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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 : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 9781596290518
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Johnstown, Pennsylvania: 1937-1980 written by Randy Whittle and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : 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 : Duane F. Alwin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984559621
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)
Download or read book Familie Allwein written by Duane F. Alwin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book—Familie Allwein: Volume III: Western Migrations—is volume three of a series of books about the history of the Allwein family in America, a family descended from an eighteenth-century German immigrant Johannes (Hans) Jacob Allwein and his wife, Catharina. Familie Allwein: Volume III: Western Migrations builds upon earlier volumes of Familie Allwein, which dealt with the Allwein family’s emigration from Germany to America and their settlement in colonial Pennsylvania. The first volume, Familie Allwein—An Early History, set the stage for later volumes. The second volume, Familie Allwein—Journeys in Time and Place, covered Allwein descendants living east of the Allegheny Mountains over the seventy-year period from about 1870 through 1940. Part 1 of Journeys in Time and Place focuses on those families that settled in southeastern Pennsylvania, particularly in Lebanon, Philadelphia, and the Berks Counties. Part 2 of Journeys in Time and Place focuses on those families living in Dauphin, Lancaster, Adams, York, and Blair Counties in south central Pennsylvania. This third volume of Familie Allwein—Western Migrations—covers families who moved to western Pennsylvania and those who migrated farther west. Not only is the present volume an update on the families covered in earlier volumes of Familie Allwein but it also extends the coverage of Allwein families by tracing their paths west—not only to the western counties of Pennsylvania but also to Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, and places farther west, including California. As in earlier volumes of this series, the author’s careful documentation of all sources and attention to detail make it possible to reproduce his findings and re-examine his conclusions.
Author : Frank Bevc
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359822479
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (598 download)
Download or read book Children of the Mirna Valley written by Frank Bevc and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the quiet farmland of southeastern Slovenia the people of the Mirna Valley endured rule by German lords and the Habsburg Empire for over a thousand years. In the early 1600�s, the Bevc Family worked the land in the small village of _entrupert. Three generations and over a hundred years later, their descendants moved to the Debenec hills overlooking the Mirna Valley. The family acquired more land and spread to the nearby towns of Mokronog and Mirna. One Bevc generation, a family of eleven children, found different futures in America or Slovenia. Most traded the green hills and hard work of farming for the harsh life of mining coal in a smoky, industrial town. Each withstood hardships so that their children would have a better life. Many of those children fought in World War II. In Slovenia that meant occupation and partisan resistance; in America, sons went off to war in Europe and the Pacific.
Author : Ewa Morawska
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521530637
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)
Download or read book For Bread with Butter written by Ewa Morawska and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-22 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Tomlins offers here a critical examination of the impact of the National Labor Relations Act on American unions. Dr Tomlins shows how public policy has been shaped to confine labour's role in the American economy, and that many of the unions' problems stem from the laws which purport to protect them.
Author : J. S. Ogilvie
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271045388
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book History of the Great Flood in Johnstown, Pa. , May 31, 1889, by Which Over Ten Thousand Lives Were Lost written by J. S. Ogilvie and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Glenn Beamer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611461898
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System written by Glenn Beamer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System: A Worker-based Model for Community Investment articulates a new model for economic security based upon steelworkers’ pension provisions and labor politics after World War II. Labor’s collective bargaining agreements created interdependent commitments that sustained jobs and stabilized communities. The evidence in The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System includes an empirical analysis of United States steel towns and case studies of Weirton, West Virginia, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Johnstown, Pennsylvania. By understanding the politics that bound firms and workers together and adapting these commitments to the post-industrial economy, The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System offers a new means by which communities can provide workers security and economic growth. This new model, the Guaranteed Pension and Community Investment plan, provide workers with lifetime retirement annuities and communities with reliable investment capital.
Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416561226
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Johnstown Flood written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. Then came May 31, 1889, when the dam burst, sending a wall of water thundering down the mountain, smashing through Johnstown, and killing more than 2,000 people. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal. Graced by David McCullough’s remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are necessarily behaving responsibly.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book 1980 Census of Housing written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collection of Photostats from Papers in the Johnstown Area Concerning the Johnstown, Pa. Steel Strike in June, 1937 written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 2016 pages
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Download or read book The American Bar written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 2016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dale Richard Perelman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143966417X
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Road to Rust written by Dale Richard Perelman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Steel tells the story of strikes and violent unrest amid the mines and mills of twentieth-century Pennsylvania and Ohio—includes photos. As the twentieth century dawned on western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, the region’s steel industry faced a struggle for unionism. The industry was plagued by disasters that killed and maimed countless workers, many of them impoverished immigrants from Ireland, Hungary, and other nations—in 1906 alone, more than four hundred workers died in steel plant accidents. In response, unionists like Philip Murray, John L. Lewis, Samuel Gompers, and Gus Hall began to battle for fair wages, hours, and working conditions. Managers like Judge Elbert Gary and Tom Girdler opposed their every move. Tensions from issues of immigration, class, skill, and race erupted throughout the industry. The tribulations led to widespread steel strikes directed by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, and a war that killed scores and injured thousands. In this book, industrial relations expert Dale Richard Perelman charts the struggle and decline of the nation’s most prominent regional steel industry.
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Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Trautman/Troutman Family History written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [B] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 394 pages
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Download or read book Pennsylvania Heritage written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
