Remembering Monroeville

Author : Zandy Dudiak
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781625842527

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Remembering Monroeville by Zandy Dudiak Pdf

Before rail and steam encroached on the pastoral communities of Monroeville, Pennsylvania, generations of farmers and miners traversed its green earth and burbling creeks. The dawn of the automobile brought unprecedented development, and the sleepy hamlets soon stirred to become the hub of the suburbs. Zandy Dudiak chronicles this fascinating evolution through tales of hardscrabble frontier living, the coming of the railroad and post–World War II prosperity. Dudiak reintroduces characters such as the tenacious tavern keeper Widow Miers and Harold Brown, who trained a generation of aviators on the airfields of Monroeville. Stories of lost amusement parks, the faded stars of the Holiday House and the glory days of the Ice Palace recall a Monroeville from days gone by.

Author : Allen Dieterich-Ward
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812247671

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Beyond Rust by Allen Dieterich-Ward Pdf

Beyond Rust chronicles the rise, fall, and rebirth of metropolitan Pittsburgh, an industrial region that once formed the heart of the world's steel production and is now touted as a model for reviving other hard-hit cities of the Rust Belt. Writing in clear and engaging prose, historian and area native Allen Dieterich-Ward provides a new model for a truly metropolitan history that integrates the urban core with its regional hinterland of satellite cities, white-collar suburbs, mill towns, and rural mining areas. Pittsburgh reached its industrial heyday between 1880 and 1920, as vertically integrated industrial corporations forged a regional community in the mountainous Upper Ohio River Valley. Over subsequent decades, metropolitan population growth slowed as mining and manufacturing employment declined. Faced with economic and environmental disaster in the 1930s, Pittsburgh's business elite and political leaders developed an ambitious program of pollution control and infrastructure development. The public-private partnership behind the "Pittsburgh Renaissance," as advocates called it, pursued nothing less than the selective erasure of the existing social and physical environment in favor of a modernist, functionally divided landscape: a goal that was widely copied by other aging cities and one that has important ramifications for the broader national story. Ultimately, the Renaissance vision of downtown skyscrapers, sleek suburban research campuses, and bucolic regional parks resulted in an uneven transformation that tore the urban fabric while leaving deindustrializing river valleys and impoverished coal towns isolated from areas of postwar growth. Beyond Rust is among the first books of its kind to continue past the collapse of American manufacturing in the 1980s by exploring the diverse ways residents of an iconic industrial region sought places for themselves within a new economic order.

Author : James A. Miller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400833221

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Remembering Scottsboro by James A. Miller Pdf

How one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in the United States continues to haunt the nation’s racial psyche In 1931, nine black youths were charged with raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama. Despite meager and contradictory evidence, all nine were found guilty and eight of the defendants were sentenced to death—making Scottsboro one of the worst travesties of justice to take place in the post-Reconstruction South. Remembering Scottsboro explores how this case has embedded itself into the fabric of American memory and become a lens for perceptions of race, class, sexual politics, and justice. James Miller draws upon the archives of the Communist International and NAACP, contemporary journalistic accounts, as well as poetry, drama, fiction, and film, to document the impact of Scottsboro on American culture. The book reveals how the Communist Party, NAACP, and media shaped early images of Scottsboro; looks at how the case influenced authors including Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Harper Lee; shows how politicians and Hollywood filmmakers invoked the case in the ensuing decades; and examines the defiant, sensitive, and savvy correspondence of Haywood Patterson—one of the accused, who fled the Alabama justice system. Miller considers how Scottsboro persists as a point of reference in contemporary American life and suggests that the Civil Rights movement begins much earlier than the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955. Remembering Scottsboro demonstrates how one compelling, provocative, and tragic case still haunts the American racial imagination.

Author : Lloyd C. Douglas
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-16T00:00:00Z
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781774640111

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Time to Remember by Lloyd C. Douglas Pdf

The book is an autobiographical account of the author's early life and his family. He intended to write a second volume covering his ministerial career and his life as a novelist but he died not long after this one was published.

Author : Melissa Walker,Rebecca Sharpless
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780826265081

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Work, Family, and Faith by Melissa Walker,Rebecca Sharpless Pdf

"Collection of essays capturing the transformation of the American South from agrarian to industrial/commercial over the course of the twentieth century from the perspective of women struggling against poverty by relying on tradition and inner strength"--Provided by publisher.

Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Communication policy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063110089

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Federal Communications Commission Reports by United States. Federal Communications Commission Pdf

Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1242 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Radio
ISBN : UOM:39015038802743

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Federal Communications Commission Reports. V. 1-45, 1934/35-1962/64; 2d Ser., V. 1- July 17/Dec. 27, 1965-. by United States. Federal Communications Commission Pdf

Author : Shannon McKenna Schmidt,Joni Rendon
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781426203435

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Novel Destinations by Shannon McKenna Schmidt,Joni Rendon Pdf

It’s often said that a good book takes us somewhere we’ve never been before, and here’s the proof: a book-lover’s Baedeker to more than 500 literary locales across the United States and Europe. Novel Destinations invites readers to follow in the footsteps of much-loved authors, discover the scenes that sparked their imaginations, glimpse the lives they led, and share a bit of the experiences they transformed so eloquently into print. If you’re looking to indulge in literary adventure, you’ll find all the inspiration and information you need here, along with behind-the-scenes stories such as these: After Ernest Hemingway survived two near-fatal plane crashes during an African safari, he perused his obituaries and sipped champagne on a canal-side terrace in Venice. Washington Irving's wisteria-draped cottage in the Hudson Valley was once occupied by members of the Van Tassel family, immortalized in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. A mysterious incident at a stone tower near Dublin made such a vivid impression on James Joyce that he drew on it for the opening scene of Ulysses. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle consulted on the mystery of Agatha Christie's 1926 disappearance before she resurfaced under an assumed name in northern England. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables was inspired by a seaside manse in Salem, Massachusetts, infamous witch trials in which his ancestor played a role.

Author : Wil Elrick
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439664698

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Alabama Lore by Wil Elrick Pdf

Join author Wil Elrick as he explores the history behind some of the Cotton State's weird and legendary tales. Mysterious 1989 UFO sightings brought more than 4,000 visitors to the tiny town of Fyffe, population 1,300. Legends of the Alabama White Thang - an elusive, hairy creature with a shrill shriek - persisted in the state for a century. Just outside Huntsville's historic Maple Hill Cemetery lies an eerie playground where the ghosts of departed children are rumored to play in the dead of night. After hundreds of unexplained sightings, the town of Evergreen declared itself the Bigfoot Capital of Alabama. Alabama is a weird and wonderful place with a colorful history steeped in folk tales passed from generation to generation.

Author : T. N. Searcy
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453565674

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Remembered Names - Forgotten Faces by T. N. Searcy Pdf

Historical Fiction, concerning the decline of activity on a southern plantation after the civil war; how freedom affected former slaves, and the concerns of the land owners Author's email address: [email protected].

Author : Craig Parshall
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780736911733

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The Accused by Craig Parshall Pdf

When attorney Will Chambers and his new bride honeymoon in Cancun, they're shocked when terrorists kidnap a U.S. official. And when a secret hostage recovery team is accused of murdering unarmed civilians, the situation swiftly escalates from bad to worse.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1384 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105216541214

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : Congress
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 1396 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Congressional Record Index, Volume 156, A-K, L-Z by Congress Pdf

Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B772606

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Federal Communications Commission reports by United States. Federal Communications Commission Pdf

Author : Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0842027416

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The 1997 Genealogy Annual by Thomas Jay Kemp Pdf

The Genealogy Annual is a comprehensive bibliography of the year's genealogies, handbooks, and source materials. It is divided into three main sections.p liFAMILY HISTORIES-/licites American and international single and multifamily genealogies, listed alphabetically by major surnames included in each book.p liGUIDES AND HANDBOOKS-/liincludes reference and how-to books for doing research on specific record groups or areas of the U.S. or the world.p liGENEALOGICAL SOURCES BY STATE-/liconsists of entries for genealogical data, organized alphabetically by state and then by city or county.p The Genealogy Annual, the core reference book of published local histories and genealogies, makes finding the latest information easy. Because the information is compiled annually, it is always up to date. No other book offers as many citations as The Genealogy Annual; all works are included. You can be assured that fees were not required to be listed.