Halsey, John R.

Summary: "Discusses how nineteenth-century explorers and miners discovered evidence of prehistoric copper mining in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and how that discovery ultimately led to the destruction of the prehistoric archaeological sites they found"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan, The Museum of Anthropology 2018

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Summary: "Women poets in nineteenth-century France made important contributions to major stylistic innovations - from the birth of elegiac Romanticism to the inauguration of free verse - and many were prominent in their lifetime. Yet only a few are known today, and nearly all have been unavailable in English translation. Of the fourteen poets of this anthology - the third bilingual volume in the MLA...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Language Association of America 2008

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Hart, Roger

Summary: Using contemporary documents, paintings, and other primary source material describes the century that included the Civil War and the Great Fire and Plague.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1971

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Katzman, David M.

Summary: This volume helps fill the gap between slavery and the ghetto in both urban and black history. The author examines a nineteenth century black community in depth, Detroit, and shows that although slavery was abolished in Michigan in 1837, racial distinctions remained in the law and a caste-like social system locked most blacks into an inferior status.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 1973

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Orser, Joseph Andrew.

Summary: Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit as "freaks of nature" and "Oriental curiosities." More famously known as the Siamese twins, they eventually settled in rural North Carolina, married two white sisters, became slave owners, and fathered...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2014

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English, Charlie

Summary: "This is a tragedy that begins in the halls of psychiatry and modern art and ends in the Nazis' first gas chambers. In the early 1920s, Hans Prinzhorn, a psychiatrist and aesthete, sought insight from the art of mental patients such as Franz Buhler. Buhler was a brilliant, well-known ironworker until his schizophrenia diagnosis, and his work was compared to that of Munch and Duhrer. Prinzhorn...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

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English, Charlie

Summary: The story of how a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts into hiding when al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines a fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017

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Wels, Susan

Summary: "It was heaven on earth--and, some whispered, the devil's garden. Thousands came by trains and carriages to see this new Eden, carved from hundreds of acres of wild woodland. They marveled at orchards bursting with fruit, thick herds of Ayrshire cattle and Cotswold sheep, and whizzing mills. They gaped at the people who lived in this place -- especially the women, with their queer cropped hair...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023

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Hodes, Martha Elizabeth.

Summary: Historian Martha Hodes brings us into the extraordinary world of Eunice Connolly. Born white and poor in New England, Eunice moved from countryside to factory city, worked in the mills, then followed her husband to the Deep South. When the Civil War came, Eunice's brothers joined the Union army while her husband fought and died for the Confederacy. Back in New England, a widow and the mother of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2006

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Jackson, Holly

Summary: "A character-driven narrative history about the nineteenth-century radicals--from Fanny Wright and Henry David Thoreau to John Brown and William Lloyd Garrison--who demanded that the United States live up to its revolutionary ideals, and what their successes and failures can teach us today"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019

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Harter, Jim.

Summary: The airport terminal, the most important building type in the world of transportation, is also the site of the most ambitious and innovative achievements in 20th-century architecture. From the timber runway used during the Wright Brothers' first powered flight to modern glass-and-steel structures, from military buildings housing fighter planes to public spaces for both travel and shopping,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2005

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Cunnington, C Willett

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Publisher / Publication Date: Plays, Inc. 1971

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Huler, Scott.

Contents: Introduction September 6, 1996: Hurricane Fran and before -- Beaufort of the Admiralty -- In search of the wind -- The Beaufort scale, and who wrote it, in a general way -- Reverse engineering the wind -- "Nature rightly questioned, never lies": the Beaufort scale, nineteenth-century science, and the last eighteenth-century man -- Getting the word out: on the Society for the Diffusion of Useful...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2004

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Macmillan, Margaret Burnham

Contents: v. 1. The nineteenth century.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan Area Methodist Historical Society 1967

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Summary: "In Spain in the 1840s, a group of women had begun to publish poetry. Their verse - Romantic, predominantly lyric, and often linked to liberal reform - was novel and controversial because few women had ventured into print. The poets collected in this anthology asserted in different ways their imagination and literary voice." "Anna-Marie Aldaz offers a discussion of Spanish versification as well...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Language Association of America 2009

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Various authors.

Contents: To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf. -- The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka. -- The prussian officer / D. H. Lawrence. -- The waste land / T.S. Eliot. -- Mourning becomes electra / Eugene O'Neill. -- The great gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald. -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner. -- Mother courage and her children / Bertolt Brecht. -- The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway. --...

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Publisher / Publication Date: EncyclopŒdia Britannica 1990

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Ferrell, Lori Anne

Contents: The Bible and the people -- The eye of the beholder : the English Bible, c. 1066-1200 -- On the road and in the street : the English Bible, c. 1200-1500 -- The politics of translation : the Bible in English, c. 1500-1700 -- Missions and markets : the Bible in America, c. 1600-1800 -- On not understanding the Bible -- Extra-illustrating the Bible -- Traveling companion : the Bible in the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2008

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Brill, Marlene Targ.

Summary: Explores the political, social, cultural and economic developments that shaped America during the 1980s and highlights the people, inventions, innovations and landmark events that defined the decade.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010

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Brill, Marlene Targ.

Summary: Looks at life in the United States in the 1990s, discussing notable people, events and developments in politics, society, the economy, culture and technology.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010

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Summary: "The exposure of the body through representations of the nude was one of the most controversial issues in Victorian art. In an era that witnessed a broader audience for art and the development of new reproductive technologies, the nude was implicated in a variety of debates concerning public health and morals, which meant it could not be comfortably contained within the confines of high...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 2002

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Gilfoyle, Timothy J.

Contents: The trials of Quimbo Appo -- Urchins, Arabs, and gutter-snipes -- A house of refuge at sea -- Appo on: violence -- Factories for turning out criminals -- The "guns" of Gotham -- Drafted -- Opium dens and Bohemia -- The old homestead -- The dives -- Appo on: Jack Collins -- Tombs justice -- Appo on: Good fellows -- Fences -- "That galling yoke of servitude" -- Danny Driscoll and the Whyos --...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2006

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English, T. J.

Summary: "From T.J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

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