"Forgotten for more than a century in an old cardboard box, these are the letters of Guy Carlton Taylor, a farmer who served in the Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the American Civil War. From March 25, 1864 to July 9, 1865, Taylor wrote 165 letters home to his wife Sarah and their son Charley. The letters show... Taylor's transformation from a lonely and somewhat disgruntled infantryman to a thoughtful commentator on the greater ideals of the war." --Book jacket.
Minnesota Lacrosse has a rich history that ranges from the arrival of the Ojibwe who brought the game with them to Minnesota, to the white settlers who led the state to a National Championship. This books documents these events and more about the story of lacrosse in Minnesota. Bonuses include: A lacrosse rules origins and evolution Women's Lacrosse origins and why its different Minnesota and Lacrosse timeline Review and rosters of all Olympic appearances The role of boarding schools in the decline of lacrosse. Doing a book report on lacrosse? This is your source for the history of Midwest lacrosse.
Offers detailed descriptions of drives through California and the Southwest, with a flexible format allowing one to switch routes during a journey, and including information on where to eat and sleep, the best local radio stations, hundreds of roadside attractions, and more.
"Powerful and important . . . an instant classic." —The Washington Post Book World The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, reissued with a new preface by the author In this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. Loewen, author of the classic bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, brings to light decades of hidden racial exclusion in America. In a provocative, sweeping analysis of American residential patterns, Loewen uncovers the thousands of "sundown towns"—almost exclusively white towns where it was an unspoken rule that blacks weren't welcome—that cropped up throughout the twentieth century, most of them located outside of the South. Written with Loewen's trademark honesty and thoroughness, Sundown Towns won the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist, and launched a nationwide online effort to track down and catalog sundown towns across America. In a new preface, Loewen puts this history in the context of current controversies around white supremacy and the Black Lives Matter movement. He revisits sundown towns and finds the number way down, but with notable exceptions in exclusive all-white suburbs such as Kenilworth, Illinois, which as of 2010 had not a single black household. And, although many former sundown towns are now integrated, they often face "second-generation sundown town issues," such as in Ferguson, Missouri, a former sundown town that is now majority black, but with a majority-white police force.
Written by personal historians, this book is exactly what you would expect. It's filled with stories about the people -- ordinary and extraordinary -- who invented and reinvented La Crosse Again and again.
