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The Pillar of the Mountain
Between 1937-41, the tragic past of the fullback for the University of Kentucky football team was a guarded secret. No one was sure where he had come from. And no one knew why he never spoke about his family. All they knew was that Claude Hammond was extremely tough. Claude was an orphan from a mean Appalachian coal town. He witnessed his own mother's murder and lived on the streets before being taken in by distant family members. He knew, somehow, that he was his family's only hope for a future. Through courage and sheer determination, Claude transformed his own life and the lives of his family members, putting his own children as well as nieces and nephews through college. He was a catalyst, transforming a family from tragedy and poverty to education and prosperity. Claude kept his past a secret, even from his own children. As a college student in the 1970s, the author discovered the shocking facts about his father's childhood. How Claude overcame tragedy is an inspiring story.
The Four Pillars of the Mountain
Our family lived in suburban Louisville in the 1960s and '70s, but we were different from most. Our family had its roots in Appalachia, and functioned like a mountain clan, with my father as its patriarch. We knew all our uncles, aunts, first, second and third cousins and kept up with them. The family was a mountain of security. And while we were no longer in the mountains, there were dark secrets awaiting discovery, which explained strange facts of life which were never fully made clear to the younger generation. Whispered tales of a murder, imprisonment and revenge were sometimes overheard. Four people, pillars of the family, closely kept those secrets, and ensured that we would always stand together. The desperate children of a Depression-era widow in West Virginia stood together to lead a family into triumph and prosperity. Finally, these stories can be told.
The Oxford Handbook of African American Citizenship, 1865-Present
Collection of essays tracing the historical evolution of African American experiences, from the dawn of Reconstruction onward, through the perspectives of sociology, political science, law, economics, education and psychology. As a whole, the book is a systematic study of the gap between promise and performance of African Americans since 1865. Over the course of thirty-four chapters, contributors present a portrait of the particular hurdles faced by African Americans and the distinctive contributions African Americans have made to the development of U.S. institutions and culture. --From publisher description.
The Signal Corps
From the Preface: With this volume, third and last in the Signal Corps subseries, the authors close the book on the history of the Corps in World War II. They close it to the extent that they hereby complete the account as published in the UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II histories. But they hope that this volume, subtitled The Outcome, together with its predecessors, The Emergency, to Pearl Harbor Day, and The Test, to mid-1943, may open up to the military specialist, and to the general reader as well, new vistas of significance in the immense and complex scene of signal communications and electronics in World War II. The Signal Corps: The Outcome, continuing the chronological treatment g...
