Jesse Bowman


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Seeking adventure, Jesse Bowman learns about the realities of war after joining the Union Army and going into battle where he loses friends, experiences devastation first-hand, and plays an unexpectedly important role in the outcome of the Civil War.







Chicago Politics, Ward by Ward


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The 1983 mayoral primary and general elections proved a watershed in Chicago politics, in which entire wards quit allegiances of the past. New voting patterns formed which generally continued into the 1987 elections. Covers the Council Wars and the election of Harold Washington as Mayor of Chicago in 1983.




Genealogies in the Library of Congress


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Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.




Alamo Traces


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Never wavering in its search for the bedrock of fact, this book is a methodical, piece-by-piece dismantling of what we thought we knew and a convincing speculation about what might have really happened during that courageous fight for independence.













The Ethnic Moment


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In the seven selections in Part I, "Moments," the authors describe critical experiences in their lives that awakened in them a new and deeper understanding of equality. In the remaining five essays in Part II, "From the Beginning," each contributor describes how he or she came to know the meaning of equality at an early age.