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  • The Jewish Community of Metro Detroit: 1945-2005

    de Barry Stiefel ...
    Series series Images of America
    After the end of World War II, Americans across the United States began a mass migration from the urban centers to suburbia. Entire neighborhoods transplanted themselves. The Jewish Community of Metro Detroit: 1945 "2005 provides a pictorial history of the Detroit Jewish community's transition from the city to the suburbs outside of Detroit. For the Jewish communities, life in the Detroit suburbs ... Leer más

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  • The Jews of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta

    A History of Life and Community Along the Bayou

    Celebrate the unique and wonderful melding of Jewish and Bayou cultures.The early days of Louisiana settlement brought with them a clandestine group of Jewish pioneers. Isaac Monsanto and other traders spited the rarely enforced Code Noir banning their occupancy, but it wasn't until the Louisiana Purchase that larger numbers colonized the area. Immigrants like the Sartorius brothers and Samuel ... Leer más

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  • Community-Built

    Art, Construction, Preservation, and Place

    Series series Community Development Research and Practice Series
    Throughout history and around the world, community members have come together to build places, be it settlers constructing log cabins in nineteenth-century Canada, an artist group creating a waterfront gathering place along the Danube in Budapest, or residents helping revive small-town main streets in the United States. What all these projects have in common is that they involve local volunteers ... Leer más

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    Who We Are and What We Stand For

    A New York Times BestsellerA timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, one of America’s most honored historians—winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom—that reminds us of the enduring principles at the heart of the American experience.“Insightful and inspirational, The American Spirit summons a vexed and divided nation to remember—and ... Leer más

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  • America's Prophet

    How the Story of Moses Shaped America

    de Bruce Feiler ...
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  • Here I Stand

    de Paul Robeson ...
    Robeson's international achievements as a singer and actor in starring roles on stage and screen made him the most celebrated black American of his day, but his outspoken criticism of racism in the United States, his strong support of African independence, and his fascination with the Soviet Union placed him under the debilitating scrutiny of McCarthyism. Blacklisted, his famed voice silenced, ... Leer más

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  • Not in My Neighborhood

    How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City

    Baltimore is the setting for (and typifies) one of the most penetrating examinations of bigotry and residential segregation ever published in the United States. Antero Pietila shows how continued discrimination practices toward African Americans and Jews have shaped the cities in which we now live. Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's ... Leer más

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  • When General Grant Expelled the Jews

    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Finalist, 2012 National Jewish Book AwardsA riveting account of General Ulysses S. Grant’s decision, in the middle of the Civil War, to order the expulsion of all Jews from the territory under his command, and the reverberations of that decision on Grant’s political career, on the nascent American Jewish community, and on the American political process.On December 17, 1862, just weeks before ... Leer más

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  • The Chosen Folks

    Jews on the Frontiers of Texas

    Series series Jewish Life, History, and Culture
    An exploration of Jewish history in the Lone Star State, from the Jews who fled the Spanish Inquisition to contemporary Jewish communities.Texas has one of the largest Jewish populations in the South and West, comprising an often-overlooked vestige of the Diaspora. The Chosen Folks brings this rich aspect of the past to light, going beyond single biographies and photographic histories to explore ... Leer más

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  • Saving Monticello

    The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built

    de Marc Leepson ...
    The complete history of Thomas Jefferson's iconic American home, Monticello, and how it was not only saved after Jefferson's death, but ultimately made into a National Historic Landmark.When Thomas Jefferson died on the Fourth of July 1826, he was more than $100,000 in debt. Forced to sell thousands of acres of his lands and nearly all of his furniture and artwork, in 1831 his heirs bid a final ... Leer más

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  • A Fortress in Brooklyn

    Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg

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  • Jewish Communities on the Ohio River

    A History

    Series series Ohio River Valley Series
    "An engaging regional history with immense national significance . . . An excellent chronicle of the minority experience in small town America." —Ava F. Kahn, author of Jewish Voices of the California Gold RushIn Jewish Communities on the Ohio River, Amy Hill Shevitz chronicles the settlement and development of small Jewish communities in towns along the river. In these small towns, Jewish ... Leer más

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