Charles Street Jail Pictures

Author : Joseph McMaster
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439654323

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Charles Street Jail by Joseph McMaster Pdf

In nearly a century and a half of continuous use, Boston’s Charles Street Jail was a bustling crossroads where the famous and infamous rubbed elbows. Everyone from Whitey Bulger to a captured German U-boat captain to a future mayor of Boston—to name just a few—served time there. When it opened in 1851, the Charles Street Jail was hailed as a model for the humanitarian treatment of prisoners. Over time, though, as the jail grew increasingly outmoded, its name became virtually synonymous with corruption, misery, and overcrowding. In a landmark legal case in 1973, the courts ordered the jail closed, finding its conditions so bad they violated inmates’ constitutional rights. After sitting vacant and deteriorating for many years, the magnificent, historic granite structure recently gained a new lease on life when it was renovated and transformed into a luxury hotel. Today, the building welcomes guests of a sort the old clientele could scarcely have imagined.

Author : Marcelline Block
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781783202423

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World Film Locations: Boston by Marcelline Block Pdf

Founded by the Puritans in 1630 and the site of many of the American Revolution’s major precursors and events (including the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party and Paul Revere’s midnight ride, among others), Boston has played – and continues to play – an influential role in the shaping of the historic, intellectual, cultural and political landscapes of the United States. And Boston has a significantly rich tradition of cinematic representation. While Harvard is central to many of the films set in the Greater Boston area, World Film Locations: Boston considers the full spectrum of Boston’s abundant aesthetic potential, reviewing films located within as well as far beyond Harvard’s hallowed halls and ivy-covered gates. Many iconic American classics, blockbusters, romantic comedies and legal thrillers, as well as films examining Boston’s criminal under-side, particularly in juxtaposition to the city’s elitist high society, were filmed on location in the city’s streets and back lots. World Film Locations: Boston looks in depth into a highly select group of forty-six films such as Love Story, Good Will Hunting, The Friends of Eddy Coyle, and The Social Network, among many others, presented at the intersection of critical analysis and stunning visual critique (with material from the films themselves as well as photographs of the contemporary city locations). Featuring articles and film scene reviews written by a variety of leading contemporary film writers, critics and scholars, this book is a multimedia resource that will find a welcome audience in movie lovers in Beantown and beyond.

Author : Sally Ann McMurry,Annmarie Adams
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1572330759

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People, Power, Places by Sally Ann McMurry,Annmarie Adams Pdf

From workers' cottages in Milwaukee's Polish community to Alaskan homesteads during the Great Depression, from early American retail stores to nineteenth-century prisons, different types of buildings reflect the diverse responses of people to their architectural needs. Through inquiry into such topics, the contributors to this volume examine a variety of building forms as they assess the current state of vernacular architecture studies. Because scholars in vernacular architecture have come to consider thematic questions rather than simply to look at types of structures, the essays chosen for this collection address issues of how people, power, and places intersect. They demonstrate not only the inextricable links between people and place but also show how power relationships are defined by spatial organization--and how this use of space has helped define the distinction between private and public. The essays examine a wide range of forms, from camp meetings to trolley cottages, to consider what buildings might reveal about their makers, users, and even interpreters. One article, for example, will give readers a new appreciation of balloon framing in Midwest farmhouses, refuting popular notions that it was a single individual's invention. Another considers servants' quarters in Apartheid-era South Africa to explore the relationship between black domestic workers and their white employers. Drawn from the Vernacular Architecture Forum conferences of 1996 and 1997, these thirteen essays make significant contributions to the study of design and building processes and the adaptation of architectural forms and spaces over time. They help redefine the scope of "vernacular" and provide new models for better understanding the built environment. The Editors: Sally McMurry is professor of history at Pennsylvania State University and author of Families and Farmhouses in Nineteenth-Century America. Annmarie Adams is associate professor of architecture at McGill University and author of Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900.

Author : Kerri K. Greenidge
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631495359

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Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter by Kerri K. Greenidge Pdf

New York Times • Times Critics Top Books of 2019 This long-overdue biography reestablishes William Monroe Trotter’s essential place next to Douglass, Du Bois, and King in the pantheon of American civil rights heroes. William Monroe Trotter (1872– 1934), though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylistic verve of a newspaperman and the unwavering fearlessness of an emancipator, he galvanized black working- class citizens to wield their political power despite the violent racism of post- Reconstruction America. For more than thirty years, the Harvard-educated Trotter edited and published the Guardian, a weekly Boston newspaper that was read across the nation. Defining himself against the gradualist politics of Booker T. Washington and the elitism of W. E. B. Du Bois, Trotter advocated for a radical vision of black liberation that prefigured leaders such as Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. Synthesizing years of archival research, historian Kerri Greenidge renders the drama of turn- of- the- century America and reclaims Trotter as a seminal figure, whose prophetic, yet ultimately tragic, life offers a link between the vision of Frederick Douglass and black radicalism in the modern era.

Author : Anthony V. Riccio
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438490090

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Stories, Streets, and Saints by Anthony V. Riccio Pdf

Stories, Streets, and Saints documents the history of an important Italian American neighborhood, Boston's North End, from the age of immigration at the turn of the twentieth century to the era of neighborhood upheaval in the "New Boston" of the 1980s. Drawing on years of fieldwork, on-site photography, and scholarly research, Anthony V. Riccio records, translates, and transcribes compelling oral histories of elderly Italian American storytellers who weave social history in their unique village idiom, providing an intimate look at daily life in an Italian American neighborhood. Testimonies of post-Unification southern Italy reconstruct the dire social and economic conditions that caused millions to pursue the promise of America. Rare firsthand stories of the Spanish Flu offer timely narratives in the wake of COVID-19, and eyewitness descriptions reconstruct the horrific Molasses Explosion of 1919. Riccio's own photographs from 1979 to 1983, along with images from old family albums, illustrate these oral histories, creating a lasting record of the experiences of Italian Americans, who, like many other ethnic groups, contributed mightily to the building of America.

Author : Boston (Mass.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1848 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:LI1H8I

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Document by Boston (Mass.) Pdf

Author : Gregory William Mank,Charles Heard,Bill Nelson
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781932595246

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Hollywood's Hellfire Club by Gregory William Mank,Charles Heard,Bill Nelson Pdf

They were the Bundy Drive Boys: hard-drinking, brilliantly talented, world-famous men of golden-age Hollywood - John Barrymore, Errol Flynn and W.C. Fields. Heroes with Hangovers tells the uncensored and ultimately moving story of these lost-soul geniuses. The partying and antics of the Rat Pack seem tame in comparison, but beneath the boozy bravado was a devoted mutual affection. Illustrated with dozens of never-before-seen photos and illustrations, this is the sozzled side of Hollywood's great era.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN : UVA:X004915252

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The Christian Science Monitor Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kurt Hemmer
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781438109084

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Encyclopedia of Beat Literature by Kurt Hemmer Pdf

Discusses the literary works and great authors of the Beat Generation.

Author : Robert Gammon
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788034319

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The Titans of the Pacific by Robert Gammon Pdf

In 1930, the world was hurtling towards one of the most terrifying periods in human history. The Titans of the Pacific tells incredible, but real, historical events.

Author : Paul Avrich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781400853182

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The Modern School Movement by Paul Avrich Pdf

In this comprehensive study of the Modern School movement, Paul Avrich narrates its history, analyzes its successes and failures, and assesses its place in American life. In doing so, he shows how the radical experimentation in art and communal living as well as in education during this period set the precedent for much of the artistic, social, and educational ferment of the 1960's and I970's. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : J. M. Taylor
Publisher : New Pulp Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781955036702

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Night of the Furies by J. M. Taylor Pdf

“Taylor delivers a revenge tragedy that reads like a dime novel by Sophocles, at once epic and compact. It’s violent, operatic pulp. Badass and bloody good.” —Jedidiah Ayres, author of Peckerwood “If Jim Thompson wrote about Boston’s mean old days, then you’d have an inkling of the sheer quality of writing and gut-clenching darkness that J. M. Taylor provides in Night of the Furies. An outstanding debut.” —Todd Robinson, author of The Big Bounce “[Night of the Furies] is a more than a noir novel. It’s a sizzling epic spanning generations, written by a writer at the top of his game. Scary thing is, you get the sense that Taylor is writing from personal experience.” —Vincent Zandri, bestselling author of Murder by Moonlight In the late 1930s, Rico DiGiacomo ruled all of East Boston until he was brutally murdered by his own lieutenant, Bricks Mancini. That night, Rico’s son Giorgio overheard the details as they were reported to the one who ordered it: Rico’s wife. Giorgio vowed to avenge his father, no matter how long it took. Now, thirty years later, Giorgio has finally fulfilled that promise. As Mancini’s bodyguards pursue him into biker bars and sleazy motels like a pack of vengeful demons, Giorgio recalls a life of humiliation at his mother’s hands and the wisdom his father passed on to him. What he doesn’t know is that Fate has still more in store for him, and one night can be very long indeed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Canada
ISBN : PRNC:32101057673251

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Appletons' Illustrated Hand-book of American Cities by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Times-picayune
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025138509

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The Times-picayune Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Anti-communist movements
ISBN : WISC:89067398461

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Tribune of Enslaved Nations by Anonim Pdf