This biography of General Lee begins with his early ancestors in Ireland and Scotland and their migration to America. It traces his boyhood of poverty and his adventures on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. It recounts how he became educated to be admitted to West Point and his military career thereafter. He gained combat experience in the Mexican War.

Religious faith and the Shennandoah Valley were the dominate influences of his life.

Please see Volume I: www.trafford.com/04-0583

50th Anniversary of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I: First Visit to the United States (1954 - 2004) is the only book that documents the historic first visit of an African Emperor to America. The book features a day-to-day, city-by-city chronology of the Emperor's visit that includes toasts and speeches given by the Emperor, as well as by President Eisenhower, UN Secretary General Dag Hammerksjold, various city Mayors, University Presidents, and military and church officials. The book includes more than one hundred photographs from the Institute of Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as well as forty clippings from American newspapers.

The book also contains an analysis of the Emperor's influence on the Brown vs. Board of Education decision that was passed just eight days before His Imperial Majesty's arrival in America, as well as the siginifigance of the Emperor's visit in American and African American History.

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This biography of General Lee begins with his early ancestors in Ireland and Scotland and their migration to America. It traces his boyhood of poverty and his adventures on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. It recounts how he became educated to be admitted to West Point and his military career thereafter. He gained combat experience in the Mexican War.

Religious faith and the Shennandoah Valley were the dominate influences of his life.

Please see Volume II: www.trafford.com/04-0584

This journey is an accumulation of a diary I began in high school 1942. A prediction of my destiny by my artist sister; my enlistment in the United States Marine Corps, my training as a Marine Air Gunner on a torpedo bomber, and my tours of combat in the Solomon and Palau Islands of the South Pacific.

In the Solomon Islands we flew against the five aerodromes of "Fortress Rabaul." We operated from the island of Bougainville in the northern Solomons.

Rabaul was Japan's Pearl Harbor of their South Pacific empire; with enough anchorage for their entire imperial fleet and five aerodromes located around the city. From this base, the Japanese had complete domination, both air and sea of the Solomon Islands.

In our strikes against Rabaul we encountered heavy enemy oposition, both by enemy Zero fighters and very heavy and concentrated anti-air-craft fire. The Zero's usually out numbered our fighter plane escort.

My second tour was the Palau Island campaign. With the code name of Operation "Stalemate", we joined the First Marine Division for the invasion of the island of "Peleliu" in the Palau chain.

Admiral Chester Nimitz made the decision "Not" to bypass the Palau Islands, in spite of the recommendations of his senior staff. This decision was fatal, as it would lead to the "Forgotten Battle" of the Pacific War with 8, 500 casualties from the First Marine Division and 13, 000 Japanese Imperial Marines.

We were aboard a troop transport with units of the First Marine Division for 31 days on our way to the invasion of the island of "Pelelui"!

I went to the library one day to find a book of Lincoln one-liners, such as: "You can fool all the people some of the time, and..." but I found no such book. I then reviewed the literature and found that Abraham Lincoln rarely stated one-liners. His stories were nearly almost always couched in an ample supply of background detail leading to savory climaxes. After this I thought to myself, "There ought to be a book equivalent to Lincoln one-liners." So I decided to write it myself.

The first section of Distilled Lincoln Anecdotes presents basic meanings of individual humorous tales from the life of Abraham Lincoln. The second section contains amusing anecdotes, observations from life, some curiosities, and a few poetic lines by the author.

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A historical study of the Chinese railroad workers using data from the Central Pacific Railroad Company payroll records dating from 1864 to 1867, correcting the first date of Chinese by the Central Pacific, and the total number of workers employed, with an explanation of how this estimate was calculated. Nearly one thousand workers are named, listing their wages and occupations, dispelling the notion that all Chinese workers were "coolies".

A synopsis is extrapolated from previously published works along with arguments for and against the data of some historical events, such as Bloomer Cut and Cape Horn. In addition, the building of the Summit Tunnels, and the laying of ten miles of track in one day are detailed. Particular focus is applied to the little known 1,330 Chinese fatalities which occurred while building the western route of the transcontinental, comparing these numbers to the total lives claimed by other major historical construction projects.

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The great American Social movements of Methodism and Chautauqua enabled Americans to educate and revitalize themselves, allowing them to take courage in their 19th century lives to face the 20th century with the utmost intelligence, reverence, and resolve. These movements have shaped our society in other ways as well. The earliest ones were intended as religious affairs, but from the very beginning they also offered a rare chance to escape the day-to-day routine of work and consider the meaning and course of oneÕs life. For city dwellers, the camp meeting offered a chance to escape to Nature. The sense of retreat to a place set apart for refreshment and renewal fed the camp meetings and Chautauquas into more educational but less strictly religious pursuits and then into some of the first resort communitiesÉPlainvilleÕs tiny cottages represent a building type that was invented at camp meeting grounds, but quickly became a model for vacation and resort cottages across the country.

This book blows the most famous film in history - the Zapruder film - sky high. It will never be the same. Harrison Livingston's twenty-year investigation of the film is massive, and it exposes the extensive fraud and trickery connected to the film, as well as what is wrong with it and the 1997-8 inquiry into it.

History/American Studies

GREAT MOMENTS IN U.S. HISTORY...THROUGH THE EYES OF THE PEOPLE WHO CREATED IT Some of the names we know: Sacajawea, the Indian girl who guided Lewis and Clark through the wilderness...Sojourner Truth, the ex-slave who became a leading advocate for the rights of women and blacks...Julia Ward Howe, inspired to write "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."

Others could have been lost to history: Harriet Wilson, the first black American novelist...the first men to earn the Purple Heart...Alice Ramsey, the first woman to drive a car across the U.S.

Jane McCaw has uncovered their stories. In this collection of 44 traditional and free-verse ballads covering Colonial times through 1909, the 89-year-old author gives readers an intimate glance at the unsung heroines and heroes of our history. Many of them are women, many are not white, and some, like the eagle who led battle charges in the Civil War or the horses that made the Pony Express a reality, are not even human.

If you are interested in American history, patriotism, women's studies, or the experience of different cultures in the American melting pot, pick up this book and start your journey through American history, through the experiences of the people who took part in those events. It will be a journey to remember!

Recommended for ages 10-adult

It's late at night. Nothing really good on TV. Perhaps a book. Something different. What to read? Nothing with zillions of footnotes. Nothing with "redeeming social value". I definitely don't want any more work-related articles. And I'm tired of those "cutesy" mysteries. What's left?

HALE MEN OF FORDHAM: HAIL! is a recapturing of one's college years. A return to the years of 1960-1964.in New York City and the world before the crushing full impact and embarrassment called "Vietnam". We had sports in school. We studied to be granted a degree. We worried about the future. College was really not different from today's college environment. Or was it? "How about November 22, 1963?" It was more than just my birthday!

The Texas Republic is told from the eyewitness perspective of Andrew, a freed slave who served as a soldier in the Texas Army. After meeting with Sam Houston to win a land grant, Andrew is wounded and his wife Delephine is killed in ambush by robbers. A Cherokee hunting party finds Andrew, saving him from death and adopting him as a member of their tribe. Andrew marries Say-te-Qua, a Cherokee woman and the tribe's dream interpreter. When Sam Houston asks the Cherokee to scout for the Texas army, Andrew and his brother-in-law Red Bird assisted Sam Houston to broker a peace treaty when an Indian War broke out in Texas, records the events of Texas as a Mexican state, the decade of Texas as a free republic, and the annexation of Texas as the 28th state of the United States of America. This engaging and highly recommended story is based on true stories of actual characters and events, and is enhanced with selected illustrations; a replica of a letter Sam Houston wrote to Caddo Chief Bintah inviting him to the 1843 Great Council; and a "Glossary of Unfamiliar Words". This story is told in Andrew's own words. He uses 19th century word usage.This way the reader gets the perspective of a pioneer coming to the untamed frontier of the 1830's.
Joe L. Blevins. The Texas Republic.

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Alphabetical, astrological, geographical, historical and personal data on all the U.S. Presidents are compared in the time span of twenty, forty, fifty, sixty, eighty, one hundred, one hundred thirty two and two hundred years.

"THE DISTAFF CIVIL WAR" is an accounting of but a few of the women who lived during the period of the American Civil War and contended with the many problems, North and South. Some of these problems would seem trivial in our day, but in the mid-19th Century, they were almost unsurmountable.
The book covers the lives of a diverse number of women who coped with major problems, both physical and emotional, and survived with dignity and bravery. The book provides a chronological narrative of letters and other documents created by these heroic women during the four years of the Civil War. Many of these women were unsung in their time and are little known today. With their accounts, a background is provided of the overall aspect of the war at that period of time which shows the influences of outside forces which affect their actions, be it battle, blockade, or material shortages.
The protagonists include a South Carolinian desperate to serve the Confederacy as a nurse; a young Georgian woman who spends the war as a tutor on a southern plantation coping with shortages caused by the blockade; a Maine woman with extensive experience in teaching who becomes a hospital matron in Virginia; a woman from Illinois who devotes nearly four years of her life to serve as nurse, surrogate Mother, and organizer in a grand style for the Union army; women who are driven from their homes in Missouri; former slaves who recall their experiences during slavery; prostitutes who are exiled from Nashville; women who take on the farm work after their men are gone to war; and a myriad of other characters.
The common thread throughout their stories is DUTY. Their common goal is to SERVE. The rewards for their service and dedication is the grateful THANKS of thousands of veterans who survived because of their efforts.

Seventy million years ago there was explosive volcanic activity in the Mountains near Santa Cruz Valley. Thirty million years ago the volcanoes burst forth again to create sheets of black lava. Only the ancestors of the present day animals witnessed this spectacular event.

Scientists know that Paddy the Packrat is a descendant of the packrats that fearfully watched the exploding volcanoes.

The main characters of his historical story about southern Arizona are Sancho and Carlos- 300 pound bighorn sheep. They watched children who moved into their valley to work and play. As people moved in, some of the animals moved to the mountains in the surrounding valley. But Paddy the Packrat stayed to build his nest of 'junk': cacti, twigs and shiny objects.

Ice Age people came from Siberia with their wooly mammoths. Indians from Mexico arrived with corn seeds to plant. Father Kino brought the "rock horses" and an idea of a Mission from Spain. Chinese people came from the California gold fields to work on the railroad. The Santa Cruz Valley was fertile, protected by mountains with year round flowing water and food for the animals and people.

This is a story about the life of the animals, plants and children who came to the Valley before 1900. Part of the story is told in rhymes. Children can colour the pictures and search for Sancho, Carlos or Paddy in the illustrations. Historical dates, maps, photos and illustrations tell the story of the Santa Cruz Valley in the Southern Arizona Valley.