The Parson of the Islands: A Biography of the REV. Joshua Thomas: Embracing Sketches of His Contemporaries and Remarkable Camp Meeting Scenes, Re

The Parson of the Islands: A Biography of the REV. Joshua Thomas: Embracing Sketches of His Contemporaries and Remarkable Camp Meeting Scenes, Re
Author: Adam Wallace
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2018-02-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781377247953

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The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake

The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake
Author: William B. Cronin
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2005-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801874352

An appendix documents the many small islands that have dropped entirely from view since the seventeenth century.

Long Island's Vanished Heiress

Long Island's Vanished Heiress
Author: Steven C. Drielak
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2020-08-03
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1439670331

A new look at the 1937 abduction of a wealthy wife and mother, based on previously classified FBI documents—includes photos. When she was kidnapped from Long Meadow Farm in Stony Brook, New York, in 1937, Alice McDonell Parsons was the heir to a vast fortune among Long Island’s wealthy elite. The crime shocked the nation and was front-page news for several months. J. Edgar Hoover personally assigned his best FBI agents to the case, and within a short time, Parsons’s husband and their live-in housekeeper, Anna Kupryanova, had become prime suspects. Botched ransom attempts, clashes between authorities, and romantic intrigue kept the investigation mired in drama. The crime remained unsolved. Now, in this book, former Suffolk County detective Steven C. Drielak reveals previously classified FBI documents—and pieces together the mystery of the Alice Parsons kidnapping.

Dangerous Grounds

Dangerous Grounds
Author: David L. Parsons
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2017-03-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469632020

As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases. Owned and operated by civilian activists, GI coffeehouses served as off-base refuges for the growing number of active-duty soldiers resisting the war. In the first history of this network, David L. Parsons shows how antiwar GIs and civilians united to battle local authorities, vigilante groups, and the military establishment itself by building a dynamic peace movement within the armed forces. Peopled with lively characters and set in the tense environs of base towns around the country, this book complicates the often misunderstood relationship between the civilian antiwar movement, U.S. soldiers, and military officials during the Vietnam era. Using a broad set of primary and secondary sources, Parsons shows us a critical moment in the history of the Vietnam-era antiwar movement, when a chain of counterculture coffeehouses brought the war's turbulent politics directly to the American military's doorstep.