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The buffalo soldier tragedy of 1877
Published 2003An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Pathway to hell a tragedy of the American Civil War /
Published 2008An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Dead last the public memory of Warren G. Harding's scandalous legacy /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Questions asked -- The president's hometown -- Commemorating the tragedy of Warren Harding -- My damned biographers -- The shadow of William Estabrook Chancellor -- He-harlot -- Harding Alley -- Dead last.…”
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When fate summons : a biography of General Richard Butler, 1743-1791 /
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…New frontiers -- Indian agent -- Saratoga -- Monmouth and light infantry -- Stony Point -- Mutiny -- Virginia -- Yorktown -- Mutiny II -- Fort Stanwix Treaty -- Fort McIntosh Treaty -- Fort Finney Treaty -- Superintendent of Indian Affairs -- Fort Harmar treaties -- Road to hell -- Massacre -- Postscript to tragedy.…”
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The deaths of others the fate of civilians in America's wars /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Death and remembrance in America's wars -- American wars and the culture of violence -- Strategic bombing in the Second World War -- The Korean War : the hegemony of forgetting -- The Vietnam War : the high cost of credibility -- The Reagan doctrine : savage war by proxy -- Iraq : the twenty years' war -- Afghanistan : hot pursuit on terrorism's frontier -- Three atrocities and the rules of engagement -- Counting : a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic -- The epistemology of war.…”
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Helping humanity American policy and genocide rescue /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…-- American philanthropy -- The good Samaritan : America and the war with Spain -- They fear that the matter will have to run its course : America and the Armenian tragedy -- No cardinals in Russia : America and the terror-famine -- Jews, Zionists and social workers : American rescue policy in the caldron of World War II -- The United Nations is silent : facing genocide in the Cold War -- The world now stands as one : novus ordo seclorum.…”
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Stolen childhood slave youth in nineteenth-century America /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…In the beginning : the transatlantic trade in children of African descent -- "You know I am one man that do love my children" : slave children and youth in the family and community -- "Us ain't never idle" : the work of enslaved children and youth -- "When day is done" : the play and leisure activities of enslaved children and youth -- "Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave" : temporal and spiritual education -- "What has ever become of my presus little girl" : the traumas and tragedies of slave children and youth -- "Free at last" : the quest for freedom -- "There's a better day a-coming" : the transition from slavery to freedom.…”
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Along Navajo Trails Recollections of a Trader 1898-1948 /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Will Evans, trader to the Navajos -- Starting along the trail -- Views of history around the Four Corners -- Agapito remembers the old days -- Yellow Horse and the Long Walk -- The establishment of trading posts -- Harry Baldwin and the Hogback Post -- Redrock Trading Post -- Little Singer and the beautiful mountain uprising -- Prosperity in reverse -- Oil and gas on Navajo land -- A Christmas Eve in Navajo land -- Navajos I have known -- Costiano -- Black Horse -- Bizhóshí -- Ugly Man -- Fat One and Son of Fat One -- Faith, an episode -- Tragedies in Navajo land -- Sandoval -- Slim policeman -- A dedicated medicine man -- Dan Pete -- Daily life and customs of the Navajo people -- Daily life in a hogan -- Navajo hospitality -- Trading with the Navajos -- Navajo blankets -- Silversmithing -- Cleanliness, clothes, and manners -- Hairstyles -- Tobacco, alcohol, and morality -- Navajo marriage customs and family life -- Divorce -- Tribal traditions and lore -- Sandpaintings -- My first fire dance -- Squaw dance (enemyway) -- Death, witchcraft, and skinwalkers -- Navajos and animals -- Postscript: The death of a man, the end of an era.…”
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Along Navajo Trails : Recollections of a Trader 1898-1948 /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Will Evans, trader to the Navajos -- Starting along the trail -- Views of history around the Four Corners -- Agapito remembers the old days -- Yellow Horse and the Long Walk -- The establishment of trading posts -- Harry Baldwin and the Hogback Post -- Redrock Trading Post -- Little Singer and the beautiful mountain uprising -- Prosperity in reverse -- Oil and gas on Navajo land -- A Christmas Eve in Navajo land -- Navajos I have known -- Costiano -- Black Horse -- Bizhóshí -- Ugly Man -- Fat One and Son of Fat One -- Faith, an episode -- Tragedies in Navajo land -- Sandoval -- Slim policeman -- A dedicated medicine man -- Dan Pete -- Daily life and customs of the Navajo people -- Daily life in a hogan -- Navajo hospitality -- Trading with the Navajos -- Navajo blankets -- Silversmithing -- Cleanliness, clothes, and manners -- Hairstyles -- Tobacco, alcohol, and morality -- Navajo marriage customs and family life -- Divorce -- Tribal traditions and lore -- Sandpaintings -- My first fire dance -- Squaw dance (enemyway) -- Death, witchcraft, and skinwalkers -- Navajos and animals -- Postscript: The death of a man, the end of an era.…”
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William Almon Wheeler : political star of the north country /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Tragedy in Malone -- The making of a "cultivated" man -- Love and the new district attorney -- "Here lies an honest man" -- "Old hunkerism" is dead -- A "mere act of justice" -- "Grinding" it out in Albany -- A pen "dipped in gall" -- An early morning knock on the door -- Suddenly, a "junior partner" -- A sporting gentleman gets the itch -- "True to our trust, true to ourselves, and true to the truth" -- "Ho! …”
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