Spartanburg County gave generously and selflessly to World War II. Local men and women participated in almost every significant engagement, in almost every imaginable capacity, and in every branch of service. Distinguishing themselves with bravery, dignity, and loyalty, county veterans received every commendation, including the Medal of Honor. At Pearl Harbor, Carpenter's Mate Wayne Alman Lewis and Seaman Vernon Russell White died on the USS Arizona and Fire Controlman First Class Hubert Paul Clement died on the USS Oklahoma. Such sacrifices continued from December 7, 1941, through 1945. At home, window banners displayed blue stars for each person who served in the military. Many of the stories of these heroes from Spartanburg County have never before been told.

From the first woman Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Bertha von Suttner (1905), to the latest and youngest female Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai (2014), this book in its second edition provides a detailed look at the lives and accomplishments of each of these 16 Prize winners. They did not expect recognition or fame for their work - economist Emily Greene Balch (1946) was surprised to learn that anybody knew about her. But they did not work in isolation: all met with discouragement, derision, threats or - in Yousafazi's case - attempted murder and exile. A history of the Prize and a biographical sketch of Alfred Nobel are included.

North Carolina did more than its part during World War II, training troops than any other state. Can one still find the military posts and shipyards, the cemeteries and memorials, the convalescent units and R&R facilities today? This volume describes in detail the state's 20-plus military sites and remembers eight little-known North Carolina Prisoner of war camps. Images and memories tell the story of service personnel and their families who contributed to the war effort at much personal sacrifice, and how those Carolinians who remained behind did their part through rationing, Victory Gardens and War Bonds.

This book is the only record of federally-funded art projects in Virginia during the Great Depression. It provides an historical overview of each city or town that is home to the artwork, information on federal structures housing the artwork, a photograph and description of the artwork itself, and a biographical sketch of the artist. More than 180 photographs are featured in this title.

As the people and economy of the United States struggled to recover following the Great Depression, 42 towns in North Carolina would benefit directly from the more than $83 million that the federal government would allocate for public art as part of the New Deal program. Art projects funded by the New Deal extended across the state - from the mountains to the sea - and resulted in some of the state's most memorable public art pieces, including murals, sculptures, reliefs, paintings, oils, and frescoes, most of which were installed in post offices and courthouses.This volume provides the only one-volume record of all of the North Carolina towns and structures which received federal artwork under the program, as well as in-depth accounts of the works themselves and the artists who created them. The book includes photographs of all of the buildings that originally received the art, the works themselves, and almost all of the 41 artists, along with an appendix providing a detailed description of the federal aid programs and their purposes, detailed footnotes, and an extensive bibliography.

During the Great Depression, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Tugwell and his former Columbia student Roy Emerson Stryker spearheaded an effort to create a photographic portrait of the nation's people and places. The result was a federal commission given to a number of photographers who traveled throughout the country to record the pride and perseverance, strengths and weaknesses of the people. Resulting in more than 2,500 photographs in Georgia alone, this project created a visual record of an influential period of American history. This pictorial album relies on the little-known pictures from this federal commission along with picture postcards, personal pictures and memorabilia, written records, and interviews to record and reconstruct a tale of the state's resources, people, education, health, housing, labor and entertainment.The effects of President Roosevelt's New Deal programs are also emphasized. An appendix provides sketches of ten federally commissioned photographers who worked in Georgia, including Carl Mydans, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Jack Delano and Esther Bubley.

Through interviews with survivors of the Depression, the use of photographs taken by Federally supported photographers (many reproduced here) and research into the history of the period, the work provides an accurate and even uplifting portrait of the people of the Mountains, Piedmont and Coastal areas of North Carolina in the 1930s.

The chapters include examinations of the industries and natural resources of North Carolina during the Depression, as well as information on the education, health, population, labor, governorships, housing and entertainment of the time. The effects of the New Deal Programs and other important historic events are discussed.

As the United States struggled to recover from the Great Depression, 24 towns in Alabama would directly benefit from some of the $83 million allocated by the Federal Government for public art works under the New Deal. In the words of Harold Lloyd Hopkins, administrator of the Federal Emergency Relief Act, “artists had to eat, too,” and these funds aided people who needed employment during this difficult period in American history. This book examines so of the New Deal art-murals, reliefs, sculpture, frescoes and paintings-of Alabama and offers biographical sketches of the artists who created them. An appendix describes federal art programs and projects of the period (1933-1943).

Atlanta writer Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) wrote Gone With the Wind (1939), one of the best-selling novels of all time. The Pulitzer Prize Winning novel was the basis of the 1949 film, the first movie to win more than five Academy Awards. Margaret Mitchell did not write another novel after Gone With the Wind. Supporting the troops during World War II, assisting African-American students financially, serving in the American Red Cross, selling stamps and bonds, and helping others--usually anonymously--consumed her. This book reveals little-known facts about her. The Margaret Mitchell Encyclopedia documents her work and her life--her effect on Atlanta and the city's memorials to her, her residences, details of her death, and information about her family, the establishment of The Margaret Mitchell House against great odds, and her relationship with the Daughters of the Confederacy and the Junior League. It includes little-known photographs of Margaret Mitchell from about 1902 to 1949.