Author: Robert S. GamblePublisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Alabama Catalog
Author: Robert S. GamblePublisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Historic Architecture in Alabama
Author: Robert S. GamblePublisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Huntsville Textile Mills & Villages
Author: Terri L. FrenchPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439661030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
In the early 1900s, Huntsville, Alabama, had more spindles than any other city in the South. Cotton fields and mills made the city a major competitor in the textile industry. Entire mill villages sprang up around the factories to house workers and their families. Many of these village buildings are now iconic community landmarks, such as the revitalized Lowe Mill arts facility and the Merrimack Mill Village Historic District. The "lintheads," a demeaning moniker villagers wore as a badge of honor, were hard workers. Their lives were fraught with hardships, from slavery and child labor to factory fires and shutdowns. They endured job-related injuries and illnesses, strikes and the Great Depression. Author Terri L. French details the lives, history and legacy of the workers.
William Walker's Wars
Author: Scott MartellePublisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613737327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot—and illegal—forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over. These efforts became known as filibustering, and their goal was to seize territory to create new independent fiefdoms, which would ultimately be annexed by the still-growing United States. Most failed miserably. William Walker was the outlier. Short, slender, and soft-spoken with no military background—he trained as a doctor before becoming a lawyer and then a newspaper editor—Walker was an unlikely leader of rough-hewn men and adventurers. But in 1856 he managed to install himself as president of Nicaragua. Neighboring governments saw Walker as a risk to the region and worked together to drive him out—efforts aided, incongruously, by the United States' original tycoon, Cornelius Vanderbilt. William Walker's Wars is a story of greedy dreams and ambitions, the fate of nations and personal fortunes, and the dark side of Manifest Destiny, for among Walker's many goals was to build his own empire based on slavery. This little-remembered story from US history is a cautionary tale for all who dream of empire.
New Serial Titles
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
Genealogist's Address Book. 6th Edition
Author: Elizabeth Petty BentleyPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806317960
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
This book is the answer to the perennial question, "What's out there in the world of genealogy?" What organizations, institutions, special resources, and websites can help me? Where do I write or phone or send e-mail? Once again, Elizabeth Bentley's Address Book answers these questions and more. Now in its 6th edition, The Genealogist's Address Book gives you access to all the key sources of genealogical information, providing names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, websites, names of contact persons, and other pertinent information for more than 27,000 organizations, including libraries, archives, societies, government agencies, vital records offices, professional bodies, publications, research centers, and special interest groups.
Periodical Source Index, 1847-1985: Families
Author: Periodical Source Index
Author: Periodical Source Index, 1847-1985: Places
Author: A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections
Author: Richard Upsher SmithPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611463459
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
This book contains letters from the Civil War of a Union officer, his fiancée, and some of their connections. The letters witness to their conviction that the pain of their four-year separation and other deprivations would help purify the country from the sin of slavery.