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African Canadians in Union Blue: Volunteering for the Cause ...

African Canadians in Union Blue: Volunteering for the Cause ...

Richard M. Reid

In African Canadians in Union Blue, Richard Reid sets out in search of an answer and discovers a group of men whose courage and contributions open a window on the changing nature of the Civil War and the ties that held black communities ...
Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary ...

Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary ...

Burt Green Wilder

In his introduction to the volume, Richard M. Reid analyzes Burt Wilder's diary and places it within the context of the war, the experience of African American troops, and Wilder's life and career. RICHARD M. REID is professor of history, ...
The Brontës in Context

The Brontës in Context

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25 T. Wemyss Reid, Charlotte Bronte: A Monograph (New York: Scribner, Armstrong, 86 Co., 1877). 26 T. Wemyss Reid, Memoirs of Sir Thomas Wemyss Reid, 1842—I885, ed. Stuart J. Reid (London: Cassell, 1905), pp. 234, 235. 27 Wemyss ...
Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid, 1842-1885

Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid, 1842-1885

Thomas Wemyss Reid

Thomas Wemyss Reid Stuart Johnson Reid. Mr. Bryce, Mr. J. A. Spender, and Mr. Herbert Paul. Literary criticism, economic questions, and other phases of public affairs, were handled by Sir Alfred Lyall, Mr. Birrell, Mr. Frederic Harrison, Mr.
Mafia

Mafia

Ed Reid

Ed Reid .1 THIRD PRINTING COPYRIGHT, 1952, BY ED REID ALL RIGHTS RESERVED UNDER INTERNATIONAL AND PAN-AMERICAN COPYRIGHT CONVENTIONS. PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK BY RANDOM HOUSE, INC., AND ...
Time Travel: Tourism and the Rise of the Living History ...

Time Travel: Tourism and the Rise of the Living History ...

Alan Gordon

... Catherine Carstairs, Matthew Hayday, Catharine Wilson, Elizabeth Ewan, Doug McCalla, Richard Reid, Susan Armstrong-Reid, Susan Nance, Tara Abraham, Susannah Ferreira, Renée Worringer, Linda Mahood, and Sofie Lachapelle.
Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian

Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian

Maria Tippett

By asking difficult questions about Reid’s life and work, and by analyzing the works of other Native artists since the beginning of the twentieth century, Tippet gives the reader the defining portrait of Bill Reid -- one of Canada’s ...
Big-time Football at Harvard, 1905: The Diary of Coach Bill Reid

Big-time Football at Harvard, 1905: The Diary of Coach Bill Reid

Bill Reid

With the intent of providing a how-to manual for future coaches, Reid set down day by day an account of his activities on and off the field.
Alan the Red Fox Reid: Pressman Par Excellence

Alan the Red Fox Reid: Pressman Par Excellence

Ross Fitzgerald

Demonstrating how Reid not only reported the news but shaped it due to his connections with Labor Prime Ministers Ben Chifley and John Curtin, this volume covers a number of momentous events in Reid’s career--including his early ...
Saint John: A Sporting Tradition 1785-1985

Saint John: A Sporting Tradition 1785-1985

Richard Papenhausen

(Source: Matt Reid) Back Row (L-R): Tom Aves. Mike Ashton, Tony Hawker, John Shepherd. Middle Row ( L-R): Jimmy Kakalitis. Brian Slaney. Matt Reid. Willie Docherty. Alisdair Graham. David Harding. Pierre Bl-Khoury. Front Row (L-R): ...
Two Witnesses at Gettysburg: The Personal Accounts of ...

Two Witnesses at Gettysburg: The Personal Accounts of ...

Whitelaw Reid

and other testimony from eyewitnesses – testimony that included accounts by Whitelaw Reid and Arthur James Lyon Fremantle. Reid wrote from a northern perspective and is little remembered; his newspaper article, which never mentions ...
Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community

Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community

Vicki L. Ruiz

VICTORIA REID AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY María Raquel Casas Madame looks like a rose from Castile. Hugo Reid Sometime in September 1836, the widow Victoria Bartolomea married Hugo Reid at the San Gabriel mission, located ...
The Bullet Meant for Me

The Bullet Meant for Me

Jan Reid

He meditates on male friendship as he tells the story of his close relationship with Chavez, whose career and personal travails Reid details with empathy and insight.
A Mountain of Many Treasures: Prose Pieces by John Howard Reid

A Mountain of Many Treasures: Prose Pieces by John Howard Reid

John Howard Reid

A mixed bag of prose pieces by "the charismatic John Howard Reid", this collection includes short stories, essays, a novelette, and even a First Prize-winning humorous piece and a one-act stage play.
Cass County

Cass County

Cass County Historical Society

From left to right are Mina Harris, Sarrie Reid, Bill Harris, T. B., Beryl Judy, Helen Reid, Mrs. Judy holding Edith Judy, and Lizzie Reid. Glenn Judy was the government farmer for the Shippewa Indians at Sugar Point. Ray Malmquist (left) and ...
Saturday matinee movies

Saturday matinee movies

John Howard Reid

This is the 14th volume in Reid's Film Index and deals with the movies shown across Australia on Saturdays.
Rio Grande

Rio Grande

Jan Reid

Reid has assembled writings by an astonishing array of leading authors--Larry McMurtry, Woody Guthrie, and more--to explore the politicization, culture, history, and ecology of the vital river.
Midnight Sun: A Novel

Midnight Sun: A Novel

Elwood Reid

Jack, the gritty narrator of this dark, gripping novel by Elwood Reid, is a journeyman carpenter in his late twenties whose travels have led him to Alaska.
Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities and Representations

Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities and Representations

Donald Reid

Reid (history, U. of NC Chapel Hill) emphasizes the human story of sewers--politics, sanitation, labor.
The Life, Letters, and Friendships of Richard Monckton ...

The Life, Letters, and Friendships of Richard Monckton ...

Thomas Wemyss Reid

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The raven steals the light

The raven steals the light

William Reid

The collection includes, says Reid, "a good selection of bestiality, adultery, violence, thievery and assault, for those who like that sort of thing."
The Potters of Orange: 100 Years of Pottery-making in ...

The Potters of Orange: 100 Years of Pottery-making in ...

Jim McFarland

Features the work of: E. L. STORK, EARL STORK, J. P. REID, HOMER BURNS, BELLE REID, J. R. COOPER, and JAY BENZEL
Charlotte BrontÔ: A Monograph

Charlotte BrontÔ: A Monograph

T. Wemyss Reid

T. Wemyss Reid. XII. POSTHUMOUS. HONOURS. There is a deeper truth in the maxim which bids us judge no man happy tillhis deaththanmostofusareapttoperceive. For sometimes the happiness ofalifeiscrownedby death itself; and that ...
Shark!: Killer Tales from the Dangerous Depths

Shark!: Killer Tales from the Dangerous Depths

H C Stuart Professor Emeritus Robert Reid

Killer Tales from the Dangerous Depths H C Stuart Professor Emeritus Robert Reid, Robert Reid. hysteria that followed. Local authorities and hotel owners installed wire netting enclosures in a bid to stem the flood of holidaymakers who were ...
Anyone for Love?

Anyone for Love?

John Howard Reid

An anthology of original verse (plus a few translations from the Spanish and Ancient Egyptian) by the prize-winning poet and photographer, John Howard Reid.
What Salmon Know

What Salmon Know

Elwood Reid

Compared by critics to such masterful storytellers as Raymond Carver, Rick Bass, and Thom Jones, Elwood Reid, author of the acclaimed novel If I Don't Six, signals a powerful presence on the American literary landscape with his knockout ...
The Little Byron: The Life of Alfred Midgley, Queensland ...

The Little Byron: The Life of Alfred Midgley, Queensland ...

Zoë O'Leary

But Professor Skertchly was not the only friend of my father's to make a lasting impression; there were many others, and foremost among them was Senator Matt Reid. My first memories of Matt Reid are of a man with a spectacular mane of ...

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