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Author: Susan E. Gray
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780807846100
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Susan Gray explores community formation among New England migrants to the Upper Midwest in the generation before the Civil War. Focusing on Kalamazoo County in southwestern Michigan, she examines how 'Yankees' moving west reconstructed familiar communal i
Author: Kate Connell
Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9780792251798
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Illustrated text, letters and diary excerpts follow the fictional Abbots in Ohio, whose son fights for the Union, and their relatives in Tennessee, who support the Confederacy, during the civil War.
Author: Henry Ebenezer HANDERSON
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Susan E. Gray
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2000-11-09
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 080786174X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Susan Gray explores community formation among New England migrants to the Upper Midwest in the generation before the Civil War. Focusing on Kalamazoo County in southwestern Michigan, she examines how 'Yankees' moving west reconstructed familiar communal institutions on the frontier while confronting forces of profound socioeconomic change, particularly the rise of the market economy and the commercialization of agriculture. Gray argues that Yankee culture was a type of ethnic identity that was transplanted to the Midwest and reshaped there into a new regional identity. In chapters on settlement patterns, economic exchange, the family, religion, and politics, Gray traces the culture that the migrants established through their institutions as a defense against the uncertainty of the frontier. She demonstrates that although settlers sought rapid economic development, they remained wary of the threat that the resulting spirit of competition posed to their communal ideals. As isolated settlements developed into flourishing communities linked to eastern markets, however, Yankee culture was transformed. What was once a communal culture became a class culture, appropriated by a newly formed rural bourgeoisie to explain their success as the triumphant emergence of the Midwest and to identify their region as true America.
Author: Al Silverman
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2009-03-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780810996380
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This intimate pictorial history features rare and many unpublished color photographs of the Yankees from the 1949-1964 era, often considered the golden age of the celebrated baseball team.
Author: David Gray
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781908996053
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →David Gray's memoir of his time as US Minister to Ireland in 1940 is published here for the first time.
Author: Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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Published: 2011-10-01
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781258123505
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Captain Henry E. Handerson
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2015-11-06
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 1786252546
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Henry E. Handerson, a tutor from the Western Reserve of Ohio, fifteen miles east of Cleveland, enlisted in the Confederate army on June 17, 1861...Handerson was not an ordinary soldier. His memoir is the account of a Northerner—who after only two years of residency in antebellum Louisiana decided to cast his lot with the Confederacy. ...Already a member of a local home guard company, the twenty-four-year-old Ohio-born Handerson was quickly enrolled as a private in the Stafford Guards, later Company B, of the Ninth Louisiana Infantry. The Ninth was first bloodied at the Battle of Front Royal, Virginia, on May 23, 1862, in a brisk fight with the Union First Maryland Infantry. As part of Stonewall Jackson’s command, the regiment and Handerson marched and fought up and down the length of the Shenandoah Valley before moving down to Richmond to participate in the bloody Seven Days Battle. Handerson took part in the Fredericksburg battle, and later in the spring of 1863, was wounded in the neck at Chancellorsville. Lieutenant Handerson recovered from his wound just in time to reach Gettysburg on the last day of the battle there. In the Battle of the Wilderness, while carrying a dispatch, Handerson ran into an advancing battle line and was taken prisoner...and confined under poor living conditions, in a stockade in the direct line of fire from the Confederates at Charleston. Surviving this ordeal, Handerson wound up the war at Fort Pulaski, Georgia. Handerson’s memoirs and his letters give a sympathetic picture of war and life in the Confederate army as seen through the eyes of a Northerner who lacked the emotional involvement of the native-born Southerners. His account of service with the army of Northern Virginia and as a prisoner of war is of particular value regarding the everyday details and incidents of a soldier’s life. Important figures and Confederate heroes are treated fairly but objectively by this keen-eyed observer.-Edward Cunningham
Author: Eric C. Gray
Publisher: Palmetto Publishing Group
Published: 2019-03-27
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781641111799
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One day during an afternoon at the ball park, author Eric Gray asked his wife, daughter, and friend to identify their favorite game that they had been to. Little did he know, that simple question would soon take on a life of its own. As the question made its way to family members, friends, friends of friends, strangers and beyond, it gave way to a surprising collection of incredibly diverse stories and perspectives. Thus, Bases to Bleachers was born. Much more than your average baseball book, the many special and unique stories shared with readers here, whether they're about watching or playing, either at the Major League level or Little League, represent a wide gamut of experiences. Some entail meeting the stars or attending famous games--and some offered are personal, intimate moments involving family connections and the importance of baseball in people's lives. Unlike most baseball books, this is not a biography, or a discussion of a team, or analysis of a season. Baseball here is a setting in which both astounding feats and some of the most beautifully touching moments in peoples' lives have happened. Whether it's the first game, falling in love at the park, or even a beloved baseball glove that survived World War II, these stories are about more than just baseball. They reflect the joys, triumphs, and disappointments of the human condition, and often illustrate what's truly important in life--those things we hold most dear in our hearts.
