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Download or read book Damn Dutch written by Christian B. Keller and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first work to highlight the contributions of regiments of the Pennsylvania Dutch and the post-1820 immigrant Germans at the Battle of Gettysburg. On the first day, the 1st Corps, in which many of the Pennsylvania Dutch groups served, and the half-German 11th Corps, which had five regiments of either variety in it, bought with their blood enough time for the Federals to adequately prepare the high ground, which proved critical in the end for the Union victory. On the second day, they participated in beating back Confederate attacks that threatened to crack the Union defenses on Cemetery Hill and in other strategic locations.

Download or read book Those Damn' Dutch written by Christian Gellinek and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pennsylvania Germans written by Simon J. Bronner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive encyclopedia—the first of its kind—maps out three hundred years of German history and culture in Pennsylvania and beyond. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Destined to become the standard reference on Pennsylvania Germans (also known as the “Pennsylvania Dutch”), this book is the first survey of this extensive American group in nearly seventy-five years. Nineteen broad interpretive essays written by a distinguished group of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, linguists, and folklorists tell the rich and nuanced story of Pennsylvania German history and culture. United by a distinct (and distinctly American) language, the Pennsylvania Germans have been slower to assimilate than other ethnic groups. This sweeping volume reveals, though, that the group is much less homogenous and isolated than was previously thought. From architecture, media, and farming techniques to food, folklore, and medicine, the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants display a wide range of cultural variation. In Pennsylvania Germans, editors Simon J. Bronner and Joshua R. Brown broaden the geographical and social coverage of the group, touching both on Pennsylvanian communities and the Pennsylvania German diaspora, including settlements in Canada and Mexico. They also expand historical coverage of the Pennsylvania Germans to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beautifully illustrated, this volume—while paying tribute to the historical and cultural legacy of the Pennsylvania Germans—is the most comprehensive book on the subject to date. Contributors: R. Troy Boyer, Simon J. Bronner, Joshua R. Brown, Edsel Burdge Jr., William W. Donner, John B. Frantz, Mark Häberlein, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, Donald B. Kraybill, David W. Kriebel, Gabrielle Lanier, Mark L. Louden, Yvonne J. Milspaw, Lisa Minardi, Steven M. Nolt, Candace Perry, Sheila Rohrer, and Diane Wenger

Download or read book The Civil War Soldier and the Press written by Katrina J. Quinn and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War Soldier and the Press examines how the press powerfully shaped the nation’s understanding and memory of the common soldier, setting the stage for today’s continuing debates about the Civil War and its legacy. The history of the Civil War is typically one of military strategies, famous generals, and bloody battles, but to Americans of the era, the most important story of the war was the fate of the soldier. In this edited collection, new research in journalism history and archival images provide an interdisciplinary study of citizenship, representation, race and ethnicity, gender, disability, death, and national identity. Together, these chapters follow the story of Civil War soldiers, from enlistment through battle and beyond, as they were represented in hometown and national newspapers of the time. In discussing the same pages that were read by soldiers’ families, friends, and loved ones during America’s greatest conflict, the book provides a window into the experience of historical readers as they grappled with the meaning and cost of patriotism and shared sacrifice. Both scholarly and approachable, this book is an enriching resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in Civil War history, American history, journalism, and mass communication history.

Download or read book Scarred for Life written by Lee J.M. da Rocha and published by Wickedly Fiendish Press. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book summary Set in a world parallel to our own amid a shaken society. A fateful night comes in December, Detectives Gabriele Rossi and Oliver Clinton call in a 273D to the Vargas family. Little do they know, all their lives will forever change in the festering chaos. While all around them collapses in on itself with Chrysler Islanders barely enduring, communications becoming lost and desperations burn high, the strange genesis of all this turmoil—the "Black Matter" substance—is unlike anything any have seen before. It can either be one's healing grace, or metamorphic doom. In the passing decade drenched in blood, a new form of power rose with collisions of every scale, but Chrysler Island had become barren of human life on the surface... When in peril of becoming devoured—or fated to anguish worse than death—by the berserk creatures that plague the ghost city, what purpose would one have in this seemingly senseless existence? Can the world go back to the way it was if possible? Should it when the freedom in the lawlessness is ecstatic? And as life had drifted on and pass him by in his aimless state, the young Rossi may just find the push he never knew he needed. The world has forever changed in ways most don't see, but he and the ones he's come upon quickly learn that maybe it's best to stay ignorant. From back of the book A GRITTY, RELENTLESS AND MACABRE SURVIVAL TALE SET IN A RAW REALITY IN HARSH TIMES WHERE INNOCENCE DOESN’T LAST . . . Detective Gabriele Rossi is at his wit’s end—he’s been on this path for quite some time. Years in the CIPD couldn’t have prepared him for a fateful night of reckoning. He and alongside the millions of other Chrysler Islanders are dealt an unprecedented invasion—a lethal blow to the United States’ system by feral beasts. The remnants of the historical decimation must endure the fight of their lives—all the while preserving their families and themselves. In the wake of a truth none foresaw, will the violence, loss and feeling of helplessness engulf the rest?

Download or read book Weekly World News written by and published by . This book was released on 1988-03-29 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in the creative success of over 30 years of supermarket tabloid publishing, the Weekly World News has been the world's only reliable news source since 1979. The online hub www.weeklyworldnews.com is a leading entertainment news site.

Download or read book Luzon Pilot written by Sky Phillips and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Then they bombed Clark Air Field on Luzon Island in the Philippines and the Battle of Bataan began. For twenty-one-year-old Lt. Jim Davis this was his first glimpse of war. With other pilots of the U.S. Air Corps's 20th and 21th Pursuit Squadrons, Jim took to the air. Most of the American planes were destroyed that day. The survivors, Jim among them, moved to the southern end of the Bataan pennisula and continued the fight. During the four months leading to the fall of Bataan, Jim witnessed the heroism of the men and women who fought to defend Bataan. Though Jim is fictional, the events and most of the other people in the story are not. Rations were cut, medicine was scarce and disease rampant. Through it all the indomitable spirit of the American and Filipino defenders endured.