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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Scott Reynolds Nelson; Marc Aronson
The ballad "John Henry" is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry--the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock faster than a steam drill--is a towering figure in our culture. But for over a century, no one knew who the original John Henry was--or even if there was a real John Henry. In Steel Drivin' Man, Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts the true story of the man behind the iconic American hero, telling the poignant tale of a young Virginia convict who died working on one of the most dangerous enterprises of the time, the first rail route through the Appalachian Mountains. Using census data, penitentiary reports, and railroad company reports, Nelson reveals how John Henry, victimized by Virginia's notorious Black Codes, was shipped to the infamous Richmond Penitentiary to become prisoner number 497, and was forced to labor on the mile-long Lewis Tunnel for the C&O railroad. Nelson even confirms the legendary contest between John Henry and the steam drill (there was indeed a steam drill used to dig the Lewis Tunnel and the convicts in fact drilled faster). Equally important, Nelson masterfully captures the life of the ballad of John Henry, tracing the song's evolution from the first printed score by blues legend W. C. Handy, to Carl Sandburg's use of the ballad to become the first "folk singer," to the upbeat version by Tennessee Ernie Ford. We see how the American Communist Party appropriated the image of John Henry as the idealized American worker, and even how John Henry became the precursor of such comic book super heroes as Superman or Captain America. Attractively illustrated with numerous images, Steel Drivin' Man offers a marvelous portrait of a beloved folk song--and a true American legend.
Pundits will argue that the 2008 financial crisis was the first crash in American history driven by consumer debt. But in this spirited, highly engaging account, Scott Reynolds Nelson demonstrates that consumer debt has underpinned almost every major financial panic in the nation's history. From William Duer's attempts to profit off the country's post-Revolutionary War debt to an 1815 plan to sell English coats to Americans on credit, to the debt-fueled railroad expansion that precipitated the 1857 crash: in each case, the chain of banks, brokers, moneylenders, and insurance companies that separated borrowers and lenders made it impossible to distinguish good loans from bad. Bound up in this history are stories of national banks funded by smugglers, fistfights in Congress over the gold standard, America's early dependence on British bankers, and how presidential campaigns were forged in controversies over private debt. An irreverent, wholly accessible, eye-opening book.
Claiming more than 600,000 lives, the American Civil War had a devastating impact on countless numbers of common soldiers and civilians, even as it brought freedom to millions. This book shows how average Americans coped with despair as well as hope during this vast upheaval. A People at War brings to life the full humanity of the war's participants, from women behind their plows to their husbands in army camps; from refugees from slavery to their former masters; from Mayflower descendants to freshly recruited Irish sailors. We discover how people confronted their own feelings about the war itself, and how they coped with emotional challenges (uncertainty, exhaustion, fear, guilt, betrayal, grief) as well as physical ones (displacement, poverty, illness, disfigurement). The book explores the violence beyond the battlefield, illuminating the sharp-edged conflicts of neighbor against neighbor, whether in guerilla warfare or urban riots. The authors travel as far west as China and as far east as Europe, taking us inside soldiers' tents, prisoner-of-war camps, plantations, tenements, churches, Indian reservations, and even the cargo holds of ships. They stress the war years, but also cast an eye at the tumultuous decades that preceded and followed the battlefield confrontations. An engrossing account of ordinary people caught up in life-shattering circumstances, A People at War captures how the Civil War rocked the lives of rich and poor, black and white, parents and children--and how all these Americans pushed generals and presidents to make the conflict a people's war.
Claiming more than 600,000 lives, the American Civil War had a devastating impact on countless numbers of common soldiers and civilians, even as it brought freedom to millions. This book shows how average Americans coped with despair as well as hope during this vast upheaval. A People at War brings to life the full humanity of the war's participants, from women behind their plows to their husbands in army camps; from refugees from slavery to their former masters; from Mayflower descendants to freshly recruited Irish sailors. We discover how people confronted their own feelings about the war itself, and how they coped with emotional challenges (uncertainty, exhaustion, fear, guilt, betrayal, grief) as well as physical ones (displacement, poverty, illness, disfigurement). The book explores the violence beyond the battlefield, illuminating the sharp-edged conflicts of neighbor against neighbor, whether in guerilla warfare or urban riots. The authors travel as far west as China and as far east as Europe, taking us inside soldiers' tents, prisoner-of-war camps, plantations, tenements, churches, Indian reservations, and even the cargo holds of ships. They stress the war years, but also cast an eye at the tumultuous decades that preceded and followed the battlefield confrontations. An engrossing account of ordinary people caught up in life-shattering circumstances, A People at War captures how the Civil War rocked the lives of rich and poor, black and white, parents and children--and how all these Americans pushed generals and presidents to make the conflict a people's war.
The story of John Henry, the mighty railroad man who has become a towering figure in American culture, is told in this portrait of the most recorded folk song in American history.
During Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate railroads that had been built and destroyed during the Civil War. In the process of linking Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia by rail, this alliance created one of the largest corporations in the world, engendered bitter political struggles, and transformed the South in lasting ways, says Scott Nelson. Iron Confederacies uses the history of southern railways to explore linkages among the themes of states' rights, racial violence, labor strife, and big business in the nineteenth-century South. By 1868, Ku Klux Klan leaders had begun mobilizing white resentment against rapid economic change by asserting that railroad consolidation led to political corruption and black economic success. As Nelson notes, some of the Klan's most violent activity was concentrated along the Richmond-Atlanta rail corridor. But conflicts over railroads were eventually resolved, he argues, in agreements between northern railroad barons and Klan leaders that allowed white terrorism against black voters while surrendering states' control over the southern economy. |Focusing on the Reconstruction era, this book links the expansion of Southern railways by Southern planters and northern capitalists to issues of State's rights, racial violence, and big business.
Fraction Action!: Your Easy Guide to Learning Fractions
Daniel Scott Reynolds; Malcolm Rosenberg
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2012
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Fraction Action teaches fractions through the eyes of children who are dealing with things that they know well -- pizza slices and money (pennies, nickles, and dimes). It makes learning fractions as easy as slicing a pizza pie.
This study of an important class of ceramics from the key coastal colonial site of Cosa in southwest Tuscany documents the rise of republican Rome to dominance in central Italy in the third and second centuries B.C. The town and territory of Cosa constitute one of the most extensively explored sites of the Roman republican period on the Italian peninsula. Excavation and survey work by the American Academy in Rome and others at Cosa over the past half century have greatly enriched our knowledge of the development of public and domestic urban and rural architecture, the organization and exploitation of the resources of the countryside, and the patterns of economic exchange to which they testify. These latter are particularly evident in the varieties of imported and locally made black-glaze pottery that have been recovered in the excavations. While we tend to think of the ubiquitous Greco-Italic amphorae as the commercial indicators par excellence of mid to late republican Italy, this class of tableware is no less important for understanding both the maritime and inland routes of exchange."Ann Scott presents our best picture of Late Republican black-glaze in central Italy from the third through the mid-first century B.C. In Cosa: The Black-Glaze Pottery 2, she reassesses and updates the material published fifty years ago by Doris Taylor as well as presenting more recent deposits of black glazed pottery from Cosa."---Shelley Stone, Professor of Art History, California State University, Bakersfield"This admirable study will quickly establish itself as the classic treatment of a topic of central importance for the archaeology of central Italy in the Roman republican period." ---Bernard Frischer, Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, and Professor of Art History and Classics, University of Virginia
"The Things that Come Out of My Mouth": The strange and bizarre things that parents find themselves saying when they have kids. True, hilarious, and s
Karen Reynolds Scott
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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Life with 10+ kids means you hear yourself saying things out loud that seem odd. Exceptionally odd. Things like, "No, I have never thought about what it would be like to drink my own pee", or "Do not let her take that dead mole to school." Then you will hear yourself asking many strange questions and you will get no legitimate answers. Things like "Why are their tennis shoes in the freezer?", "Whose underpants are in the driveway?"or "Why would you invite boys to your slumber party without asking me first?" You will have to explain things that should need no explanation. Such as, "You can't put a ham sandwich in your pants pocket", or "There is no such 'thing' as a love stab." This book is a compilation filled with the actual "Things That Came Out Of My Mouth" and real life stories, complete with photographic evidence, that opens the door to my world where you can take a brief glimpse into my funny life with all these kids. These wonderful children who, on the verge of adulthood, will lie to my face about whether or not they have brushed their teeth in the last 4 days and cannot recall the last time they showered. The same children who will tape a panti liner to their shin because they are too lazy to look for a band aid. This hilarious book is appropriate for anyone of any age and guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. "Listen- just use the lice comb to get the poop out of the tiny crevices and then wash it off and put it back in the secret drawer." "Oh please, please God in heaven, let him puke on the tile just this once." "Yes, people who spend an hour in the bathroom so they can pluck the hair off their knees with tweezers are generally thought to be weird." "You are in the fourth grade. There is no such thing as a 'serious relationship'." "I am almost sure that we are the only people in the world to use your Dad's nose trimmers to cut the umbilical cord from a kitten." "Is someone eventually going to tell me what happened to the mirror that used to be hanging here?" "You cannot just put an upside down paper plate over the dog poop and consider it 'cleaned up '" "I find it just ridiculous that when I ask you to do something simple you have to roll around the floor in the fetal position faking a seizure." "A parent should never, ever have to say, 'Get the watermelon out of your pants.' Ever " "I swear, I have the only child in the world that goes poop and comes out of the bathroom to announce to everyone that you have 'released the Kracken'." "Hellboy" is NOT a good Christmas movie." "Don't shut the cats head in the door just to 'teach it a lesson'. You can't teach cats anything." "Sweetheart, are you absolutely SURE you want to dress as "Captain Underpants" for school?" "No, no, no... you are not going to gather up all the different animal poop and compare which ones stinks the worst. Besides, the answer is cat poop." "Wake up now. I know it's 8 am but wake up and help me in the front yard with this garage sale before I kill your Grandma. She is driving me crazy and I haven't had any coffee yet. No, I'm serious, get up now. Grandma's life may depend on it." "No, Uncle Kevin is not allowed to pee in the yard just because he is a boy. Why, have you seen him do that? No, do not answer me, I really don't want to know."
"I Can't Poop If God Is Watching": We knew we were in trouble when she started kindergarten. She made the Down Syndrome boy spit on the mean boy for h
Karen Reynolds Scott
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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In Kindergarten she had the boy with Down Syndrome in her class fill his mouth with water and spit it all over the mean boy for her. In 1st grade she got in trouble for telling her teacher to "just get on with it", in 2nd grade she told her friend that we were poor and the next day came home with a crisp, real $100 bill in her backpack. In 3rd grade she got "engaged" with a real, store bought, gold ring and a written proposal from a boy and took a dead mole in a Ziplock bag to school for show and tell. No, Giana Jane is not your typical grade schooler, not even close. These hilarious stories are true and are guaranteed to make you laugh out loud.
There Was a Party for Langston: (Caldecott Honor & Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor)
Jason Reynolds
Atheneum Books
2023
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A Caldecott Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds's debut picture book is a snappy, joyous ode to Word King, literary genius, and glass-ceiling smasher Langston Hughes and the luminaries he inspired. Back in the day, there was a heckuva party, a jam, for a word-making man. The King of Letters. Langston Hughes. His ABCs became drums, bumping jumping thumping like a heart the size of the whole country. They sent some people yelling and others, his word-children, to write their own glory. Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, and more came be-bopping to recite poems at their hero's feet at that heckuva party at the Schomberg Library, dancing boom da boom, stepping and stomping, all in praise and love for Langston, world-mending word man. Oh, yeah, there was hoopla in Harlem, for its Renaissance man. A party for Langston.
Thomas Basille and Mr. Pib Beagle: Brainshark Tale There be vampires and werewolves
Scott W. Reynolds
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2012
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A Think Five Compilation: Poems and Muses
Scott W. Reynolds
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2012
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Lipstick Six: Sensuality brushed in lust, passion paid
Scott W. Reynolds
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2013
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