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Mary Grew, Abolitionist and Feminist, 1813-1896

By: Ira Vernon Brown

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Mary Grew, Abolitionist and Feminist, 1813-1896

By: Ira Vernon Brown

This is the first full-length biography of Mary Grew (1813-96), an American abolitionist and feminist, who worked steadily in the antislavery crusade from 1834 to 1865, in the Negro suffrage campaign from 1865 to 1870, and in the woman's rights movements from 1848 to 1892, her eightieth year.

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Susquehanna University Press

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0945636202

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9780945636205

The DuSable Panthers

The Greatest, Blackest, Saddest Team from the Meanest Streets in Chicago

By: Ira Berkow

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The DuSable Panthers

The Greatest, Blackest, Saddest Team from the Meanest Streets in Chicago

By: Ira Berkow

Twelve years before Kentucky and Texas Christian. Seven years after Jackie Robinson’s first at-bat in the Majors. A color barrier in both sports and in America was shattered—by a team of teenage boys. The weight of a season and the weight of growing up are burdens enough. For a high school basketball team in Chicago in 1954, the weight of history joined them every time they stepped onto the court. “The Wonder Five” were from DuSable High School, a predominantly black area of Chicago, a city with a harrowing record on race relations. It is also one of America’s preeminent basketball cities, and The Wonder Five’s spectacular skill and immense poise carried them through the season and into the record books as the first all-black team, led by a black coach, to reach the highest levels of an organized, integrated, traditional sports program in America. When DuSable reached the finals of the state tournament for Illinois, it made history the minute its five starters stepped onto the court. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Ira Berkow goes in-depth to explore the historical and sociological background that led to DuSable, as well as painting that championship game in his inimitable style. In one of the most emotional, suspenseful, and bizarre games that anyone had ever seen, DuSable played a team from Mount Vernon, a small, southern Illinois town, predominantly white, save for its one star player. What happened in the game, and the aftermath, changed the lives of these young men forever.

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Diversion Books

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1626813930

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9781626813939

Paper Money of the United States, 21st edition

A Complete Illustrated Guide with Valuations

By: Arthur L. Friedberg,Ira S. Friedberg,Robert Friedberg

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Paper Money of the United States, 21st edition

A Complete Illustrated Guide with Valuations

By: Arthur L. Friedberg,Ira S. Friedberg,Robert Friedberg

The standard reference on American currency, internationally acknowledged as the most comprehensive and universally recognized guide on the subject, illustrating and valuating all types of United States paper money. The fronts and backs of all classes and types of currency, from 3 cents to 10,000 dollars are illustrated in color, with text listing, describing and giving market values in up to seven states of preservation for every variety of paper money ever issued. Also contains sections on Colonial and Continental currency and a listing by type of the issues of the Confederate States of America (1861-1864). Also chapters on error notes, encased postage stamps and postage envelopes. Paper Money of the United States has been an invaluable asset to currency collectors and numismatists since its first edition in 1953. It also possesses an appeal and value of its own, not just to lovers of Americana and of the fine art of engraving, but to students of American history, finance and economics. Banks in America and throughout the world will find this book especially useful in that it makes possible the immediate identification of all obsolete but still legal tender paper money, while simultaneously giving a market valuation. It is a book which belongs in every library, public and private.

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330

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Coin & Currency Institute

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0871840219

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9780871840219

Paper Money of the United States

The Standard Reference Work on Paper Money. from Colonial Times to the Present. A Complete Illustrated Guide with Valuations

By: Arthur Friedberg,Ira S. Friedberg

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Paper Money of the United States

The Standard Reference Work on Paper Money. from Colonial Times to the Present. A Complete Illustrated Guide with Valuations

By: Arthur Friedberg,Ira S. Friedberg

Now with every illustration in color. This landmark work is the standard reference on American currency since 1953, acknowledged as the most comprehensive and universally recognized guide on the subject, illustrating and valuating all types of United States paper money. From the first year of Federal paper money, 1861, to date, both sides of all currency, from 3 cents to $100,000 are illustrated and accompanied by text listing, describing and pricing, in up to seven conditions, every variety of paper money ever issued. The result is a complete pictorial, descriptive and numismatic history of United States currency. Also with sections on Colonial and Continental currency and the Confederate States of America, and chapters on error notes, encased postage stamps and postage envelopes.For those who think of America's currency as a constant study in green and black, the rainbow-like diversity shown by the more than 800 color illustrations is a revelation in itself. New information has been added and valuations updated, making it possible to establish the value of any note. Paper Money of the United States has been an invaluable asset to currency collectors and numismatists. It also possesses an appeal and value to lovers of Americana, of the fine art of engraving, and students of American history, finance and economics.Banks will find this book especially useful in that it makes possible the immediate identification and valuation of all obsolete but still legal tender currency. It is a book which belongs in every library, public and private.

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327

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Coin & Currency Institute

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0871845199

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9780871845191

Birds of Oregon

By: Ira N. Gabrielson,Stanley G. Jewett

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Birds of Oregon

By: Ira N. Gabrielson,Stanley G. Jewett

From Foreward: Lovers of the great out-of-doors, as well as those scientifically inclined, are to be felicitated upon the publication of The Birds of Oregon by Gabrielson and Jewett. For forty years these men patiently and painstakingly assembled the material for this imposing and delightful book. They brought to the task a wealth of experience and of scientific knowledge. They covered the state from the Columbia to Goose Lake and from the Pacific Ocean to the Snake River. By personal contact they know Oregon from sea level to the summit of Mt. Hood. They transferred from nature's book to the printed page some of nature's most interesting and beautiful expressions.

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686

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Lulu.com

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0557686490

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9780557686490

The Carter Years

By: Burton Ira Kaufman

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The Carter Years

By: Burton Ira Kaufman

An A-to-Z reference guide to the people, places, policies, and events significant during the presidency of Jimmy Carter.

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657

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Infobase Publishing

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0816074585

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9780816074587

Swing to Bop : An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

By: Ira Gitler Jazz historian

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Swing to Bop : An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

By: Ira Gitler Jazz historian

This book willserve as the basic work on the rise and development of bop in jazz. Engendered by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, bebop, now known as bop, quickly became the most powerful musical force in modern jazz. Today it is still the main musical language of jazz musicians. Over a ten-year period, Ira Gitler interviewed more than 50 of the seminal figures in jazz history to preserve for posterity their recollections of how jazz moved from the big band era in the late '30s and '40s into the modern jazz period. The musicians interviewed recreate not only their own experiences but also evoke the legendary figures of bop who where so influential in its development but were never recorded, people like Clyde Hart and Freddie Webster. Swing to Bop shows how the music first established itself in jam sessions in Harlem and then spread to New York's famed 52nd Street and beyond. Separate chapters describe how young musicians in major cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago and Detroit became swept up in the movement. Along with the music and the personalities who made it, the book vividly recreates the atmosphere of the country in the '30s and '40s: traveling on the ballroom theather curcuit; racial attitudes and interaction; extra-musical pastimes; the relationship to World War II; and the influence of drugs. Thus Swing to Bop reveals not only how the music evolved but the environment in which it flourished and what effect in turn the music had on that environment and the music to follow. About the Author Ira Gitler is the author of Jazz Masters of the '40s and The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies. He was previously Professor of Jazz History at City College of New York and Associate Editor of Downbeat.

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358

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195364112

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9780195364118

The Skinner Family History

Second Edition

By: Ira James Skinner Jr.

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The Skinner Family History

Second Edition

By: Ira James Skinner Jr.

The surname Skinner is an English trade and business name of approximately the twelfth century when trade names like Brewer, Baker, Chandler, and Smith came into existence as family names. Skinner is the name adopted as a dealer in skins, furs, and hides. The Skinner Company of London received a charter of incorporation during the reign of Edward III and has a coat of arms, which is discussed later from that period. The Skinner families are found all over England. The Skinner families are in Cowley and Devonshire in London and in Essex, Sussex, Dewlish, the Isle of Wight, and other counties as well. This book gives the history of the Skinner family from 1200 to the present time and connects six immigrants that is listed in the introduction of the book.

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1305

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796040487

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9781796040487

D.W. Griffith: Master of Cinema

By: Ira H. Gallen

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D.W. Griffith: Master of Cinema

By: Ira H. Gallen

Exhaustively researched and accessibly written, D.W. Griffith: Master of Cinema is a remarkably comprehensive biography of the legendary director and his days creating his craft at the American Biograph Company between 1908 through 1913. Meticulously detailed, utilizing a wealth of archival documents and photographs, the book effectively details Griffith’s place as a film pioneer. Even a casual film fan can see the lines being drawn from the techniques Griffith developed to modern cinematic experience. Ira Gallen’s exploration of Griffith’s family and his early life sets the stage for his career, and give great context for who he would become. His intricate details about early stage and film paint such a vivid and evocative picture of the time that you will be truly drawn into another world while reading it.

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FriesenPress

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1460260996

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9781460260999

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Mary Grew, Abolitionist and Feminist, 1813-1896

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The DuSable Panthers

Paper Money of the United States, 21st edition

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Paper Money of the United States

Birds of Oregon

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Swing to Bop : An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

Swing to Bop : An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

The Skinner Family History

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D.W. Griffith: Master of Cinema

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