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Over the past 90 years HABS photographers took more than 325, 000 images of some 45, 000 sites. The majority of their subjects, the most important architecture in America, exist today. But their most powerful images are of structures that have been torn down. This is what this book focuses on--what's been lost. When gathered together the pictures have stories to tell, and not just about the structures' unfortunate fates. They talk about us-who...

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A visual history of Chicago told through the District Court of Northern Illinois - including the trials of Al Capone, John Dillinger's "Lady in Red, " boxer Jack Johnson, and American legends like Mark Twain, Alexander Graham Bell, Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan."--Provided by publisher.

They were armed with cameras and commanded to document the worst conflict in our planet's history-the Second World War. Cities were destroyed, millions were murdered, and frightening new weapons were unleashed. Aftershock tells the story of these soldiers and shares what they witnessed."--Book jacket.

In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration's efforts to give jobs to unemployed Americans, government workers tracked down 3, 000 men and women who had been enslaved before and during the Civil War. The workers asked them probing questions about slave life. What did they think about their slaveholders? What songs did they sing? What games did they play? Did they alwa...

Includes bibliographical references (page 288).

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