1929 was the end of a golden age. Six aspiring writers spin tales set in a time in history when changes were afoot. While some sought the American Dream, others had to deal with vampiric siblings. Facing lost loves and gaining new freedoms define the beginning of a new age. Of course, the government was going through some changes itself in The Black Chamber, while everyday heroes could be confused with the Devil. Which will be your favorite? Featured...

Explores the 1929 Stock Market Crash and how that event has sculpted societies, the sciences, and politics. Essential Events explores historic happenings around the globe and how those events have sculpted societies, the sciences, and politics.

What was it like to grow up during that Great Depression? Here is the autobiography of one such boy and his family. Began as a memoir written to preserve the history for future generations, it is a peek into life as it was. This book is great for others who lived through this time in history and would like to revisit that time and it is great for readers who would like to experience this simple time including its joys, sorrows, worry and triumphs....

A true story of how a 1929 quilt was found in the closet of Mary Cannon and Hamberlin. It was folded over a strong hanger along with 22 extra blocks, covered in plastic. It was sent to the only relative that the daughters thought might know who the women were who had made it. The woman they sent it to was a converts to the church. She had done the family history of both her husband and herself. She had been to Kelsey and met some of the women....

The Great Crash of 1929 profoundly disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The breakneck growth of 1920s America--with its boom in automobiles, electricity, credit lines, radio, and movies--certainly presaged a serious recession by the decade's end, but not a depression. The totality of the collapse shocked the nation, and its duration scarred generations to come. In this lucid and fast-paced account of...

"Early Jazz is an overview of the beginnings of jazz from its nineteenth-century roots through 1929, when elements of the Swing Era began to emerge. It is the first book on early jazz history in over fifty years and fills a compelling need for an update that reflects recent research. With a broad definition of jazz that encompasses the artistic and the commercial, the book's inclusive tone allows for a wide spectrum of musicians, including not only...

In 1917 Czarist Russia collapsed during the catastrophe of the First World War, but the tensions that had accumulated inside the empire for a century due to the challenges that modernisation presented were the real seeds of her undoing. The 19th Century was a battle for the soul of Russia, and it decided whether she would embrace liberal democracy and industrialisation like her contemporaries in Europe, or whether she would retreat into the past....

Der Börsencrash von 1929 ereignete sich zu einer Zeit, als die Länder boomten und sich die Wirtschaft entwickelte. Die Position der USA zu dieser Zeit blühte auf, als sie kurz nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg zu einer Supermacht wurden. Die Blütezeit war als brüllende zwanziger Jahre bekannt, als alle Wirtschaftssektoren boomten und der Absturz für die gesamte Bevölkerung ein Schock war Land und andere Länder, da

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Located on the southern shores of Lake Erie, Cleveland was founded in 1796 by General Moses Cleaveland, an agent of the Connecticut Land Company surveying the Western Reserve. The modest frontier settlement became a village in 1815 and an incorporated city in 1836. By 1896, Cleveland boasted the Cuyahoga Building, the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, the Arcade, and the stately mansions of Euclid Avenue. Also known as "Millionaire's Row," it was home...

In the early part of the Dirty Thirties, the Canadian prairie city was a relatively safe haven. Having faced recession before the Great War and then again in the early 1920s, municipalities already had relief apparatuses in place to deal with poverty and unemployment. Until 1933, responsibilty for the care of the urban poor remained with local governments, but when the farms failed that year, and the Depression deepened, western Canadian cities suffered...