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Charles Rumford Walker
Biography.
American City
A history of the early years of Minneapolis, Minnesota, including extensive coverage of the Farmer-Labor Party and the trucker's strike of 1934.
Class Unknown
Since the Gilded Age, social scientists, middle-class reformers, and writers have left the comforts of their offices to "pass" as steel workers, coal miners, assembly-line laborers, waitresses, hoboes, and other working and poor people in an attempt to gain a fuller and more authentic understanding of the lives of the working class and the poor. In this first, sweeping study of undercover investigations of work and poverty in America, award-winning historian Mark Pittenger examines how intellectuals were shaped by their experiences with the poor, and how despite their sympathy toward working-class people, they unintentionally helped to develop the contemporary concept of a degraded and "other" American underclass. While contributing to our understanding of the history of American social thought, Class Unknown offers a new perspective on contemporary debates over how we understand and represent our own society and its class divisions.
Steel
Steel by Charles Rumford Walker.
Making Republicans Liberal
Mass movements and social protest forced mid-century Republicans to articulate their own form of liberalism As poor and working people organized themselves on the job, in the streets, and at the polls during the mid-twentieth century, they forced Republicans to reckon with new demands for political and social citizenship in big cities across the Northeast, Midwest, and Pacific Coast. While rightwing Republicans mobilized to crush those movements, Making Republicans Liberal explores how another wing of the party responded to intensifying mass movement pressure. Beginning in the 1930s, Republican governors such as Earl Warren of California, George Romney of Michigan, and Nelson Rockefeller of ...
Upham Genealogy
John Upham (ca. 1597-1681) and his family emigrated in 1635 from England to Weymouth, Massachusetts, later moving to Malden. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Michigan, Wisconsin and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Nova Scotia and elsewhere in Canada. Includes some ancestors in England.
