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Family Illusions

By: Michael Tadman

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Sue Charter and her siblings supplied DNA to identify her dead brother Harry Charter. Now the airline informs Sue that she is not related to her surviving brother or sister. Her father is certain there was no adoption. Everyone seems to be telling the truth. Yet her DNA does not match her birth family. Ever think you have been born into the wrong family

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1300918233

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Stagecoach Robberies in California

A Complete Record, 1856-1913

By: R. Michael Wilson

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Stagecoach Robberies in California

A Complete Record, 1856-1913

By: R. Michael Wilson

California was the mining center of the West for half a century. Wherever precious minerals were found, road agents appeared to "mine the roads" of treasure being shipped out and payrolls being shipped in. The first recorded robbery of a stagecoach occurred in 1856, and the last in 1913. Over that period there were 458 stagecoach robberies, many with special characteristics such as a claim the robbers were Confederate soldiers, a murder, a gun battle, or a thrilling pursuit and capture. Surprisingly, there were many robberies in which the perpetrator remained unknown or in which was so little stolen the robber was not even sought out. This book gives all the details of those robberies taken from the contemporary newspapers and from a variety of other sources.

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McFarland

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0786479965

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9780786479962

Transition to an Industrial South

Athens, Georgia, 1830–1870

By: Michael J. Gagnon

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Transition to an Industrial South

Athens, Georgia, 1830–1870

By: Michael J. Gagnon

Renowned New South booster Henry Grady proposed industrialization as a basis of economic recovery for the former Confederacy. Born in 1850 in Athens, Georgia, to a family involved in the city's thriving manufacturing industries, Grady saw firsthand the potential of industrialization for the region. In Transition to an Industrial South, Michael J. Gagnon explores the creation of an industrial network in the antebellum South by focusing on the creation and expansion of cotton textile manufacture in Athens. By 1835, local entrepreneurs had built three cotton factories in Athens, started a bank, and created the Georgia Railroad. Although known best as a college town, Athens became an industrial center for Georgia in the antebellum period and maintained its stature as a factory hub even after competing cities supplanted it in the late nineteenth century. Georgia, too, remained the foremost industrial state in the South until the 1890s. Gagnon reveals the political nature of procuring manufacturing technology and building cotton mills in the South, and demonstrates the generational maturing of industrial laboring, managerial, and business classes well before the advent of the New South era. He also shows how a southern industrial society grew out of a culture of social and educational reform, economic improvements, and business interests in banking and railroading. Using Athens as a case study, Gagnon suggests that the connected networks of family, business, and financial relations provided a framework for southern industry to profit during the Civil War and served as a principal guide to prosperity in the immediate postbellum years.

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LSU Press

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0807145084

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9780807145081

A Union Indivisible

Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South

By: Michael D. Robinson

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A Union Indivisible

Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South

By: Michael D. Robinson

Many accounts of the secession crisis overlook the sharp political conflict that took place in the Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. Michael D. Robinson expands the scope of this crisis to show how the fate of the Border South, and with it the Union, desperately hung in the balance during the fateful months surrounding the clash at Fort Sumter. During this period, Border South politicians revealed the region's deep commitment to slavery, disputed whether or not to leave the Union, and schemed to win enough support to carry the day. Although these border states contained fewer enslaved people than the eleven states that seceded, white border Southerners chose to remain in the Union because they felt the decision best protected their peculiar institution. Robinson reveals anew how the choice for union was fraught with anguish and uncertainty, dividing families and producing years of bitter internecine violence. Letters, diaries, newspapers, and quantitative evidence illuminate how, in the absence of a compromise settlement, proslavery Unionists managed to defeat secession in the Border South.

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UNC Press Books

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1469633795

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9781469633794

Arguing until Doomsday

Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy

By: Michael E. Woods

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Arguing until Doomsday

Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy

By: Michael E. Woods

As the sectional crisis gripped the United States, the rancor increasingly spread to the halls of Congress. Preston Brooks's frenzied assault on Charles Sumner was perhaps the most notorious evidence of the dangerous divide between proslavery Democrats and the new antislavery Republican Party. But as disunion loomed, rifts within the majority Democratic Party were every bit as consequential. And nowhere was the fracture more apparent than in the raging debates between Illinois's Stephen Douglas and Mississippi's Jefferson Davis. As leaders of the Democrats' northern and southern factions before the Civil War, their passionate conflict of words and ideas has been overshadowed by their opposition to Abraham Lincoln. But here, weaving together biography and political history, Michael E. Woods restores Davis and Douglas's fatefully entwined lives and careers to the center of the Civil War era. Operating on personal, partisan, and national levels, Woods traces the deep roots of Democrats' internal strife, with fault lines drawn around fundamental questions of property rights and majority rule. Neither belief in white supremacy nor expansionist zeal could reconcile Douglas and Davis's factions as their constituents formed their own lines in the proverbial soil of westward expansion. The first major reinterpretation of the Democratic Party's internal schism in more than a generation, Arguing until Doomsday shows how two leading antebellum politicians ultimately shattered their party and hastened the coming of the Civil War.

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146965640X

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9781469656403

Death of an Overseer

Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South

By: Michael Wayne

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Death of an Overseer

Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South

By: Michael Wayne

In May of 1857, the body of Duncan Skinner was found in a strip of woods along the edge of the plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, where he worked as an overseer. Although a coroner's jury initially ruled his death to be accidental, an investigation organized by planters from the community concluded that he had been murdered by three slaves acting under instructions from John McCallin, an Irish carpenter. Now, almost a century and a half later, Michael Wayne has reopened the case to ask whether the men involved in the investigation arrived at the right verdict. Part essay on the art of historical detection, part seminar on the history of slavery and the Old South, Death of an Overseer is, above all, a murder mystery--a murder mystery that allows readers to sift through the surviving evidence themselves and come to their own conclusions about who killed Duncan Skinner and why.

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Oxford : Oxford University Press

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0195140036

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9780195140033

Face Value

The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America

By: Michael O'Malley

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The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America

By: Michael O'Malley

In Face Value, Michael O'Malley provides a deep history and a penetrating analysis of American thinking about money and the ways that this ambivalence unexpectedly intertwines with race. Like race, money is bound up in questions of identity and worth, each a kind of shorthand for the different values of two similar things. O'Malley illuminates how these two socially constructed hierarchies are deeply rooted in American anxieties about authenticity and difference.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226629376

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9780226629377

Whispers of Rebellion

Narrating Gabriel's Conspiracy

By: Michael L. Nicholls

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Whispers of Rebellion

Narrating Gabriel's Conspiracy

By: Michael L. Nicholls

This book examines Gabriel's Conspiracy of 1800, a failed plan to revolt and capture the capital city of Richmond and end slavery in Virginia, which resulted in the conviction and hanging of more than two dozen men.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813931932

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9780813931937

Exchanging Our Country Marks

The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South

By: Michael A. Gomez

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Exchanging Our Country Marks

The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South

By: Michael A. Gomez

The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comprehensive study, Michael Gomez establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins and traces the process by which African populations exchanged their distinct ethnic identities for one defined primarily by the conception of race. He examines transformations in the politics, social structures, and religions of slave populations through 1830, by which time the contours of a new African American identity had begun to emerge. After discussing specific ethnic groups in Africa, Gomez follows their movement to North America, where they tended to be amassed in recognizable concentrations within individual colonies (and, later, states). For this reason, he argues, it is possible to identify particular ethnic cultural influences and ensuing social formations that heretofore have been considered unrecoverable. Using sources pertaining to the African continent as well as runaway slave advertisements, ex-slave narratives, and folklore, Gomez reveals concrete and specific links between particular African populations and their North American progeny, thereby shedding new light on subsequent African American social formation.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807861715

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42 Rules for B2B Social Media Marketing

Learn Proven Strategies and Field-Tested Tactics Through Real World Success

By: Michael Procopio,Peter Spielvogel,Natascha Thomson

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42 Rules for B2B Social Media Marketing

Learn Proven Strategies and Field-Tested Tactics Through Real World Success

By: Michael Procopio,Peter Spielvogel,Natascha Thomson

Social media practitioners share their combined 20 years of hands-on social media experience explaining to best leverage social media for a business.

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1607731134

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The Inclusive Economy

How to Bring Wealth to America's Poor

By: Michael D. Tanner

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The Inclusive Economy

How to Bring Wealth to America's Poor

By: Michael D. Tanner

The Inclusive Economy: How to Bring Wealth to America’s Poor energetically challenges the conventional wisdom of both the right and the left that underlies much of the contemporary debate over poverty and welfare policy. Author and national public policy expert Michael Tanner takes to task conservative critiques of a “culture of poverty” for their failure to account for the structural circumstances in which the poor live. In addition, he criticizes liberal calls for fighting poverty primarily through greater redistribution of wealth and new government programs. Rather than engaging in yet another debate over which government programs should be increased or decreased by billions of dollars, Tanner calls for an end to policies that have continued to push people into poverty. Combining social justice with limited government, his plan includes reforming the criminal justice system and curtailing the War on Drugs, bringing down the cost of housing, reforming education to give more control and choice to parents, and making it easier to bank, save, borrow, and invest. The comprehensive evidence provided in The Inclusive Economy is overwhelming: economic growth lifts more people out of poverty than any achievable amount of redistribution does. As Tanner notes, “we need a new debate, one that moves beyond our current approach to fighting poverty to focus on what works rather than on noble sentiments or good intentions.” The Inclusive Economy is a major step forward in that debate.

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Cato Institute

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1948647028

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9781948647021

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Family Illusions

Family Illusions

Stagecoach Robberies in California

Stagecoach Robberies in California

Transition to an Industrial South

Transition to an Industrial South

A Union Indivisible

A Union Indivisible

Arguing until Doomsday

Arguing until Doomsday

Death of an Overseer

Death of an Overseer

Face Value

Face Value

Whispers of Rebellion

Whispers of Rebellion

Exchanging Our Country Marks

Exchanging Our Country Marks

42 Rules for B2B Social Media Marketing

42 Rules for B2B Social Media Marketing

The Inclusive Economy

The Inclusive Economy

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