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Legendary Locals of Bristol
The story of Bristol is the story of America, played out on the small stage of a lobster claw-shaped peninsula at the heart of Narragansett Bay. From the massacre and displacement of the first Americans to the rise of the merchant class; exploration; slavery; war and peace; the Industrial Revolution; waves of immigration--all these wildly disparate facets of the American experience have been represented and reflected within these 20 square miles. Bristol has been home to patriots and pirates; ministers and murderers; captains who dominated at the helms of whalers, battleships, and 12-meter sailboats; larger-than-life industrialists; Hollywood and Broadway royalty; artists, writers, musicians, and culinary visionaries. But the bulk of the threads in Bristol's remarkable tapestry are not bold-colored silk, bright metallic, or rich cashmere--most are simple and natural, unremarkably structured and hued, but each one quietly doing its part to form the strong, tightly-woven foundation of this very special place.
"River City": Memoirs of a Combat Chief Information Officer
In July 2006, Martin Hunt was a successful software sales professional with a wife, two sons, a happy life in Seattle, and a commitment to the U.S. Army that he was not sure he'd ever be called on to fulfill. A year later he was a resident of Camp Ramadi, a dusty outpost at the epicenter of Operation Iraqi Freedom. A senior officer surrounded by young men charged with the highly dangerous task of clearing improvised explosive devices from supply routes, Hunt soon grew to dread the call "River City" - the code for incoming casualties. Trapped between his "real" life in Seattle, visited through Skype and a furlough that seemed over before it began, and the hell of "River City," Hunt provides a window into the paradigm-shifting experience of deployment in the War on Terror: a story of faith, love, and life, interrupted.
National Parks of North America
Wild realms where time seems to stand still, North America's national parks hold lands in trust for future generations. Within these protected places, grand vistas will awe tomorrow's visitors as surely as they do today's. Nature rules here, sheltering its wild creatures, bestowing seasonal gifts of spring blossoms and fall colors, and shaping millenia-old masterpieces of rock - headlands, canyons, and mountains. Portraits of scenic strongholds, from Canada to Mexico, fill this stunning volume.
As If She Were Free
A groundbreaking collective biography narrating the history of emancipation through the life stories of women of African descent in the Americas.
Ben Franklin's Web Site
Explore the hidden niches of American history to discover the tug between our yearning for privacy and our insatiable curiosity. Book jacket.
The Deepest South
"A well-researched, skillfully-written, and carefully-argued diplomatic history examining connections between the United States, Brazil, Africa, and Europe as they relate to the transatlantic slave trade. Horne sheds considerable light upon the ideas, ruminations, and practices of U.S. nationals in their interactions with and encounters of Brazil over the question of slavery, especially from the mid-nineteenth century on, and makes a valuable and important contribution to our knowledge and understanding of (American) hemispheric relations and trajectories, both eventual and potential."--Michael A. Gomez, editor of Diasporic Africa: A ReaderDuring its heyday in the nineteenth century, the Afr...
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James DeWolf and the Rhode Island Slave Trade
An unsettling story of corruption and exploitation in the Ocean State from slave ships to politics. Over thirty thousand slaves were brought to the shores of colonial America on ships owned and captained by James DeWolf. When the United States took action to abolish slavery, this Bristol native manipulated the legal system and became actively involved in Rhode Island politics in order to pursue his trading ventures. He served as a member of the House of Representatives in the state of Rhode Island and as a United States senator, all while continuing the slave trade years after passage of the Federal Slave Trade Act of 1808. DeWolf's political power and central role in sustaining the state's economy allowed him to evade prosecution from local and federal authorities--even on counts of murder. Through archival records, author Cynthia Mestad Johnson uncovers the secrets of James DeWolf.
Civil Rights Chronicle
Chronicles the history of the civil rights movement in America from slavery to the present day and contains illustrated photographs, essays, and a timeline that documents such events as the Montgomery bus boycott, Freedom Rides, marches and sit-ins, and the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act of the mid-1960s.
Rhode Island History
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