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  • Thunder In the Mountains

    The West Virginia Mine War, 1920–21

    by Lon Savage ...
    Series series Regional
    The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, involved thousands of union and nonunion miners, state and private police, militia, and federal troops. Before it was over, three West Virginia counties were in open rebellion, much of the state was under military rule, and bombers of the U.S. Army Air ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Never Justice, Never Peace

    Mother Jones and the Miner Rebellion at Paint and Cabin Creeks

    by Ginny Savage Ayers, Lon Kelly Savage ...
    Series series WEST VIRGINIA & APPALACHIA
    In 1986 Lon Savage published Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920–21, a popular history now considered a classic. Among those the book influenced are Denise Giardina, author of Storming Heaven, and John Sayles, writer and director of Matewan. When Savage passed away, he left behind an incomplete book manuscript about a lesser-known Mother Jones crusade in Kanawha County, West ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

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    The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

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    A Pulitzer Prize–winning, searing account of the 1898 white supremacist riot and coup in Wilmington, North Carolina.By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolina's largest city and a shining example of a mixed-race community. It was a bustling port city with a burgeoning African American middle class and a Fusionist government of Republicans and Populists that included black aldermen, police ... Read more

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  • Miracles and Massacres

    True and Untold Stories of the Making of America

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    Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset presents history as it's supposed to be told: true and thrilling.History is about so much more than memorizing facts. It is, as more than half of the word suggests, about the story. And, told in the right way, it is the greatest one ever written: Good and evil, triumph and tragedy, despicable acts of barbarism and courageous acts ... Read more

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  • Meet You in Hell

    Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America

    by Les Standiford ...
    Two founding fathers of American industry. One desire to dominate business at any price.“Masterful . . . Standiford has a way of making the 1890s resonate with a twenty-first-century audience.”—USA Today“The narrative is as absorbing as that of any good novel—and as difficult to put down.”—Miami HeraldThe author of Last Train to Paradise tells the riveting story of Andrew Carnegie, Henry C... ... Read more

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  • Rising Tide

    The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

    by John M. Barry ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith AwardA sweeping account of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and the devastating disaster that reshaped American politics, accelerated the Great Migration, and exposed the South’s deep racial and economic inequalities.An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, ... Read more

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  • The Devil Is Here in These Hills

    West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom

    by James Green ...
    "The most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I've ever read." —John Sayles, writer and director of MatewanOn September 1, 1912, the largest, most protracted, and deadliest working-class uprising in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were ... Read more

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  • The Feud

    The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story

    by Dean King ...
    The full, unvarnished truth of the infamous Appalachian family feud— “A masterpiece ... The last word on the daddy of American feuds” (James Donovan, bestselling author of The Blood of Heroes and A Terrible Glory).“Fast-paced ... Scrupulously documented ... The Feud **is popular history as it ought to be written.” —**The Wall Street JournalNearly ... ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Blair Mountain

    The Story Of America's Largest Labor Uprising

    by Robert Shogan ...
    The Battle of Blair Mountain covers a profoundly significant but long-neglected slice of American history - the largest armed uprising on American soil since the Civil War. In 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners, outraged over years of brutality and lawless exploitation, picked up their Winchesters and marched against their tormentors, the powerful mine owners who ruled their corrupt state ... Read more

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  • A Vast and Fiendish Plot:

    The Confederate Attack on New York City

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    New York City, November 25, 1864. Confederate officers attempt to destroy the city with a series of lethal fires that will forever diminish it to a mere speck of an island.What fueled these Southern patriots' rage? And what if they had succeeded?This terrifying scenario almost became a reality following what the New York Herald declared "a vast and fiendish plot." Infuriated by the Union's killing ... Read more

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  • A Massacre in Memphis

    The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War

    by Stephen V. Ash ...
    An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American historyIn May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of racial violence that saw whites rampage through the city's black neighborhoods. By the time the fires consuming black churches and schools were put out, forty-six freed slaves had been murdered. Congress, ... Read more

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  • Civil War Barons

    The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, Inventors, and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation

    by Jeffry D. Wert ...
    Before the robber barons there were Civil War barons--a remarkable yet largely unknown group of men whose contributions won the war and shaped America's future.The Civil War woke a sleeping giant in America, creating unprecedented industrial growth that not only supported the struggle but reshaped the nation.Energized by the country's dormant potential and wealth of natural resources, individuals ... Read more

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