From Ponce de Leons discovery of the ;Land of Flowers in 1513 to the suspense of the 2000 presidential election, It Happened in Florida takes readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of thirty of the most compelling episodes from the Sunshine States vib...Daugiau...
Henry C. Whitney, Michael Burlingame, Michael Burlingame
Serija: The UIS Center for Lincoln Studies
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252047671)
Written by a longtime friend and ally, Lincoln the Citizen offers a rare character study and insightful biography of Lincoln before he became president. Michael Burlingame restores material cut by editors of the original 1907 publication to present H...Daugiau...
More than 40 essays dive into the geology, animals, plants, and architecture that shape SeattleFully illustrated by celebrated local artist Elizabeth PersonFun and fascinating sidebars explore regional vocabulary, scientific terms, and Indigenous lan...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501780400)
In When the City Stopped, Robert Snyder tells the story of COVID-19 in the words of ordinary New Yorkers, illuminating the fear and uncertainty of life in the early weeks and months, as well as the solidarity that sustained the city. New Yorkers were...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501780394)
In When the City Stopped, Robert Snyder tells the story of COVID-19 in the words of ordinary New Yorkers, illuminating the fear and uncertainty of life in the early weeks and months, as well as the solidarity that sustained the city. New Yorkers were...Daugiau...
Publishing to coincide with St Patricks Day, we arrive in Dublin with the next installment in the Literary Landscapes series. Take a photographic stroll around the bookshops, famous literary locations and authors watering holes of Dublins top tour...Daugiau...
Invisible Blackness explores the complex lives of Creoles of mixed race born in Louisiana to enslaved women and the white men who enslaved them. Individuals such as Alice Thomasson Grice forged their own identities-and often reinvented themselves-wit...Daugiau...
Invisible Blackness explores the complex lives of Creoles of mixed race born in Louisiana to enslaved women and the white men who enslaved them. Individuals such as Alice Thomasson Grice forged their own identities-and often reinvented themselves-wit...Daugiau...
In early 1968, more than 27,000 teachers across Florida mailed their resignation letters, initiating the countrys first statewide teachers strike. The striking teachers fought for and won a monumental victory, improving education in the state and g...Daugiau...
In early 1968, more than 27,000 teachers across Florida mailed their resignation letters, initiating the countrys first statewide teachers strike. The striking teachers fought for and won a monumental victory, improving education in the state and g...Daugiau...
Serija: PLAC: Political Lessons from American Cities
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Temple University Press,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781439925645)
Looking closely at New York Citys political development since the 1970s, three "e;political orders"e;-conservativism, neoliberalism, and egalitarianism-emerged. In Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City, Timothy Weaver argues tha...Daugiau...
"e;Threshold to Valley Forge adds an important, untold chapter to Pennsylvanias Revolutionary War history. Through extensive research, Vance illuminates how six days in Gulph Mills shaped the Continental Armys path to Valley Forge, while highli...Daugiau...
"e;Threshold to Valley Forge adds an important, untold chapter to Pennsylvanias Revolutionary War history. Through extensive research, Vance illuminates how six days in Gulph Mills shaped the Continental Armys path to Valley Forge, while highli...Daugiau...
Serija: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Feb-2025, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781496855640)
Best known for her award-winning book The Free State of Jones: Mississippis Longest Civil War, historian Victoria Bynum turns now to her own history in this multigenerational American saga spanning from 1840 to 1979. Through meticulous historical re...Daugiau...
Serija: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781496855626)
Best known for her award-winning book The Free State of Jones: Mississippis Longest Civil War, historian Victoria Bynum turns now to her own history in this multigenerational American saga spanning from 1840 to 1979. Through meticulous historical re...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: The History Press, ISBN-13: 9781803998596)
From its origins as a small Saxon hamlet, to the large sprawling city of the present day, Birmingham has quite the tale to tell - and within the pages of this handy and compact book is where you'll find it. Stories of how Birmingham developed...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469641164)
Founded in 1933 near Asheville, North Carolina, Black Mountain College fostered experimentation and interdisciplinary learning, placing the arts at the heart of its curriculum. As such, the college was home to and served as inspiration for many moder...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Feb-2025, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9798890855787)
Founded in 1933 near Asheville, North Carolina, Black Mountain College fostered experimentation and interdisciplinary learning, placing the arts at the heart of its curriculum. As such, the college was home to and served as inspiration for many moder...Daugiau...
For centuries, Whitechapel has been at the centre of multicultural Britain. It has offered sanctuary to successive waves of immigrants fleeing religious intolerance, pogroms and poverty: Huguenots from France, Irish, Jews from Eastern Europe and Bang...Daugiau...
Kent is the largest and most heavily populated of the home counties. It is a county of contrasts: in the north and west it borders London and its population there has moved to and from the metropolis for centuries, but it is also known for agricultur...Daugiau...
