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The Submarine H.L. Hunley: Confederate Innovation And Southern Icon, Steven Smith
The Submarine H.L. Hunley: Confederate Innovation And Southern Icon, Steven Smith
Steven D. Smith
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Foreword, Steven Smith
Digitizing Immigrant And Homeland Letters: Problems And Opportunities, Dominic Pacyga
Digitizing Immigrant And Homeland Letters: Problems And Opportunities, Dominic Pacyga
Dominic Pacyga
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Charleston Reborn: A Southern City, Its Navy Yard And World War Ii, 1940-1946, Fritz Hamer
Charleston Reborn: A Southern City, Its Navy Yard And World War Ii, 1940-1946, Fritz Hamer
Fritz Hamer
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Forward Together: South Carolinians In The Great War, Fritz Hamer
Forward Together: South Carolinians In The Great War, Fritz Hamer
Fritz Hamer
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Glory On The Gridiron: A History Of College Football In South Carolina, Fritz Hamer
Glory On The Gridiron: A History Of College Football In South Carolina, Fritz Hamer
Fritz Hamer
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Book Session: The American Urban Reader: History And Theory, Steven Corey
Book Session: The American Urban Reader: History And Theory, Steven Corey
Steven H. Corey
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Chicago: A Biography, Dominic Pacyga
Chicago: A Biography, Dominic Pacyga
Dominic Pacyga
Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a “City on the Make.” Carl Sandburg dubbed it the “City of Big Shoulders.” Upton Sinclair christened it “The Jungle,” while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it “the Second City.”
At last there is a book for all of us, whatever we choose to call Chicago. In this magisterial biography, historian Dominic Pacyga traces the storied past of his hometown, from the explorations of Joliet and Marquette in 1673 to the new wave of urban pioneers today. The city’s great industrialists, reformers, and politicians—and, indeed, the many not-so-great and downright …
Responding To The Second Ghetto: Chicago's Joe Smith And Sin Corner, Dominic Pacyga
Responding To The Second Ghetto: Chicago's Joe Smith And Sin Corner, Dominic Pacyga
Dominic Pacyga
World War Two and its aftermath transformed Chicago's African American community. The Great Migration entered a second and more intense phase as black migrants flooded into Northern cities. This massive relocation of Southern blacks resulted in the expansion and reformulation of Chicago's ghettoes on both the West and South Sides of the city. The question of a response to this Second Ghetto from African Americans themselves presents itself. White politicians, cultural elites and businessmen still controlled the city and could impose their will on its neighborhoods simply redrawing ghetto boundaries to reflect the new realities of the postwar era. The …