Absolutely hilarious-this is the captivating account of the Cornflake Crusade-that nineteenth-century evangelical movement of food faddists which brought ready-to-eat breakfast foods into every American home and put Battle Creek, Michigan, on the world map.
Filled with photographs, both historic and contemporary, this engaging book looks at the industrial pioneers of northwestern Ontario, and the activities which brought them to the wilderness: surveying, railroading, lumber, gold, bush piloting, transportation, and hydro power.
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the countrys shared history and culture.
Immokalee's Fields of Hope is a story of Mexican, Haitian, and Guatemalan immigrants told by a businesswoman who regained her soul through volunteering with children.
"e;Redbone has the ingredients of a blockbuster; a millionaire who wines and dines Atlanta's most attractive women, a brutal bludgeoning, and gold-diggers.
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the countrys shared history and culture.
Part of the inscription on the base of the San Jacinto Monument reads: Measured by its results, San Jacinto was one of the decisive battles of the world.
Grab your thinking as we probe every part of Presleys mysterious death, FBI involvement, and the sinister forces at work during the final days of his career.
El historiador Luis González convierte la parte -San José de Gracia, Michoacán, pequeña población que no aparece mencionada en ninguna historia de México, ni de su estado- en el todo, México, valiéndose para ello de un libro "cuyas páginas dicen más del proceso histórico de la vida mexicana que mil obras dedicadas a hilar las calamidades palaciegas de las elites", como dice Héctor Aguilar Camín.
A special gift edition of one of the most important and influential documents in our nations historyfeatured in Lin-Manuel Mirandas Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Hamilton: An American Musicalstylishly packaged for twenty-first-century readers.
The romantic history of the northern section of Greater New York from the days of Jonas Bronk, after whom the Bronx was named, through the centuries crowded with events that have issued into the present.
"Creo que habría que destacar de este magnífico libro tres aspectos principales: su relevante sistema de categorías analíticas, su amplia información histórica y su tesis central de que todos los procesos emancipatorios exitosos resultaron de la conveniente conjugación de una actitud de insubordinación ideológica para con el pensamiento dominante y de un eficaz impulso estatal.
Since Washington Irving with delicious humor satirized the Dutchmen who founded New York, many writers have handled the history of America's chief city.
Betty Boyd Caroli's engrossing and informative First Ladies is both a captivating read and an essential resource for anyone interested in the role of America's First Ladies.
"e;The concept of jubilee has its roots,"e; notes Nancy Roth in her foreword, "e;in the idea of sabbath-a time of 're-creation, reordering, and release.
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the countrys shared history and culture.
A sweeping, straightforward primer on foreign policy that revisits topics including the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, China, Pakistan and beyond.
Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The definitivehistory of combat aviation andfighter aircraft, from World War I to present INCLUDES 32 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND 12 MAPSLords of the Skyisthe dramatic, fast-paced, and definitive"e; (Michael Korda) history of fighter pilots and aircraftand their extraordinary influence on modern warfare,masterfully written by "e;one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history (New York Post).
THE OLD LADY OF VINE STREET REVEALEDThese days the notion of a free press is almost an entirely foreign concept, and its ever-diminishing presence in our society has shown itself to be a thief of true democracy.
In the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players--including Shoeless Joe Jackson--agreed to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for the promise of $20,000 each from gamblers reportedly working for New York mobster Arnold Rothstein.
Fought amid rocks and trees, in thick blinding smoke, and under exceedingly stressful conditions, the battle for the southern slope of Little Round Top on July 2, 1863 stands among the most famous and crucial military actions in American history, one of the key engagements that led to the North's victory at Gettysburg.
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the countrys shared history and culture.
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the countrys shared history and culture.
Letters from the Globemaster Families: The Lost C-124 of Mount Gannett, Alaska gathers evidence and presents the most likely description of the final flight of a United States Air Force troop transport plane carrying fifty-two servicemen.
The ballad "e;John Henry"e; is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry--the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock faster than a steam drill--is a towering figure in our culture.
