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Book Synopsis Mississippi's No-Man's Land by : Marco Giardino
Download or read book Mississippi's No-Man's Land written by Marco Giardino and published by . This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil War Experiences Revealed by Family Letters A family in the southwestern corner of Hancock County, MS preserved hundreds of letters detailing their privations and fears, as well as the intrigues of the local citizenry. Their perseverance was truly heroic as they survived in spite of the demands of cavalry of both sides, while jayhawkers took what was left. Even as a vigilante committee assumed the duties of law and order in the community, this close-knit family tried to live and work normally, all the while maintaining their honor and integrity.
Book Synopsis No Man's Land by : Louis Raphael Nardini
Download or read book No Man's Land written by Louis Raphael Nardini and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dancing in No Man’s Land by : Brian Jennings
Download or read book Dancing in No Man’s Land written by Brian Jennings and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2018 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you tired of the conflict all around you? It happens over and over again. A political argument with a friend, a fight about racial issues on the internet, a disagreement with a coworker--at the first sign of conflict, we flee to a bunker with people who think like us and attack everyone else. We feel safe there, but it's killing us: killing families, friendships, civility, and discourse. Our fractured world desperately needs a different way: people who will speak gently, value truth, and think clearly. Dancing in No Man's Land is a rallying cry, a life-giving and practical journey into the way of Jesus that will revolutionize how you view conflict. You can choose to speak both truth and peace in the midst of war. You can step out of our bunkers and into no-man's land, where only brave souls tread. It may look like you're dodging cultural landmines. But you might just be learning how to dance.
Book Synopsis Multitribal Indians In Search of No Man's Land by : Carla Toney
Download or read book Multitribal Indians In Search of No Man's Land written by Carla Toney and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the American westward expansion, Chickamaugans, originally Cherokees, prioritized resistance to the U.S. government and Euro-American invaders. They signed treaties with Great Britain and Spain. Overlooked by scholars, it was the "diplomatic savvy" of Chickamaugan women and the support of their numerous allies, British loyalists, free persons of color, former slaves, and Native Americans from other nations, that made it possible for Chickamaugan resistance to last from 1775 to 1794. Carla Toney proves that, after the collapse of their resistance, many chose migration, not as individuals, but in migration clusters. She clearly elucidates the feudal patterns brought to the United States, the cultural fluidity of Indigenous nations, and migration as a form of resistance.
Book Synopsis Notes from No Man's Land by : Eula Biss
Download or read book Notes from No Man's Land written by Eula Biss and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A frank and fascinating exploration of race and racial identity Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays begins with a series of lynchings and ends with a series of apologies. Eula Biss explores race in America and her response to the topic is informed by the experiences chronicled in these essays -- teaching in a Harlem school on the morning of 9/11, reporting for an African American newspaper in San Diego, watching the aftermath of Katrina from a college town in Iowa, and settling in Chicago's most diverse neighborhood. As Biss moves across the country from New York to California to the Midwest, her essays move across time from biblical Babylon to the freedman's schools of Reconstruction to a Jim Crow mining town to post-war white flight. She brings an eclectic education to the page, drawing variously on the Eagles, Laura Ingalls Wilder, James Baldwin, Alexander Graham Bell, Joan Didion, religious pamphlets, and reality television shows. These spare, sometimes lyric essays explore the legacy of race in America, artfully revealing in intimate detail how families, schools, and neighborhoods participate in preserving racial privilege. Faced with a disturbing past and an unsettling present, Biss still remains hopeful about the possibilities of American diversity, "not the sun-shininess of it, or the quota-making politics of it, but the real complexity of it."
Book Synopsis From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi 1769-1776 by : Theodore Roosevelt
Download or read book From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi 1769-1776 written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mark Twain's Mississippi River by : Peter Schilling
Download or read book Mark Twain's Mississippi River written by Peter Schilling and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An illustrated history of the Mississippi River in Mark Twain's life and works. Includes sketches from early editions of Twain's classics, and full-color paintings, postcards, photographs, and maps"--
Book Synopsis Comprehensive Flood Control Plan for Ohio and Lower Mississippi Rivers by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
Download or read book Comprehensive Flood Control Plan for Ohio and Lower Mississippi Rivers written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mississippi Entrepreneurs by : Polly Dement
Download or read book Mississippi Entrepreneurs written by Polly Dement and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in Mississippi Entrepreneurs collectively draw attention to the tenacious and courageous journeys of Mississippi men and women who risk fortune and futures to create successful enterprises. Most tell “how they did it” uniquely and in their own words, bringing to life their entrepreneurial spirits. Family members and former colleagues pick up the storyline for legendary entrepreneurs who have passed on, recalling vividly the characteristics that set them apart from the competition. Usually a passion for creation inspired these go-getters—whether casting red-hot liquid steel into industrial products (Fred Wile, Meridian); constructing buildings (Roy Anderson III, Gulfport; Bill Yates Jr., Philadelphia; and William Yates III, Biloxi); making agricultural products grow (Janice and Allen Eubanks, Lucedale; and Mike Sanders, Cleveland); delivering and installing furniture (Johnnie Terry, Jackson); using technology to improve systems (John Palmer and Joel Bomgar, and Toni and Bill Cooley, Jackson; and Billy and Linda Howard, Laurel); expanding food operations (Dr. S. L. Sethi, Jackson; and Don Newcomb, Oxford); or sharing the sheer love of music (Hartley Peavey, Meridian), food (Robert St. John, Hattiesburg), art (Erin Hayne and Nuno Gonçalves Ferreira, Jackson), or books (John Evans, Jackson; and Richard Howorth, Oxford). Social and cultural entrepreneurs made their marks as well, including those focused on social justice (Martha Bergmark, Jackson); access to health care (Aaron Shirley, Jackson); and public education (Jack Reed, Tupelo). Few if any books have focused exclusively on this aspect of the state's history. Altogether the stories, accompanied by seventy black-and-white photographs, illustrate common traits, including plentiful vision, fierce drive, willingness to take risks and change for a better way, the ability to innovate, solve problems, and turn luck (both good and bad) to advantage. Most of these entrepreneurs generously share the rewards of their hard work and ingenuity with their communities.
Book Synopsis Finding the Wild West: Along the Mississippi by : Mike Cox
Download or read book Finding the Wild West: Along the Mississippi written by Mike Cox and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern-day explorer's guide to the Old West From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the states Along the Mississippi, including Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota--one of the five-volume Finding the Wild West series--highlights the best preserved historic sites as well as ghost towns, reconstructions, museums, historical markers, statues, works of public art that tell the story of the Old West. Use this book in planning your next trip and for a storytelling overview of America’s Wild West history.
Book Synopsis A Short History of the Mississippi Valley by : James Kendall Hosmer
Download or read book A Short History of the Mississippi Valley written by James Kendall Hosmer and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mississippi Delta and the World by : James C. Cobb
Download or read book The Mississippi Delta and the World written by James C. Cobb and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1995-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one knew the Mississippi Delta more intimately or told its story more eloquently than did David L. Cohn (1894-1960). Between 1935 and 1960 he produced ten books including his best known, God Shakes Creation, later expanded into Where I Was Born and Raised -- and scores of articles and essays, including more than sixty such pieces in the Atlantic Monthly alone. One of his greatest frustrations, however, was not finding time to organize and prepare for publication the memoir he began in 1953. James C. Cobb discovered Cohn's memoir in 1985 in the David L. Cohn Collection at the University of Mississippi. Struck by its richness and convinced that it should be published, he undertook the task of arranging and editing the material. What Cobb has brought forth is an immensely valuableand entertaining work of both literary and historical significance that plots one extraordinary man's course through the changes of the twentieth century. Cohn was in essence a "cosmopolitan provincial," an observer who realized that the problems and circumstances of the Delta were at the same time unique and universal. A native of Greenville, he was educated at the University of Virginia and Yale University Law School. A brief but highly successful career in business allowed him to pursue his dream of being a writer. He traveled widely but remained faithful to his Delta roots, counting among his close friends both William Alexander Percy and Hodding Carter. He was intensely interested in politics and served as speechwriter for Democratic party leaders, including Adlai Stevenson, George McGovern, and Lyndon Johnson. Lamenting the trend toward overspecialization, Cohn did not shrink from expressing his views on a wide array of topics: race and religion, free trade and internationalism, technology and culture, and materialism and matrimony, among others. Southern to the marrow and an almost zealously patriotic American, he was also a Jew, and he managed a harmonious integration of all three identities rather than the separation or suppression of any one. In his Introduction, Cohn describes his memoir as "primarily an evocation of persons and places... the physical and spiritual terrain of my youth," a period that takes him from birth through approximately 1934. Cobb picks up the thread in a concluding essay, surveying Cohn's later life and analyzing his literary career in light of his southern origins, racial views, ethnic ties, and internationalist perspective. Perhaps better than any other single work by Cohn, The Mississippi Delta and the World reveals that he was a truly learned commentator on the human condition, one who benefited enormously both from his travels and from his determination to maintain his ties to the place where he was "born and raised."
Book Synopsis The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner by : John T. Matthews
Download or read book The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner written by John T. Matthews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new Companion offers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner in the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis The Winning of the West: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by : Theodore Roosevelt
Download or read book The Winning of the West: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Winning of the West: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776', Theodore Roosevelt meticulously examines the early stages of westward expansion in America. Written in a detailed and engaging style, the book offers a comprehensive historical account of the challenges and triumphs faced by pioneers during the pivotal years of 1769 to 1776. Roosevelt's vivid descriptions and insightful analysis provide a valuable resource for readers interested in American history and frontier life. The book is a blend of narrative storytelling and scholarly research, making it accessible to both casual readers and academic audiences. The literary context of the book showcases Roosevelt's passion for American heritage and his dedication to preserving its historical significance. A prominent political figure and a dedicated historian, Theodore Roosevelt's personal experiences in the American West undoubtedly influenced his decision to write 'The Winning of the West'. As a former President of the United States and an avid outdoorsman, Roosevelt had a deep connection to the land and its history. His unique perspective and firsthand knowledge add depth and authenticity to the narrative, making it a compelling read for anyone interested in the country's frontier past. I highly recommend 'The Winning of the West' to history enthusiasts, students, and anyone eager to learn more about the early American frontier. With its engaging prose and thorough research, this book offers a captivating journey through a crucial period in the nation's development, shedding light on the challenges and triumphs of the pioneers who shaped the American West.
Book Synopsis Back to Mississippi by : Geraldine Hollis
Download or read book Back to Mississippi written by Geraldine Hollis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mississippi Got the Message! Imagine being one of nine students out of five hundred, chosen to change history. Imagine having such great impact on the Sovereignty Commission and the white citizens of Mississippi that the state eventually made a 180 degree turn in its attitude towards its black citizens. Imagine what kind of person could be involved in such a thing. Or just read the book!
Book Synopsis Mississippi River - Gulf Outlet. Hearings on H.R. 6309 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Download or read book Mississippi River - Gulf Outlet. Hearings on H.R. 6309 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Weapons of Mississippi by : Kevin Dougherty
Download or read book Weapons of Mississippi written by Kevin Dougherty and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mississippians have long found the need for an arsenal of interesting, lethal, and imaginative weapons. Native Americans, frontier outlaws, antebellum duelists, authorities and protestors in the civil rights struggle, and present-day hunters have used weapons to survive, to advance causes, or to levy societal control. In Weapons of Mississippi, Kevin Dougherty examines the roles weapons have played in twelve phases of state history. Dougherty not only offers technical background for these devices, but he also presents a new way of understanding the state's history-through the context and development of its weapons. Chapters in the book bring the story of Mississippi's weapons up to date with a discussion of the modern naval shipbuilders on the Coast and interviews with hunters keen to pass on family traditions. As Mississippi progressed from a sparsely populated wilderness to a structured modern society, management of weaponry became one of the main requirements for establishing centralized law and order. Indians, outlaws, runaway slaves, secessionists, and night riders have all posed challenges to the often better-armed authorities. Today, weapons unite Mississippians in the popular pastime of hunting deer, turkey, dove, rabbit, and even bear. In the state's social and cultural character, a shared lore and knowledge of hunting crosses age, racial, and economic lines. Weapons, once used for mere survival, have transformed into instruments masterfully crafted for those harvesting the state's abundant game.
