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OBIT. Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People who Led Extraordinary Lives
Jim Sheeler
Pruett Publishing Company
Pruett Publishing Company
Most of the people in this book will die before the fifth paragraph. You probably haven't heard of any of them. That doesn't mean it s a book about nobodies. That doesn't mean it s a book about death. The obituaries collected here are at times...
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Picturing New York
Gloria Deak
Columbia University Press
Columbia University Press
In this lavishly illustrated volume of historical vignettes, Deák charts the birth and development of this incomparable city. Each of the fourteen essays explores a different facet of New York's history, ranging from the religious pluralism it...
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Indiana: A HISTORY
Howard H. Peckham
University of Illinois Press
University of Illinois Press
For much of Indiana's history, its distinctiveness has lain in its typicality. It has embodied - and continues to embody - values and behavior that are specifically American. In the late eighteenth century Indiana was the heart of the Old Northwest,...
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The Indiana Way: A State History (Indiana)
James H. Madison
Indiana University Press
Indiana University Press
The Indiana Way traces the history of the Hoosier state from prehistoric times through the late twentieth century. The author argues that there had always been a distinctive Indiana way that rejects radical and extreme notions and movements and...
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Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory And Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery
Blanche M. G. Linden
University of Massachusetts Press
University of Massachusetts Press
Originally published in 1989, this book offers an insightful inquiry into the intellectual and cultural origins of Mount Auburn Cemetery, the first landscape in the United States to be designed in the picturesque style. Inspired by developments in...
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