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Blood Runs Coal comes at a time of resurgent labor movements in the United States and the current administration's attempts to bolster the fossil-fuel industry. Brilliantly researched and compellingly written, it sheds light on the far-reaching effects of industrial and socioeconomic change that unfold across America to this day.

Published in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows was a bombshell of a book, revealing the story of one of the grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history, when settlers in southwestern Utah slaughtered more than 100 members of a California-bound wagon train in 1857. In this much-anticipated sequel, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown examine the aftermath of this atrocity. Vengeance Is Mine documents southern Utah leaders’ attempts to cover up their crime by silencing witnesses and spreading lies.

Randall Balmer's Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory is an insightful and engaging journey into the world of conservative Christians in America. Originally published 25 years ago and the basis for an award-winning PBS documentary, this timely new edition arrives just as recent elections have left an ever-growing number of secular Americans wondering exactly how the other half thinks.

Mine Motif es el podcast de un motero que no hablará de motos, sino de la percepción que le rodea frente a diversos ámbitos. Con un ambiente agradable y relajado, se podrá conocer un punto de vista profundo y muy personal en lo referente a la vida, a las personas, a los sentimientos, al valor de las cosas... No habrá nada que escape a Mine Motif.

Join Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe, who journeyed from Massachusetts to California during the exhilarating Gold Rush of the mid-1800s. Embracing her adventurous spirit, Louise adopted the pen name Shirley and began chronicling her experiences for The Herald. Over the course of 1851 and 1852, she penned a remarkable series of 23 letters to her sister Mary Jane, affectionately known as Molly. These Shirley Letters offer a captivating glimpse into life within two bustling gold mining camps along the Feather River. Louises vivid storytelling captures the breathtaking landscapes and the vibrant ...

This is a true story of war, the story of one man's transformation as he retraces the mine-strewn roads of a land itself transformed by mankind's most shockingly inhuman practice. It is the firsthand account of a member of one of the United States Army's three-man Tactical Psychological Operations Teams, groups of men tasked with winning the hearts and minds of Iraq's civilian population through leaflets, loudspeakers, conversation, and bribery.

When therapist Elizabeth Heaney left her private practice to counsel military service members and their families, she came face-to-face with unheard-of struggles and fears. Emotions run deeply - and often silently - in the hearts of combat veterans in this eye-opening portrait of the complex, nuanced lives of service personnel, who return from battling the enemy and grapple with readjusting to civilian life.

In WWI the terror of German submarines was completely justified. This invisible menace was a constant threat to allied shipping able to strike anywhere day or night. Thus was conceived the grand mine barrage, an outsized idea for a growing problem. The fence in the menace by laying a barrage of anti-submarine mines right across the North Sea, requiring the manufacturing of mines in unprecedented numbers to be laid by ships that didn’t even exist.

Educated in Amherst, Massachusetts, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (1819-1906) accompanied her physician-husband to California in 1849. The Shirley Letters (1922) is the book edition of a series of letters written by Mrs. Clappe to her sister in 1851 and 1852. They were first published under the pseudonym of Dame Shirley in the Pioneer magazine, 1854-55. In these letters, Louise Clappe writes of life in San Francisco and the Feather River mining communities of Rich Bar and Indian Bar.

Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andreaandersin/subscribe Queens of the Mines is a women’s history podcast. Season 3 features inspiring, gallant, even audacious stories of REAL 19th Century women from the Wild West. Season 2 features women from California history while Season 1 Tells stories of women from California’s Gold Rush. Until recently, historians and the public have dismissed ”conflict history,” and focused more on the history that opposing beliefs could manage to agree on for some mutually beneficial end. Important elements that are absolutley...

A podcast about places and buildings, with tales about history and people. From author and publisher Clive Aslet and the architectural editor of Country Life, & John Goodall

Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andreaandersin/subscribe Queens of the Mines is a women’s history podcast. Season 3 features inspiring, gallant, even audacious stories of REAL 19th Century women from the Wild West. Season 2 features women from California history while Season 1 Tells stories of women from California’s Gold Rush. Until recently, historians and the public have dismissed ”conflict history,” and focused more on the history that opposing beliefs could manage to agree on for some mutually beneficial end. Important elements that are absolutley...

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The story of the 96 lives lost to Australia’s worst mining disaster.Inspired by the words of those who were there.Act 1, opens on the morning of the 31st July 1902, as the tiny South Coast town of Mt Kembla awakens unaware their lives are about to change for ever. A Podcast Play by Karen Cobban. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compañía de Santa Gertrudis may have committed murder. The alert was first raised at six in the morning: A fire was tearing through the El Bordo mine. After a brief evacuation, the mouths of the shafts were sealed. Company representatives hastened to assert that “no more than 10” men remained inside the mineshafts, and that all 10 were most certainly dead. Yet when the mine was opened six days later, the death toll was not 10 but 87. And there were seven survivors.