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Legislative Documents
Contains the reports of state departments and officials for the preceding fiscal biennium.
Early Kentucky Settlers
These are extracted court records.
The Late Victorian Navy
A reappraisal of the late Victorian Navy, the so-called `Dark Ages', showing how the period was crucial to the emergence of new technology defined by steel and electricity. In purely naval terms, the period from 1889 to 1906 is often referred to (and indeed passed over) as the `pre-Dreadnought era', merely a prelude to the lead-up to the First World War, and thus of relatively little importance; it has therefore received little consideration from historians, a gap which this book remedies by reviewing the late Victorian Navy from a radically new perspective. It starts with the Great Near East crisis of 1878 and shows how itsaftermath in the Carnarvon Commission and its evidence produced a pr...
The First Migrants
2024 Caroline Bancroft History Prize Winner from the Denver Public Library 2024 Nebraska Book Award Winner 2024 Spur Award Finalist 2024 Jon Gjerde Prize Honorable Mention for best book in Midwestern History The First Migrants recounts the largely unknown story of Black people who migrated from the South to the Great Plains between 1877 and 1920 in search of land and freedom. They exercised their rights under the Homestead Act to gain title to 650,000 acres, settling in all of the Great Plains states. Some created Black homesteader communities such as Nicodemus, Kansas, and DeWitty, Nebraska, while others, including George Washington Carver and Oscar Micheaux, homesteaded alone. All sought a...
