Agnes in Virginia, June 1972
Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Floods
ISBN :
Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Floods
ISBN :
Author : Timothy W. Kneeland
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501748548
Hurricane Agnes struck the United States in June of 1972, just months before a pivotal election and at the dawn of the deindustrialization period across the Northeast. The response by local, state, and national officials had long-term consequences for all Americans. President Richard Nixon used the tragedy for political gain by delivering a generous relief package to the key states of New York and Pennsylvania in a bid to win over voters. After his landslide reelection in 1972, Nixon cut benefits for disaster victims and then passed legislation to push responsibility for disaster preparation and mitigation on to states and localities. The impact led to the rise of emergency management and inspired the development of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). With a particular focus on events in New York and Pennsylvania, Timothy W. Kneeland narrates how local, state, and federal authorities responded to the immediate crisis of Hurricane Agnes and managed the long-term recovery. The impact of Agnes was horrific, as the storm left 122 people dead, forced tens of thousands into homelessness, and caused billions of dollars in damage from Florida to New York. In its aftermath, local officials and leaders directed disaster relief funds to rebuild their shattered cities and reshaped future disaster policies. Playing Politics with Natural Disaster explains how the political decisions by local, state, and federal officials shaped state and national disaster policy and continues to influence emergency preparedness and response to this day.
Author : David Bradley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786494689
The Depression-era murder trial of George Crawford in Northern Virginia helped end the exclusion of African Americans from juries. Nearly forgotten today, the murders, ensuing manhunt, extradition battle and sensational trial enthralled the nation. Before it was over, the U.S. House of Representatives threatened to impeach a federal judge, the age-old states rights debate was renewed, and a rift nearly split the fledgling NAACP. In the end, the story's hero--Howard University Law School dean Charles Hamilton Houston--was the subject of public ridicule from critics who had little understanding of the inner workings of the case. This book puts the Crawford murder trial in its fullest context, side by side with relevant events of the time.
Author : Charles A. Perry
Publisher : Geological Survey (USGS)
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Water-supply
ISBN :
Author : Charles A. Fleming
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : Gannett Fleming Corddry and Carpenter
Publisher :
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 21,64 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Atlantic States
ISBN :
Author : Sarah Treem
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822232480
THE STORY: In the early 1970s, before Roe v. Wade, before the Violence Against Women Act, Agnes has turned her quiet bed and breakfast into one of the few spots where victims of domestic violence can seek refuge. But to Agnes’s dismay, her latest runaway, Mary Anne, is beginning to influence Agnes’s college-bound daughter Penny. As the drums of a feminist revolution grow louder outside of Agnes’s tiny world, Agnes is forced to confront her own presumptions about the women she’s spent her life trying to help.
Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 32,56 MB
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1416561226
The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. Then came May 31, 1889, when the dam burst, sending a wall of water thundering down the mountain, smashing through Johnstown, and killing more than 2,000 people. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal. Graced by David McCullough’s remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are necessarily behaving responsibly.
Author : Alexandra Schwartz
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,12 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 0870706608
This text examines the collection of feminist art in the Museum of Modern Art. It features essays presenting a range of generational and cultural perspectives.