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Escape To Freedom: The Role Of The Steamboat In The Underground Railroad Jan 2021

Escape To Freedom: The Role Of The Steamboat In The Underground Railroad

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Escape to Freedom: The Role of the Steamboat in the Underground Railroad

Richard D. Parker


The Jackson Purchase: People And Places - Kenny Rollins (1923-2012) Jan 2021

The Jackson Purchase: People And Places - Kenny Rollins (1923-2012)

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Jackson Purchase: People and Places - Kenny Rollins (1923-2012)

Kevin Hogg


Book Reviews Jan 2021

Book Reviews

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation by Peter Cozzens

Ted Franklin Belue

Finding Daniel Boone: His Last Days in Missouri and the Strange Fate of His Remains by Ted Franklin Belue

Dale Ray Phillips

West Tennessee: The Land Between the Rivers by Sam McGowan

Marvin Downing

T. R. M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer by David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito

Melinda Meador

A Beautiful Star, The Life of Lois Etoile Brewer by Bobbie Smith Bryant

Bruce Dobyns


Changing Representations Of The Second World War: Why We Fight, Victory At Sea, And The World At War, Maiah Vorce Jan 2021

Changing Representations Of The Second World War: Why We Fight, Victory At Sea, And The World At War, Maiah Vorce

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Reconstructing The Black Family: How The Freedmen’S Bureau Sought To Shape Black Family Structures After Emancipation, Megan R. Busby Jan 2021

Reconstructing The Black Family: How The Freedmen’S Bureau Sought To Shape Black Family Structures After Emancipation, Megan R. Busby

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Misremembering Risk In The Age Of Hurricanes: The Rhode Island Coast In The 1930s-1950s, Kara M. Schlichting Jan 2021

Misremembering Risk In The Age Of Hurricanes: The Rhode Island Coast In The 1930s-1950s, Kara M. Schlichting

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This paper explores the lost history of New England hurricanes and how the “return” of hurricanes challenged understandings of the environmental vulnerabilities of coastal communities and weather. A series of severe New England hurricanes from 1938-1954 forced Rhode Islanders to reassess coastal vulnerabilities and protection strategies. Before the hurricane of ’38, Rhode Islanders lived with the vulnerability of seasonal erosion and winter storms, but believed their state was, and would remain, safe from hurricanes. In a new era of the shore-at-risk, the Army Corps of Engineers re-wrote the forgotten history of coastal dangers. Dense development along Narragansett Bay and the …