Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Everton's Family History Magazine
Author: Book Review Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
Book Description
Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.
Hoosiers and the American Story
Author: Madison, James H.Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
ISBN: 0871953633
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.
Official Congressional Directory
Author: United States. CongressPublisher: Joint Committee on Printing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1258
Book Description
Contains biographies of Senators, members of Congress, and the Judiciary. Also includes committee assignments, maps of Congressional districts, a directory of officials of executive agencies, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, web addresses, and other information.
Delta Empire
Author: Jeannie WhaynePublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080713855X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the fascinating history of a powerful plantation owner in the Arkansas delta to recount the evolution of southern agriculture from the late nineteenth century through World War II. After his father’s death in 1870, Robert E. “Lee” Wilson inherited 400 acres of land in Mississippi County, Arkansas. Over his lifetime, he transformed that inheritance into a 50,000-acre lumber operation and cotton plantation. Early on, Wilson saw an opportunity in the swampy local terrain, which sold for as little as fifty cents an acre, to satisfy an expanding national market for Arkansas forest reserves. He also led the fundamental transformation of the landscape, involving the drainage of tens of thousands of acres of land, in order to create the vast agricultural empire he envisioned. A consummate manager, Wilson employed the tenancy and sharecropping system to his advantage while earning a reputation for fair treatment of laborers, a reputation—Whayne suggests—not entirely deserved. He cultivated a cadre of relatives and employees from whom he expected absolute devotion. Leveraging every asset during his life and often deeply in debt, Wilson saved his company from bankruptcy several times, leaving it to the next generation to successfully steer the business through the challenges of the 1930s and World War II. Delta Empire traces the transition from the labor-intensive sharecropping and tenancy system to the capital-intensive neo-plantations of the post–World War II era to the portfolio plantation model. Through Wilson’s story Whayne provides a compelling case study of strategic innovation and the changing economy of the South in the late nineteenth century.
The Sterling Genealogy
Author: Iowa Official Register
Author: Genealogical Records of Descendants of John and Anthony Emery, of Newbury, Mass., 1590-1890
Author: Rufus EmeryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Genealogical Records of Descendants of John and Anthony Emery, Of Newbury, Mass., 1590-1890 by Rufus Emery, first published in 1890, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
The Carr Family Records
Author: Edson Irving CarrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carr family
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Underhill Genealogy
Author: J. C. FrostPublisher:
ISBN: 9780740450037
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1460
Book Description
Underhill Family