Unmarked text. Stain on cover. Lain in genealogical chart. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Offers documents pertaining to this Jewish family, such as musical scores and citizenship papers. Paragraph descriptions accompany the pictures, as well as the names of the family members. Includes an index. 143p. The author, Henry A. Alexander, was active in both the general and Jewish community. As a lawyer, he was asked to help in the appeals process for the Leo M. Frank trial. He was the founder of the Atlanta Historical Society and president of the United Hebrew School.• • •... View More...
Untrimmed (and unsigned) American Legion card for Post No. 79, Riverside California. Preamble to the constitution on the back. Back also notes that "Payment of $1.00, the National dues in The American Legion, is herby acknowledged?"
The American Legion was chartered and incorporated by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic veterans organization devoted to mutual helpfulness. It is the nation?s largest wartime veterans service organization. • • • View More...
Unmarked. The American Museum in Britain is based at Claverton Manor, near Bath, England. The museum features American Art and resides in a house, designed by Jeffry Wyatville, architect to George IV. Sir Winston Churchill delivered his first political speech here on 26 July 1897. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Illustrated. Largely reprinted from the 1864 edition of the American Boy's Book of Sports and Games designed by White, Herrick, Wier, and Harvey; engraved by Orr, and published by Dick and Fitzgerald of New York. Includes Hop-Scotch, Baseball, Boating, Sailing, Blind-Man's Bluff, and more. Measures 5.5x8.5 inches. 36p. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Faint line down center. Poster-size original print advertisement from Army and Navy Journal (February 5, 1944), measuring 10.75x13.75 inches, with news clips on the back.
Poster includes a "For Victory Buy United States War Bonds and Stamps" icon and a White Lucky Strike package, changed from green to white during the war. It also reflects a new American Tobacco Company advertising campaign started in 1944: "Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco." The L.S./M.F.T that was added to every pack used the broad pen strokes of George Washington Hill. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Argues that the U.S. rejectionist policy toward Palestinian participation and Palestinian rights has become a policy that focuses more on the process than on peace. 265p. Appendix: Settlements and Settler in the West Bank, 1967-2001. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Presented like a corporate annual report, this book surveys how citizen taxes are spent. 77p. Measures 8.5x11 inches. Illustrated. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Edge wear. Compiled and edited by Barton H. Barbour. Introduction by David J. Weber. Illustrations by Andrew Burns. 75p. Bibliography. Measures 9.25x8 inches.
Recounts some of the hair-raising and humorous exploits of the Mountain Men and the Rocky Mountain fur trade.The heyday of the mountain men spanned only a few short decades. By the 1840s wagon pioneers were flooding into the West. And the free-roaming mountain men disappeared. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Articles include "Can the United Nations Cope in the Post-Cold War Era?" by John R. Bolton, "Slow Down Managed competition on the Information Superhighway" by Thomas J. Duesterberg, "Generation X and the 'End of American Exceptionalism'" by Richard F. O'Donnell, etc. 176p. (A Republican Journal of thought and opinion / A Publication of the National Policy Forum). • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Number Two in the Chapters in the History of the University of California series. 10 black-and-white illustrations. Notes. 50p. Measures 5.5x8.5 inches. Barth examines higher education in 19th-century California, drawing connections between the 1855 College of California (and its successor, the 1868 University of California) and the elements of design that evolved out of the early cemetery and park traditions. He stresses the character of the men of this "practical period," particularly their political, economic, and intellectual behavior. Acutely aware of the complex relationsh... View More...
Unmarked. Articles include "Class, Ethnicicity, and IRA Politics on the Blackfeet Reservation" by Paul C. Rosier, A Forum on Immigration History, Assessing the Field, "The Social History of Immigration to and Ethnicity in the US" by Jon Gjerde, "Race, Nation, and Culture in Recent Immigration Studies" by George J. Sanchez, and "Immigrants and Immigration Law: A State of the Field Assessment" by Erika Lee. Reviews, etc. 219p. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Excellent reference for common types of American Victorian Coaches, primarily from 1850-1900. Black and white reproductions. Captions provide information about original sizes and colors. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Includes a tribute to Dorothy Lois Riker (1904-1994) by Lana Ruegamer, Margaret Black Tatum on the Civil War Letters of William Allen Clark, "A Letter from the Front: Vicksburg, 1863" by Erich L. Ewald, the Indiana Archive since 1945, Reveiws, etc. pp246-358 • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Bumped corner. This account of some of the more important stories of the witchcraft hysteria of 1692 includes those of John Proctor, George Burroughs, Susannah Martin, Dorcas Good, Mary Eastey, Martha Carrier and others. 46p. Price on title page. • • • View More...
Unmarked booklet. Illustrated in color. 17p. Measures 6.75x10 inches. Presents the value of supporting anti-sealing and anti-fur boycotts and lobbies in light of their effects on other cultures which depend upon the harvest of animal and sea resources for their way of life. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Features Afro-American at the Start of a New Century with contributions from Orlando Patterson, Eugene Rivers, David Steiner, Kendall Thomas, Emily Bernard and others. Also "Thinking about 9/11" sections, with contributions from Christopher Hitchens, Tzvetan Todorov and Martin Jay. Charles Moleworth on Gerhard Richter, poetry, and more. Illustrated.
A Quarterly of the Humanities and Social Sciences, No. 133-134. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Third printing. Bumped edge. This pamphlet contains the text of a speech given in January 1964 under the title of What a Minority Can Do. A speech presented at a Midwest educational conference of the Young Socialist Alliance in Chicago. Four black-and-white photograph. Advertisements. 30p. Measures 5.5x8.5 inches. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. 217p. Measures 5.5x8.5 inches. A Hardscrabble Book.
Begins with Hawthorne in the 1830s, and ends with Edith Wharton and Sinclair Lewis in the 1920s. Selections from other well-known and lesser-known figures. Three parts: New England's much-celebrated scenery; intimate links between sexual and romantic themes and New England vacations; and New England nostalgia. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Illustrations include tools, facsimile ads, etc. Suggested readings. This booklet is based largely on an unpublished monograph by Thomas K. Bullock. 37p. • • • View More...
