![]() ![]() The following is a selected list of collections from Record Group 366 Record of Civil War Special Agents of the Treasury Department and Record Group 217 Depart of the Treasury Records. Relief associations like the American Missionary Association and the Western Sanitary Commission assisted in these relief efforts. ![]() Contraband Camps were established and many worked in support Union forces, and after the Emancipation Proclamation, enlisted in the United States Colored Troops and after 1863 worked on abandoned plantations managed by treasury agents. As more came within Union lines, army commanders appointed Superintendents of Freedmen, in Louisiana, Mississippi Valley, Virginia, etc.to manage the relief efforts. Once inside the Catalog, click on the "Search Within This Series".Ĭivil War - Pre- Freedmen's Bureau Operations 1861 -1865 ĭuring the Civil War when Union forces moved South, many enslave African-Americans left their farms and plantations for the nearest Union Army camp. ![]() They can be accessed by clicking on the National Archives identifier in the Record Description. This collection contains searchable content in the NARA Catalog. ![]()
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![]() As students read The Warmth of Other Suns, they consider the historical context of their previous unit Fences in order to better empathize with the complicated protagonist Troy Maxson and the decisions he made in his life as an emigrant from the South. In this unit, students explore the circumstances in which individuals in the Great Migration made decisions about picking up and moving to foreign cities in the North. ![]() Many history teachers teach about migration to Ellis Island but few focus on this massive flight of six million blacks who left their homeland looking for a better life in the northern part of the United States. ![]() This relocation-called the Great Migration-resulted in major demographic shifts across the United States. ![]() Between 19 more than six million African-Americans moved out of the South to cities across the Northeast, Midwest, and West. ![]() ![]() ![]() I loved the struggle that Drew went through and the dichotomy between what others expect him to be, and who he really is. It was deep, it was thoughtful, it was angsty and It. ![]() ‘The Hookup’ wasn’t a superficial N/A book about a football player and a girl who doesn’t want him. New Adult/Contemporary Romance with a HEA - Recommended for readers 17 and older. ![]() It's a good thing Drew knows all about winning. Now it’s up to Drew to tempt her with more: more sex, more satisfaction, more time with him. Unfortunately, Anna wants it to remain a hook up. That is until a chance encounter leads to the hottest sex of their lives, along with the possibility of something great. But there’s one problem: she's shut him down. Her cutting humor and blatant disregard for his fame turns him on like nothing else. But what he really craves is sexy yet prickly Anna Jones. It’s given him recognition, two National Championships, and the Heisman. Too bad he’s committed to making her break every rule…įootball has been good to Drew. If only she could ignore his heated stares and stop thinking about doing hot and dirty things with him. ![]() Confident and charming, he lives in the limelight and is way too gorgeous for his own good. Falling for star quarterback Drew Baylor is certainly not on her to do list. The rules: no kissing on the mouth, no staying the night, no telling anyone, and above all… No falling in love.Īnna Jones just wants to finish college and figure out her life. ![]() ![]() * BingeBooks earns revenue from qualifying purchases as an Amazon Associate as well as from other retail partners. That's when all the veils were ripped off. ![]() ![]() It bought us memories no one was counting on. It doesn't matter that there couldn't be a more opposite pair than us.īut when my job came back to bite me in the ass, I wasn't the only one caught in the crossfire. Because when it comes to her, one memory isn't enough. Not only did I go after her, I chased her halfway around the world. When she ran, I had no choice but to follow. She got the memory she wanted, but in the process, I was left branded. But within those beautiful, guarded blues? She was laced with vulnerability and grief. On the outside, she was strong and self-assured. ![]() She wore more veils of armor than I've seen in a lifetime. I did everything I could to figure her out. Nature, and HistoryAsher Horowitz, Reminiscences of an Indianian from the. right after she rendered me stupid in the shadows at a wedding reception. Reading & Writing: Teaching for ConnectionBill Harp, Between the Veils. ![]() Then she thought she could strut out my front door and my life, right after announcing she was my best friend's baby sister. ![]() ![]() ![]() UNIVAC, the Universal Automatic Computer, was first revealed to the public in 1951. Lepore’s survey of our post-WWII years addresses computing developments, polling, and political polarization. This failure of ours is what is most alarming about these years. The rest of this section provides little hope that the outpacing she writes of is narrowing. “Hiroshima marked the beginning of a new and differently unstable political era, in which technological change wildly outpaced the human capacity for moral reckoning.” We find these words near the beginning of “The Machine (1946-2016),” the last part (some 270 pages) of Jill Lepore’s lengthy and highly-praised These Truths: A History of the United States. ![]() ![]() This Woven Kingdom has two POVs: Alizeh, the long lost princess of the Jinn kingdom, who became a servant to hide after the murder of her parents, and Kamran, the crowned prince. It was so vibrant and lovely on the page, and it made her worldbuilding of the Persian mythology inspired world great. I absolutely loved her descriptions of the landscape and the world. Just on a writing level, this book was a joy to read. Mafi’s writing is absolutely beautiful and atmospheric. I just finished reading This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi. I’ve always loved their atmospheres (and plus having some good green tea and a peach danish always helps, too). Happy Sunday, everyone! I’ve been enjoying reading and writing in coffee shops lately. ![]() ![]() ![]() The entire film took a total of twenty months to shoot, not including the time it took to conceptualize and create everything needed for shooting. The story of the girl who ventures off into a parallel universe, only to get trapped in it by a crazy woman, took a long time to create. There are so many details that helped create Coraline’s world. Some of these details were obvious as soon as you watched Coraline for the first time, but others weren’t as easy to spot. Those who worked on it put a lot of detail into the tiny worlds that the titular character ventures to. Based on the well-known book by Neil Gaiman, Coraline was done in stop-motion animation. It was Laika’s first major motion picture, having only done contract work and short films up until that point. ![]() The latter movie stole hearts everywhere when it hit the big screen in 2009. Netflix recently acquired two more Laika films to their streaming service, including Kubo and the Two Strings, as well as the beloved Coraline. ![]() ![]() ![]() She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with her children and two rescue pups, Finn and Coco. ![]() But McGuire writes with wonderful finesse that it doesnt have to be.- USA Today About the Author Jamie McGuire is the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Disaster, A Beautiful Wedding, Walking Disaster, and the Maddox Brothers series. Review Quotes Growing up can be a disaster. Now its time to see the story through Traviss eyes. In Beautiful Disaster, Abby had her say. But just when he thinks he is invincible, Abby Abernathy brings him to his knees. In Walking Disaster, the life of Travis is full of fast women, underground gambling, and violence. She attended Northern Oklahoma College, the University of Central Oklahoma, and Autry Tech where she graduated with a degree in Radiography. Book Synopsis The highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Beautiful Disaster- now a major motion picture! Can you love someone too much? Travis Maddox learned two things from his mother before she died: Love hard. Jamie McGuire, 1 New York Times and internationally best-selling author was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Now its time to see the story through Travis eyes. Jamie McGuire, 1 New York Times and internationally best-selling author was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In McGuires New York Times-bestseller Beautiful Disaster, Abby had her say. ![]() Just when he thought he was invincible, Abby brings him to his knees. About the Book Travis life is full of fast women, underground gambling, and violence. ![]() ![]() At Oxford University’s Royal Institute of Translation, known more commonly as Babel, elite scholars from around the world study languages so they can learn to use silver magic for the benefit of the empire and its expansion. Kuang, out August 23 from HarperCollins, imagines an alternate universe in which the British Empire of the early-to-mid-1800s has built its strength on using silver to harness the power released by the act of translating words. ![]() ![]() “Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution” by R.F. To a deeper extent, it describes the inherent difficulties in communication among people of different backgrounds, cultures and worldviews.īut what if something were literally lost in translation – something powerful? What if you could use that power to bend the world to your will? ![]() The phrase “lost in translation” acknowledges that words in one language may carry different meanings in another. ![]() ![]() ![]() Saylor has lived with Richard Solomon since 1976 they registered as domestic partners in San Francisco in 1991 and later dissolved that partnership in order to legally marry in October 2008. Saylor contributed autobiographical essays to three anthologies of gay writing edited by John Preston, Hometowns, A Member of the Family, and Friends and Lovers, and prior to his novel-writing career he published gay erotic fiction under the pen name Aaron Travis. Have You Seen Dawn? is a contemporary thriller set in a fictional Texas town, Amethyst, based on Saylor's hometown, Goldthwaite, Texas. ![]() Henry, is set in Austin in the 1880s and based on real-life serial murders and trials (the case of the so-called Servant Girl Annihilator). Saylor has also written two novels set in Texas. His work has been published in 21 languages. Outside this crime novel series, Saylor has also written three epic-length historical novels about the city of Rome, Roma, Empire, and Dominus. The novels' hero is a detective named Gordianus the Finder, active during the time of Sulla, Cicero, Julius Caesar, and Cleopatra. ![]() Saylor's best-known work is his Roma Sub Rosa historical mystery series, set in ancient Rome. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied history and classics. ![]() Steven Saylor (born March 23, 1956) is an American author of historical novels. Writers' League of Texas Violet Crown Award Historical fiction, mystery fiction, novel, short story ![]() |