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Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
For more than two hundred years, New Haven, Connecticut, has had a particular proclivity for marking the passage of time. Residents of the Elm City celebrate their heritage in historic fashion, and they have carefully preserved fascinating relics from their city's past in local museums. Examine the first commemorative medal made for New Haven's 200th anniversary in 1838, which set the standard for Elm City celebrations. Other artifacts in the city's...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn.
New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her 35-year prison sentence); Naomi Klein, speaking from the Occupy Wall Street encampment...
New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her 35-year prison sentence); Naomi Klein, speaking from the Occupy Wall Street encampment...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
During World War I, New Haven was a hive of wartime activity. The city hummed with munition production from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, while food conservation campaigns, canning kitchens and book drives contributed to the war effort. Meanwhile, Walter Camp, father of American football, whipped recruits and city residents into shape with his fitness programs. The Knights of Columbus were also busy preparing their "Everyone Welcome! Everything...
Author
Publisher
Everest Media Llc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I visited my mother, who was confined to her apartment, and she had never before been outside without her. The house was filled with her favorite colors and neutral tones, which reminded me of the creamy mushroom casseroles on the dinner tables of my American cousins.
#2 My mother had never been outside the house without her. She hated the name of the flower...
Author
Publisher
Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
New EnglandMyths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. From vampires to an angel, a ghost rapper to a phantom ship, New EnglandMyths and Legends pulls back the...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
How did 121,000 Americans save their most beloved icon? Here is an inspiring story about the power we have when we all work together!
"All rise to this evocative, empowering offering." -- Kirkus Reviews
On America's 100th birthday, the people of France built a giant gift! It was one of the largest statues the world had ever seen -- and she weighed as much as 40 elephants! And when she arrived on our shores in 250 pieces,
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Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
From the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), an updated abridged edition of Reconstruction, the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America.
Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white—responded to the unprecedented changes
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
When it comes to presidential sex scandals, Bill Clinton’s wasn’t the first and it wasn’t the worst. In fact, there is a long history of presidential peccadilloes, but these all-too-human stories are rarely told and the details of White House marriages both happy and troubled remain hidden. Affairs of State reveals the intimate history of America’s first...
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Publisher
Lexington Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The African-American Experience in Nineteenth-Century Connecticut examines and analyzes the African-American experience in Connecticut as it was through primary sources. Theresa Vara-Dannen analyzes the language of real nineteenth-century Americans expressing the complexity of their thoughts and feelings about the racial issues of their times in a small state with very...
Author
Publisher
Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
These books, produced from the archives of the Library of Congress and edited by Vincent Virga, offer a glimpse into the history of the United States through rare historical full-color maps, narrative captions, and short essays. Combining 50 rare, beautiful, and diverse maps of the Nutmeg State from the collections of the Library of Congress, a foreword by Vincent Virga about the Library
54) The Whaling City
Author
Publisher
Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
From its beginnings New London's history is bound to the sea. Income from the whaling industry alone was fabulous. Yet the history of this unusual city at the mouth of the Thames, is one of many endeavors. Robert Decker has brought it all together, the pulse, the life, the excitement of a community over 325 years old. Illuminated by more than 150 photographs, documented with detailed reference material, there is high interest for both...
Author
Publisher
Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Connecticut’s War Governor is a biography of Jonathan Trumbull, who was governor from 1769 to 1784. Trumbull is one of the only Americans who served as governor of both a pre-Revolutionary colony and a post-Revolutionary state. Because of this he is credited as being one of the truly influential men in the formation of Connecticut.
As one phase of the Bicentennial...
As one phase of the Bicentennial...
Author
Publisher
Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
This is a biography of William Williams, a merchant, a delegate for Connecticut to the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. As the son of a minister, Williams studied theology and law at Harvard, and throughout his life religion was a great influence on his political presence.
As one phase of the Bicentennial observation, The American Revolution Bicentennial Commission...
As one phase of the Bicentennial observation, The American Revolution Bicentennial Commission...
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
During the five full years of his presidency (1964–1968), Lyndon Johnson initiated a breathtaking array of domestic policies and programs, including such landmarks as the Civil Rights Act, Head Start, Food Stamps, Medicare and Medicaid, the Immigration Reform Act, the Water Quality Act, the Voting Rights Act, Social Security reform, and Fair Housing. These and other “Great Society” programs reformed the federal government, reshaped intergovernmental
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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Florida is a state of transplants. Even people who relocated here decades ago still claim their birthplace as their home. They might change their mind if they knew that the Sunshine State owns one of the richest histories in the nation. Decades before the Pilgrims, the Spanish celebrated Thanksgiving in Florida. Centuries before the first St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York, the holiday was celebrated in St. Augustine, where urban renewal was underway...
60) Water for Hartford: The Story of the Hartford Water Works and the Metropolitan District Commission
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Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
How three men brought clean water to Hartford, on a massive scale
As good health is inextricably wedded to pure drinking water—and this particular concern looms larger every day—understanding delivery systems is almost as important as the water itself. Water for Hartford chronicles the century-long effort, beginning in the 1850s, to construct a viable, efficient water system. The story of Hartford's water works
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