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A Pleasant Institution

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By: John S. Monagan

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A Pleasant Institution is the memoir of John S. Monagan, who details the experiences of eight decades of the century from 1911 to the present. He tells the story of a modern Connecticut Yankee and his life as a lawyer, mayor, congressman, author, athlete, and scion of a family prominent in New York City for 250 years. Whether describing the curious protocol observed in a Prohibition-era speakeasy, the Olympic presence of Harvard Law professors in the 1930s or the mood of a White House ball during the Bay of Pigs crisis, this book is full of vivid characters and memorable events.

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University Press of America

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076182152X

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9780761821526

A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation

By: John Matteson

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A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation

By: John Matteson

Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their enduring legacy for America. December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln’s government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country’s law, literature, politics, and popular mythology. Taken together, their stories offer a striking restatement of what it means to be American. Guided by patriotism, driven by desire, all five moved toward singular destinies. A young Harvard intellectual steeped in courageous ideals, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. confronted grave challenges to his concept of duty. The one-eyed army chaplain Arthur Fuller pitted his frail body against the evils of slavery. Walt Whitman, a gay Brooklyn poet condemned by the guardians of propriety, and Louisa May Alcott, a struggling writer seeking an authentic voice and her father’s admiration, tended soldiers’ wracked bodies as nurses. On the other side of the national schism, John Pelham, a West Point cadet from Alabama, achieved a unique excellence in artillery tactics as he served a doomed and misbegotten cause. A Worse Place Than Hell brings together the prodigious forces of war with the intimacy of individual lives. Matteson interweaves the historic and the personal in a work as beautiful as it is powerful.

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528

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393247082

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9780393247084

Waterbury Irish: From the Emerald Isle to the Brass City

By: Janet Maher, in collaboration with John Wiehn

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Waterbury Irish: From the Emerald Isle to the Brass City

By: Janet Maher, in collaboration with John Wiehn

The hard work of nineteenth-century Irish immigrants in Waterbury helped place the city on the map as the Brass Capital of the World. In the early years of immigration, Irish Catholics held Mass in secret, but eventually beautiful churches were built, attracting the most revered clergy in Connecticut. Soon Irish and Irish Americans established themselves as city leaders and professionals in the community. Dr. Charles A. Monagan was a founding member of St. Mary's Hospital, while his son John later became mayor. Some achieved fame through their excellence in sports, such as Roger Connor, who held a long-standing record for career home runs until it was broken by Babe Ruth. Detailed research and oral histories from living descendants bring to light the remarkable Waterbury Irish legacy.

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192

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Arcadia Publishing

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1626197350

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9781626197350

Crafting Preservation Criteria

The National Register of Historic Places and American Historic Preservation

By: John H. Sprinkle, Jr.

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Crafting Preservation Criteria

The National Register of Historic Places and American Historic Preservation

By: John H. Sprinkle, Jr.

In 1966, American historic preservation was transformed by the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act, which created a National Register of Historic Places. Now comprising more than 1.4 million historic properties across the country, the National Register is the official federal list of places in the United States thought to be worthy of preservation. One of the fundamental principles of the National Register is that every property is evaluated according to a standard set of criteria that provide the framework for understanding why a property is significant in American history. The origins of these criteria are important because they provide the threshold for consideration by a broad range of federal preservation programs, from planning for continued adaptive use, to eligibility for grants, and inclusion in heritage tourism and educational programs. Crafting Preservation Criteria sets out these preservation criteria for students, explaining how they got added to the equation, and elucidating the test cases that allowed for their use. From artworks to churches, from 'the fifty year rule' to 'the historic scene', students will learn how places have been historically evaluated to be placed on the National Register, and how the criteria evolved over time.

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262

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Routledge

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1136169849

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9781136169847

Parish Boundaries

The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North

By: John T. McGreevy

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Parish Boundaries

The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North

By: John T. McGreevy

A “remarkable” study of white Catholics and African Americans—and the dynamics between them in New York, Chicago, Boston, and other cities (The New York Times Book Review). Parish Boundaries chronicles the history of Catholic parishes in major cities such as Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia, melding their unique place in the urban landscape to the course of twentieth century American race relations. In vivid portraits of parish life, John McGreevy examines the contacts and conflicts between European-American Catholics and their African American neighbors. By tracing the transformation of a church, its people, and the nation, McGreevy illuminates the enormous impact of religious culture on modern American society. “Thorough, sensitive, and balanced.”—Kirkus Reviews “Parish Boundaries can take its place in the front ranks of the literature of urban race relations.”—The Washington Post "A prodigiously researched, gracefully written book distinguished especially by its seamless treatment of social and intellectual history."—American Historical Review “Parish Boundaries will fascinate historians and anyone interested in the historic connection between parish and race.”—Chicago Tribune

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369

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University of Chicago Press

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022649747X

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9780226497471

A Pleasant Institution

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By: John S. Monagan

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A Pleasant Institution

A Pleasant Institution

A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation

A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation

Waterbury Irish: From the Emerald Isle to the Brass City

Waterbury Irish: From the Emerald Isle to the Brass City

Crafting Preservation Criteria

Crafting Preservation Criteria

Parish Boundaries

Parish Boundaries

A Pleasant Institution

A Pleasant Institution

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