Tennessee tragedies natural, technological, and societal disasters in the Volunteer State / by Coggins, Allen R.

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Tennessee tragedies natural, technological, and societal disasters in the Volunteer State / by Coggins, Allen R.

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Massacre at Mountain Meadows an American tragedy / by Walker, Ronald W. (Ronald Warren), 1939-

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Massacre at Mountain Meadows an American tragedy / by Walker, Ronald W. (Ronald Warren), 1939-

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Remembering Victoria a tragic Nahuat love story / by Taggart, James M., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The tragedy -- Talcuaco -- Fratricide -- "Rabbit and coyote" -- Human goodness -- Nahueh -- Love as desire -- Wife as sister -- Conclusions.…”
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Remembering Victoria a tragic Nahuat love story / by Taggart, James M., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The tragedy -- Talcuaco -- Fratricide -- "Rabbit and coyote" -- Human goodness -- Nahueh -- Love as desire -- Wife as sister -- Conclusions.…”
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'Unfortunate emigrants' narratives of the Donner Party /

Table of Contents: “…McDougall -- The Donner tragedy : a thrilling chapter in our pioneer history -- James F. …”
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'Unfortunate emigrants' narratives of the Donner Party /

Table of Contents: “…McDougall -- The Donner tragedy : a thrilling chapter in our pioneer history -- James F. …”
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Letters to Alice birth of the Kleberg-King Ranch dynasty / by Kleberg, Robert Justus, 1853-1932

Table of Contents: “…Prologue, 1853-1883 -- A desert empire -- Princess of the Wild Horse Desert -- A young lawyer establishes himself -- Tragedy strikes -- A friendship deepens -- The love letters, 1884-1887 -- My dear little heart -- My little darling -- My little pet -- My darling little wife -- Epilogue, 1887-2011 -- The children of Robert and Alice -- The dynasty -- The empire continues.…”
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Letters to Alice birth of the Kleberg-King Ranch dynasty / by Kleberg, Robert Justus, 1853-1932

Table of Contents: “…Prologue, 1853-1883 -- A desert empire -- Princess of the Wild Horse Desert -- A young lawyer establishes himself -- Tragedy strikes -- A friendship deepens -- The love letters, 1884-1887 -- My dear little heart -- My little darling -- My little pet -- My darling little wife -- Epilogue, 1887-2011 -- The children of Robert and Alice -- The dynasty -- The empire continues.…”
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Race and remembrance a memoir / by Johnson, Arthur L., 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Early years -- Dear old Morehouse -- Detroit NAACP -- Detroit public schools -- Two tragedies, 1967-1968 -- Wayne State University -- President of Detroit NAACP -- Friendship with Damon -- Death of three sons -- Searching for the good life -- Eulogies -- Joseph Hudson new Detroit letter -- William Patrick new Detroit letter -- A commitment to the NAACP -- "Buy Detroit" campaign -- Third term as Detroit NAACP president -- Rodney King verdict and twelve-point plan.…”
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Race and remembrance a memoir / by Johnson, Arthur L., 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Early years -- Dear old Morehouse -- Detroit NAACP -- Detroit public schools -- Two tragedies, 1967-1968 -- Wayne State University -- President of Detroit NAACP -- Friendship with Damon -- Death of three sons -- Searching for the good life -- Eulogies -- Joseph Hudson new Detroit letter -- William Patrick new Detroit letter -- A commitment to the NAACP -- "Buy Detroit" campaign -- Third term as Detroit NAACP president -- Rodney King verdict and twelve-point plan.…”
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The Robertsons, the Sutherlands, and the making of Texas by Sutherland, Anne H.

Table of Contents: “…Discovering my Texas identity -- Writing as a tradition -- The Robertson papers -- Learning Texas history -- Sterling Clack Robertson, empresario -- The Alabama settlement -- The prayer on the Sabine -- Making a living -- The Comanche, Karankawa, Lipan Apache, and Tonkawa -- Political rumblings in the Alabama settlement -- The Alabama settlement at war -- The Texas revolution as myth and identity ritual -- Aftermath of the war : tragedy and humor -- Getting rid of wildness -- The wild woman of the Navidad -- The civilizing elites : Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson -- The end of slavery -- Remember who you are -- The macaroni road comes to Edna -- The migration to Uvalde -- Getting an education -- Family reunions.…”
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The Robertsons, the Sutherlands, and the making of Texas by Sutherland, Anne H.

Table of Contents: “…Discovering my Texas identity -- Writing as a tradition -- The Robertson papers -- Learning Texas history -- Sterling Clack Robertson, empresario -- The Alabama settlement -- The prayer on the Sabine -- Making a living -- The Comanche, Karankawa, Lipan Apache, and Tonkawa -- Political rumblings in the Alabama settlement -- The Alabama settlement at war -- The Texas revolution as myth and identity ritual -- Aftermath of the war : tragedy and humor -- Getting rid of wildness -- The wild woman of the Navidad -- The civilizing elites : Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson -- The end of slavery -- Remember who you are -- The macaroni road comes to Edna -- The migration to Uvalde -- Getting an education -- Family reunions.…”
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Challenge accepted a Finnish immigrant response to industrial America in Michigan's copper country / by Kaunonen, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Finnish immigration and settlement in a Hancock, Michigan neighborhood -- Finnish immigrant cultural organizations and the "Finn Hall" -- Finnish immigrant socialist-unionists in Hancock -- The early existence of the Työmies Publishing Company, 1904-09 -- The Työmies Publishing Company reaches maturity, 1910-1913 -- The 1913-14 copper country strike -- Gun hounds, scabs, and tragedy -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Työmies Publishing Company staff and contributors, 1909 -- Appendix 2: Työmies Publishing Company interior use of space, 1913 -- Appendix 3: Copper territory strikers' march, 1913 -- Appendix 4: Työmies Publishing Company's composite list of Italian Hall deceased, 1913.…”
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Challenge accepted a Finnish immigrant response to industrial America in Michigan's copper country / by Kaunonen, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Finnish immigration and settlement in a Hancock, Michigan neighborhood -- Finnish immigrant cultural organizations and the "Finn Hall" -- Finnish immigrant socialist-unionists in Hancock -- The early existence of the Työmies Publishing Company, 1904-09 -- The Työmies Publishing Company reaches maturity, 1910-1913 -- The 1913-14 copper country strike -- Gun hounds, scabs, and tragedy -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Työmies Publishing Company staff and contributors, 1909 -- Appendix 2: Työmies Publishing Company interior use of space, 1913 -- Appendix 3: Copper territory strikers' march, 1913 -- Appendix 4: Työmies Publishing Company's composite list of Italian Hall deceased, 1913.…”
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Black rage in New Orleans police brutality and African American activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina / by Moore, Leonard N. (Leonard Nathaniel)

Table of Contents: “…: the black freedom struggle comes to New Orleans -- "We want an end to police brutality": the Black Panthers, desire, and police repression -- The politics of self-defense: Mark Essex, the soul patrol, and black vigilantism -- The right to organize: the Black Organization of Police, mass protest, and the city council hearings -- Black power politics: Ernest "Dutch" Morial and the limits of police reform -- "We are living in a police state": the Algiers tragedy, the maturation of community protest, and the politics of a civilian review board -- Black-on-black crime: the consequences of white flight, the war on drugs, and political indifference -- "A new day in Babylon": the professionalization of the New Orleans Police Department and the claiming of urban public space.…”
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Black rage in New Orleans police brutality and African American activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina / by Moore, Leonard N. (Leonard Nathaniel)

Table of Contents: “…: the black freedom struggle comes to New Orleans -- "We want an end to police brutality": the Black Panthers, desire, and police repression -- The politics of self-defense: Mark Essex, the soul patrol, and black vigilantism -- The right to organize: the Black Organization of Police, mass protest, and the city council hearings -- Black power politics: Ernest "Dutch" Morial and the limits of police reform -- "We are living in a police state": the Algiers tragedy, the maturation of community protest, and the politics of a civilian review board -- Black-on-black crime: the consequences of white flight, the war on drugs, and political indifference -- "A new day in Babylon": the professionalization of the New Orleans Police Department and the claiming of urban public space.…”
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Talk with you like a woman African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935 / by Hicks, Cheryl D., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…To live a fuller and freer life : black women migrants' expectations and New York's urban realities, 1890-1927 -- The only one that would be interested in me : police brutality, black women's protection, and the New York Race Riot of 1900 -- I want to save these girls : single black women's protectors--the White Rose Home and the National League for the Protection of Colored Women, 1895-1911 -- Colored women of hard and vicious character : respectability, domesticity, and crime, 1893-1933 -- Tragedy of the colored girl in court : the National Urban League and New York's Women's Court, 1911-1931 -- In danger of becoming morally depraved : single black women, working-class black families, and New York State's Wayward Minor Laws, 1917-1928 -- A rather bright and good-looking colored girl : black women's sexuality, "harmful intimacy," and attempts to regulate desire, 1917-1928 -- I don't live on my sister, I living of myself : parole, gender, and black families, 1905-1935 -- She would be better off in the South : sending women on parole to their southern kin, 1920-1935 -- Conclusion: thank god I am independent one more time.…”
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Talk with you like a woman African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935 / by Hicks, Cheryl D., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…To live a fuller and freer life : black women migrants' expectations and New York's urban realities, 1890-1927 -- The only one that would be interested in me : police brutality, black women's protection, and the New York Race Riot of 1900 -- I want to save these girls : single black women's protectors--the White Rose Home and the National League for the Protection of Colored Women, 1895-1911 -- Colored women of hard and vicious character : respectability, domesticity, and crime, 1893-1933 -- Tragedy of the colored girl in court : the National Urban League and New York's Women's Court, 1911-1931 -- In danger of becoming morally depraved : single black women, working-class black families, and New York State's Wayward Minor Laws, 1917-1928 -- A rather bright and good-looking colored girl : black women's sexuality, "harmful intimacy," and attempts to regulate desire, 1917-1928 -- I don't live on my sister, I living of myself : parole, gender, and black families, 1905-1935 -- She would be better off in the South : sending women on parole to their southern kin, 1920-1935 -- Conclusion: thank god I am independent one more time.…”
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