Coal Black Horse

Coal Black Horse
Author: Robert Olmstead
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2008-05-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1565126343

When Robey Childs's mother has a premonition about her husband, a soldier fighting in the Civil War, she does the unthinkable: she sends her only child to find his father on the battlefield and bring him home. At fourteen, wearing the coat his mother sewed to ensure his safety—blue on one side, gray on the other— Robey thinks he's off on a great adventure. But not far from home, his horse falters and he realizes the enormity of his task. It takes the gift of a powerful and noble coal black horse to show him how to undertake the most important journey of his life: with boldness, bravery, and self-posession. Coal Black Horse joins the pantheon of great war novels—All Quiet on the Western Front, The Red Badge of Courage, The Naked and the Dead.

American Library History

American Library History
Author: Arthur P. Young
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 486
Release: 1988
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780810821385

...a leaping departure in comprehensiveness, organizational format, and accessibility through indexing...A magnificent contribution to the study of American library history. --LIBRARIES & CULTURE ...a work of enormous and painstaking scholarship. --LIBRARY ASSOCIATION RECORD (UK)

Confederate Currency

Confederate Currency
Author: John W. Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2002
Genre: Money
ISBN: 9780972282321

Confederate Currency Exhibition Catalogue is the companion book to the nationally acclaimed traveling exhibition by John W. Jones. The exhibition pairs images of enslaved Africans engraved on Confederate money with paintings inspired by the engravings.The popular exhibition has broken museum attendance records and has been critiqued and described in articles in 456 publications, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Time magazine. CNN, PBS and NPR.In the book, slaves are shown clearing farmlands, planting cotton, hoeing fields, picking cotton, baling cotton, carrying cotton, bringing cotton bales to the market, steamboats and trains. There are bank notes showing slaves cooking for their white masters in SC, picking sugar cane in Tennessee and Alabama, harvesting turpentine in Georgia, carrying tobacco in Texas, feeding a horse in Virginia, harvesting corn in Missouri, working in a factory in NC, and even working on a wheat farm for George Washington.This book is the first documentation of slavery on Confederate and Southern money in one collection, and is sure to become an indispensable reference work for paper money collectors. The introduction, five scholarly essays and time-line will interest historians, museum professional, students and general readers. It includes a free CD-ROM with images of hundreds of additional currencies that show depictions of slavery.

Proceedings

Proceedings
Author: Organization of American Historians
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1924
Genre: Mississippi River Valley
ISBN:

"Directory of the ... association ... to February 9, 1924:" v. 11, pt. 1, p. [143]-164.

The Christiad

The Christiad
Author: Marco Girolamo Vida
Publisher:
Total Pages: 558
Release: 1768
Genre: Christian poetry
ISBN: