Author: Wanda Ware DeGidioPublisher: Wanda DeGidio
ISBN: 1401099300
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Ware Family History
Author: Wanda Ware DeGidioPublisher: Wanda DeGidio
ISBN: 1401099300
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Once We Were Slaves
Author: Laura Arnold LeibmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197530494
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found herself at a dead end when it came to her grandmother's maternal line. Using family heirlooms to unlock the mystery of Moses's ancestors, Once We Were Slaves overturns the reclusive heiress's assumptions about her family history to reveal that her grandmother and great-uncle, Sarah and Isaac Brandon, actually began their lives as poor Christian slaves in Barbados. Tracing the siblings' extraordinary journey throughout the Atlantic World, Leibman examines artifacts they left behind in Barbados, Suriname, London, Philadelphia, and, finally, New York, to show how Sarah and Isaac were able to transform themselves and their lives, becoming free, wealthy, Jewish, and--at times--white. While their affluence made them unusual, their story mirrors that of the largely forgotten population of mixed African and Jewish ancestry that constituted as much as ten percent of the Jewish communities in which the siblings lived, and sheds new light on the fluidity of race--as well as on the role of religion in racial shift--in the first half of the nineteenth century.
American Women's History
Author: Susan WarePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199328331
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
What does American history look like with women at the center of the story? From Pocahantas to military women serving in the Iraqi war, this Very Short Introduction chronicles the contributions that women have made to the American experience from a multicultural perspective that emphasizes how gender shapes women's--and men's--lives.
Mother and I
Author: Ianto WarePublisher:
ISBN: 9780648848189
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Highly Commended, National Biography Award, 2022'If only all memoirs were like this: tautly written, droll yet poignant, vividly rendered, historically aware ... Ware brings his mother and their relationship to life with tender detachment, sharp detail and such attentiveness to her inner life that one might be reading a novel' Sydney Morning Herald/ The AgeAt the age of twenty-four, Dimity Ware received a kidney transplant. Her doctors told her she could never have children and would probably die in her thirties. In response, she announced her lesbianism, left her husband, and gave birth to a son.Ianto Ware revisits his childhood in suburban Adelaide, where his mother - single parent, lesbian feminist, and ardent socialist - waged a four-decade war on her conservative neighbourhood, primarily through the medium of gardening.Blending the loving wisdom of Ray Gaita, the emotional honesty of Jeanette Winterson, and the humour of Gerald Durrell, this is part family memoir, part history of working class life, and part homage to suburban eccentricity.Mother and I: the history of a wilful familycelebrates the force of character that defies conformity and the love that prevails against bigotry.
Todd Co, KY - Family Hist
Author: Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563111705
Category : Todd County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
The Lying Game
Author: Ruth WarePublisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 198214341X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of the “twisty-mystery” (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Turn of the Key comes Ruth Ware’s The Lying Game. Isa Wilde knows something terrible has happened when she receives a text from an old friend. Why would Kate summon her and their two friends to the seaside town where they briefly attended the Salten House boarding school together seventeen years ago? The four friends had quickly bonded over the Lying Game—a risky contest that involved tricking fellow boarders and faculty with their lies. Now reunited, Isa, Kate, Thea, and Fatima discover that their past lies had far-reaching effects and criminal implications that threaten them all. In order to protect their reputations, and their friendship, they must uncover the truth about what really happened all those years ago. Atmospheric and twisty, with just the right amount of chill, The Lying Game will have readers at the edge of their seats, not knowing who can be trusted in this tangled web of lies.
Mengele
Author: Gerald L. PosnerPublisher: Cooper Square Press
ISBN: 1461661161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death." From May 1943 through January 1945, Mengele selected who would be gassed immediately, who would be worked to death, and who would serve as involuntary guinea pigs for his spurious and ghastly human experiments (twins were Mengele's particular obsession). With authority and insight, Mengele examines the entire life of the world's most infamous doctor.
Howdy, I'm John Ware
Author: Ayesha CloughPublisher:
ISBN: 9781999108786
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
A Family's Civil Ware Struggles
Author: Maynard SheltonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781582752952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
North Carolina Family during the American Civil War.
Author: Harold Frederic