Quilt Memories


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The historical background to Morehead City, North Carolina's Sesquicentennial quilt project, including b/w photographs of each quilt square accompanied by text containing geneological and descriptive information. Four additional full color pages containing composite images.




Bound in History


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Description of the quilt created by The Westerville Quilt Guild to celebrate the sesquicentennial of Westerville, Ohio. Eight quilt blocks were chosen to symbolize certain aspects of Westerville's history, and assembled into a quilt. Patterns are included to reproduce this quilt. Beth Weinhardt of the Local History Center of the Westerville Public Library and guild member Amy Korn supplied the copy for the book; the Local History center also supplied the photographs.




Stitches in Time


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Guest of Honor


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Documents the 1901 White House dinner shared by former slave Booker T. Washington and President Theodore Roosevelt, documenting the ensuing scandal and the ways in which the event reflected post-Civil War politics and race relations.




History of Barnet, Vermont


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Crisis


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Tracing Your Irish Ancestors


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Bound for Freedom


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A definitive, illustrated account of Los Angeles's black community in the half century before World War I details African-American community life and political activism during the city's transformation from a small town to a sprawling metropolis.




Emancipation


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"Emancipation is an important and impressive work; one cannot read it without being inspired by the legal acumen, creativity, and resiliency these pioneer lawyers displayed. . . . It should be read by everyone interested in understanding the road African-Americans have traveled and the challenges that lie ahead."—From the Foreword, by Justice Thurgood Marshall