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Davidson County

By: Ray Howell,Davidson County Historical Society

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Davidson County

By: Ray Howell,Davidson County Historical Society

Named for famed Revolutionary war hero General William Lee Davidson, Davidson County enjoys a rich heritage in the heartland of North Carolina's piedmont region, one that combines engaging personalities, charming small towns, a taste for fine barbecue, and world-famous furniture craftsmanship. This volume,with over 200 black-and-white photographs, takes readers on a visual tour of Davidson County over the past two centuries, a time of dramatic change when the county evolved from simple agrarian-based villages into towns swelling with industry. Davidson County allows readers to explore their history as never before, including early scenes of the Court Square, the steadfast facades of the Uptown Lexington Historic District, the famed first "Big Chair" in Thomasville, and a collection of national celebrities that visited different parts of the county--Hop Along Cassidy, Ty Cobb, and Elvis Presley. However, it is not the homes and buildings that make a place special, but its people. This pictorial retrospective features the stories and images of everyday life in the county, showcasing residents in the local classroom, workplace, and "out and about" in the county enjoying its beautiful landscape.

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0738506370

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9780738506371

Davidson County

By: Ray Howell,Davidson County Historical Society

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The Punishment Monopoly

Tales of My Ancestors, Dispossession, and the Building of the United States

By: Pem Davidson Buck

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The Punishment Monopoly

Tales of My Ancestors, Dispossession, and the Building of the United States

By: Pem Davidson Buck

Examines the roots of white supremacy and mass incarceration from the vantage point of history Why, asks Pem Davidson Buck, is punishment so central to the functioning of the United States, a country proclaiming “liberty and justice for all”? The Punishment Monopoly challenges our everyday understanding of American history, focusing on the constructions of race, class, and gender upon which the United States was built, and which still support racial capitalism and the carceral state. After all, Buck writes, “a state, to be a state, has to punish ... bottom line, that is what a state and the force it controls is for.” Using stories of her European ancestors, who arrived in colonial Virginia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and following their descendants into the early nineteenth century, Buck shows how struggles over the right to punish, backed by the growing power of the state governed by a white elite, made possible the dispossession of Africans, Native Americans, and poor whites. Those struggles led to the creation of the low-wage working classes that capitalism requires, locked in by a metastasizing white supremacy that Buck’s ancestors, with many others, defined as white, helped establish and manipulate. Examining those foundational struggles illuminates some of the most contentious issues of the twenty-first century: the exploitation and detention of immigrants; mass incarceration as a central institution; Islamophobia; white privilege; judicial and extra-judicial killings of people of color and some poor whites. The Punishment Monopoly makes it clear that none of these injustices was accidental or inevitable; that shifting our state-sanctioned understandings of history is a step toward liberating us from its control of the present.

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238

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NYU Press

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1583678344

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9781583678343

Nether Providence

By: Michele S. Davidson

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Nether Providence

By: Michele S. Davidson

Join Michele S. Davidson as she documents Nether Providence's fascinating growth and development over the last three centuries. In 1682, John Sharpless settled in Nether Providence Township on a 1,000-acre tract of land along Ridley Creek that had been granted to him by William Penn. Other settlers soon followed, establishing Nether Providence as a small, successful, farming community. Over the next two centuries, Nether Providence grew into a thriving manufacturing center with 14 operating mills along the township's two creeks. At the turn of the 19th century, Nether Providence became a summer resort area rivaling the Main Line of Philadelphia, with such famous residents as Dr. Horace Howard Furness, a well-regarded Shakespearean scholar and the brother of architect Frank Furness, and Alexander Kelly McClure, the owner of the Philadelphia Times and an assistant adjunct general appointed by Pres. Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. In 2007, Wallingford, the largest community in Nether Providence, was named by Money Magazine as the ninth best place to live in the United States.

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143963856X

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9781439638569

Berwyn Heights

By: Ann Harris Davidson

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Berwyn Heights

By: Ann Harris Davidson

Berwyn Heights is a village juxtaposed with an American metropolis, as it lies barely 10 miles from the heart of Washington, D.C. It has changed much since its beginnings in 1888, yet it retains its small-town advantages, illustrating that, though a place may change, its essence remains.

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0738553670

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9780738553672

When the Circus Came to Town

Flemington New Jersey and the Lindbergh Kidnapping Trial

By: James Davidson

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When the Circus Came to Town

Flemington New Jersey and the Lindbergh Kidnapping Trial

By: James Davidson

Much has been written of the Lindbergh-Hauptmann Kidnapping Trial of 1934. This book examines what actually happened in the town of Flemington, New Jersey, a sleepy farm town that became, for a few months, the center of the universe. The first weekend of “The Trial of the Century,” the town saw 50,000 people arrive. Over 700 reporters were on hand as well as 150 photographers and countless sketch artists. Nellie’s Bar in the Union Hotel became a landmark for those who got to drink there while prostitutes roamed the streets, paying newsboys tips for “Johns.” Every famous news writer and commentator of the day was there – Adela Rogers St. Johns, Damon Runyon, Dorothy Kilgallen, Walter Winchell, Gabriel Heater, etc. This book examines what they wrote and what they said in their own words as well as colorful stories about each of them. Some of the most famous sketch artists and cartoonists of the times were also there and this book examines what they produced on a daily basis. Flemington, the trial and the times are shown in a light heretofore not described in other books.

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iUniverse

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1663241902

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9781663241900

THE OTHER LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING TRIAL

CHARLES LINDBERH VS. JOHN HUGHES CURTIS IN THE FLEMINGTON COURTHOUSE IN 1932

By: James Davidson

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THE OTHER LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING TRIAL

CHARLES LINDBERH VS. JOHN HUGHES CURTIS IN THE FLEMINGTON COURTHOUSE IN 1932

By: James Davidson

In 1932, Charles Lindbergh sat in the Flemington New Jersey courtroom in the First Lindbergh Kidnapping trial. Most people are familiar with Charles Lindbergh vs. Bruno Richard Hauptmann in the famous 1935 “Trial of the Century.” But very few people know that there was another trial that preceded the Hauptmann trial. In the summer of 1932, John Hughes Curtis, a well-known pillar of society in Norfolk, Virginia was approached and asked to serve as an intermediary between the gang who said they kidnapped the Lindbergh baby and Charles Lindbergh. Thus began an adventure with Curtis and Lindbergh out to sea for three weeks, Curtis being held captive in the basement of Lindbergh's house, culminating in a wild trial in the hot summer of 1932 in the Flemington courthouse. Many of he same people who show up in the Hauptmann trial are there: Lloyd Fisher, Anthony Hauck, Col. Lindbergh, Col. Schwarzkopf, Betty Gow, Ollie Whately, etc.

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1663260834

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9781663260833

Prime Cut

By: Diane Mott Davidson

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By: Diane Mott Davidson

Cheesecake, beefcake, and a pair of dueling caterers whet someone's appetite for murder in this sinfully delicous novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Sticks & Scones Caterer Goldy Schulz is convinced things couldn't get worse. An unscrupulous rival is driving her out of business. An incompetent contractor has left her precious kitchen in shambles. And she has just agreed to cater a fashion shoot at a nineteenth-century mountain cabin with her mentor and old friend, French chef André Hibbard. Together Goldy and André struggle in a hopelessly outdated kitchen to cater to a vacuous crowd of beautiful people whose personal dramas climax when a camera is pitched through a window . . . into the buffet. Then Goldy's contractor is found hanging in the house of one of her best friends. A second murder follows and Goldy must somehow solve a mystery and prepare for a society soirée that could make—or break—her career. It's a mystery that involves the dead contractor's unwholesome past, a food saboteur, the theft of four historical cookbooks, and an overzealous D.A. who has suspended Goldy's detective husband, Tom, from the force. What Goldy discovers is the perfect recipe for murder. And she may be dessert!

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386

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Bantam

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0307428826

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9780307428820

Lives on the Line

Dispatches from the U.S.-Mexico Border

By: Miriam Davidson

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Lives on the Line

Dispatches from the U.S.-Mexico Border

By: Miriam Davidson

The twin cities of Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, for years straddled an indistinct border," but with the maquiladora industry, a crackdown against undocumented immigrants, and drug smuggling, "neither Nogales will ever be the same."--Cover.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816519986

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9780816519989

The Harley-Davidson Reader

By: Arlen (CON) Ness, Michael Dregni, Evel Knievel, Jean (FRW) Davidson, Sonny Barger, Hunter S. (CON) Thompson

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The Harley-Davidson Reader

By: Arlen (CON) Ness, Michael Dregni, Evel Knievel, Jean (FRW) Davidson, Sonny Barger, Hunter S. (CON) Thompson

Harley-Davidson motorcycles are the grandest name in American motorcycling, and represent the freedom of the open road, a life of rebellion, and a heritage of craftsmanship for over 100 years. In this collection, the biggest and best writings, old and new, are assembled on Harley-Davidson and their unique mystique by writers and personalities that are part of the legend, from Hunter S. Thompson to Sonny Barger, Evel Knievel to Arlen Ness, and more. Punctuated with classic images—from vintage motorcycling photos to racing and walls of death posters to pictures from biker LPs and novels—these are the stories that have helped define the Harley-Davidson myth. The tales of the company’s birth, the rise of the biker outlaw legend, and the modern-day revival of choppers, bobbers, and retro rides are all told by the best-loved sages of biker lore. With sidebars on biker movies, biker literature, and much more, this book chronicles the Motor Company’s long ride into modern-day legend.

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161060041X

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9781610600415

New Jersey's Lindbergh Kidnapping and Trial

By: Mark W. Falzini,James Davidson

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New Jersey's Lindbergh Kidnapping and Trial

By: Mark W. Falzini,James Davidson

The kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. and the subsequent arrest, trial, and execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann have intrigued true crime buffs for decades. New Jersey's Lindbergh Kidnapping and Trial tells the story of the case that never dies through vintage photographs. Rare photographs, many not seen since the 1930s, will allow the reader to experience the massive police investigation led by New Jersey State Police superintendent H. Norman Schwarzkopf and the circus-like trial and execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738597740

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9780738597744

Away for the Weekend - New York

By: Eleanor Davidson Berman

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Away for the Weekend - New York

By: Eleanor Davidson Berman

This completely revised edition of what has become a travel classic offers 52 exciting weekend itineraries in New York State, Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. 5 photos, 5 maps.

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Three Rivers Press

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0517881667

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9780517881668

The Tennessee

The Old River: Frontier to Secession

By: Donald Davidson

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The Tennessee

The Old River: Frontier to Secession

By: Donald Davidson

From the landing of Federal troops at the Tennessee-Ohio confluence to the new river of the TVA, whose dams "stand athwart the valley in Egyptian impassivity," this volume completes the story of the transformation of a river and of the culture it nourished. Southern Classics Series.

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362

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J.S. Sanders Books

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1461699983

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9781461699989

A Complete History of Illinois

By: Alexander Davidson

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A Complete History of Illinois

By: Alexander Davidson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382508494

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9783382508494

Book's by Davidson County Historical Society

Davidson County

Davidson County

Davidson County

Davidson County

The Punishment Monopoly

The Punishment Monopoly

Nether Providence

Nether Providence

Berwyn Heights

Berwyn Heights

When the Circus Came to Town

When the Circus Came to Town

THE OTHER LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING TRIAL

THE OTHER LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING TRIAL

Prime Cut

Prime Cut

Lives on the Line

Lives on the Line

The Harley-Davidson Reader

The Harley-Davidson Reader

New Jersey's Lindbergh Kidnapping and Trial

New Jersey's Lindbergh Kidnapping and Trial

Away for the Weekend - New York

Away for the Weekend - New York

The Tennessee

The Tennessee

A Complete History of Illinois

A Complete History of Illinois

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