Author: Gina LovelessPublisher: Diary of a 5th Grade Outlaw
ISBN: 9781524855741
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Includes preview of: Diary of a 5th grade outlaw, The bucks bandit.
The Friend Thief
Author: Gina LovelessPublisher: Diary of a 5th Grade Outlaw
ISBN: 9781524855741
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Includes preview of: Diary of a 5th grade outlaw, The bucks bandit.
Milestone Documents in American History-Vol. 2
Author: Paul FinkelmanPublisher: Salem Press
ISBN: 9780979775826
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
A new series combining full-text primary source documents with expert analysis and commentary.
Diary of a 5th Grade Outlaw
Author: Gina LovelessPublisher: Diary of a 5th Grade Outlaw
ISBN: 9781524855482
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Includes excerpt from Diary of a 5th grade outlaw: The friend thief.
The Literary Digest International Book Review
Author: Clifford SmythPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Pirates of the Prairie
Author: Ken LizzioPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493036580
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The dramatic story of outlaws and vigilantes on the American frontier invariably calls to mind the Wild West of the latter nineteenth century. Yet, there was an earlier frontier, Illinois, that was every bit as wild and lawless as Dodge City or Tombstone. Between 1835 and 1850 several hundred outlaws and desperadoes descended on the prairie state, holding up stagecoaches, robbing homes and individuals, rustling cattle and horses, counterfeiting, murdering, and terrorizing residents with virtual impunity. In a state that was mostly wilderness, outlaws went undetected for years, often masquerading as law-abiding farmers and merchants while preying on isolated settlers and passing emigrants. If it was hard to detect the pirates, it was harder still to capture them and bring them to justice. With law enforcement incapable of checking outlaws, frustrated citizens eventually took matters into their own hands, administering frontier justice—vigilantism. Posses were formed; outlaws were swept from their lairs and whipped, shot, or hanged. Sometimes the miscreants got their just desserts; other times, the use of public tribunals to enact personal vendettas led to abuses, even chaos. Pirates of the Prairie brings the story of these wild times to life.
Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900, Volume 2
Author: David NemecPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803235321
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
"The business of baseball and player transactions by David Ball"-- t.p.
The Coffin Ship
Author: Cian T. McMahonPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479820539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Honorable Mention, Theodore Saloutos Book Award, given by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society A vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great Famine The standard story of the exodus during Ireland’s Great Famine is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In The Coffin Ship, a groundbreaking work of transnational history, Cian T. McMahon offers a vibrant, fresh perspective on an oft-ignored but vital component of the migration experience: the journey itself. Between 1845 and 1855, over two million people fled Ireland to escape the Great Famine and begin new lives abroad. The so-called “coffin ships” they embarked on have since become infamous icons of nineteenth-century migration. The crews were brutal, the captains were heartless, and the weather was ferocious. Yet the personal experiences of the emigrants aboard these vessels offer us a much more complex understanding of this pivotal moment in modern history. Based on archival research on three continents and written in clear, crisp prose, The Coffin Ship analyzes the emigrants’ own letters and diaries to unpack the dynamic social networks that the Irish built while voyaging overseas. At every stage of the journey—including the treacherous weeks at sea—these migrants created new threads in the worldwide web of the Irish diaspora. Colored by the long-lost voices of the emigrants themselves, this is an original portrait of a process that left a lasting mark on Irish life at home and abroad. An indispensable read, The Coffin Ship makes an ambitious argument for placing the sailing ship alongside the tenement and the factory floor as a central, dynamic element of migration history.
The Field of Blood
Author: Joanne B. FreemanPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374717613
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
"One of the best history books I've read in the last few years." —Chris Hayes The Field of Blood recounts the previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF SMITHSONIAN'S BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR Historian Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery. These fights didn’t happen in a vacuum. Freeman’s dramatic accounts of brawls and thrashings tell a larger story of how fisticuffs and journalism, and the powerful emotions they elicited, raised tensions between North and South and led toward war. In the process, she brings the antebellum Congress to life, revealing its rough realities—the feel, sense, and sound of it—as well as its nation-shaping import. Funny, tragic, and rivetingly told, The Field of Blood offers a front-row view of congressional mayhem and sheds new light on the careers of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and other luminaries, as well as introducing a host of lesser-known but no less fascinating men. The result is a fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril.
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