'Hell on Wheels, ' sprang up
as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They
brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also for
gamblers, land speculators, prostitutes, and thugs. Dick Kreck
tells their stories along with the heroic individuals who managed,
finally, to create permanent towns in the interior West
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Hudson River State Hospital
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Joseph Galante, Lynn Rightmyer, Hudson River State Hospital Nurses Alumni Association
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Coney Island is an iconic symbol of turn-of-the-century New York,
but many other amusement parks thrilled the residents of the five
boroughs. Strategically placed at the end of trolley lines,
railways, public beaches and waterways, these playgrounds for rich
and poor alike first appeared in 1767. From humble beginnings, they
developed into huge sites like Fort George, Manhattan's massive
amusement complex. Each park was influenced by the culture and
eclectic tastes of its owners and patrons--from the wooden coasters
at Staten Island's Midland Beach to beer gardens on Queens' North
Beach and fireworks blasting from the Bronx's Starlight Park.
However, as real estate became more valuable, these parks
disappeared. Rediscover the thrills of the past from the lost
amusement parks of New York City.
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World War II Rhode Island
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Christian McBurney, Brian L Wallin, Patrick T. Conley, John W. Kennedy, Maureen A. Taylor
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As one of the nation's oldest cities, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has
a tumultuous history filled with Revolutionary War beginnings,
religious persecution and centuries of debate among Ivy League
intelligentsia. It should come as no surprise that the city is also
home to spirits that are entangled with the past and now inhabit
the dormitories, local watering holes and even military structures
of the present. Discover the apparitions that frighten freshmen in
Harvard's Weld Hall, the Revolutionary War ghosts that haunt the
estates of Tory Row and the flapper who is said to roam the seats
of Somerville Theatre. Using careful research and firsthand
accounts, author Sam Baltrusis delves into ghastly tales of murder,
crime and the bizarre happenings in the early days of Cambridge to
uncover the truth behind some of the city's most historic haunts.
Roanoke, Virginia, is one of America's great historic railroad
centers. The Norfolk & Western Railway Company, now the Norfolk
Southern Corporation, has been in Roanoke for over a century. Since
the company has employed many of the city's African Americans, the
two histories are intertwined. The lives of Roanoke's black
railroad workers span the generations from Jim Crow segregation to
the civil rights era to today's diverse corporate workforce. Older
generations toiled through labor-intensive jobs such as janitors
and track laborers, paving the way for younger African Americans to
become engineers, conductors and executives. Join author Sheree
Scarborough as she interviews Roanoke's African American railroad
workers and chronicles stories that are a powerful testament of
personal adversity, struggle and triumph on the rail.
Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Bolivia's
contentious twentieth-century history. Bolivia's oil, Cote argues,
instigated the largest war in Latin America in the 1900s, provoked
the first nationalization of a major foreign company by a Latin
American state, and shaped both the course and the consequences of
Bolivia's transformative National Revolution of 1952. Oil and
natural gas continue to steer the country under the government of
Evo Morales, who renationalized hydrocarbons in 2006 and has used
revenues from the sector to reduce poverty and increase
infrastructure development in South America's poorest country. The
book advances chronologically from Bolivia's earliest petroleum
pioneers in the nineteenth century until the present, inserting oil
into historical debates about Bolivian ethnic, racial, and
environmental issues, and within development strategies by
different administrations. While Bolivia is best known for its tin
mining, Oil and Nation makes the case that nationalist reformers
viewed hydrocarbons and the state oil company as a way to modernize
the country away from the tin monoculture and its powerful backers
and toward an oil-powered future.
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Lawrence
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Virgil W. Dean
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Polemics, Literature, and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Mexico is
the first study to comprehensively analyse the configuration of the
idea of the Republic of Letters in an eighteenth-century Latin
American country. Taking a multisided approach to Mexican culture
of the era, this book's analysis of literary texts engages with an
exploration of such concepts as the Republic of Letters and the
archive, as well as their connections to transatlantic polemics on
knowledge production in the New World and debates on philosophical
systems of learning. It furthermore draws upon the history of
science in Mexico in order to trace the development of scientific
thought and its influence on culture, religion, and fiction. This
study proposes that eighteenth-century Mexican writers sought to
establish a place within a global scholarly community for their
local literary republic through the formation of scholarly
networks, the historical exploration of the past and present, and
the creation of new epistemological approaches to literary
production inspired by Enlightenment ideas. This book invites those
devoted to the study of eighteenth-century cultures to engage in an
examination of a lesser-explored scholarly territory and its
networks, and to think about how it was heterogeneously constructed
by many-sided polemics and debates which manifested in a broad
range of literary works.
Discover the remarkable history of Dupont Circle in Washington,
D.C.
As the saying goes, "dead men tell no tales." Or do they? From its
humble beginnings as a Spanish settlement in 1691 to the bloody
battle at the Alamo, San Antonio's history is rich in haunting
tales. Discover Old San Antonio's most haunted places and uncover
the history that lies waiting for those who dare to enter their
doorways. Take a peek inside the Menger Hotel, the "Most Haunted
Hotel in Texas," and just a block away, peer into the Emily Morgan
Hotel, one of the city's first hospitals and where many men and
women lost their lives. Explore the San Fernando Cathedral, where
people are buried within the walls and visitors claim to see faces
mysteriously appear. Uncover the legends behind Bexar County Jail.
Join authors James and Lauren Swartz and decide for yourself what
truly lurks behind the Alamo City's fabled past.
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