A Child's day:: a book of rhymes by Walter De La Mare

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The family Sabbath-day miscellany: comprising over three hundred religious tales and anecdotes, original and select with occasional reflections ; adapted to the use of families on the Lord's day

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Little Lucy: or, The pleasant day. An example for little girls

In original pictorial wrappers.

New Year: and other stories

New year.--The Gophers' ball.--Christmas fairies.--About the squirrels.--What came of quarrelling.--Robin Redbreast.--About the rats.--The lost mate.--Don't be vain.--The travelled frog.--The sea-gulls.--The discontented bud.--The discontented mouse [by Rev. J. D. Strong].

A Child's history of England:: Volume I. England from the ancient times to the death of King John

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Uppermost Canada: the Western District and the Detroit frontier, 1800-1850

The publication of this volume in a freely accessible digital format has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation through their Humanities Open Book Program.

The starlight wonder book

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Jane, Joseph & John: their book of verses

Ornamental borders.

Sandford and Merton in words of one syllable

Illustrations hand colored.

All our yesterdays: a brief history of Detroit

All Our Yesterdays is an accurate account based on extensive historical research when initially published in 1969, and is written in such a style as to make interesting and historical snapshot of the history of the city of Detroit.

The authors recount the founding of the town by the French, control by the British, and growth as an American city. These episodes are recounted in the words and deeds of the people who lived and worked here, men like Judge Woodward, Father Gabriel Richard, a…

St. Nicholas book of plays & operettas. Second series

The dream-toy shop, by Jessie M. Baker.--Christmas babes in the woods, by Corinne R. Swain.--Which shall be king? by Anna Van M. Jones.--The Christmas conspiracy, by Elizabeth Woodbridge.--How Christmas was saved, by Catherine Markham.--The first Thanksgiving day, by Agnes Miller.--Everychild, by Content S. Nichols.--"Everygirl," by Rachel L. Field.--The Egyptian cat, by Irene W. Clark.--The sleeping beauty, by Caroline Verhoeff.--Lord Malapert of Moonshine castle, by E.S. Brooks.--Little folk i…

The life and work of Ludwig Lewisohn. volume I. “a touch of wildness”

An imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, Ludwig Lewisohn (1882-1955) struggled with feelings of alienation in Christian America that were gradually resolved by his developing Jewish identity, a process reflected in hundreds of works of fiction, literary analysis, and social criticism. Born in Berlin, Lewisohn moved with his family in 1890 to South Carolina. Identified by others as a Jew, he remained an outsider throughout his youth. Lewiso…

American Jewry and the Holocaust: the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945

In this volume Yehudi Bauer describes the efforts made to aid European victims of World War II by the New York-based American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, American Jewry's chief representative abroad. Drawing on the mass of unpublished material in the JDC archives and other repositories, as well as on his thorough knowledge of recent and continuing research into the Holocaust, he focuses alternately on the personalities and institutional decisions in New York and their effects on the …

Independent man: the life of Senator James Couzens

First published in 1958 by Charles Scribner’s Sons, Independent Man is the only book-length biography of one of Michigan’s most remarkable men. His many careers embraced both the business and political spheres.

Birth of a notion, or, the half ain't never been told: a narrative account with entertaining passages of the state of Minstrelsy & of America & the true relation thereof (from the ha ha dark side)

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Nazism, the Jews, and American Zionism, 1933-1948

Aaron Berman takes a moderate and measured approach to one of the most emotional issues in American Jewish historiography, namely, the response of American Jews to Nazism and the extermination of European Jewry.In remarkably large numbers, American Jews joined the Zionist crusade to create a Jewish state that would finally end the problem of Jewish homelessness, which they believed was the basic cause not only of the Holocaust but of all anti-Semitism. Though American Zionists could justly claim…

Seasons of grace: a history of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit

Seasons of Grace is a history of the Catholic Church and community in southern lower Michigan from the 1830s through the 1950s. More than a chronicle of clerical successions and institutional expansion, the book also examines those social and cultural influences that affected the development of the Catholic community.

United States Jewry, 1776-1985. volume III. the Germanic period, part 2

In United States Jewry, 1776–1985, the dean of American Jewish historians, Jacob Rader Marcus, unfolds the history of Jewish immigration, segregation, and integration; of Jewry’s cultural exclusiveness and assimilation; of its internal division and indivisible unity; and of its role in the making of America. Characterized by Marcus’s impeccable scholarship, meticulous documentation, and readable style, this landmark four-volume set completes the history Marcus began in The Colonial American Jew,…

Jewish immigrant associations and American identity in New York, 1880-1939

Landsmanshaftn, associations of immigrants from the same hometown, became the most popular form of organization among Eastern European Jewish immigrants to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880–1939, by Daniel Soyer, holds an in-depth discussion on the importance of these hometown societies that provided members with valuable material benefits and served as arenas for formal and informal social interacti…

United States Jewry, 1776-1985. volume IV. the East European period, the emergence of the American Jew, epilogue

In United States Jewry, 1776–1985, the dean of American Jewish historians, Jacob Rader Marcus, unfolds the history of Jewish immigration, segregation, and integration; of Jewry’s cultural exclusiveness and assimilation; of its internal division and indivisible unity; and of its role in the making of America. Characterized by Marcus’s impeccable scholarship, meticulous documentation, and readable style, this landmark four-volume set completes the history Marcus began in The Colonial American Jew,…