Henry D. Flood
Author : United States. Congress House
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : United States. Congress House
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 16,80 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 : John C. Whitcomb (Jr.)
Publisher : P & R Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781596383951
Over fifty years ago Henry Morris and John Whitcomb joined together to write a controversial book that sparked dialogue and debate on Darwin and Jesus, science and the Bible, evolution and creation -- culminating in what would later be called the birth of the modern creation science movement. Now, fifty years, forty-nine printings, and 300,000 copies after the initial publication of The Genesis Flood, P & R Publishing has produced a fiftieth anniversary edition of this modern classic. - Back cover.
Author : John David Morris
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Bible and geology
ISBN : 9781935587125
Presents the comprehensive evidence of a global Flood, yet is not overly technical. Explains "the true significance of the year-long, mountain-covering Deluge that buried and fossilized trillions of marine and land animals and plants only a few thousand years ago"--Page 11 (foreword by John C. Whitcomb).
Author : United States. Congress. Memorial Addresses and Services
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 10,6 MB
Release : 1924
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Page : 808 pages
File Size : 29,20 MB
Release : 1910
Category : New York (State)
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 1971
Category : United States
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Page : 526 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Drainage
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
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Page : 412 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Floods
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Author : William Marvel
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0807860832
Although Appomattox Court House is one of the most symbolically charged places in America, it was an ordinary tobacco-growing village both before and after an accident of fate brought the armies of Lee and Grant together there. It is that Appomattox--the typical small Confederate community--that William Marvel portrays in this deeply researched, compelling study. He tells the story of the Civil War from the perspective of those who inhabited one of the conflict's most famous sites. The village sprang into existence just as Texas became a state and reached its peak not long before Lee and Grant met there. The postwar decline of the village mirrored that of the rural South as a whole, and Appomattox served as the focal point for both Lost Cause myth-making and reconciliation reveries. Marvel draws on original documents, diaries, and letters composed as the war unfolded to produce a clear and credible portrait of everyday life in this town, as well as examining the galvanizing events of April 1865. He also scrutinizes Appomattox the national symbol, exposing and explaining some of the cherished myths surrounding the surrender there.