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On Gold Mountain: The 100-Year Odyssey of a Chinese-American Family
Lisa See
St Martins Pr
St Martins Pr
Documenting the history of her own Chinese-American family, a journalist shares the results of five years of research, including interviews with nearly one hundred Chinese and Caucasian relatives, in a story of acceptance and discrimination....
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Survival Along the Continental Divide: An Anthology of Interviews
Jack Loeffler
University of New Mexico Press
University of New Mexico Press
For over forty years aural historian Jack Loeffler has wandered the West engaging people in conversations and recording those conversations for posterity. When asked by the New Mexico Humanities Council to produce an anthology of interviews that...
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Home on the Canal (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)
Elizabeth Kytle
The Johns Hopkins University Press
The Johns Hopkins University Press
This richly illustrated and engagingly written book tells the story of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal from its origins in George Washington's decision to link the nation's new capital with the western frontier; through the beginning of construction...
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Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution
Anthony F. C. Wallace
University of Nebraska Press
University of Nebraska Press
A celebrated triumph of historiography, Rockdale tells the story of the Industrial Revolution as it was experienced by the men, women, and children of the cotton-manufacturing town of Rockdale, Pennsylvania. The lives of workers, managers,...
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To the Royal Crown Restored (The Journals of Don Diego De Vargas)
University of New Mexico Press
University of New Mexico Press
On 4 October 1693 don Diego de Vargas left El Paso with eight hundred settlers and soldiers to reoccupy New Mexico. His account of organizing the colonizing expedition, leading the march up the Rio Grande valley, and eventually conquering Santa Fe...
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This Was New Jersey: As Seen by Photographer Harry C. Dorer
Rivergate Books
Rivergate Books
Harry C. Dorer roamed New Jersey for four decades from 1920 until 1954 with his boxy Speed Graphic camera, capturing for a weekly newspaper the images of what is now a vanished landscape. From the state's cities and villages to its rural areas to...
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