Front Line Trail Blazers for Veterans of Washtenaw County Presents Unsung Heroes Celebration
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Page : 34 pages
File Size : 47,21 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Veterans
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Page : 34 pages
File Size : 47,21 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Veterans
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Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 981 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 1991-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 019974369X
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Author : Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson
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Page : 414 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Genealogy
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Author : Grand Rapids Intertribal Council
Publisher : Michigan Indian Press
Page : pages
File Size : 48,45 MB
Release : 2003-06-01
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ISBN : 9780961770723
Author : Jennifer Carlson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 22,20 MB
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199347565
From gang- and drug-related shootings to mass shootings in schools, shopping centers, and movie theatres, reports of gun crimes fill the headlines of newspapers and nightly news programs. At the same time, a different kind of headline has captured public attention: a steady surge in pro-gun sentiment among Americans. In Citizen-Protectors, Jennifer Carlson offers a compelling portrait of gun carriers, shedding light on Americans' complex relationship with guns. Delving headlong into the world of guns, Carlson participated in firearms training classes, attending pro-gun events, and carried a firearm herself. Through these experiences, she explores the role guns play in the lives of Americans who carry them and shows how, against a backdrop of economic insecurity and social instability, gun carrying becomes a means of being a good citizen. A much-needed counterpoint to the rhetorical battles over gun control, Citizen-Protectors is a captivating and revealing look at gun culture in America, and a must-read for anyone with a stake in this heated debate.
Author : Everett Guy Ballard
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Page : 322 pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Riparian rights
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Author : Lewis M. Gross
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Page : 698 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 1907
Category : De Kalb County (Ill.)
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Author : John Bearse Newcomb
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Page : 642 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 1874
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Author : Ralph Christopher
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,29 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : 1452027021
The true story of an elite group of men who wrote a page in Naval history. They patrolled the waterways in thirty-one foot river patrol boats powered by Detroit diesel engines with water jet-propulsion. Armed with machineguns and grenade launchers, as well as sheer guts and determination, these sailors faced danger around every bend in the river. Working together, they became one of the finest weapons in Admiral Zumwalt's arsenal for turning back the tide of communist infiltration into Saigon, taking control of the inland waterways. These are true accounts of their bravery, which they proved time and again by spearheading operations into enemy controlled territory. United together in brotherhood, they accomplished all their missions and won their part of the Vietnam War.
Author : Lauren Elizabeth Talalay
Publisher : Kelsey Museum Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Antiquities
ISBN : 9780990662334
Passionate Curiosities explores the collections held in the University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through the lens of the people whose intellectual interests, financial backing, and social networks brought artifacts to Ann Arbor from the 1880s to the 1990s. Through purchases and expeditions, these individuals shaped the Museum's internationally recognized antiquities from the ancient civilizations of Greece, Rome, North Africa, Egypt, and the Near East, extensive photographic documentation of these regions from the early 1900s, and significant assemblages of early Christian and Islamic visual culture. An intriguing array of personalities--from archaeologists, missionaries, and diplomats to industrialists, bankrollers, and inventors--weave through these pages. They include Ernst Herzfeld, the eminent Orientalist who helped forge antiquities legislation in Iran; Luigi Cesnola, the rapacious harvester of Cypriot sites; Esther Van Deman, the pioneering feminist and scholar of Roman construction techniques; and Samuel Goudsmit, the renowned nuclear physicist and avid Egyptologist. World-famous dealers who established standards in antiquities connoisseurship likewise populate these sagas. Readers will encounter Edgar J. Banks, a swashbuckling purveyor of Mesopotamian antiquities and entrepreneur of biblical documentary films; Maurice Nahman, the "lion of Cairo"; and the colorful members of the Tano dealer dynasty in Egypt. This copiously illustrated book will interest general readers as well as scholars curious about the holdings of the Kelsey, early collectors and dealers, and the history of museums.