By Jeffrey A. Kroessler

ISBN-10: 0585480664

ISBN-13: 9780585480664

ISBN-10: 0814747507

ISBN-13: 9780814747506

ISBN-10: 0814747515

ISBN-13: 9780814747513

Winner, the recent York Public Library, better of Reference Award, 2002 If any urban merits a whole chronology, it truly is without doubt manhattan. long island, 12 months via yr is a cornucopia of the general and the forgotten, the ancient and the ephemeral, the heroic and the banal. during this convenient reference paintings, Jeffrey A. Kroessler takes us from Verrazano's arrival in 1524 into the hot millennium, highlighting the moves and strikeouts, tunnels and towers, personalities and parades which not just made historical past in manhattan, but in addition proved to be defining moments for the state. ny, 12 months via yr positive factors occasions similar to Mark Twain's first lecture at Cooper Union, and the letter he later wrote while the Brooklyn Public Library attempted to limit entry to Huckleberry Finn. against this, we're reminded of the book within the Fifties of Eloise, A publication for Precocious Grown-Ups, Kay Thompson's fanciful story of a bit girl's adventures within the Plaza lodge, the looks of the Beat iteration, and the flight (literally) of the Dodgers and Giants to California. manhattan, 12 months by means of 12 months chronicles the outlet of Shea Stadium in April 1964 and the functionality through the Beatles there that August. The Sixties additionally observed the hole of The Fantastiks, that's nonetheless operating on Sullivan road, and the remaining of Steeplechase, the final of the good enjoyment parks at Coney Island. And this chronology makes certain we do not omit while Kitty Genovese was once murdered in Kew Gardens and her cries for support have been left unanswered simply because her acquaintances "didn't are looking to get involved." Kroessler leads us on a journey of town from its first settlers until eventually the November 2001 election of a brand new mayor for the hot millennium. From the colonial period and the Revolution during the Gilded Age and the Roaring Twenties, Kroessler has compiled a checklist of cultural, monetary, political, and social occasions. a few are of temporary value, others of lasting importance, yet all remove darkness from the city's interesting historical past.

By Tim McNeese

ISBN-10: 0791093352

ISBN-13: 9780791093351

ISBN-10: 1438101171

ISBN-13: 9781438101170

By Hunter Cole

ISBN-10: 1604737220

ISBN-13: 9781604737226

ISBN-10: 1604737239

ISBN-13: 9781604737233

In Laurel, Mississippi, in 1935, one daughter of a prosperous and afflicted family members stood accused of murdering her mom. On her testimony, experts suspected an both admired and well-to-do businessman, her reputed lover, of supporting. Ouida Keeton it appears shot her mom, chopped her up, and disposed of so much of her physique components down the lavatory and within the fire, burning all however the pelvic area, the thighs, and the legs. trying to eliminate those is still on a slim, one-lane, remoted highway, Ouida left a path of proof that led to her arrest. humans had obvious her using to the line. inside hours, a hunter and his canines discovered the fabric within which she had wrapped her mother's legs.Touted because the so much sensational crime in Mississippi background on the time, the Legs homicide of 1935 is sort of solely forgotten this day. The arguable end result, made up our minds through an unsophisticated jury, has been left muddled by way of ambiguity. With The Legs homicide Scandal, Hunter Cole provides an intricately special description of the separate trials of Ouida Keeton and W.M. Carter. Having researched trial transcripts, courthouse documents, clinical documents, and substantial newspaper insurance, the writer finds new evidence formerly distorted via rumour, hushed experiences, and incorrect information. Cole pursues many unanswered questions akin to what, fairly, did Ouida Keeton do with the remainder of her mom? The Legs homicide Scandal makes an attempt to supply the reader with readability during this tale, that is outlandish, harrowing, and fascinating, without notice.

By David Robson

By Warren L. Wagner, Derral R. Herbst, S. H. Sohmer

ISBN-10: 0824811526

ISBN-13: 9780824811525

This new 2-volume version of “the most important botanical book on Pacific crops in contemporary a long time” (Flora Vitiensis Nova) contains an in depth addendum offering details on newly defined species, nomenclatural adjustments, and new island documents, including a bibliography of significant taxonomic references released because the first version. The prestige of 271 species newly indexed as endangered or threatened has additionally been up to date.

By La Guardia, Fiorello Henry; La Guardia, Fiorello Henry; Jeffers, Harry Paul

ISBN-10: 0471024651

ISBN-13: 9780471024651

ISBN-10: 0471211036

ISBN-13: 9780471211037

Compliment for H. Paul Jeffers

Diamond Jim Brady: Prince of the Gilded Age

"One of the main pleasing old enterprise narratives in fresh reminiscence. the tale of this image of America's Gilded Age is stuffed with such gusto and energy that even hardcore company readers can be swept away."
-Publishers Weekly

"Superb ancient biography of 1 of the extra colourful characters in American heritage . . . lively. . . . Jeffers deftly weaves jointly interesting stage-setting reasons of the age of robber barons, the crash of 1893, and that unforgettable period of unbridled wealth for the few in Eighteen Nineties manhattan. As this terrific tale unearths, Brady's lavish way of life embodies America's Gilded Age. hugely urged for all libraries."
-Library Journal

a good President: The lifestyles and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland

"A well-written and well timed booklet that reminds us of Grover Cleveland's braveness, dedication, and honesty at a time whilst those traits are so missing in lots of yankee politics."
-James MacGregor Burns, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and nationwide booklet Award

Colonel Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt is going to conflict, 1897--1898

"A good-looking narrative of a vital interval within the profession of 1 of our country's such a lot colourful politicians."
-Publishers Weekly

By Paul A. Shackel

ISBN-10: 1475799039

ISBN-13: 9781475799033

ISBN-10: 1475799055

ISBN-13: 9781475799057

Harpers Ferry was once considered one of America's earliest and most important business groups - serving as a superb instance of the altering styles of human kin that ended in dramatic development in paintings existence and in family relatives nowa days. during this well-illustrated booklet, Paul A. Shackel investigates the ancient archaeology of Harpers Ferry, revealing the tradition switch and effect of latest expertise on staff and their households. He specializes in the contributions of employees, craftsmen, and different subordinate teams to business growth, and examines ethnic and interracial improvement in an financial system that used to be remodeled from craft-based to industrial.

By Susan Vaneta Mason

ISBN-10: 047209842X

ISBN-13: 9780472098422

By Paul K. Conkin

ISBN-10: 0826514251

ISBN-13: 9780826514257

This present day George Peabody university is part of Vanderbilt collage, because it has been due to the fact that its merger in 1979. Its earlier background used to be wealthy and intricate. during this e-book, Paul Conkin, writer of the award-winning historical past of Vanderbilt, long gone with the Ivy, tells the tale of Peabody's many lives, of its successes and screw ups, and of its many colourful leaders and professors. all of it all started as a small frontier academy in 1785. The establishment that may develop into Peabody skilled its first reinvention twenty years later because it grew to become Cumberland university, after which, in 1826, the collage of Nashville. The college maintained an elite undergraduate collage until eventually 1850, and, regardless of the good fortune of its clinical institution and an army institute, it failed in 3 next efforts to restart its undergraduate program.  In 1875 the college provided its campus and degree-granting authority to the 1st common tuition within the nation of Tennessee, a college funded by means of the Peabody schooling Fund. The Peabody common collage used to be the simplest within the South, and, as such, exerted a major impact on schooling within the sector.   a brand new period begun in 1909. The trustees of the Peabody Fund, at its liquidation, supplied an eventual $1.5 million to set up a graduate-level George Peabody collage for academics. It opened for sessions in 1914, on its current campus, the place it speedy grew to become the leading academics' university within the South. As was once the case with many inner most, autonomous associations, Peabody confronted intermittent monetary struggles, which eventually ended with its union with Vanderbilt. this present day Peabody is, by means of nearly any standards, one of many 5 or 6 most powerful faculties of schooling within the usa.

By Matthew Goodman

ISBN-10: 0465002579

ISBN-13: 9780465002573

ISBN-10: 0786726962

ISBN-13: 9780786726967

What an enticing publication! I simply love books like this, which are capable of current a interval in historical past with such interesting info. the writer did a good activity of intertwining characters and conserving the tale relocating alongside well.