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Book Synopsis Charleston Primer for Yankees by : Skip Johnson
Download or read book Charleston Primer for Yankees written by Skip Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When most people think of the American Rebolutionary War, they think of the Northeast. Very few people think of Charleston or South Carolina first, if at all. And yet, South Carolina militia won America's first major victory of the was when it defeated the world-renowned British Armada just across the harbor from Charleston. The battle that essentially won the war for America was fought in South Carolina. South Carolina recorded more battles than any other state. South Carolina lost more men to the war than any other state. And after the war ended, South Carolina was saddled with more war debt than any other state." --cover.
Book Synopsis New York Yankees 101 by : Brad M. Epstein
Download or read book New York Yankees 101 written by Brad M. Epstein and published by 101 Book. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information and background on baseball and the New York Yankees.
Book Synopsis A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina by : James Robert Hester
Download or read book A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina written by James Robert Hester and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Englander William Allen (1830-1889) is mostly known today as the lead editor of the 1867 anthology Slave Songs of the United States, the earliest published collection of Negro spirituals, and as a distinguished history professor at the University of Wisconsin. During the Civil War, he served from late 1863 through mid-1864 as a member of the "Gideonite band" of businessmen, missionaries, and teachers who migrated to the South Carolina Sea Islands as part of the Port Royal Experiment. After the war, he served as assistant superintendent of schools in Charleston from April through July 1865. Allen kept journals during his assignments in South Carolina in which he recorded events and impressions of about several hundred people, especially ex-slaves, along with fellow Gideonites, Union soldiers and officials, and ex-Confederates. In A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina, editor James Robert Hester has transcribed Allen's journals and fully annotated them to create a significant documentary source of information on Civil War South Carolina. Hester notes that Allen's journals are more than travelogues, as he often analyzed the people, events, and ideas he encountered. In addition to being a competent amateur musician, Allen was a Harvard-trained historian and philologist and brought his impressive skills to his writing. Later in his life he became an eminent professor of history at the University of Wisconsin. Hester's introductory chapter summarizes Allen's life from his early childhood in Northborough, Massachusetts, through his education at Harvard, his duties as associate principal of the West Newton (Massachusetts) English and Classical School, and his engagement in the Port Royal Experiment. The introduction also surveys Allen's essays on the South published in the Christian Examiner during the Civil War and his articles written for The Nation at the war's end. Two chapters cover Allen's St. Helena and Charleston journals, respectively, and the book closes with a short epilogue. The work is generously annotated, containing almost 600 endnotes, which amplify Allen's narrative and complement Allen's vivid glimpses of coastal South Carolina during the Civil War.
Book Synopsis The Ingenious Yankees by : Joseph Gies
Download or read book The Ingenious Yankees written by Joseph Gies and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sol White's History of Colored Base Ball, with Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886-1936 by : Sol White
Download or read book Sol White's History of Colored Base Ball, with Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886-1936 written by Sol White and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America and baseball are rediscovering the game played by African Americans before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947. We now know a great deal about the Negro Leagues of 1920 on, and their great stars-Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and their contemporaries. But what of the pre-1920 black game? From the onset in the 1880s of the "gentleman's agreement" that barred blacks from playing in white leagues, that game is nearly invisible. Financially shaky, with sporadic media coverage even in black newspapers and completely overlooked by the mainstream, Negro teams of this era played on for love of the game and in hopes that their skills would receive their due. In 1907, Sol White, a remarkable African-American ballplayer, successful manager, and baseball loyalist, wrote a small volume on the history of the black game. Part fund-raising effort, advertising brochure, team hype, celebration of black baseball, and throughout an implicit and explicit challenge to racism, Sol White's History of Colored Base Ball is the source of much of what we know of the events in the organized black game of that time. The original was poorly printed, and copies are exceedingly rare (known and rumored copies number only four). This edition republishes the full 1907 edition (with the even rarer supplement), completely reset for legibility, and reproduces all the original's illustrations, including the advertisements that speak volumes on the social world of the day. Fifteen additional documents from 1886 to 1936 augment the picture of the black game and our record of Sol White himself. The work is introduced by Jerry Malloy, a recognized expert on the history of Negro leagues who has spent years inpainstaking research into this vanished world.
Download or read book Yankee Farmer, and News Letter written by and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mike Torrez written by Jorge Iber and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of baseball is filled with players whose careers were defined by one bad play. Mike Torrez is remembered as the pitcher who gave up the infamous three-run homer to Bucky "Bleeping" Dent in the 1978 playoffs tie-breaker between the Red Sox and Yankees. Yet Torrez's life added up to much more than his worst moment on the mound. Coming from a vibrant Mexican American community that settled in Topeka, Kansas, in the early 1900s, he made it to the Majors by his own talent and efforts, with the help of an athletic program for Mexican youth that spread through the Midwest, Texas and Mexico during the 20th century. He was in the middle of many transformative events of the 1970s--such as the rise of free agency--and was an ethnic role model in the years before the "Fernandomania" of 1981. This book covers Torrez's life and career as the winningest Mexican American pitcher in Major League history.
Book Synopsis Great American Motorcycle Tours by : Gary McKechnie
Download or read book Great American Motorcycle Tours written by Gary McKechnie and published by Rick Steves. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're a rider…an independent spirit who's reluctant to follow someone else's road map. But there are thousands of miles of road out there, and you could spend months searching for the best ones. Gary McKechnie has spent years exploring the nation by bike, and these are his top rides, from the rocky New England coast to the wide-open West. McKechnie covers popular rides through Hudson River Valley, Amish Country, the Smoky Mountains and Georgia Hills, Washington State, the Pacific Coast, and everything in-between. In this fifth edition of his best-selling guide, McKechnie includes: Exciting new photographs of rides like the Hudson River Ralley Run, the Pacific Coast Run, and the Red Rocks Run New tips on the best food, shopping, and nightlife you'll experience along the way Don't waste your valuable two-wheeled vacation. Instead, let Great American Motorcycle Tours be your guide.
Book Synopsis America in Black and White by : Stephan Thernstrom
Download or read book America in Black and White written by Stephan Thernstrom and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book destined to become a classic, Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom present important new information about the positive changes that have been achieved and the measurable improvement in the lives of the majority of African-Americans. Supporting their conclusions with statistics on education, earnings, and housing, they argue that the perception of serious racial divisions in this country is outdated -- and dangerous.
Book Synopsis Military Leadership Lessons of the Charleston Campaign, 1861-1865 by : Kevin Dougherty
Download or read book Military Leadership Lessons of the Charleston Campaign, 1861-1865 written by Kevin Dougherty and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-03-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an exploration of the Charleston Campaign in the Civil War through the lens of leadership. Part One, "Understanding Charleston," contains a discussion of leadership, a campaign overview, and a brief introduction to the key participants. Part Two, "Leadership Vignettes," includes 21 scenarios that span the actions of the most senior leaders down to those of individual soldiers. Each scenario provides the context, explains the action in the terms of leadership lessons learned, and concludes with a list of "take-aways" to crystallize the lessons for the reader. The book ends with summary information and a set of conclusions about leadership during the Charleston Campaign. Although it featured some of the era's most advanced military technology, the Charleston Campaign was decided by more than just shot and shell, and this book offers a perspective of the campaign as a leadership laboratory.
Book Synopsis Rules for Radicals by : Saul Alinsky
Download or read book Rules for Radicals written by Saul Alinsky and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This country's leading hell-raiser" (The Nation) shares his impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” First published in 1971 and written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.
Download or read book A Civil War Primer written by Mcwhiney and published by West Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Our Navy, the Standard Publication of the U.S. Navy by :
Download or read book Our Navy, the Standard Publication of the U.S. Navy written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weary of War written by Joe A. Mobley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a fresh look at a crucial aspect of the American Civil War, this new study explores the day-to-day life of people in the Confederate States of America as they struggled to cope with a crisis that spared no one, military or civilian. Mobley touches on the experiences of everyone on the home front-white and black, male and female, rich and poor, young and old, native and foreign born. He looks at health, agriculture, industry, transportation, refugees city life, religion, education, culture families, personal relationships, and public welfare. In so doing, he offers his perspective on how much the will of the people contributed to the final defeat of the Southern cause. Although no single experience was common to all Southerners, a great many suffered poverty, dislocation, and heartbreak. For African Americans, however, the war brought liberation from slavery and the promise of a new life. White women, too, saw their lives transformed as wartime challenges gave them new responsibilities and experiences. Mobley explains how the Confederate military draft, heavy taxes, and restrictions on personal freedoms led to widespread dissatisfaction and cries for peace among Southern folk. He describes the Confederacy as a region of divided loyalties, where pro-Union and pro-Confederate neighbors sometimes clashed violently. This readable, one-volume account of life behind the lines will prove particularly useful for students of the conflict.
Book Synopsis A Southern Belle Primer, Or, Why Princess Margaret Will Never be a Kappa Kappa Gamma by : Maryln Schwartz
Download or read book A Southern Belle Primer, Or, Why Princess Margaret Will Never be a Kappa Kappa Gamma written by Maryln Schwartz and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In memory of Dorothy Lackey given by Annette Snider.
Book Synopsis The Devil's Tickets by : Gary M. Pomerantz
Download or read book The Devil's Tickets written by Gary M. Pomerantz and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kansas City, 1929: Myrtle and Jack Bennett sit down with another couple for an evening of bridge. As the game intensifies, Myrtle complains that Jack is a “bum bridge player.” For such insubordination, he slaps her hard in front of their stunned guests and announces he is leaving. Moments later, sobbing, with a Colt .32 pistol in hand, Myrtle fires four shots, killing her husband. The Roaring 1920s inspired nationwide fads–flagpole sitting, marathon dancing, swimming-pool endurance floating. But of all the mad games that cheered Americans between the wars, the least likely was contract bridge. As the Barnum of the bridge craze, Ely Culbertson, a tuxedoed boulevardier with a Russian accent, used mystique, brilliance, and a certain madness to transform bridge from a social pastime into a cultural movement that made him rich and famous. In writings, in lectures, and on the radio, he used the Bennett killing to dramatize bridge as the battle of the sexes. Indeed, Myrtle Bennett’s murder trial became a sensation because it brought a beautiful housewife–and hints of her husband’s infidelity–from the bridge table into the national spotlight. James A. Reed, Myrtle’s high-powered lawyer and onetime Democratic presidential candidate, delivered soaring, tear-filled courtroom orations. As Reed waxed on about the sanctity of womanhood, he was secretly conducting an extramarital romance with a feminist trailblazer who lived next door. To the public, bridge symbolized tossing aside the ideals of the Puritans–who referred derisively to playing cards as “the Devil’s tickets”–and embracing the modern age. Ina time when such fearless women as Amelia Earhart, Dorothy Parker, and Marlene Dietrich were exalted for their boldness, Culbertson positioned his game as a challenge to all housebound women. At the bridge table, he insisted, a woman could be her husband’s equal, and more. In the gathering darkness of the Depression, Culbertson leveraged his own ballyhoo and naughty innuendo for all it was worth, maneuvering himself and his brilliant wife, Jo, his favorite bridge partner, into a media spectacle dubbed the Bridge Battle of the Century. Through these larger-than-life characters and the timeless partnership game they played, The Devil’s Tickets captures a uniquely colorful age and a tension in marriage that is eternal.
Download or read book Fool a Carnivore written by Nancy Olah and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fool a Carnivore offers an innovative and distinctive approach to help vegetarians cook for their meat-loving families. Nancy believes that meat eaters enjoy food that looks and tastes like what they are used to eating. Rather than trying to win meat lovers over to unfamiliar dishes, Nancy's book focuses on how to successfully use meat analogues in classic dishes that most carnivores know and love-dishes like gumbo, lasagna, meat loaf, chicken cacciatore, and chili. Fool a Carnivore includes helpful product and nutrition information to help cooks understand how to successfully use meat analogues-the vegetarian products that stand-in for meat in her recipes. This fascinating cookbook will help even inexperienced cooks create delicious meatless meals that will fool the carnivores in their family.
