Posts Tagged ‘historical nonfiction’

📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Specter of the Indian Virtual Book Publicity Tour & Giveaway!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kathryn Troy’s THE SPECTER OF THE INDIAN Blog Tour! Inside the Book Title: THE SPECTER OF THE INDIAN: RACE, GENDER, AND GHOSTS IN AMERICAN SEANCES, 1848 – 1898 Author: Kathryn A. Troy Publisher: SUNY Press Pages: 200 Genre: Historical Nonfiction The Specter of the Indian unveils the centrality of Native American spirit guides during the emergent years of American Spiritualism. By pulling together cultural and political history; the studies of religion, race, and gender; and the ghostly, Kathryn Troy offers a new layer of understanding to the prevalence of mystically styled Indians in American visual and popular culture. The connections between
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  • December 8, 2009
  • book reviews, Featured
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Book Review: World War II Heroes of Southern Delaware by James Diehl

Title: World War II Heroes of Southern Delaware Author: James Diehl Genre: Historical Nonfiction Publisher: The DNB Group Pages: 234 pages Purchase your copy here! About the Book World War II Heroes of Southern Delaware is a book unlike any other ever written. In its pages are profiles of 50 ordinary Americans who did extraordinary things during a time unlike any other in American history. These are men and women who today call southern Delaware home. In the 1940s, these brave Americans put their lives on hold to fight for freedom and democracy against the horrific threat imposed on the world by Emperor Hirohito of Japan and German Fuhrer
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