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The Axeman of New Orleans

The True Story

By: Miriam C. Davis

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From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper–style killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and most recently the FX television series American Horror Story. But the full story of gruesome murders, sympathetic victims, accused innocents, public panic, the New Orleans Mafia, and a mysterious killer has never been written. Until now. The Axeman repeatedly broke into the homes of Italian grocers in the dead of night, leaving his victims in a pool of blood. Iorlando Jordano, an innocent Italian grocer, and his teenaged son Frank were wrongly accused of one of those murders; corrupt officials convicted them with coerced testimony. Miriam C. Davis here expertly tells the story of the search for the Axeman and of the eventual exoneration of the innocent Jordanos. She proves that the person mostly widely suspected of being the Axeman was not the killer. She also shows what few have suspected—that the Axeman continued killing after leaving New Orleans in 1919. Only thirty years after Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of Whitechapel, the Axeman of New Orleans held an American city hostage. This book tells that story.

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161374871X

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The Axeman of New Orleans

The True Story

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The True Story

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Dame Kathleen Kenyon

Digging Up the Holy Land

By: Miriam C Davis

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Dame Kathleen Kenyon

Digging Up the Holy Land

By: Miriam C Davis

Dame Kathleen Kenyon has always been a larger-than-life figure, likely the most influential woman archaeologist of the 20th century. In the first full-length biography of Kenyon, Miriam Davis recounts not only her many achievements in the field but also her personal side, known to very few of her contemporaries. Her public side is a catalog of major successes: discovering the oldest city at Jericho with its amazing collection of plastered skulls; untangling the archaeological complexities of ancient Jerusalem and identifying the original City of David; participating in the discipline’s most famous all-woman excavation at Great Zimbabwe. Her development (with Sir Mortimer Wheeler) of stratigraphic trenching methods has been universally emulated by archaeologists for over half a century. Her private life—her childhood as daughter of the director of the British Museum, her accidental choice of a career in archaeology, her working at bombed sites in London during the blitz, and her solitary retirement to Wales—are generally unknown. Davis provides a balanced and illuminating picture of both the public Dame Kenyon and the private person.

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Routledge

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1315430673

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9781315430676

Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis

Pioneer Journalist of the Canadian West

By: Miriam Green Ellis

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Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis

Pioneer Journalist of the Canadian West

By: Miriam Green Ellis

Demers revives the memory of journalist Miriam Green Ellis, an all-but-forgotten feminist, suffragist, and agricultural reporter who documented the modernist sphere for over four decades and who refused to be confined to the "women's pages." With written material from the University of Alberta's Miriam Green Ellis Collection, accompanied by an excellent selection of photographs, Ellis's inimitable voice and views on Albertans, westerners, and Canadians in the early decades of the twentieth century emerge clearly. Readers interested in Canadian women studies, journalism, or feminism will find Ellis's highly coloured perspective both entertaining and informative.

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University of Alberta

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0888646941

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9780888646941

Prices in Colonial Pennsylvania

By: Anne Bezanson,Robert Gray,Hussey Miriam

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Prices in Colonial Pennsylvania

By: Anne Bezanson,Robert Gray,Hussey Miriam

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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1512814423

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Dame Kathleen Kenyon

Digging Up the Holy Land

By: Miriam C Davis

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Digging Up the Holy Land

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The Axeman of New Orleans

The Axeman of New Orleans

The Axeman of New Orleans

The Axeman of New Orleans

Dame Kathleen Kenyon

Dame Kathleen Kenyon

Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis

Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis

Prices in Colonial Pennsylvania

Prices in Colonial Pennsylvania

Dame Kathleen Kenyon

Dame Kathleen Kenyon

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