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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 904

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Author: Bruce L. Mouser
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299249131
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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More than one hundred years before Barack Obama, George Edwin Taylor made presidential history. Born in the antebellum South to a slave and a freed woman, Taylor became the first African American ticketed as a political party’s nominee for president of the United States, running against Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. Orphaned as a child at the peak of the Civil War, Taylor spent several years homeless before boarding a Mississippi riverboat that dropped him in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Taken in by an African American farm family, Taylor attended a private school and eventually rose to prominence as the owner/editor of a labor newspaper and as a vocal leader in Wisconsin’s People’s Party. At a time when many African Americans felt allegiance to the Republican Party for its support of abolition, Taylor’s sympathy with the labor cause drew him first to the national Democratic Party and then to an African American party, the newly formed National Liberty Party, which in 1904 named him its presidential candidate. Bruce L. Mouser follows Taylor’s life and career in Arkansas, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Florida, giving life to a figure representing a generation of African American idealists whose initial post-slavery belief in political and social equality in America gave way to the despair of the Jim Crow decades that followed. Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the American Association for School Libraries Best Books for Professional Use, selected by the American Association for School Libraries Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association Second Place, Biography, Society of Midland Authors Honorable Mention, Benjamin F. Shambough Award, the State Historical Society of Iowa

Author: United States
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Author: Joan M. Rausch
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Author: Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842027403
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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The Genealogy Annual is a comprehensive bibliography of the year's genealogies, handbooks, and source materials. It is divided into three main sections.p liFAMILY HISTORIES-/licites American and international single and multifamily genealogies, listed alphabetically by major surnames included in each book.p liGUIDES AND HANDBOOKS-/liincludes reference and how-to books for doing research on specific record groups or areas of the U.S. or the world.p liGENEALOGICAL SOURCES BY STATE-/liconsists of entries for genealogical data, organized alphabetically by state and then by city or county.p The Genealogy Annual, the core reference book of published local histories and genealogies, makes finding the latest information easy. Because the information is compiled annually, it is always up to date. No other book offers as many citations as The Genealogy Annual; all works are included. You can be assured that fees were not required to be listed.

Author: Susan T. Hessel
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 776

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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.

Author: Wisconsin. Division for Library Services
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Category : Cultural property
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Author: Margaret Larson
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ISBN: 9780965384100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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