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  • Evansville

    by Darrel Bigham ...
    Series series Images of America
    From our contemporary vantage point, we should take the time to look back to how people in American communities lived at the beginning of the 20th century. The focus of this work is Evansville - in the early 1900s, the only emerging metropolis between Louisville and St. Louis, and then the radial center of a hinterland stretching in all directions for at least 100 miles. Evansville illustrates how ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Harmony, Indiana

    by Connie A. Weinzapfel, Darrel E. Bigham, Susan R. Branigin ...
    Series series Images of America
    New Harmony is a town like no other. A community thatbegan almost two hundred years ahead of its time, New Harmony was a spiritual sanctuary that later became a haven for international scientists, scholars, and educators who sought equality in communal living. It was impossible for George Rappto realize the events he would set into motion when he purchased 20,000 acres of land on the Wabash River ... Read more

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  • Evansville

    The World War II Years

    by Darrel E. Bigham ...
    Series series Images of America
    World War II changed the face of Evansville, Indiana. In December 1941, the city was still recovering from the Great Depression, yet within three months, a series of blockbusterannouncements transformed the region. Several corporations received major defense contracts to manufacture parts and ammunitions, while two new installations were launched: a shipyard to construct Landing Ship Tanks and a ... Read more

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  • On Jordan's Banks

    Emancipation and Its Aftermath in the Ohio River Valley

    by Darrel E. Bigham ...
    Series series Ohio River Valley Series
    The story of the Ohio River and its settlements are an integral part of American history, particularly during the country's westward expansion. The vibrant African American communities along the Ohio's banks, however, have rarely been studied in depth. Blacks have lived in the Ohio River Valley since the late eighteenth century, and since the river divided the free labor North and the slave labor ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Towns and Villages of the Lower Ohio

    by Darrel E. Bigham ...
    Series series Ohio River Valley Series
    America. Enterprise. Metropolis. Cairo. Rome. These are a few of the grandly named villages and towns along the lower Ohio River. The optimism with which early settlers named these towns reveals much about the history of American expansion. Though none became the next great American city, it was not for lack of ambition or entrepreneurial spirit. Why didn't a major city develop on the lower Ohio? ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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    America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-18

    by Eric Foner ...
    From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed.Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • My Face Is Black Is True

    Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations

    by Mary Frances Berry ...
    Acclaimed historian Mary Frances Berry resurrects the remarkable story of ex-slave Callie House who, seventy years before the civil-rights movement, demanded reparations for ex-slaves. A widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five, House (1861-1928) went on to fight for African American pensions based on those offered to Union soldiers, brilliantly targeting $68 million in taxes on seized ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Wars of Reconstruction

    The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era

    by Douglas R. Egerton ...
    A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality-in the face of murderous violence-in the years after the Civil War.By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Moonshiners and Prohibitionists

    The Battle over Alcohol in Southern Appalachia

    by Bruce E. Stewart ...
    Series series New Directions in Southern History
    A "masterly study" of how the business of homemade liquor shaped the history and culture of a region ( Journal of American History).Homemade liquor has played a prominent role in the Appalachian economy for nearly two centuries. The region endured profound transformations during the extreme prohibition movements of the nineteenth century, when the manufacturing and sale of alcohol—an integral part ... Read more

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  • North Carolina: A History

    by William Powell ...
    Described by an early visitor as "the Goodliest Soile Under the Cope of Heaven," the land that would become North Carolina presented its first settlers with the promise of prosperity, wealth, and--with luck--liberty, too.Since North Carolina's beginnings, in the age of Queen Elizabeth I, the people who came here and stayed found that, while life may not always have been easy, between two richer ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • A New History of Kentucky

    by James C. Klotter, Craig Thompson Friend ...
    When originally published, A New History of Kentucky provided a comprehensive study of the Commonwealth, bringing it to life by revealing the many faces, deep traditions, and historical milestones of the state. With new discoveries and findings, the narrative continues to evolve, and so does the telling of Kentucky's rich history. In this second edition, authors James C. Klotter and Craig Thompson ... Read more

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  • Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865

    by Mark W. Geiger ...

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