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Hutchinson

By: Julie M. Jensen,McLeod County Historical Society

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Hutchinson

By: Julie M. Jensen,McLeod County Historical Society

Founded in 1855, when Minnesota was still a territory, Hutchinson is named for a New Hampshire family of minstrels and social activists who sang for emancipation, women's rights, temperance, and other causes of their day. In its early years, the town survived a Dakota War and a grasshopper plague to evolve into a thriving community. Documenting this evolution through six chapters are period photographs--the vast majority from the collections of the McLeod County Historical Society. Images of America: Hutchinson chronicles the town's beginnings, then presents a city tour across time, with a primary focus on Main Street. It illustrates public services and the livelihoods of local citizens, and it reveals a lifestyle that was, and is, enriched by an array of diversions, many centered on the Crow River, surrounding lakes, and an extensive park system. Concluding photographs, spanning the arts, serve as a reminder of the legacy of the founders.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467110108

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9781467110105

Port Chicago

By: Dean L. McLeod

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Port Chicago

By: Dean L. McLeod

Looks at the history of Port Chicago, California, an all-American town and naval facility which came into being in 1908 on Suisaun Bay in Contra Costa County and was dissolved in 1968 when property was bought and buildings demolished by the Federal Govern

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738555517

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9780738555515

Damariscotta Lake

By: Julia McLeod,Mary Sheldon,Marilyn Speckmann

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Damariscotta Lake

By: Julia McLeod,Mary Sheldon,Marilyn Speckmann

Damariscotta Lake, the link between the towns of Jefferson, Newcastle, and Nobleboro, has always had a unique allure. Each spring, thousands of alewives return from the Atlantic Ocean to struggle up the fish ladder at Damariscotta Mills and reach their traditional spawning grounds. Many early settlers made a living through shipbuilding, milling, farming, and harvesting ice, wood, and alewives. In the 20th century, the establishment of children's camps, fishing lodges, cottages, and homes relied on the lake's draw for recreation. The area has been a destination for notables such as Arthur Godfrey and Thomas Watson, writers Henry Beston and Elizabeth Coatsworth, and Pulitzer Prize winners Robert Lowell and Jean Stafford.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738575097

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9780738575094

Before Equiano

A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative

By: Zachary McLeod Hutchins

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Before Equiano

A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative

By: Zachary McLeod Hutchins

In the antebellum United States, formerly enslaved men and women who told their stories and advocated for abolition helped establish a new genre with widely recognized tropes: the slave narrative. This book investigates how enslaved black Africans conceived of themselves and their stories before the War of American Independence and the genre's development in the nineteenth century. Zachary McLeod Hutchins argues that colonial newspapers were pivotal in shaping popular understandings of both slavery and the black African experience well before the slave narrative's proliferation. Introducing the voices and art of black Africans long excluded from the annals of literary history, Hutchins shows how the earliest life writing by and about enslaved black Africans established them as political agents in an Atlantic world defined by diplomacy, war, and foreign relations. In recovering their stories, Hutchins sheds new light on how black Africans became Black Americans; how the earliest accounts of enslaved life were composed editorially from textual fragments rather than authored by a single hand; and how the public discourse of slavery shifted from the language of just wars and foreign policy to a heritable, race-based system of domestic oppression.

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UNC Press Books

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1469671557

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9781469671550

Roanoke Valley

By: Nelson Harris,Harold McLeod,Historical Society of Western Virginia

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Roanoke Valley

By: Nelson Harris,Harold McLeod,Historical Society of Western Virginia

Nestled in the shadows of the Blue Ridge, the Roanoke Valley has developed as the capital region for western Virginia. After a century of growth fueled by transportation, education, and healthcare, the region has undergone significant visible change. While some of the valleys landmarks remain, many have been replaced or dramatically altered.

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100

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439641536

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9781439641538

Mary McLeod Bethune

Building a Better World, Essays and Selected Documents

By: Mary McLeod Bethune

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Building a Better World, Essays and Selected Documents

By: Mary McLeod Bethune

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Indiana University Press

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025321503X

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9780253215031

The Encyclopedia of Native Music

More Than a Century of Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet

By: Brian Wright-McLeod

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The Encyclopedia of Native Music

More Than a Century of Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet

By: Brian Wright-McLeod

Want the word on Buffy Sainte-Marie? Looking for the best powwow recordings? Wondering what else Jim Pepper cut besides “Witchi Tai To”? This book will answer those questions and more as it opens up the world of Native American music. In addition to the widely heard sounds of Carlos Nakai’s flute, Native music embraces a wide range of forms: country and folk, jazz and swing, reggae and rap. Brian Wright-McLeod, producer/host of Canada’s longest-running Native radio program, has gathered the musicians and their music into this comprehensive reference, an authoritative source for biographies and discographies of hundreds of Native artists. The Encyclopedia of Native Music recognizes the multifaceted contributions made by Native recording artists by tracing the history of their commercially released music. It provides an overview of the surprising abundance of recorded Native music while underlining its historical value. With almost 1,800 entries spanning more than 100 years, this book leads readers from early performers of traditional songs like William Horncloud to artists of the new millennium such as Zotigh. Along the way, it includes entries for jazz and blues artists never widely acknowledged for their Native roots—Oscar Pettiford, Mildred Bailey, and Keely Smith—and traces the recording histories of contemporary performers like Rita Coolidge and Jimmy Carl Black, “the Indian of the group” in the original Mothers of Invention. It also includes film soundtracks and compilation albums that have been instrumental in bringing many artists to popular attention. In addition to music, it lists spoken-word recordings, including audio books, comedy, interviews, poetry, and more. With this unprecedented breadth of coverage and extensively cross-referenced, The Encyclopedia of Native Music is an essential guide for enthusiasts and collectors. More than that, it is a gateway to the authentic music of North America—music of the people who have known this land from time immemorial and continue to celebrate it in sound.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816538646

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9780816538645

Hutchinson

By: Julie M. Jensen,McLeod County Historical Society

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Secularization and Religious Innovation in the North Atlantic World

By: David Hempton,Hugh McLeod

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Secularization and Religious Innovation in the North Atlantic World

By: David Hempton,Hugh McLeod

In the early twenty-first century it had become a clich that there was a "God Gap" between a more religious United States and a more secular Europe. The apparent religious differences between the United States and western Europe continue to be a focus of intense and sometimes bitter debate between three of the main schools in the sociology of religion. According to the influential "Secularization Thesis," secularization has been an integral part of the processes of modernization in the Western world since around 1800. For proponents of this thesis, the United States appears as an anomaly and they accordingly give considerable attention to explaining why it is different. For other sociologists, however, the apparently high level of religiosity in the USA provides a major argument in their attempts to refute the Thesis. Secularization and Religious Innovation in the North Atlantic World provides a systematic comparison between the religious histories of the United States and western European countries from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century, noting parallels as well as divergences, examining their causes and especially highlighting change over time. This is achieved by a series of themes which seem especially relevant to this agenda, and in each case the theme is considered by two scholars. The volume examines whether American Christians have been more innovative, and if so how far this explains the apparent "God Gap." It goes beyond the simple American/European binary to ask what is "American" or "European" in the Christianity of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and in what ways national or regional differences outweigh these commonalities.

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422

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Oxford University Press

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0198798075

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9780198798071

Ontario Beer

A Heady History of Brewing from the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay

By: Alan McLeod,Jordan St. John

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Ontario Beer

A Heady History of Brewing from the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay

By: Alan McLeod,Jordan St. John

Beer historians and writers Alan McLeod and Jordan St. John have tapped the cask of Ontario brewing to bring the complete story to light, from foam to dregs. Ontario boasts a potent mix of brewing traditions. Wherever Europeans explored, battled, and settled, beer was not far behind, which brought the simple magic of brewing to Ontario in the 1670s. Early Hudson's Bay Company traders brewed in Canada's Arctic, and Loyalist refugees brought the craft north in the 1780s. Early 1900s temperance activists drove the industry largely underground but couldn't dry up the quest to quench Ontarians' thirst. The heavy regulation that replaced prohibition centralized surviving breweries. Today, independent breweries are booming and writing their own chapters in the Ontario beer story.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625847408

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9781625847409

Bay Point

By: Dean L. McLeod

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Bay Point

By: Dean L. McLeod

To many commuters driving past Bay Point on nearby Highway 4, it would appear that the community sprang up as a housing development sometime in the very recent past, but its unique history is much more than that. During the frontier days, the area was comprised of ranchers and farmers. The large 19th-century district sprouted smaller neighborhoods at the beginning of the 20th century. Nearby the communities of Clyde, Nichols, and later West Pittsburg, the main town was Bay Point, which changed its name to Port Chicago during the Great Depression. In fact, it wasn't until 1993 that the historic name was restored to part of the original district. Today, Bay Point is a residential and business destination, home to tens of thousands of people, as well as high-profile corporations.

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0738529079

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Daughter of the Empire State

The Life of Judge Jane Bolin

By: Jacqueline A. McLeod

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Daughter of the Empire State

The Life of Judge Jane Bolin

By: Jacqueline A. McLeod

This long overdue biography of the nation's first African American woman judge elevates Jane Matilda Bolin to her rightful place in American history as an activist, integrationist, jurist, and outspoken public figure in the political and professional milieu of New York City before the onset of the modern Civil Rights movement. Bolin was appointed to New York City's domestic relations court in 1939 for the first of four ten-year terms. When she retired in 1978, her career had extended well beyond the courtroom. Drawing on archival materials as well as a meeting with Bolin in 2002, historian Jacqueline A. McLeod reveals how Bolin parlayed her judicial position to impact significant reforms of the legal and social service system in New York. Beginning with Bolin's childhood and educational experiences at Wellesley and Yale, Daughter of the Empire State chronicles Bolin's relatively quick rise through the ranks of a profession that routinely excluded both women and African Americans. Deftly situating Bolin's experiences within the history of black women lawyers and the historical context of high-achieving black New Englanders, McLeod offers a multi-layered analysis of black women's professionalization in a segregated America. Linking Bolin's activist leanings and integrationist zeal to her involvement in the NAACP, McLeod analyzes Bolin's involvement at the local level as well as her tenure on the organization's national board of directors. An outspoken critic of the discriminatory practices of New York City's probation department and juvenile placement facilities, Bolin also co-founded, with Eleanor Roosevelt, the Wiltwyck School for boys in upstate New York and campaigned to transform the Domestic Relations Court with her judicial colleagues. McLeod's careful and highly readable account of these accomplishments inscribes Bolin onto the roster of important social reformers and early civil rights trailblazers.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252093615

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9780252093616

An Introduction To Counselling

By: McLeod, John

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An Introduction To Counselling

By: McLeod, John

This bestseller provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of counselling and psychotherapy.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335247229

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9780335247226

Anatomy of a Beast

Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot

By: Michael McLeod

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Anatomy of a Beast

Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot

By: Michael McLeod

Michael McLeod doesn't simply debunk hoaxes; he critically, but sympathetically, explores the motivations that have driven the 'Bigfoot community' to build an enormous and intricate, if ramshackle, edifice of lore. McLeod has written an anatomy of mythology with implications that go beyond the Bigfoot phenomenon. The Bigfoot mythologists' strange, colorful, and sometimes comical, personalities play a big part of this compulsively readable story."—David Rains Wallace, author of The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution "In the same way that dinosaurs and other exotic beasts from Earth's distant and hazy past inspire and fascinate many of us, Bigfoot has captured the imagination of generations of Americans. Here, Michael McLeod approaches the 'Bigfoot phenomenon' in the same way that a detective would follow leads at a crime scene. The result is a delicious case study of human obsession and the fuzzy border between science and pseudoscience."—Chris Beard, author of The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans

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Univ of California Press

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0520269861

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9780520269866

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Hutchinson

Hutchinson

Port Chicago

Port Chicago

Damariscotta Lake

Damariscotta Lake

Before Equiano

Before Equiano

Roanoke Valley

Roanoke Valley

Mary McLeod Bethune

Mary McLeod Bethune

The Encyclopedia of Native Music

The Encyclopedia of Native Music

Hutchinson

Hutchinson

Secularization and Religious Innovation in the North Atlantic World

Secularization and Religious Innovation in the North Atlantic World

Ontario Beer

Ontario Beer

Bay Point

Bay Point

Daughter of the Empire State

Daughter of the Empire State

An Introduction To Counselling

An Introduction To Counselling

Anatomy of a Beast

Anatomy of a Beast

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