The Team that Forever Changed Baseball and America

The Team that Forever Changed Baseball and America
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Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Total Pages : 395
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ISBN-10 : 9780803239920
ISBN-13 : 0803239920
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis The Team that Forever Changed Baseball and America by : Lyle Spatz

Tells the story of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers in contextualized biographies of the players, managers, and everyone else important to the team.

Because of Winn-Dixie

Because of Winn-Dixie
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Publisher : Candlewick Press
Total Pages : 191
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ISBN-10 : 9780763649456
ISBN-13 : 0763649457
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Because of Winn-Dixie by : Kate DiCamillo

A classic tale by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo, America's beloved storyteller. One summer’s day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries – and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It’s because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it’s because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie. Featuring a new cover illustration by E. B. Lewis.

Dixie Digest

Dixie Digest
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 16
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951D00636936G
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Rating : 4/5 (6G Downloads)

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Dixie's Dirty Secret

Dixie's Dirty Secret
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Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 0765603403
ISBN-13 : 9780765603401
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Dixie's Dirty Secret by : James Dickerson

After the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954 mandated the desegregation of schools nationwide, the legislature in the state of Mississippi created the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, the basic mission of which was to prevent integration in that state. This book is an investigative history of the Commission, other government agencies (including the FBI), and organized crime, all of which conspired to break the law in dealing with civil-rights and antiwar activists during the 1950s and 1960s. The author uncovers new information about the efforts of FBI agents to combat integration and exposes the longest-running conspiracy in American history.

Dixie's Great War

Dixie's Great War
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Publisher : University Alabama Press
Total Pages : 143
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ISBN-10 : 9780817320720
ISBN-13 : 0817320725
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Dixie's Great War by : John Giggie

Examining the First World War through the lens of the American South How did World War I affect the American South? Did southerners experience the war in a particular way? How did regional considerations and, more generally, southern values and culture impact the wider war effort? Was there a distinctive southern experience of WWI? Scholars considered these questions during “Dixie’s Great War,” a symposium held at the University of Alabama in October 2017 to commemorate the centenary of the American intervention in the war. With the explicit intent of exploring iterations of the Great War as experienced in the American South and by its people, organizers John M. Giggie and Andrew J. Huebner also sought to use historical discourse as a form of civic engagement designed to facilitate a community conversation about the meanings of the war. Giggie and Huebner structured the panels thematically around military, social, and political approaches to the war to encourage discussion and exchanges between panelists and the public alike. Drawn from transcriptions of the day’s discussions and lightly edited to preserve the conversational tone and mix of professional and public voices, Dixie’s Great War: World War I and the American South captures the process of historians at work with the public, pushing and probing general understandings of the past, uncovering and reflecting on the deeper truths and lessons of the Great War—this time, through the lens of the South. This volume also includes an introduction featuring a survey of recent literature dealing with regional aspects of WWI and a discussion of the centenary commemorations of the war. An afterword by noted historian Jay Winter places “Dixie’s Great War”—the symposium and this book—within the larger framework of commemoration, emphasizing the vital role such forums perform in creating space and opportunity for scholars and the public alike to assess and understand the shifting ground between cultural memory and the historical record.

Indexed Bibliography of the Tennessee Valley Authority

Indexed Bibliography of the Tennessee Valley Authority
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Total Pages : 80
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ISBN-10 : CHI:086497625
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Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Indexed Bibliography of the Tennessee Valley Authority by : Tennessee Valley Authority. Library

This supplement to the bibliography covers the magazine and journal articles published during the period January 1951 - December 1952.