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A pioneer family homesteads on the prairie. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Marilynn Reynolds
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9781551430690
A pioneer family homesteads on the prairie. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Carola Suárez-Orozco
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674044118
One child in five in America is the child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Based on an extraordinary interdisciplinary study that followed 400 newly arrived children from the Caribbean, China, Central America, and Mexico for five years, this book provides a compelling account of the lives, dreams, academic journeys, and frustrations of these youngest immigrants.
Author : David O. Stewart
Publisher : Permuted Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1637580819
Lose yourself in the challenges and emotions of eighteenth-century Maine. In 1753, Johann Oberstrasse’s wife, Christianne, announces that their infant sons will never soldier for the Landgraf of Hesse like their father, hired out to serve King George of England. In search of a new life, Johann and the family join an expedition to the New World, lured by the promise of land on the Maine coast. A grinding voyage deposits them on the edge of a continent filled with dangers and disease. Expecting to till the soil, Johann finds that opportunity on the rocky coast comes from the forest, not land, so he learns carpentry and trapping. To advance in an English world, Johann adapts their name to Overstreet. But war follows them. The French and their Indian allies mount attacks on the English settlements of New England. To protect their growing family and Broad Bay neighbors, Johann accepts the captaincy of the settlement’s militia and leads the company through the British assault on the citadel of Louisbourg in Nova Scotia. Left behind in Broad Bay, Christianne, their small children, and the old and young stave off Indian attacks, hunger, and cruel privations. Peace brings Johann success as a carpenter, but also searing personal losses. When the fever for American independence reaches Broad Bay in 1774, Johann is torn, then resolves to kill no more…unlike his son, Franklin, who leaves to stand with the Americans on Bunker Hill. At the same time, Johann faces old demons and a new crisis when an escaped prisoner—a hired Hessian soldier, just as he had been—arrives at his door.
Author : Charles Fort
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,10 MB
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1304998703
New Lands was the second nonfiction book of the author Charles Fort, written in 1925. It deals primarily with astronomical anomalies. Fort expands in this book on his theory about the Super-Sargasso Sea - a place where earthly things supposedly materialize in order to rain down on Earth - as well as developing an idea that there are continents above the skies of Earth. As evidence, he cites a number of anomalous phenomena, including strange "mirages" of land masses, groups of people, and animals in the skies. He also continues his attacks on scientific dogma, citing a number of mysterious stars and planets that scientists failed to account for.
Author : Joan Sandin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 1986-05-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780064441001
"We will go to America!" It is 1868, and Carl Erik's family faces starvation in Sweden. As their hopes fade, they must endure a journey over land and sea to reach a better life in a new country thousands of miles away.
Author : Theodor Herzl
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3843035245
Theodor Herzl: Old New Land. (AltNeuLand) First print Leipzig 1902. Translated by Dr. David Simon Blondheim, Federation of American Zionists, 1916 Vollständige Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2015. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Paul Gauguin, Am Fusse des Berges, 1892. Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 11 pt.
Author : W. Andrew Achenbaum
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1421435071
Originally published in 1978. Drawing on a wide range of sources from social, intellectual, and political history, Old Age in the New Land analyzes the changing fates and fortunes of America's elderly in the course of its history. By providing a historical perspective on society's conceptions of aging—and its effects on human lives—Achenbaum's work offers valuable insights for historians, sociologists, gerontologists, and others interested in the "graying" of America.
Author : Janet Elaine Rasmussen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780295972886
""Because I am a Dane and have gone to folk schools, I think I am a better American.""--""All my life, I've been eating rye bread.""--""I have my language from Norway, and my tradition."" -- MAP -- APPENDIX: INTERVIEW QUESTIONNAIRE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Author : Chester William Geue
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 30,31 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Genealogy
ISBN : 0806309814
In this volume, using the best research techniques of the historian--that of going to the source documents--Chester W. and Ethel H. Geue set out to better understand the German movement to Texas.
Author : Katharine Emsden
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 1878668234
Excerpts from diaries and letters provide glimpses into the lives of Russian, Lithuanian, Italian, Greek, Swedish, and Irish immigrants who passed through Ellis Island around the turn of the century.