The Day The Whistles Cried

Author : Betsy Thorpe
Publisher : Ideas Into Books Westview
ISBN 13 : 9781628800401
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Day the Whistles Cried written by Betsy Thorpe and published by Ideas Into Books Westview. This book was released on 2014 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People are drawn to legendary disaster stories such as that of the Titanic, seeking hope and heroism among the wreckage. The Day The Whistles Cried is a true disaster tale, filled with real people and their lives. Reading about America's worst train wreck is opening a window into Time. Two steam locomotives collide head-on in a cornfield at the edge of Nashville on July 9, 1918, taking the lives of more than a hundred people and injuring at least 300 others. This tragic tale, set against a backdrop of wartime urgency and human error, unfolds in the midst of the racial and societal divisions of the early twentieth century. Segregation and cultural mores helped decide who would perish and who would survive this cataclysmic event, resulting in a book that is more than fact: a riveting story of decided historical impact. The Day the Whistles Cried reveals the railroad system in action in its heyday. Romance and adventure, systems and rules, architecture and machinery. Its sub-culture was intrinsic to America's economy and people.

Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780635125378
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Day the Books Cried written by Carole Marsh and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joy Brison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Day The Nation Cried written by Joy Brison and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clay A. Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Day the Nation Cried written by Clay A. Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael E. Birdwell
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1621905314
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tennessee's Experience During the First World War written by Michael E. Birdwell and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book includes fourteen essays on Tennessee's experience during World War I. The essays introduce a range of entry points to the conflict from typical soldier stories - including Birdwell's own essay on Alvin York - to politics, agribusiness, African Americans, and present-day recollections"--

Author : William D. Kaufman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815651252
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Day My Mother Cried and Other Stories written by William D. Kaufman and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lasting charm of Kaufman’s stories lies in a delightful mix of personal incidents and observations set against an anchoring backdrop of cultural tradition. His new collection is filled with tales from his parents’ homeland in the Ukraine, his own childhood reminiscences, and his adult travels. We watch the young author forced alongside "every Jewish boy on the block" to emulate Yehudi Menuhin on a ten-dollar violin with a moldy bow until the boy is spared by an innate lack of talent and his father’s judgment of his concert: "Enough is enough is more than enough." Kaufman is carefully attuned to the awkwardness of adulthood as well as to that of early adolescence. In "Interlude in Bangkok," his narrator scours the city for a synagogue while pursued by a prostitute. Later he and a friend encounter Greta Garbo in a museum café and are too frightened to approach her. Aware of their intrigue, the mysterious movie star intones, "I am not she"; Kaufman, in his own way, says that of himself in these stories through an autobiographical narrator whose memories take on resonant, literary shapes in their retelling.

Author : Mia Bay
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067425869X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traveling Black written by Mia Bay and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the David J. Langum Prize Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award Winner of the Order of the Coif Book Award Winner of the OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation Award A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of the Year “This extraordinary book is a powerful addition to the history of travel segregation...Mia Bay shows that Black mobility has always been a struggle.” —Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist “In Mia Bay’s superb history of mobility and resistance, the question of literal movement becomes a way to understand the civil rights movement writ large.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times “Traveling Black is well worth the fare. Indeed, it is certain to become the new standard on this important, and too often forgotten, history.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of Stony the Road From Plessy v. Ferguson to #DrivingWhileBlack, African Americans have fought to move freely around the United States. But why this focus on Black mobility? From stagecoaches and trains to buses, cars, and planes, Traveling Black explores when, how, and why racial restrictions took shape in America and brilliantly portrays what it was like to live with them. Mia Bay rescues forgotten stories of passengers who made it home despite being insulted, stranded, re-routed, or ignored. She shows that Black travelers never stopped challenging these humiliations, documenting a sustained fight for redress that falls outside the traditional boundaries of the civil rights movement. A riveting, character-rich account of the rise and fall of racial segregation, it reveals just how central travel restrictions were to the creation of Jim Crow laws—and why free movement has been at the heart of the quest for racial justice ever since.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.N2/5 ( download)

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Author : John Diprose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diprose's Standard Song Book and Reciter. (Comic and sentimental.). written by John Diprose and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maria Edgeworth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
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