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Discovering African American St. Louis

Author : John Aaron Wright
Publisher : Missouri History Museum
ISBN 13 : 9781883982454
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Discovering African American St. Louis written by John Aaron Wright and published by Missouri History Museum. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Americans have been part of the story of St. Louis since the city's founding in 1764. Unfortunately, most histories of the city have overlooked or ignored their vital role, allowing their influence and accomplishments to go unrecorded or uncollected; that is, until the publication of Discovering African American St. Louis: A Guide to Historic Sites in 1994. A new and updated 2002 edition is now available to take readers on a fascinating tour of nearly four hundred African American landmarks. From the boyhood home of jazz great Miles Davis in East St. Louis, Illinois, to the site of the house that sparked the landmark Shelley v. Kraemer court case, the maps, photographs, and text of Discovering African American St. Louis record a history that has been neglected for too long. The guidebook covers fourteen regions east and west of the Mississippi that represent St. Louis's rich African American heritage. In the words of historian Gary Kremer, "No one who reads this book and visits and contemplates the places and peoples whose stories it recounts will be able to look at St. Louis in the same way ever again."

Behind the Scenes

Author : Elizabeth Keckley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195060843
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Scenes written by Elizabeth Keckley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a salve and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. Through the eyes of this black woman, we see a wide range of historical figures and events of the antebellum South, the Washington of the Civil War years, and the final stages of the war.

Lost Caves of St. Louis

Author : Hubert Rother
Publisher : Virginia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781891442278
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Lost Caves of St. Louis written by Hubert Rother and published by Virginia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Midwest Maize

Author : Cynthia Clampitt
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252096878
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Midwest Maize written by Cynthia Clampitt and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so prolific, so protean, that it represents nothing less than one of humankind's greatest achievements. Blending history with expert reportage, she traces the disparate threads that have woven corn into the fabric of our diet, politics, economy, science, and cuisine. At the same time she explores its future as a source of energy and the foundation of seemingly limitless green technologies. The result is a bourbon-to-biofuels portrait of the astonishing plant that sustains the world.

100 Things to Do in Saint Louis Before You Die

Author : Amanda E. Doyle
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1935806505
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book 100 Things to Do in Saint Louis Before You Die written by Amanda E. Doyle and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let’s face it: St. Louis is a big city, and life is short. Whether it’s moving some “must dos” to the “done” column of your bucket list or finding fresh ways to spend your summer in the city, this handy compendium will make the most of your minutes. Bike the Riverfront Trail to the Chain of Rocks Bridge, sip a chocolate malt at Crown Candy Kitchen, hold your breath during the high-wire act at Circus Flora, or admire the architectural and design splendor of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ebsworth Park home: you just gotta do it! One hundred ways to connect with your town await! Special features include insider tips on getting the most from your stops and themed itineraries for the truly adventurous.

The Life of Ulysses Grant (Vol. 1&2)

Author : Ulysses S. Grant
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8027241685
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Ulysses Grant (Vol. 1&2) written by Ulysses S. Grant and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook edition of "The Life of Ulysses Grant" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Ulysses S. Grant served as the Commanding General and the 18th President of the United States. He cooperated closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. Grant implemented Reconstruction with the support of Congress. Main focus of Grant's writing in this autobiography is on his military career during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. Original edition of Grant's Memoirs was published by Mark Twain shortly after Grant's death.

The Gateway Arch

Author : Tracy Campbell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300169493
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Gateway Arch written by Tracy Campbell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThe surprising history of the spectacular Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the competing agendas of its supporters, and the mixed results of their ambitious plan/div

Desloge Chronicles - A Tale of Two Continents - An Amazing Family's Journey - Volume One

Author : Christopher Desloge
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 130056976X
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Desloge Chronicles - A Tale of Two Continents - An Amazing Family's Journey - Volume One written by Christopher Desloge and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-12-30 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desloge Chronicles, A Tale of Two Continents is a monograph of an amazing family's journey supported by genealogical summaries which provide solid provenance. Situated in France and America, this is an authentic historical narrative built around one family's 600 letters dating from 200 years, providing live-action reality present at France & the French Revolution and the American Frontier. Based upon one of the largest bodies of vibrant correspondence written from the turn of the 1800s, we are able to peer into the scene of teeming wildlife and Native American Indians in the young America expanding from this family's French nobility on the young American frontier and then blooming into titanic industrialists and caring naturalists and philanthropists. Within this monograph, historical fact, studied historical research, and expanded narrative craft a compelling legend of the prominent Desloge family. More than simply cold chronology of facts, these are "action figures".

Renaissance

Author : Candace O'Connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681061245
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance written by Candace O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as stately trees in Forest Park were coming down to make way for the 1904 World's Fair, elegant homes -- designed by the city's best architects and occupied by its elite-- were springing up on surrounding streets, as a vast building boom began. And that was the start of the St. Louis neighborhood called the Central West End, which quickly grew from a sleepy rural outpost to an address for fashionable people and shops, fine cultural institutions and congregations, high-class hotels and hospitals.That halcyon period did not last, however. Through the years, various factors -- the growth of the suburbs, white flight, the cost of maintaining huge homes, the rise of rooming houses, the disheartening effect of smoke and urban smells -- drove some of the well-to-do farther west, and the Central West End foundered. Though residents, religious groups, and some politicians tried to stop the slide, fine homes disappeared and hospitals fled. At this point, the Washington University Medical Center also faced a choice: stay or go? They decided to hold their ground and mounted a revitalization effort that succeeded, with the support of the resilient community.Today, the Central West End is again undergoing a boom as condominiums go up, businesses come to life, and historic streets find new vitality. To the east, an exciting biotechnology district, Cortex Innovation Community, is building upon its success. Renaissance: A History of the Central West End traces the Central West End's cycle over the past century and more: from its stylish start through its dangerous days to its present strength -- an urban renewal significant enough that it has earned the name "renaissance."

American City

Author : Robert Sharoff
Publisher : Images Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1864704292
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book American City written by Robert Sharoff and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Louis is one of the most architecturally impressive cities in the United States, with a heritage of innovative design stretching back to the early 1800s. This is reflected in the architecture of the downtown area and surrounding neighborhoods. More than just about any city in America, St. Louis embraced the imposing forms and lush ornamentation of the Beaux Arts tradition. Indeed, one can make the argument that only Washington, D.C. in the United States has a more impressive collection of classically inspired structures. American City: St. Louis Architecture is the first large-format book on the city's architecture since the 1920s, and includes over 100 new color photographs and text for 50 of the city's most important structures. These range from such 19th Century masterpieces as Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building, Alfred Mullet's Old Post Office and Theodore Link's Union Station, to Eero Saarinen's Gateway Arch, Tadao Andao's Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts Building and Maya Lin's recently completed Ellen Clark Hope Plaza.

A History Lover's Guide to St. Louis

Author : Vicki Berger Erwin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439677034
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book A History Lover's Guide to St. Louis written by Vicki Berger Erwin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take an Historic Tour through the Gateway City St, Louis is well known for its stunning arch that represents the Gateway to the West. But the city has many more exciting landmarks and historic sites that offer a glimpse into the past. Join Author Vicki Berger Erwin as she guides you through the rich past of an iconic city.

The History of the Desloge Family in America

Author : Christopher Desloge
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304244067
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The History of the Desloge Family in America written by Christopher Desloge and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Desloge family in America is known as a great industrialist, philanthropic, religious and naturalist family spanning 200 years in America and is one of the oldest French families in Missouri and St. Louis. It has taken the vital force and verve of great families to build great business in America; and build a country of increasing middle-class consumers as well. Tycoons like Carnegie, Rockefeller, Guggenheim, Gould and Morgan - greats of the gilded age have made a real impression on industry and the increase in the human condition from those industries. Other families have made their mark in much the same way - such as Kellogg and Wrigley. Steel, railroads, finance, cereal, chewing gum. In lead, the name is Desloge. Starting with entrepreneurial zeal by wildcatting in mining in Missouri and also in the California Gold Rush, among these famous names, the Desloge family became - and today represents - industrial and social titans in Missouri and American history.

The Broken Heart of America

Author : Walter Johnson
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541646061
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book The Broken Heart of America written by Walter Johnson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past. St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike—a legacy of resistance that endures. A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States.

Good Order and Safety

Author : Allen Eugene Wagner
Publisher : Missouri History Museum
ISBN 13 : 1883982634
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Good Order and Safety written by Allen Eugene Wagner and published by Missouri History Museum. This book was released on 2008 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the beginnings of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, from 1861 to 1906, when St. Louis was the fourth-largest city in the United States"--Provided by publisher.

Secret St. Louis: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

Author : David Baugher
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1681060396
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Secret St. Louis: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure written by David Baugher and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where in St. Louis can you… …picnic at a radioactive waste dump? …learn what West County Center’s famous dove really represents? …visit the grave of the man who burned Atlanta? …join a nudist resort? …view a cube comprised of a million dollar bills? …see a piece from New York’s Twin Towers? …find out exactly what a Billiken is? Whether you are piloting a simulated barge on the Mississippi River, exploring the hidden history of Abraham Lincoln’s bizarre swordfight in St. Charles County or eating a ten-pound apple-pie in Kimmswick inspired by the Great Flood of 1993, it is hard to get bored with a copy of Secret St. Louis: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. By turns wistful and whimsical, this is a book which answers the questions you never knew you had about St. Louis while taking readers on a whirlwind tour through 97 unique but often little-known spaces and places that can’t be found anywhere else. A tourist handbook for people who thought they never needed one, “Secret St. Louis” provides a scavenger hunt of hidden gems traversing the somber, strange, surprising and silly locales which define the culture and history that make St. Louis such a diverse and amazing place to call home. From Weldon Spring to Wildwood, from Overland to O’Fallon, from Bellefontaine to Bridgeton, this is an exploration of St. Louis’s odds and ends like no other.

Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis

Author : William Hyde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis written by William Hyde and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

STL Scavenger: The Ultimate Search for St. Louis's Hidden Treasures

Author : Dea Hoover
Publisher : Reedy Press
ISBN 13 : 9781681063102
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book STL Scavenger: The Ultimate Search for St. Louis's Hidden Treasures written by Dea Hoover and published by Reedy Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for a new way to explore the St. Louis region? Get out your magnifying glass, or zoom in on your camera to find these buildings, businesses, statues, and architectural details on a scavenger hunt! Follow the photos and cryptic clues to spot the places hidden in plain sight in fifteen neighborhoods around the city. We hope you will search and find out the history and story behind each one on your quest to finish. Plan a day for each section and linger behind to enjoy the shops, restaurants and parks along your trail of discovery from Clayton to Webster and many other destinations in between. Show family and friends a unique way to visit. Or enjoy a staycation with an added twist of mystery and intrigue. Local tour guide Dea Hoover brings her expert eye and love of the city to this one-of-a-kind experience. Once you've embarked on this St. Louis Scavenger, you'll never see the city the same way again.