Chicano Popular Culture, Second Edition: Que Hable el Pueblo by Charles M. Tatum

Toledo's Three Ls: Lamson's, Lion Store and Lasalle's (Landmarks)

Consider the times whilst procuring intended white gloves, matches for males and leisurely lunches in tearooms? Toledo, an commercial powerhouse and Ohio's third-largest urban, as soon as had all of it, and Lamson's, the Lion shop and Lasalle's have been the place all of it occurred. Reminisce with writer Bruce Allen Kopytek a couple of time while those 3 nice department shops ruled Toledo's retail scene and provided their shoppers whatever they can wish.

Washington, D.C. Protests: Scenes from Home Rule to the Civil Rights Movement (Vintage Images)

From the well-known marches of the civil rights circulate to the fight for neighborhood suffrage, Washingtonians have consistently been at the frontlines of political debate. Their loss of illustration has impelled citizens to make confident swap via peaceable, and infrequently inventive, different types of protest. Mark S. Greek, picture archivist for the D.

Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography (Norton Paperback)

"Riveting. . . . A considerate biography. " —New York occasions booklet ReviewGeneral Joseph E. Johnston used to be accountable for accomplice forces on the South's first victory—Manassas in July 1861—and at its last—Bentonville in April 1965. lots of his contemporaries thought of him the best southern box commander of the battle; others ranked him moment simply to Robert E.

Eliza Lucas Pinckney: Colonial Plantation Manager and Mother of American Patriots, 1722–1793

In 1739, significant George Lucas moved from Antigua to Charleston, South Carolina, along with his spouse and daughters. quickly after their arrival, England declared conflict on Spain and he was once recalled to Antigua to hitch his regiment. His spouse unwell, he left his daughter Eliza, 17, in command of his 3 plantations.