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Spartan Band
Author | : Thomas Reid |
Publsiher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781574411898 |
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Annotation A comprehensive study of the East Texas unit that served as a part of Walker's Texas division in the Trans-Mississippi Department.
A Small But Spartan Band
Author | : Zack C. Waters,James C. Edmonds |
Publsiher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780817357740 |
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A comprehensive study of the Florida Brigade, which served under Robert E. Lee in the famed Army of Northern Virginia.
Semisweet
Author | : Johnny O'Brien |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2014-07-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781442232587 |
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The Milton Hershey School is the richest and wealthiest K-12 residential school in the world. Its $12 billion trust fund, financed by sales of the iconic Hershey candy, eclipse that of Cornell, Dartmouth, and Johns Hopkins combined. Even more stunning is that the school for orphans owns The Hershey Company and not the other way around. As the twentieth-century drew to a close, the School’s Board of Managers creatively interpreted the Founder’s mission and tried to turn the refuge for extremely needy children into more of a middle-class boarding school. The alumni “Homeguys” challenged the Board and, after a decade of legal struggle and national publicity, won the battle to reclaim the soul of the school. Johnny O’Brien, an orphan who lived at the school growing up, helped to lead the successful alumni protest. In a shocking turn of events, he was then selected to become Milton Hershey School’s eighth president and tasked with restoring the mission, morale, and character-building culture of “the Home.” He would need all his orphan resilience, Princeton and Johns Hopkins wisdom, and his good friends, to transform this unusual and remarkable school. In a riveting and haunting account, O’Brien tells a universal story about the vulnerability of needy children, describes the madness that consumed his beloved brother, explores the cruelty of bullies—both young and old, exposes the corrupting influence of money, and shows how the Milton Hershey School continues its sacred mission of saving thousands of America’s neediest children. See the website for the book at semisweetbook.com.
The Spartan Way
Author | : Nic Fields |
Publsiher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 2013-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781783830497 |
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For a period of some 200 years, Sparta was acknowledged throughout the Greek world as the home of the finest soldiers. Xenophon called them 'the only true craftsmen in matters of war'. Nic Fields explains the reasons for this superiority, how their reputation for invincibility was earned (and deliberately manipulated) and how it was ultimately shattered. The Spartan Way examines how Spartan society, through its rigid laws and brutal educational system, was thoroughly militarized and devoted to producing warriors suited to the intense demands of hoplite warfare - professional killers inculcated with the values of unwavering obedience and a willingness to fight and die for their city. The role of Spartan women, as mothers and wives, in shaping the warrior ethic is considered, as are the role of uniform and rigorous training in enhancing the small-unit cohesion within the phalanx , and the psychological intimidation of the enemy. The final chapters chart the course of Sparta's successes through the period of the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, through the Corinthian and Theban wars of the fourth century BC, which culminated with the shattering military defeats at Leuctra and 2nd Mantinea, and the years of her decline with the Spartans as a source of mercenaries for the wars of other states.
The Penn State Blue Band A Century of Pride and Precision
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0271038829 |
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"Ten chapters follow, each devoted to a single decade covering the major events in the band's development over the next hundred years, such as the adoption of the name "Blue Band" in 1923."--BOOK JACKET.
Congressional Record
Author | : United States. Congress |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1392 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044116494543 |
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The Bowery Boys
Author | : Peter Adams |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2005-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780313043116 |
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In the decades before the Civil War, the miserable living conditions of New York City's lower east side nurtured the gangs of New York. This book tells the story of the Bowery Boys, one gang that emerged as part urban legend and part street fighters for the city's legions of young workers. Poverty and despair led to a gang culture that was easily politicized, especially under the leadership of Mike Walsh who led a distinct faction of the Bowery Boys that engaged in the violent, almost anarchic, politics of the city during the 1840s and 1850s. Amid the toppled ballot boxes and battles for supremacy on the streets, many New Yorkers feared Walsh's gang was at the frontline of a European-style revolution. A radical and immensely popular voice in antebellum New York, Walsh spoke in the unvarnished language of class conflict. Admired by Walt Whitman and feared by Tammany Hall, Walsh was an original, wildly unstable character who directed his aptly named Spartan Band against the economic and political elite of New York City and New England. As a labor organizer, state legislator, and even U.S. Congressman, the leader of the Bowery Boys fought for shorter working hours, the right to strike, free land for settlers on the American frontier, against child labor, and to restore dignity to the city's growing number of industrial workers.
Tullidge s Histories volume II Containing the History of All the Northern Eastern and Western Counties of Utah
Author | : Edward William Tullidge |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 970 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Bear Lake County (Idaho) |
ISBN | : CHI:12933181 |
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