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Author : Randy G. Whittle
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781540203762
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Johnstown, Pennsylvania written by Randy G. Whittle and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Randy Whittle
Publisher : Definitive History
ISBN 13 : 9781596290525
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Johnstown, Pennsylvania: 1937-1980 written by Randy Whittle and published by Definitive History. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is a testament to the strength of the people that call it home. In the second volume of history for this stalwart Pennsylvania city, Randy Whittle shows how Johnstown pulled together, even after the devastation of a flood in 1936 that wrought massive damage throughout the community. Following World War II, the community struggled to rise above adversity in the economy and to establish civil rights for all. Johnstown is a true American city, as strong as the steel that is forged in its famous mills. From Johnstown's enormous contribution in steel and coal to the war effort to its recovery after the monumental flood of 1977, Whittle's book shows how the people of Johnstown made it the modern city it is today.
Author : Randy Whittle
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781540217448
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Johnstown, Pennsylvania: A History, Part Two: 1937-1980 written by Randy Whittle and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is a testament to the strength of the people that call it home. Following World War II, the community struggled to rise above adversity in the economy and to establish civil rights for all. In the second volume of history for this stalwart Pennsylvania city, Randy Whittle shows how Johnstown pulled together, even after the devastation of a flood in 1936 that wrought massive damage throughout the community. Johnstown is a true American city, as strong as the steel that is forged in its famous mills. From Johnstown's enormous contribution in steel and coal to the war effort to its recovery after the monumental flood of 1977, Whittle's book shows how the people of Johnstown made it the modern city it is today.
Author : Whittle Randy
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781540203779
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Johnstown, Pennsylvania written by Whittle Randy and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Randy Whittle
Publisher : Definitive History
ISBN 13 : 9781596290518
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Johnstown, Pennsylvania: 1895-1936 written by Randy Whittle and published by Definitive History. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go beyond the historic Johnstown flood and explore the in-depth history of this quintessential Pennsylvania community that has endured and prospered through generations. The flood of 1889 has often taken center stage in the history of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, but the history of this community is greater than this tragedy. In this first installment of a two-volume set, local author Randy Whittle chronicles this town's past. Beginning with the aftermath of the 1889 flood, Whittle describes the key events and issues that the community's institutions and many of its leading personalities have wrestled with from the mid-1890s. The result is an accessible and entertaining narrative that not only recounts the community history, but also the topical histories of many civic organizations, the local government and leading businesses.
Author : Joshua M. Penrod, PhD
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467106623
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Johnstown Industry written by Joshua M. Penrod, PhD and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, still stands today as one of the most significant sites in United States industrial and economic history. Known mostly for the disastrous flood of 1889, Johnstown was also a birthplace and powerhouse of iron, steel, coal, and transportation. From its early start as a small community on the fringes of the frontier, the town became an important terminus for the Pennsylvania Mainline Canal and an early site for coal and ore mining. It also grew into a major steel and iron producer renowned around the world for its output, know-how, and quality. At one time, Johnstown's industry helped spur the national drive to become an economic and industrial superpower.
Author : John Craig
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611461650
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The Ku Klux Klan in Western Pennsylvania, 1921–1928 written by John Craig and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relying primarily on a narrative, chronological approach, this study examines Ku Klux Klan activities in Pennsylvania’s twenty-five western-most counties, where the state organization enjoyed greatest numerical strength. The work covers the period between the Klan’s initial appearance in the state in 1921 and its virtual disappearance by 1928, particularly the heyday of the Invisible Empire, 1923–1925. This book examines a wide variety of KKK activities, but devotes special attention to the two large and deadly Klan riots in Carnegie and Lilly, as well as vigilantism associated with the intolerant order. Klansmen were drawn from a pool of ordinary Pennsylvanians who were driven, in part, by the search for fraternity, excitement, and civic betterment. However, their actions were also motivated by sinister, darker emotions and purposes. Disdainful of the rule of law, the Klan sought disorder and mayhem in pursuit of a racist, nativist, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish agenda.
Author : Russell Shorto
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393245594
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob written by Russell Shorto and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America. Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence. Then an elderly relative prodded: You’re a writer—what are you gonna do about the story? Smalltime is a mob story straight out of central casting—but with a difference, for the small-town mob, which stretched from Schenectady to Fresno, is a mostly unknown world. The location is the brawny postwar factory town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The setting is City Cigar, a storefront next to City Hall, behind which Russ and his brother-in-law, “Little Joe,” operate a gambling empire and effectively run the town. Smalltime is a riveting American immigrant story that travels back to Risorgimento Sicily, to the ancient, dusty, hill-town home of Antonino Sciotto, the author’s great-grandfather, who leaves his wife and children in grinding poverty for a new life—and wife—in a Pennsylvania mining town. It’s a tale of Italian Americans living in squalor and prejudice, and of the rise of Russ, who, like thousands of other young men, created a copy of the American establishment that excluded him. Smalltime draws an intimate portrait of a mobster and his wife, sudden riches, and the toll a lawless life takes on one family. But Smalltime is something more. The author enlists his ailing father—Tony, the mobster’s son—as his partner in the search for their troubled patriarch. As secrets are revealed and Tony’s health deteriorates, the book become an urgent and intimate exploration of three generations of the American immigrant experience. Moving, wryly funny, and richly detailed, Smalltime is an irresistible memoir by a masterful writer of historical narrative.
Author : Joan Biskupic
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465093280
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Chief written by Joan Biskupic and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive biography of the Supreme Court's enigmatic Chief Justice, taking us inside the momentous legal decisions of his tenure so far. John Roberts was named to the Supreme Court in 2005 claiming he would act as a neutral umpire in deciding cases. His critics argue he has been anything but, pointing to his conservative victories on voting rights and campaign finance. Yet he broke from orthodoxy in his decision to preserve Obamacare. How are we to understand the motives of the most powerful judge in the land? In The Chief, award-winning journalist Joan Biskupic contends that Roberts is torn between two, often divergent, priorities: to carry out a conservative agenda, and to protect the Court's image and his place in history. Biskupic shows how Roberts's dual commitments have fostered distrust among his colleagues, with major consequences for the law. Trenchant and authoritative, The Chief reveals the making of a justice and the drama on this nation's highest court.
Author : William E. Akin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476619344
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Middle Atlantic League, 1925äóñ1952 written by William E. Akin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The small and midsized cities of western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia reached their peaks of population and prosperity in the second quarter of the 20th century. The baseball teams from these towns formed the Middle Atlantic League, the strongest circuit in the low minors and the one with the most alumni to advance to the majors. This thorough history chronicles the MAL through three distinct phases from its 1925 inaugural season to its dissolution in 1952. During the first several seasons, most clubs hung one step from financial disaster despite support from local communities. Then the league flourished during the Great Depression as president Elmer Daily magically found investors and night baseball boosted working class attendance. Now enjoying a modicum of financial stability and an infusion of young talent, the clubs became talent farms for major league teams. Both the league and its cities went into decline as the country underwent seismic cultural and economic shifts following World War II.
Author : Lyndee Jobe Henderson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738534930
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Johnstown written by Lyndee Jobe Henderson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this photographic history of Johnstown, readers will enjoy more than two hundred rare images, many published here for the first time, from the collections of historical organizations and private individuals. After enduring three devastating floods, residents have adopted the phrase "This town won't die" as a testament to their gritty determination to survive and to be seen as more than flood victims. Johnstown records the true American Dream: the faces of immigrants building their lives in a new country; the expansive golden age of American industrial growth in the steel, mining, and railroad industries; a community's iron will in the face of destruction; and a snapshot of human bonds through love for family and nation, as well as an inherent faith.
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Publisher : Historica Research and Records, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Military services and genealogical records of soldiers of Blair County, Pennsylvania written by and published by Historica Research and Records, LLC. This book was released on with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive guide to veterans from Blair County, Pennsylvania who served in: Revolutionary War; War of 1812; Mexican War; Civil War; Spanish American War; and, World War 1. Many records include addresses, dates of birth and death, burial places and other information. Historical data on wars and the local area is also included.
Author : Kenneth C. Springirth
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439618097
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Johnstown Trolleys and Incline written by Kenneth C. Springirth and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Johnstown flood on May 31, 1889, virtually demolished the horsecar lines of the Johnstown Passenger Railway Company, resulting in the system being rebuilt with electric trolley cars. Johnstown Trolleys and Incline covers the history of the trolley car system, trackless trolleys, and the Johnstown Inclined Plane. Johnstown was the last small city in the United States to operate a variety of vintage and modern trolley cars along with trackless trolleys. The Johnstown incline played a key role in transporting residents to higher ground in the devastating floods of 1936 and 1977. Ridership declined with the coming of the automobile and the changing industrial scene in the region. Rail enthusiasts from all parts of the country came to Johnstown on its last day of trolley service in 1960, and the last runs are fully illustrated in these vintage photographs.
Author : Mildred Beik
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271074582
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Miners of Windber written by Mildred Beik and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1996-08-23 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1897 the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company founded Windber as a company town for its miners in the bituminous coal country of Pennsylvania. The Miners of Windber chronicles the coming of unionization to Windber, from the 1890s, when thousands of new immigrants flooded Pennsylvania in search of work, through the New Deal era of the 1930s, when the miners' rights to organize, join the United Mine Workers of America, and bargain collectively were recognized after years of bitter struggle. Mildred Allen Beik, a Windber native whose father entered the coal mines at age eleven in 1914, explores the struggle of miners and their families against the company, whose repressive policies encroached on every part of their lives. That Windber's population represented twenty-five different nationalities, including Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and Carpatho-Russians, was a potential obstacle to the solidarity of miners. Beik, however, shows how the immigrants overcame ethnic fragmentation by banding together as a class to unionize the mines. Work, family, church, fraternal societies, and civic institutions all proved critical as men and women alike adapted to new working conditions and to a new culture. Circumstance, if not principle, forced miners to embrace cultural pluralism in their fight for greater democracy, reforms of capitalism, and an inclusive, working-class, definition of what it meant to be an American. Beik draws on a wide variety of sources, including oral histories gathered from thirty-five of the oldest living immigrants in Windber, foreign-language newspapers, fraternal society collections, church manuscripts, public documents, union records, and census materials. The struggles of Windber's diverse working class undeniably mirror the efforts of working people everywhere to democratize the undemocratic America they knew. Their history suggests some of the possibilities and limitations, strengths and weaknesses, of worker protest in the early twentieth century.
Author : Pennsylvania Bar Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pennsylvania Bar Association. Meeting. Report of the ... Annual Meeting ... written by Pennsylvania Bar Association and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Copyright Entries ... written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pennsylvania Bar Association. Annual Meeting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Bar Association written by Pennsylvania Bar Association. Annual Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
