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Warfare State
Although common wisdom and much scholarship assume that "big government" gained its foothold in the United States under the auspices of the New Deal during the Great Depression, in fact it was the Second World War that accomplished this feat. Indeed, as the federal government mobilized for war it grew tenfold, quickly dwarfing the New Deal's welfare programs. Warfare State shows how the federal government vastly expanded its influence over American society during World War II. Equally important, it looks at how and why Americans adapted to this expansion of authority. Through mass participation in military service, war work, rationing, price control, income taxation, and the war bond program...
James Sparrow and Eliza Payne Morse of Boardman and Lower Salem, Ohio
James Sparrow (1830-1912) immigrated, with his parents, from Ireland to Ohio in 1834, and married in 1858. They moved to Missouri, and he served in the Civil War. In 1880 he went to Colorado looking for gold, and finally settled in New Mexico. Includes ancestry living in Ireland, England and elsewhere.
Sparrow
As an empire burns, he will rise from the ashes. Sparrow is the Sunday Times bestselling historical epic by James Hynes. An incredibly moving story of one boy's journey to freedom in the harsh world of the Roman Empire. Raised in a brothel at the edge of a dying empire, a boy of no known origin creates his own identity. He is Sparrow. Sparrow's world consists of a kitchen and herb-scented garden, a loud and dangerous tavern, and the mysterious upstairs where the wolves, the women who have shaped his world, conduct their business. Where freedom is only for a privileged few, Sparrow's life is hard-edged and violent. But change is coming. The world outside his garden is about to be reshaped, and as an empire crumbles, murder and mayhem will come to Sparrow's door. As the only family he's ever known scatters, will Sparrow fall - or fly? 'Utterly engrossing . . . this coming of age story reaches across millennia to grab us by the throat.' - Emma Donoghue, author of Room 'Masterful in its portrayal of love, sex and friendship' - The Observer
An American Town and the Vietnam War
Hundreds of young Americans from the town of Stamford, Connecticut, fought in the Vietnam War. These men and women came from all corners of the town. They were white and black, poor and wealthy. Some had not finished high school; others had graduate degrees. They served as grunts and helicopter pilots, battlefield surgeons and nurses, combat engineers and mine sweepers. Greeted with indifference and sometimes hostility upon their return home, Stamford's veterans learned to suppress their memories in a nation fraught with political, economic and racial tensions. Now in their late 60s and 70s, these veterans have begun to tell their stories.
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