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A Viets Genealogy
A genealogy of the descendants of Dr. Johnn Viets who married 27 Apr 1700 Catharine Meyers in New York City. He died 18 Nov 1723 in Simsbury, Connecticut. Catharine died 5 Mar 1834 at the age of 68 years in Simsbury.
Prairie Power
Prairie Power, a superb collection of oral histories from the 1960s, focuses on former student radicals at the University of Missouri, the University of Kansas, and Southern Illinois University. Robbie Lieberman presents a view of Midwestern New Left activists that has been neglected in previous studies. Scholarship on the sixties has been shifting from a national focus to more local and regional studies, but few authors have studied the student movement in the Midwest. Moreover, the characterization of prairie power activists as “long-haired, dope-smoking anarchists” who were responsible for the downfall of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) has not been challenged directly. While ...
Green Rush
A state-by-state analysis of the expansion of medical marijuana access in the United States As of 2023, thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia have legalized the medical use of marijuana. Twenty-three have legalized recreational use, supporting what is now a flourishing multibillion-dollar industry. In Green Rush, Daniel J. Mallinson and A. Lee Hannah offer a fascinating history of cannabis legalization in America, highlighting the people, states, and policies that made these victories possible. With sharp insight, Mallinson and Hannah explore the backdrop to this sea change in policy, including shifts in public opinion, growing opposition to the War on Drugs, the promise of new re...
Walt Disney and the Quest for Community
During the final months of his life, Walt Disney was consumed with the world-wide problems of cities. His development concept at the time of his death on December 15th, 1966 would be his team’s conceptual response to the ills of the inner cities and the sprawl of the megalopolis: the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow or, as it became known, EPCOT. This beautifully written, instantly engrossing volume focuses on the original concept of EPCOT, which was conceived by Disney as an experimental community of about 20,000 people on the Disney World property in central Florida. With its radial plan, 50-acre town center enclosed by a dome, themed international shopping area, greenbelt, h...
The Descendants of John Owen
John Owen was born 25 December 1624 in Wales. His parents were Richard Owen and Johanna Pitt. He married Rebecca Wade in 1650 in Windsor, Connecticut. They had eleven children. He died in 1697/8. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, Illinois and Iowa.
