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[Introduction To] The Promise Of The New South: Life After Reconstruction, Edward L. Ayers
[Introduction To] The Promise Of The New South: Life After Reconstruction, Edward L. Ayers
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At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came the chilling sounds of a lynching. In this story, with its blend of new technology and old hatreds, genteel picnics and mob violence, Edward Ayers captures the history of the South in the years between Reconstruction and the turn of the century.
Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee …
The Shanachie Volume 4, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society
The Shanachie Volume 4, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society
The Shanachie (CTIAHS)
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Franco-Americans, 1992 (Scrapbook #16), Franco-American Collection
Franco-Americans, 1992 (Scrapbook #16), Franco-American Collection
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Newspaper articles with photographs, personal accounts, and book reviews about French culture in Lewiston, Maine.
Wearin' O' The Green: St. Patrick's Day In New Haven, Connecticut 1842-1992, Neil Hogan, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society
Wearin' O' The Green: St. Patrick's Day In New Haven, Connecticut 1842-1992, Neil Hogan, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society
Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society Monographs (CTIAHS)
The story of St. Patrick's Day as celebrated in New Haven. The book conveys the pride, joy, patriotism, conviviality, devotion and even homesickness for Ireland that have inspired New Haven's Irish Americans to make this day an important community folk festival.