Missouris Forgotten Heroes

Author : Ross Malone
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781534987562
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Missouri's Forgotten Heroes written by Ross Malone and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories of dozens of people who were amazing, ranging from soldiers and astronauts to pioneers and business women.

Author : Ross Malone
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781523679317
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales from Missouri and the Heartland written by Ross Malone and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I didn't know that!" You will find yourself saying that over and over as you read about forgotten heroes and heroines, important but little-known people, and the fascinating events that shaped our state's history. Ross Malone is a retired teacher and a historian but he is also an award-winning writer who has published over a dozen books about the people, places, and events in the Show Me State which probably should be well-known but aren't. The original Tales from Missouri and the Heartland sold thousands of copies but the author feels that this new edition is even better than the first. Told as if he was sitting with you on the front porch, Malone's stories are both readable and informative. What a great gift to yourself or for someone else who loves Missouri!

Author : Susan Ware
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684868725
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Heroes written by Susan Ware and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-07-13 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pages of the past are full of characters who remind us that history depends upon the great deeds of men and women, whether famous or humble. Where would America be without George Washington, or Daniel Boone, or Sojourner Truth, or Babe Ruth? Where would we be without so many characters who are less well remembered today? Historians and biographers regularly come across stories of little-known or forgotten heroes, and this book provides a chance to rescue some of the best of them. In Forgotten Heroes, thirty-five of the country's leading historians recount their favorite stories of underappreciated Americans. From Stephen Jay Gould on deaf baseball player Dummy Hoy; to William Leuchtenburg on the truth behind the legendary Johnny Appleseed; to Christine Stansell on Margaret Anderson, who published James Joyce's Ulysses; these portraits can be read equally for delight, instruction, and inspiration Taken together, however, the whole is much more than the sum of its parts. Every culture needs heroes who lead by example and uplift us all in the process. Too often lately, historians have been more intent on picking apart the reputations of previously revered Americans. At times it has seemed as if the academy were on the attack against much of its own culture, denying its past greatness while making heroes only of its dissidents and doubters. Yet as this collection vividly demonstrates, heroes come in many shapes and sizes, and we all gain when we remember and celebrate them. Forgotten Heroes includes nearly as many women as men, and nearly as many people from before 1900 as after. It expands the traditional definition of hero to encompass not only military figures and politicians who took risks for great causes, but also educators, religious leaders, reformers, labor leaders, publishers, athletes, and even a man who started a record company. Many of them were heroes of conscience -- men and women who insisted on doing the right thing, no matter how unpopular or risky, commanding respect even from those who disagreed. Some were famous in their day and have since been forgotten, or remembered only in caricature. Others were little-known even when alive -- yet they all deserve to be remembered today, especially at the gifted hands of the authors of this book.

Author : E. Alexander Powell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483157798
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some Forgotten Heroes and Their Place in American History (Classic Reprint) written by E. Alexander Powell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Forgotten Heroes and Their Place in American History Devious and dangerous were the roads which these men followed - amid the swamps of Flor ida, across the sun-baked Texan prairies, down the burning deserts of Chihuahua, over the snow bound ridges of the Rockies, into the miasmic jungles of Tabasco, along the pirate-haunted coasts of Malaysia, across the Indian country, through the mined and shot-swept straits of Shimonoseki; but, no matter what perils bordered them, or into what far comer of the earth they led, at the end Glory beckoned and called. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Francis Asbury Sampson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Missouri Historical Review written by Francis Asbury Sampson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Wesley Null
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1607525186
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Heroes of American Education written by J. Wesley Null and published by IAP. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is titled Forgotten Heroes of American Education because it contains representative writings by significant educators who challenged mainstream thinking. The editors of this volume believe that the work of these thoughtful and important educators deserves to be remembered. They have been forgotten because in the great pedagogical battles of the twentieth century, they lost. Time and again, they battled with their Progressivist colleagues over the purpose and goals of elementary and secondary education. Because they lost the arguments, their role as leaders and thinkers was almost completely ignored by historians of education, who identified with the winners. We think this was a grand mistake. To honor the legacy of these eight educators, we have written this book and entitled it Forgotten Heroes of American Education.

Author : Edward Alexander Powell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some Forgotten Heroes and Their Place in American History written by Edward Alexander Powell and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas E. Simmons
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 158979964X
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Heroes of World War II written by Thomas E. Simmons and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II was the defining event of the twentieth century. For everyone it was a time of confusion, fear, destruction, and death on a scale never before seen. Much has been written of the generals, campaigns, and battles of the war, but it was young, ordinary American kids who held our freedom in their hands as they fought for liberty across the globe. Forgotten Heroes of World War II offers a personal understanding of what was demanded of these young heroes through the stories of rank-and-file individuals who served in the navy, marines, army, air corps, and merchant marine in all theaters of the war. Their tales are told without pretense or apology. At the time, each thought himself no different from those around him, for they were all young, scared, and miserable. They were the ordinary, the extraordinary—the forgotten.

Author : Brian Holden Reid
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135219664
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Military Power written by Brian Holden Reid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors here consider the multifarious aspects of the Anglo-American approach to war. All the contributors are concerned to base their work on the overall historical context. They explore the relationship between theory and practice in military operations.

Author : Michelle Brooks
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439672989
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden History of Jefferson City written by Michelle Brooks and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quite a bit has happened in Missouri's capital city since Lewis and Clark passed through the area on their famous journey. And some of that history has remained hidden. Being the center of politics in the state and possessing a small-town mindset, the city has a dual identity. Burr McCarty turned his humble home and stagecoach stop into a political gathering place. Ferryman Jefferson T. Rogers was elected mayor ten times. Calvin Gunn established the town's first newspaper and was the state's first printer. Join author Michelle Brooks as she details these and more forgotten stories from the capital city's past.