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History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire, and the City and Diocese of Lincoln
Valuable reference book, please ask at library issue desk.
History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folk Lore
A history of the Cherokee Indians, from conjectures about their possible origin of these peoples, to events in the early 1900s.
The House of Thompson
The text of this historical document recounts the story of two brothers, John Martin Thompson and William Wirt Thompson. It tells of the series of timber stands they purchased and sawmills they built to mill their timber in such East Texas towns as New and Old willard, Doucette, Grayburg, and Trinity. (from preface.).
The Conscience of a Lawyer
Clifford Judkins Durr was an Alabama lawyer who played an important role in defending activists and other accused of disloyalty during the New Deal and McCarthy eras. His uncompromising commitment to civil liberties and civic decency caused him to often take unpopular positions. In 1933, Durr moved to Washington to work as a lawyer for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, a creation of Roosevelt’s new Democratic administration, becoming a dedicated New Dealer in the process. He was then appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a politically sensitive position as FDR sought to counter the increasing power and concentration of broadcaste...
Nameless Towns
A comprehensive history of the sawmill towns of East Texas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sawmill communities were once the thriving centers of East Texas life. Many sprang up almost overnight in a pine forest clearing, and many disappeared just as quickly after the company “cut out” its last trees. But during their heyday, these company towns made Texas the nation’s third-largest lumber producer and created a colorful way of life that lingers in the memories of the remaining former residents and their children and grandchildren. Drawing on oral history, company records, and other archival sources, Sitton and Conrad recreate the lifeways of the sawmill communities. They des...
