Over-sexed, over-paid, and over here: Americans in Australia, 1941-1945

Moore, John Hammond

University of Queensland Press

Albemarle, Jefferson's County, 1727-1976

History

Americas

Published for the Albemarle County Historical Society by the University Press of Virginia

The story of South Carolina's heartland told from the prospective of a founding father, a plantation mistress, an African-American politician, an editor, a mayor, and other local residents.

Columbia and Richland County: A South Carolina Community, 1740-1990

Univ of South Carolina Pr

Carnival of Blood presents the often disturbing history of changes in homicidal tendencies in South Carolina over four formative decades on the cusp of our modern era. In his investigation into murder and death in the Palmetto State, John Hammond Moore identifies three trends that emerged during the period from 1880 to 1920 - the demise of dueling, the rise and fall of lynching, and the proliferation of murder. Revisiting one of the nation's last formal duels, Moore recounts details of the Cash-Shannon meeting of July 1880 and the ensuing circle of carnage that left nine dead. He explores the circumstances that prompted duels and the reasons for their eventual disappearance. In his history of lynching, Moore describes the role politicians such as Ben Tillman and Cole Blease played in encouraging the lynching mentality, and he uncovers the underlying forces that pushed white South Carolinians to whip, hang, and otherwise brutalize African Americans.

Carnival of Blood: Dueling, Lynching, and Murder in South Carolina, 1880-1920

University of South Carolina Press

First published in 1958, John Hebron Moore's Agriculture in Ante-Bellum Mississippi presents a clear survey of the methods, mechanical and genetic technologies, labor management, and economic viability of the Old South's cotton kingdom as it existed in Mississippi. Moore's objective study is arranged along chronological and topical lines and assesses the agricultural history of the whole state to the eve of the Civil War without romanticism. Moore offers an insightful history of Mississippi's transition from the soil-exhausting frontier agriculture of the early Natchez era to the largely self-sufficient, scientifically based, and highly profitable upland cotton farming that followed in the 1850s and 1860s. The work is distinguished in its thorough discussion of the development of cotton culture in the Natchez District as independent from the efforts of cotton planters along the Atlantic Coast, its exploration of antebellum cotton breeding techniques, and its analysis of the role of the 1837-49 economic depression as the impetus for agricultural renaissance that made cotton Mississippi's most profitable crop in the 1850s. In a quiet manner, Moore's book anticipated the methodologies of Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman's Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (1974) and the temperament of Eugene D. Genovese's Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974). 
This Southern Classics edition includes a new introduction by agricultural historian Douglas Helms that places the book within the historical context of its original publication and discusses how its influence has become interwoven in current scholarship.

Agriculture in Ante-Bellum Mississippi (Southern Classics)

A unique and often lighthearted look at the American experience, "Wacko War: Strange Tales from America, 1941-1945" is a collection of thirteen bizarre, but true, stories from World War II. The anecdotes included cover a wide range of topics, from plans to recruit bats, dogs, pigeons and cats for military service to problems with German POWs who talked too much. Read about schemes to transform subchasers into miniature (but ineffective) aircraft carriers, and experiments in a variety of bizarre training and spying techniques. Learn how the government dealt with problems arising from the housing of German and Italian POWs on U.S. soil. Discover bizarre, seldom-discussed spying and training techniques, as well as the shocking results of extremely personal surveys given to American soldiers stationed in Italy. Find out the origins of mysteries such as the "Bermuda Triangle," "The Philadelphia Experiment," and much more. With a fresh perspective and unfaltering honesty, "Wacko War" manages to cast World War II in a whole new light.

Wacko War: Strange Tales From America, 1941-1945

Military

Ivy House Pub Group

On December 23, 1944, twenty-five German prisoners of war broke out of an Arizona prison camp not far from the Mexican border by crawling along a 178-foot tunnel. By Christmas day, they were looking for ways to reach Mexico and Axis sympathizers who would help them. Drawing on extensive interviews with the escapees and formerly classified documents, John Hammond Moore tells their incredible story--one of the few untold dramas of the war.
 Many of the men imprisoned at the Papago Park camp were among the Nazis' toughest and smartest U-boat commanders and their crews. Expecting trouble, their American guards marveled at how well the men adjusted to camp life. Spirits were high and the compound neatly raked several times each day. But the guards failed to realize the men were digging a tunnel right under their eyes. They hid their activity by building a volleyball (faustball) field. Twenty-five escapees used makeshift tools and coal shovels issued them by the camp to hack through the rocky soil. Once free, they disguised themselves as merchant seamen, consular officials, and workers armed with false identification papers. The men lasted six weeks on the outside before being recaptured. Their breakout, told here is breathtaking detail, remains the most sensational mass escape ever to take place from a POW camp on American soil.

The Faustball Tunnel: German POWs in America and Their Great Escape (Bluejacket Books)

Naval_Institute_Press

This penetrating portrait of behind-the-lines activity in a vital Confederate state is based largely upon thoughts and random comments of thirty-seven South Carolinians during war-time. As such, this book provides an overview of the ongoing struggle and its impact upon their daily lives. Thirteen women, including the slave Eliza, are given voice here, along with twenty-four men, including the state's governor. Thus, these are contemporary accounts found in personal letters, diaries, and newspapers. Southern Homefront reveals new "freedom" experiences by slaves, free blacks, women and teenagers....individuals who used wartime pressures to personal advantage. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Chapter 1: A Cacophony of Voices Chapter 2: The War in South Carolina Chapter 3: Shortages, Speculation &amp; Self Chapter 4: The Draft, Desertion &amp; Dissent Chapter 5: Slaves &amp; Free Blacks Chapter 6: Women - Down from the Pedestal? Chapter 7: Mood Swings &amp; Morale Chapter 8: Having Fun Chapter 9: Rummaging Through the Rubble

Southern Homefront: South Carolina, 1861-1865

Summerhouse Pr

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