by Philip F. Gura (2001)
"Between 1829 and 1831, Jared Curtis, the newly appointed prison chaplain at the Massachusetts State Prison in Charlestown, interviewed every one of the over 300 inmates at the prison and recorded their biographies in two leatherbound notebooks. Those notebooks, fully transcribed and well annotated after their discovery in 1998, form the basis for Philip Gura's Buried from the World: Inside the Massachusetts State Prison, 1829-1831."--BOOK JACKET.
Lucia Raatma
Describes the important roles women held during the Civil War including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Clara Barton, Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Mary Elizabeth Bowser, and Elizabeth Van Lew.
Larry McMurtry
"What was achieved and destroyed, what was made up and forgotten in the American West as the continent was mapped, the natives were displaced, and exploits were transformed into legends? In this new collection, Larry McMurtry profiles explorers and martyrs, hucksters and scholars - figures in the West's enduring yet ever-shifting mixture of myth and reality."--BOOK JACKET.
Abel Paz
„Für mich hatte alles am 19. Juli gegen neun Uhr morgens begonnen, in El Clot, ganz in der Nähe des Hauses, in dem ich wohnte. Jemand schoss aus dem Glockenturm der Kirche gegenüber von meinem Haus auf die Leute, die sich in der Avenida Meridiana drängten. In der versammelten Menge befand sich ein altgedienter Aktivist von der Gewerkschaft der Fabrik- und Textilarbeiter, bewaffnet mit einer Jagdflinte. Er nahm seine Waffe und schoss mehrmals auf den Glockenturm, aber eine Antwort blieb aus. Wer hatte geschossen? Es schien ein Rätsel, denn einige Augenblicke später ging eine ganze Schar von Leuten in die Kirche, und obwohl überall gesucht wurde, fand man den Angreifer nicht.“ In „Anarchist mit Don Quichottes Idealen“ erzählt Abel Paz seine Geschichte in der libertären Revolution von 1936–1939, der bereits als 15-jähriger im Bürgerkrieg auf Seiten der CNT gegen die Franco-Faschisten kämpfte. Nach der Niederlage floh er 1939 nach Frankreich, kämpfte aber ab 1942 im Spanischen Untergrund weiter, bis er verhaftet und bis 1953 inhaftiert wurde. Heute lebt Abel Paz in Barcelona. „Anarchist mit Don Quichottes Idealen“ gewährt uns nicht nur einen anderen Einblick in den spanischen Bürgerkrieg, sondern auch in die gelebte Utopie. (Quelle: Edition AV)
as told by Michael Hittman
This is the compelling yet disturbing story of Corbett Mack (1892-1974), an opiate addict who was a member of the Nuumuu (Numa), or Northern Paiute. The Northern Paiute are best known as the people who produced Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet whose revitalistic teachings swept the Indian world in the 1890s. Mack is from the generation following the collapse of the Ghost Dance religion, a generation of Nomogweta or "half breeds" (also called "stolen children") - Paiute of mixed ancestry who were raised in an increasingly bicultural world and who fell into virtual peonage to white (often Italian) potato farmers. Around the turn of the century, the use of opium became widespread among the Paiute, adopted from equally victimized Chinese laborers with whom they worked closely in the fields. The story of Corbett Mack is an uncompromising account of a harsh and sometimes traumatic life that was typical of an entire generation of Paiute. It was a life born out of the turmoil and humiliation of an Indian boarding school, troubled by opiate addiction, bound to constant labor in the fields, yet nonetheless made meaningful through the perseverance of Paiute cultural traditions.