The Racial Railroad, Paperback - Julia H. Lee

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Julia H. LeeIllustration(s): 11 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimension...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. This 200-mile line through Pennsylvania's most challenging mountain terrain was intended to form the heart of a new trunk line from the East Coast ...

Reducere. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad (L&N) was incorporated in 1850 to build a rail line from Louisville, Kentucky, south to Nashville, Tennessee. T...

Reducere. As runaway slaves fled from the South to escape bondage, slave catchers followed in their wake. The arrival of fugitives and slave catchers in the ...

Reducere. "Gripping . . . Chang has accomplished the seemingly impossible . . . He has written a remarkably rich, human, and compelling story of the railroad...

Reducere. DescriptionThis landmark volume sheds light on the lives and experiences of the Chinese workers who made up 90% of the workforce that built the Cen...

Reducere. For over 25 years, the creatively led Railroad Development Corporation (RDC) has rejuvenated a series of down-and-out and even defunct railroads. L...

Reducere. The H Factor of Personality: Why Some People Are Manipulative, Self-Entitled, Materialistic and Exploitative and Why It Matters for Everyone The "H...

Reducere. Much like the rest of the nation, South Central Pennsylvania struggled with slavery. The institution lingered locally for more than fifty years, al...

Reducere. In the 1870s, people traveling west of the Mississippi were still venturing into the wild. Loud, smoke-belching trains might have cut across the ro...

Reducere. This 50-year saga of the "Weary Erie" goes far beyond describing in brilliant detail the turbulent last decades of a colorful, spunky, and innovati...

Author Geletzke has compiled a collection of 81 short stories (and 35 b&w photos), all about the railroad, and all true. Written in the style of on...

Reducere. Although several people had considered constructing a railroad to Key West beginning in the early 1800s, it took a bold industrialist with unparall...

For fans of Murder Most Unladylike and The Mystery Of The Clockwork Sparrow, comes a middle-grade mystery with an entertaining and endearing heroin...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1898, Wilmington, North Carolina was the scene of what many describe as the only successful coup d' etat in the history of the United...

Reducere. In Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares, John H. Matsui argues that the political ideology and racial views of American Protestants during the ...

DescriptionA groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America o...

Reducere. Although several people had considered constructing a railroad to Key West beginning in the early 1800s, it took a bold industrialist with unparall...

DescriptionOriginally settled prior to the coming of the Florida East Coast Railway in 1904, Homestead became only the second incorporated municipa...

Reducere. In the spring of 1863, Union colonel Abel D. Streight sought to raid and destroy parts of the vital span of the Western and Atlantic Railroad in no...

Reducere. In mid-1860s, two railroad companies had a huge job in front of them: building the transcontinental railroad. The railroad would run from east to w...

Reducere. What if there are some rules to living? What if these "laws" are frequently broken? In fact, you probably are breaking some of them right now. Anyo...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Forgive Process reveals a simple process to forgive the hurts and pains that hold people back. Life is full-contact. There are hurts...

Reducere. The Railroad Photography of Donald W. Furler showcases the black-and-white imagery of a master of the craft. Furler (1917-1994) grew up in New Jers...

Reducere. The Railroad Photography of J. Parker Lamb showcases the black-and-white imagery of a master of the craft. Parker Lamb came of age in the South and...

Reducere. - Clean new design for easy readability and comprehension- Updated text presented in a lively, continuous narrative- New center-spread ``sidebar`` ...

Reducere. First published in 1872, "The Underground Railroad" is the fascinating first-hand account of hundreds of slaves and their escape to freedom by Will...

Reducere. William Still's encyclopaedic collection of slave narratives.

Widely regarded as the standard reference in the field, this comprehensive handbook presents state-of-the-art knowledge about the nature and classi...

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR FICTION 2016. 'Whitehead is on a roll: the reviews have been sublime'( Guardian). '...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad, then keep reading...The Underground Railroad wasn't underground. Nor w...

Reducere. The veil was not the only thing that Christ s arrival on earth tore asunder. Social and religious barriers, serving to draw lines between specific ...

Global war devastated the environment, a zombie-like plague wiped out much of humanity, and civilization as we once understood it came to a standst...

DescriptionIn Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s...

Publisher: Broadview Press LtdAuthor(s): Julius BaileyIllustration(s): 10 illustrationsNumber of pages: 190Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 153 x ...

Reducere. Between 1830 and 1860, thousands of Southern slaves escaped to the North and Canada by way of the "underground railroad." Neither underground nor a...